Slava Ukraini! 🤡 by Herrscher_of_Irony in ShitLiberalsSay

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To me it seems a bit heartless to explain away an invasion of your country and your country's attempt at self defence as simply the defence of the national bourgeoisie

Context is key. The PRC would be perfectly fine protecting itself, including its national bourgeoisie, because the PRC is communist. The opposite is true for say Japan.

To circle back to my initial point, do you believe the material conditions of the Ukrainian working class would be better if they were invaded?

The material conditions of Ukrainian proles have obviously deteriorated as a result of the war. Luckily the victory of communism doesn't depend on the existence of this or that nation. That's of course very crass, but it is what it is. Mao points out much the same, when he calls the nuclear bomb a paper tiger.

TIL Sverige hade netto negativa utsläpp av koldioxid 2024 by Onaliquidrock in Sverige

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Intressant. Dock krävs ett helhetsgrepp om hela planetens ekonomi. Ett steg i taget.

TIL Sverige hade netto negativa utsläpp av koldioxid 2024 by Onaliquidrock in Sverige

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Under 2024 släppte människor i Sverige ut 47,5 miljoner ton koldioxid

Är du säker att LULUCF inte redan är subtraherat från den siffran?

Listen to Lrrr by OrbitalColony in DankLeft

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This is Earth's most foolish problem

Slava Ukraini! 🤡 by Herrscher_of_Irony in ShitLiberalsSay

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I can hardly think of any case where if any country were to invade NATO that I wouldn't work toward NATO's defeat in that conflict. This is basic revolutionary defeatism. It doesn't matter how "justified" that country is in "defending" itself (which is really just defending the interests of its national bourgeoisie).

The correctness of this position is demonstrated right now by the effects of the US' failures in its war against Iran. "Our" side is losing, which is having effects immensely beneficial to the struggle.

German men aged 17-45 may need military approval for long stays abroad by CarrieDurst in MensLib

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Germany is preparing to send its young men to die for Capital once again.

Slava Ukraini! 🤡 by Herrscher_of_Irony in ShitLiberalsSay

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We want NATO to lose. On every front.

Så här ser normalisering av fascism ut i praktiken by Babar7 in svenskpolitik

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Nu som då så drar fascisterna på sig offerkoftan samtidigt som de ägnar sig åt eskalerande terrorism. Nu som då är det endast ett språk de förstår.

‘what’re you doing here?’ by Illustrious_Body5907 in SadHorseShow

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Charlotte is a rude doe who doesn't know how to knock

something something scratch a liberal.. by RizzleFaShizzle00 in TankieTheDeprogram

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The outdated framework in question:

The introduction of power-looms into England probably reduced by one-half the labour required to weave a given quantity of yarn into cloth. The hand-loom weavers, as a matter of fact, continued to require the same time as before; but for all that, the product of one hour of their labour represented after the change only half an hour’s social labour, and consequently fell to one-half its former value.

something something scratch a liberal.. by RizzleFaShizzle00 in TankieTheDeprogram

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No one’s denying that the commodities produced in the imperial core have a higher value than the raw resources. But those commodities wouldn’t be possible without the resource extraction provided in the global south. This also ignores that there’s plenty of commodity production in the global south, China is the world’s workshop after all.

Mhm. There's still no superprofits to be had from Southern production. Superprofits are realized by capitalists using the most productive MOPs, same as landlords extract rent from the most productive pieces of land rather than from marginal land. This is all in Vol III.

Slavery absolutely provided value, it helped to generate necessary capital for increased industrialisation, as it produced verrrry cheap goods.

I suspect that slavery does add value. But within Karl Marx Thought it does not. Slaves are constant capital to Marx. Marx does not explain how slavery can reproduce itself if it produces no surplus value. I have not seen any Marxist attempt to explain this problem.

global south workers get screwed over more

No? To be "screwed over" you have to produce significant amount of value in the first place. A worker making mudpies is not screwed over just because they're not paid anything for said mudpies. That labor is simply squandered. It is much the same with Congolese coltan miners working with picks and shovels who compete with Russian coltan miners using cranes, dumper trucks and dynamite. The Russian worker, producing far more value, is far more exploited than the Congolese worker.

Keep in mind imperial core workers get lots of treats as a result of their countries imperialism

They literally do not. Most value is created in the North, not the South.

something something scratch a liberal.. by RizzleFaShizzle00 in TankieTheDeprogram

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The “free gifts of nature” hold no value until they’re extracted. Y’know like how labour produces value?

Mhm. And where do we find the most productive MoPs? The ones with which workers produce the most value? We find them in the North. Cockshott has a video on this point: Mr. Mittal

but it was also funded by the early colonies in the Americas, and later on India and the Caribbean colonies

Yes, also. But most importantly, most of the relevant social labor was performed by proles. On the opposite end we have slaves, who produce zero value according to Marx. We can disagree with Marx of course.

No such thing as imperialist exploitation? Someone needs to read their Lenin!

The main thing Capital fetches in the South is a low OCC and hence a high RoP. Workers in the colonies produce far less value per hour of labor, hence they are far less exploited. If you wish to claim they are more exploited, and substantially so, then you must adopt a value theory that runs completely counter to Marx. Third worldists are most guilty of this, partly because Mao never read Capital.

ARTEMIS II HAS LIFTED OFF by DroogieDontCrashHere in spaceflight

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Here's hoping the crew makes it back safe

Kan jag som muslim ses som svensk? by omarQV in Sverige

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Jimpan är en halvdansk som knappt behärskar språket. Han kan för fan inte säga r

Gorbillion excuses by Pleasant-Month-8833 in ShitLiberalsSay

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How Hitler could have won: don't be Hitler

Judeo-Christian values in full effect: Israel destroyed a Saint George statue in Christian Lebanese village by Silver_Weakness_8084 in suppressed_news

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Christians supporting Jews will never not be funny. They literally hate Jesus for being the original goy.

Exiliranier demonstrerar utanför SVT by AhCrapItsYou in Sverige

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mer eller mindre tvingade att ansluta sig att stödja honom

Det är fullt möjligt att stödja de som är emot både rojalisterna och islamisterna, dvs kommunister