Dimmer06

It's almost as if the massive expansion of the means of production is good for humanity and our mode of production based on private property and market exchange inhibits that development. I wonder if anyone has written anything about this?

It's really disgusting how many people just roll over for him. Dude almost certainly has committed heinous war crimes and all these lumpen petty bourgeois media personality "socialists" completely forget their supposed internationalist positions over him.

Only polling above Vance by 2% in the popular vote should be extremely embarrassing.

I think I cashed out the $100 of Bitcoin I had to help pay for a PS3. Today it would be worth like $15k

Maybe we should just turn the DSA into the US version of the International or whatever that USSR organization of different socialist parties was lol.

Functionally this is how DSA actually works. Most members are uncaucused but the caucuses run things and are quite rigid with their discipline, functioning like small parties in their own right in much the same way there were multiple factions of the RSDLP.

Iirc Megan is Red Star the ML caucus and Ashik is (was?) from the Groundwork caucus, the extreme opportunist pseudo-Marxists who really only care about attaching DSA's name to electoral victories. Let that color any interpretation of this interview.

I did not watch the interview but the answer is absolutely not. NYC DSA specifically and the organization more broadly do this all the time where they endorse candidates with little to no relationship to the organization to attach their name to an up and coming social democrat. Then, because the DSA lacks any actual proletarian power, the candidate is pressured or caves into bourgeois interests and burns DSA.

I have noticed an interesting dynamic with Platner's campaign, that his core base are middle aged people who have been political hacks most of their lives and young people who are going to forget who he is before the election. Younger people who are actually plugged in don't seem to like him all that much. I think that's why DSA hasn't come out for him as of yet.

Idk why anyone pretends that every Democrat over sixty (which is probably a majority of Dems in this ancient state) isn't going to vote for Collins anyways. They've supported her for the last 25 years and they will continue to do so until she has ascended as the lich queen.

Maine primaries are next spring I think. Maybe next June? The general election is in 11 months

HR was 40 minutes late to the anti-union meeting they were hosting lmao.

I'm pretty sure the whole point of Marxism is that vibes aren't real, they're just the shadows of material relationships. Hegel said three spirits drove history. Marx retorted that it was the forces and relations of production that drove history. The materialst positions that every feeling, every idea, every "superstructure" can be broken down to a physical process that can be studied, quantified, and possibly changed.

And we see that in politics too. When people successfully organize it isn't for abstract concepts. It's for concrete goals. We might use abstract terms like "freedom" or "justice" but anyone actually looking to change things has concrete ideas about what needs to be changed to achieve those goals. Oftentimes words representing abstract ideas obscure the concrete goals of a political movement and mislead the masses which is why Marxists don't like "idealism".

Dinner tonight was vegan bacon cheeseburgers with lightlife bacon and impossible burgers and they tasted pretty good.

I don't prefer making (faux)meat-forward meals but I do occasionally and I don't look down on them. I don't think the meat substitutes are that unhealthy (almost certainly healthier than what they're replacing) but they're expensive and I genuinely enjoy cooking with veggies, beans, tofu, etc. more than just a burger or whatever. I never liked the concept of a chunk of meat being the centerpiece with some sides or vegetables scattered throughout when most food has so much potential flavor. I love that veganism really challenges that dynamic, forcing the chef to create meals that integrate ingredients rather than isolate them.