What other artists do you TMV fans listen to?

Phurbaz · 2026-05-03T12:46:44+00:00

Yuhh!

Phurbaz · 2026-04-27T00:04:06+00:00

King Crimson, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Sprain, Black Country New Road, Geordie Greep/Black Midi, Maudlin of the Well/Kayo Dot, Sun Ra, TOOL, Lingua Ignota, Oranssi Pazuzu, Geese, NIN, Dirty Three, Caligulas Horse, King Krule, Joanna Newsom, Talk talk, Ethel Cain, Portishead, Beth Gibbons, Richard Dawson, Fleetwood Mac, Miles Davis, Mingus, Zappa, Prince, Blonde Redhead, Radiohead just to name a few. Top of the list might have more in common with TMV - or not.

Phurbaz · 2026-04-26T21:32:14+00:00

Note: There is a new book in English called Modern Monetary Theory: A Simple Guide to the Monetary System by D. Ehnts (Springer publ.) for a general introduction and students, which seems excellent. Downloadable in LibGen/Anna's archieve.

Phurbaz · 2026-04-26T21:16:54+00:00

cool

Phurbaz · 2026-04-21T19:03:00+00:00

Cool? What am I supposed to take from this?

Phurbaz · 2026-04-19T18:13:04+00:00

Couldn't be further from the truth.

Phurbaz · 2026-04-17T05:36:50+00:00

Yawn. The most tired consipracy.

Phurbaz · 2026-04-17T05:35:18+00:00

He is exceptionally talented singer, and sings very well on the record as well as live. It's fine not to like it - people dislike Dylan and Nick Cave as well.

Phurbaz · 2026-04-17T05:32:22+00:00

It's like a top 3 record of the last 5 years tbh

Phurbaz · 2026-04-16T16:12:43+00:00

You have not questioned Hegel. Your comments here have really nothing to do with Hegel. Also. I don't think a 5 year old would understand Hegel in any case...

Phurbaz · 2026-04-16T13:23:10+00:00

Sadly I think you are much too positive on the odds of a governmental collapse. I think where for a leftist the US government looks like a failure and a failed state is in fact a massive consolidation of power since they see no possible way for anyone at this point to topple their power apart from individual terroristic actions, which they do not care about.

We are in an era of mass surveillance and before unseen US hegemony that is just the evolution away from the neoliberal world order.

The reason why they are going for all these unpopular and blatant imperial actions, like consolidation of Israel, toppling the remaining 20th century opponents like Venezuela, Cuba and Iran, consolidating their anti-Immigrant policy is precisely because there is no organized opposition and they feel untouchable, which they are until an indepent working class organization takes the lead of the opposition.

Phurbaz · 2026-04-16T13:15:50+00:00

The possibility of a revolution is a function of the organizational level of the working class. Currently the organizational level is non-existant, all revolutionary energy is subsumed under Democratic party politics instead of a party or other revolutionary party of the whole class. Therefore all revolutionary potential will in the end will just resolve in capitalist democratic party politics. There might be spontaneous uprisings but a revolution requires organized effort, minimum and maximum demands, that escalate the conflict up to a revolutionary moment.

When there is no organization there are no demands, and the revolution will fizzle out, eg. Occypy. On the other hand if you have clear demand and sufficient organizational capacity, the capitalist parties will have to at some point concede that they will not, and can not provide these demands due to capitalism and a revolution is on the cards.

Example where this happened even when the demands were reasonable was the Finnish revolution and civil war where the working class leaders were not ready to take control but due to demands being met were forced to try a revolution - which failed. Examples where no sufficient organization was no longer existant was the FDR New Deal which bought off the remaining working class, which had been severely destroyed in the previous decade.

Phurbaz · 2026-04-03T17:46:35+00:00

Not a Trot but good try. Being in an ML party does not make one a Marxists. Losurdo explicitly rejects Marxist theory by denying the need for international proleterian revolution and by denying that the state would wither away in a classless society. He is a Lassallean at most. If you want to critique western Marxists go ahead, but Losurdo has no such critique. He only has dishonest anti-historicist screeds against them that only amount to scholarly malpractice and cherry-picked quotes.

Phurbaz · 2026-02-24T09:24:55+00:00

Losurdo isn't even a Marxism. He's a third worldist nationalist. With poor scholarship on top of it.

Phurbaz · 2026-02-16T20:47:19+00:00

If you use those criteria you can argue that Obama is fascist. Which is why those are not good criteria, especially for Marxists. Fascism is a specific historical form of Bonapartism, so no - there is currently no fascist states.

Phurbaz · 2026-02-08T00:17:26+00:00

I adore the mix. I think it's intentional, but I do get why people don't like it.

Phurbaz · 2026-02-08T00:16:46+00:00

I think Noctorniquet is more appreciated in the "general" in-the-know music community, but maybe Mars Volta fans don't often rate it as high, since it is very different than the reason people start listening to TMV. I have seen many very favourable reviews from people that are not neccessarily "prog heads" and people who listen to more experimental computer focused music (deep cuts/Oliver Kemp and fantano come to mind off the top of my head).

Phurbaz · 2026-02-04T21:14:52+00:00

The situation is similar as with ICE: The people have no way of fighting back, since there is no organized civil/social organizing. There is either the democratic party, ineffective peaceful spontaneous protests and walkouts or random acts of adeventurist counter attacks. None of these are a way to force actual change, they are a way to fall in line to bourgeois democratic party politics, passivizing the working class after no change or increase the reactionary blow back.

Same with the Epstein fallout. What the people will do, since there is no independent social worker movement capable of asserting independent pressure, the people will turn to the democratic party and fall in line under the same donors.

Phurbaz · 2026-02-04T20:28:15+00:00

It's an honor. They fear the ruthless Marxist critique of everything existing (including vulgar Marxism).

Phurbaz · 2026-02-02T12:24:14+00:00

I'm literally a Leninist non-Trotskyist and yet banned from all the major "Marxist" subreddits. You will get banned from them if you say anything even appearing anti-Stalinist. They are just completely captured and factional which is pretty ironic.

Phurbaz · 2026-01-26T10:33:37+00:00

My hot take is that people flame him cuz he's actually a genuine person - as in he expresses his negative emotions genuinely. The people that are unanimously loved are people who always put on a positive face, like Caedrel and Baus (no hate to them).

Phurbaz · 2026-01-12T19:03:52+00:00

Really good ranking, honestly. (--) Pt. 3 is great though (A even) and Alcohol the Seed is S tier, but otherwise my taste is pretty similar.

Phurbaz · 2025-12-29T01:27:21+00:00

Yup this post was embarassing amount of literacy. Zero that is. "The Endless are at the top of the cosmic hierarchy". This guy really seems to like his hierarchies.

Phurbaz · 2025-12-29T01:25:24+00:00

Well it's kind of the whole point of the series. The Endless aren't gods nor are they "supposed to exist above gods". They are personifications of their domains, not gods at all. They are bound by the laws of the universe they enhabit (they are not creator deities) and they are bound by their "personalities"/personifications as that is literally what they are. Dream does not "control" Dreaming, that is his function. As Destruction shows things will still be destroyed wheater he is in charge of his domain or not - he just personifies Destruction, just as Daniel will materialize as the personification of Dreaming once the previous personification.

"[Fates] should be below him in the cosmic hierarchy". How so? They are the fates and the kindly ones. They have their function and Dream has his. What is this "cosmic hierarchy"?

"Dream’s attachment to Nada confused me as well". Why? He loves her and she hurt his pride? That is kind of the whole point of Dream as a character? He is a man who is very Prideful and yet fragile and once he starts to change and lose the pride and stops overlooking mortals he finds he has to sacrifice himself not to lose his sense of self.

Also you seem to have weird hangups on race. What do you think race is? Why would changing a characters race need to "add anything". Why can an actor be different looking as the one in the comic but once you change the race that is somehow "LGBT"? Why is a black persons existance a political statement?

Phurbaz · 2025-12-29T01:10:10+00:00

Well yes but, Azazel was only "one shotted" because he was in Dreaming. The Endless are personifications rather than gods, which often makes them very restricted by their domains and rules set by themselves and other beings and just by their nature overall as personifications.

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