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The short sightedness of capitalist development is incredible.
Shall we transition away from fossil fuels to prevent extreme heat events? No, that would hurt this quarter's profits.
Okay, so, can we harden society against the extreme heat events that are going to happen because we have chosen to not transition away from fossil fuels? Also no! That would hurt this quarter's profits.
It's a municipally owned company so not that much care for this quarters profit on that front, just at least 30 years of going "well sure climate change is real but surely not now" when they contract out the track building
A municipally owned company within the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. They still think in terms of fiscal quarters.
So, they think "well sure climate change is real but not this fiscal quarter" and then they just keep doing that every fiscal quarter until the railroad melts.
i love how everyone keeps shitting on road quality here and how Reza Shah's road were so much better because of german (nazi) engineering, and then modern german road literally melts down with temps that are regular here in the summer.
I remember at Golestan Palace seeing the Shah's collection of many cars, and some ladies were fucking gushing about it.
It's literally that meme of the coworkers flirting.
One person's corruption - ohh look so fancy and pretty.
They're just fucking programmed. Down with Instagram and the other shit.
Apparently, you don't even need jet fuel to melt steel beams!
It wasn't the steel, but the bitumen filling between the steel and the road surface
I am aware, I read the full article as I always do before commenting, even though the overwhelming majority of my comments are jokes.
traingang in shambles
traingang has informed me that heat damage like this can be drastically reduced by grassy tracks
next you'll tell me something like green spaces that provide shade would help. You can't fool me, this is all just part of your green agenda to prevent climate apocalypse! Trains included!
First we need trains now we need trees next you’re going to ask for parks where does this end
this wouldnt have happened under the morgenthau plan! 
leipzig would be a green grain-filled hamlet!
the morgenthau plan also called for the establishment of a US High Commissioner as the main political control body. it wasn't nearly as great for anti-imperialism as people like to believe
The actual solution? Stalin should've kept going west til Denver, but only because the area west of the Rockies is more accessible by the Pacific route.
and how the fuck could he have realistically accomplished that?? even ignoring the obvious great man theory bullshit about him doing things and not the millions who sacrificed their lives to liberate the world from fascism, i don't think westerners really realise just how weakened the ussr was after the war and how horrible the wounds inflicted by the german fascists truly were.
the red army never had the intention on marching through europe! the war it fought against germany was defensive. instead, this was a myth that western intelligence and nato ghouls consciously propagated in order to justify re-militarisation and nazi collaborationism.
This was not a serious comment. I am an academic historian and political scientist focused primarily on the Soviet Union. I know.
then, please consider not calling your joke "the actual solution." it may confuse some people, especially with intent being oftentimes hard to judge over text.
If you are so wholly unable to discern intent in text that you so regularly have difficulty with glib or hyperbolic statements, you may want to consider inquiring as to whether people are serious instead of immediately assuming they are and deciding to shadowbox your inaccurate perception of them.
we're not asking a US treasury secretary for advice on how to do anti-imperialism, thats like asking a grain to become a heap--but he had a solid idea on destroying germany, which was just the right thing to do!
combatting the evils of capitalism by proposing to re-establish feudalism does not seem to be the right way to go about things, to me.
please consider familiarising yourself with the Soviet government's approach to the whole situation; especially since those were the people who, unlike americans, actually suffered from German fascism.
feudalism? the actual morgenthau plan was just a more detailed potsdam declaration with a proposal for political borders, folks sarcastically 'for' it and against it both exaggerate it, but it was basically just a few grains further than what was actually implemented.
its funny to say any problem pertaining to german industry or politics could've been solved by morgenthau, it's not true or so past the point of speculation that it's an absurd joke
socio-economic systems are determined by material conditions. by proposing to recreate pre-industrial society, the plan was effectively an attempt to destroy the conditions necessary for capitalism, while trying to recreate those needed for a feudal society.
proposal for political borders
the proposed borders would have been further east than those actually agreed upon after the war, thus ending up aiding german imperialism, not combatting it!
this also leads into the point that Romani and Sorbian people, as well as other national minorities, would have suffered just as much, if not more, from the plan as the perpetrator people! please keep in mind that virtually all german territory east of the elbe/labe/łobjo was stolen through settler colonialism from its original Slavic inhabitants. though in my experience, yanks usually aren't even aware of the non-germoid inhabitants of the region, and if they are, they don't tend to consider them human.
joke
it's always a joke unless people actually agree with it; then one is suddenly deathly serious. ))
by proposing to recreate pre-industrial society
there is no 'recreation' in the proposal. the removal of german industry would simply mean the capitalists and workers would be in agriculture and supporting light industries. many places in the world don't produce steel today but are still capitalist.
the morgenthau borders were less stringent in the east, he wasn't privy to the border shuffle with poland & ussr, poland getting west to modern borders was compensation for enforcing the curzon line on their east. but the plan's division of germany into 3-ruhr, south, prussia--and ceding saar to france are all elements that went heaps further than most proposals.
with the destruction/dismantling of key industrial capacity and the resulting push of employment and production toward farming and rural labor, landholding and rural authority would have quickly became more important than urban/industrial bourgeois power, recreating over time feudal relations of production and obligation.
your point about the Polish border, meanwhile, reads honestly like nothing but a load of german chauvinist rubbish. the recovered territories were exactly that: recovered, as they had formed part of the traditional Polish homeland and medieval Polish state, and were only lost later during different periods over the centuries. Germany had never had any right to hold them! What effectively happened after the war was that Poland abjured any claims on the territories it itself had unjustly acquired in the Soviet-Polish war, while finally regaining what had been stolen from it centuries earlier. thus, both wrongs had been righted at the same time.
furthermore, as i've stated previously, all "german" territory west of the elbe/Labe/Łobjo was ancestrally Slavic land that the germans had occupied and subjected to forced germanisation. if anything, germany's post-war eastern borders were too lenient and, in my opinion, should not have included Lusatia, etc.
you bringing up germany getting split up into several pieces is just ridiculous! as stated in the beginning, morgenthau explicitly called for the establishment of a US high commissioner as the main political control body over the entire area! do you seriously believe that the fucking americans would have used their even greater control over central and western europe to carry out honest denazification?? hell, even if they'd for some reasen ended up doing it, american power is never a good thing for socialism or anti-imperialism anywhere! how do i get this into peoples' heads, ffs?!
also, it's somewhat funny how you decided to completely ignore my point about national minorities. ironically, you and the germans seem to be in the same boat on this one, lmao
finally, ill ask you again to please educate yourself on the soviet government's approach to the german question, as those people (unlike yanks like mogenthau) actually experienced the horrors of fascist occupation, as well as it just being better to read communists instead of some dipshit in washington.
with the destruction/dismantling of key industrial capacity and the resulting push of employment and production toward farming and rural labor, landholding and rural authority would have quickly became more important than urban/industrial bourgeois power, recreating over time feudal relations of production and obligation.
I don't find it reasonable that feudal relations would've been restored in the 1940s-1950s when capitalism has been well-established for centuries with imperialism as the current stage. Honestly, I can't even think of a country where feudal restoration is a thing outside of maybe going from Cromwell's Protectorate back to the UK or the Dutch Republic being replaced with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. And even those two are more about the capitalists of those countries taking a few steps back in the political arena while the mode of production they represent still marched onward to replace the feudal mode of production. The UK and the Netherlands are still kingdoms, yet no one seriously thinks they're feudal societies, and they haven't been feudal societies for centuries.
For the rest of your post, I broadly agree/have no comment.
look, i'm not obliged to respond to every point you make, i've got better things to do than wrestle in the mud with someone trying to wring arguments out of well meaning comrades making jokes.
i didn't reply to your argument about national minorities because it was completely unformed. how would it be worse for them, when there's no provisions about them in the plan we're talking about? was i supposed to guess? this isn't an effective, or kind way to communicate.
not interested in any grains i'd reap from carrying on with this.
Is there a chance the tracks could bend?
Absolutely, my Leipzig friend!
