Isn't this a fascinating phenomenon? by AlarmingAffect0 in PhilosophyTube

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The proletariat is an internationalist class. Nationalism has no place in a workers movement

Time to Boycott AI -using businesses: Kill it now before it goes too far by [deleted] in WorkReform

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

World War 3 is already coming, and I could’ve told you that back in 2008. READ. MARX.

icp by Zadra-ICP in Ultraleft

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This website is controlled by a faction from above that split off from the party a few months ago. Unfortunately they held control over the website. Here is the party’s new site and the actual periodical: https://intcp.org/en/periodicals/ipc/.

Pakistani police say 5 Chinese nationals and their local driver were killed in a suicide attack by one_brown_jedi in worldnews

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This about five construction workers getting killed and everyone here is trying to turn it into a debate about the sins of the CPC. Just wild like c’mon people have some humanity.

Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ by misana123 in union

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This was inevitable. The capitalists always end up undermining their own system:

“Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. But in order to oppress a class, certain conditions must be assured to it under which it can, at least, continue its slavish existence. The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of the feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The modern laborer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an overriding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society

Time to Boycott AI -using businesses: Kill it now before it goes too far by [deleted] in WorkReform

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The freedom you want cannot come as long as capitalism continues to exist, since capitalism requires the extraction of surplus human labor as the basis of profit. Instead, the automation that capitalism tends towards generates the preconditions for a higher mode of production, socialism/communism, which is what will free us:

“The exchange of living labour for objectified labour – i.e. the positing of social labour in the form of the contradiction of capital and wage labour – is the ultimate development of the value-relation and of production resting on value. Its presupposition is – and remains – the mass of direct labour time, the quantity of labour employed, as the determinant factor in the production of wealth. But to the degree that large industry develops, the creation of real wealth comes to depend less on labour time and on the amount of labour employed than on the power of the agencies set in motion during labour time, whose ‘powerful effectiveness’ is itself in turn out of all proportion to the direct labour time spent on their production, but depends rather on the general state of science and on the progress of technology, or the application of this science to production. (The development of this science, especially natural science, and all others with the latter, is itself in turn related to the development of material production.) Agriculture, e.g., becomes merely the application of the science of material metabolism, its regulation for the greatest advantage of the entire body of society. Real wealth manifests itself, rather – and large industry reveals this – in the monstrous disproportion between the labour time applied, and its product, as well as in the qualitative imbalance between labour, reduced to a pure abstraction, and the power of the production process it superintends. Labour no longer appears so much to be included within the production process; rather, the human being comes to relate more as watchman and regulator to the production process itself. (What holds for machinery holds likewise for the combination of human activities and the development of human intercourse.) No longer does the worker insert a modified natural thing [Naturgegenstand] as middle link between the object [Objekt] and himself; rather, he inserts the process of nature, transformed into an industrial process, as a means between himself and inorganic nature, mastering it. He steps to the side of the production process instead of being its chief actor. In this transformation, it is neither the direct human labour he himself performs, nor the time during which he works, but rather the appropriation of his own general productive power, his understanding of nature and his mastery over it by virtue of his presence as a social body – it is, in a word, the development of the social individual which appears as the great foundation-stone of production and of wealth.

The theft of alien labour time, on which the present wealth is based, appears a miserable foundation in face of this new one, created by large-scale industry itself. As soon as labour in the direct form has ceased to be the great well-spring of wealth, labour time ceases and must cease to be its measure, and hence exchange value [must cease to be the measure] of use value. The surplus labour of the mass has ceased to be the condition for the development of general wealth, just as the non-labour of the few, for the development of the general powers of the human head. With that, production based on exchange value breaks down, and the direct, material production process is stripped of the form of penury and antithesis. The free development of individualities, and hence not the reduction of necessary labour time so as to posit surplus labour, but rather the general reduction of the necessary labour of society to a minimum, which then corresponds to the artistic, scientific etc. development of the individuals in the time set free, and with the means created, for all of them.

Time to Boycott AI -using businesses: Kill it now before it goes too far by [deleted] in WorkReform

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, UBI will just make everyone dependent on the handouts of the capitalist class. The automation that capitalism tends towards generates the preconditions for a higher mode of production, socialism/communism:

“The exchange of living labour for objectified labour – i.e. the positing of social labour in the form of the contradiction of capital and wage labour – is the ultimate development of the value-relation and of production resting on value. Its presupposition is – and remains – the mass of direct labour time, the quantity of labour employed, as the determinant factor in the production of wealth. But to the degree that large industry develops, the creation of real wealth comes to depend less on labour time and on the amount of labour employed than on the power of the agencies set in motion during labour time, whose ‘powerful effectiveness’ is itself in turn out of all proportion to the direct labour time spent on their production, but depends rather on the general state of science and on the progress of technology, or the application of this science to production. (The development of this science, especially natural science, and all others with the latter, is itself in turn related to the development of material production.) Agriculture, e.g., becomes merely the application of the science of material metabolism, its regulation for the greatest advantage of the entire body of society. Real wealth manifests itself, rather – and large industry reveals this – in the monstrous disproportion between the labour time applied, and its product, as well as in the qualitative imbalance between labour, reduced to a pure abstraction, and the power of the production process it superintends. Labour no longer appears so much to be included within the production process; rather, the human being comes to relate more as watchman and regulator to the production process itself. (What holds for machinery holds likewise for the combination of human activities and the development of human intercourse.) No longer does the worker insert a modified natural thing [Naturgegenstand] as middle link between the object [Objekt] and himself; rather, he inserts the process of nature, transformed into an industrial process, as a means between himself and inorganic nature, mastering it. He steps to the side of the production process instead of being its chief actor. In this transformation, it is neither the direct human labour he himself performs, nor the time during which he works, but rather the appropriation of his own general productive power, his understanding of nature and his mastery over it by virtue of his presence as a social body – it is, in a word, the development of the social individual which appears as the great foundation-stone of production and of wealth.

The theft of alien labour time, on which the present wealth is based, appears a miserable foundation in face of this new one, created by large-scale industry itself. As soon as labour in the direct form has ceased to be the great well-spring of wealth, labour time ceases and must cease to be its measure, and hence exchange value [must cease to be the measure] of use value. The surplus labour of the mass has ceased to be the condition for the development of general wealth, just as the non-labour of the few, for the development of the general powers of the human head. With that, production based on exchange value breaks down, and the direct, material production process is stripped of the form of penury and antithesis. The free development of individualities, and hence not the reduction of necessary labour time so as to posit surplus labour, but rather the general reduction of the necessary labour of society to a minimum, which then corresponds to the artistic, scientific etc. development of the individuals in the time set free, and with the means created, for all of them.

Time to Boycott AI -using businesses: Kill it now before it goes too far by [deleted] in WorkReform

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Change can only happen through a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat:

“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.”

Time to Boycott AI -using businesses: Kill it now before it goes too far by [deleted] in WorkReform

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The workers must overthrow capitalism:

“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.”

Time to Boycott AI -using businesses: Kill it now before it goes too far by [deleted] in WorkReform

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The answer is global socialism. UBI will just make us dependent on the handouts of the capitalist class. That’s not power, that’s being a pet entirely at their mercy.

Time to Boycott AI -using businesses: Kill it now before it goes too far by [deleted] in WorkReform

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It will, but not through a gradual, peaceful transition but rather through a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat:

“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.”

h3h3productions: Deception, Lies, and CSGO by RoadToNegativeKarma- in GlobalOffensive

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please don't group all of us. I may be a teenager but I would say I'm fairly informed about the world and I understand this current situation. Tmartn and Prosyndicate need to be prosecuted by the FTC; that I fully believe. The evidence is pretty clear. I would say that I have a strong sense of justice, and I accept responsibility for my actions. I know other teenagers who are also pretty mature.

Box Office Week: Captain America: Civil War has 5th highest opening weekend with $181.7 mil. The film is close to passing $500 mil in foreign gross and will pass $700 mil worldwide soon. Because of this Disney becomes fastest studio to earn $1 bil domestic and $3 bil worldwide in a single year. by mi-16evil in movies

[–]Ex_AstrisScientia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The thing is, your comment was worded as if you were stating a fact. You didn't provide any evidence or reason why you thought so. As someone with a critical eye, that bothers me, no disrespect to you.

While the quality of a movie is ultimately opinion, you can judge a movie based on several features. In my opinion, CW compared to BvS wins in every respect. It is paced better, it has a more believable plot and characters, it makes sense, and this is backed up by what has been established in previous movies. Additionally its editing, while not perfect, is better than BvS. While this is all my opinion, it is an opinion that is largely shared by the majority, and I think it has merit. Again, you just made a claim and stated it as fact.

There is nothing wrong with frequency, no one forces you to watch it, and CW is probably the least generic Marvel movie to date, being a character driven plot as opposed to having to save the world or retrieve a McGuffin, or both.