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This is fantastic news. They also said they will go to court over if WoTC try to “deauthorise” OGL 1.0a which is just epic.

Edit: The site went down lmao. Epic stuff.

Edit: BTW, Paizo is the company that also recognised their Union without requiring it to go to vote or hiring anti-union shitheads.

In this post that I found while browsing via Popular, people are openly talking about Marx and capitalism. In another post I saw, people were praising Lula. These are both posts I found via Popular, ie these are the ones the algo is promoting and are getting a lot of traction. That’s a good sign!

I’m sure there are plenty bad parts to Reddit, and the site as a whole might be astroturfed to hell, but there are so many people there that are open to socialism, maybe more than any other popular social media platform.

Maybe you can’t praise China or talk about Russia, but I feel everything else is game. And honestly? I think that’s fine. If we can get the average Redditor to turn to socialism and to bring down western imperialism, then that is already gonna be the biggest possible help the global south can ask for.

I thought we all loved our trash raccoon. Didn’t he own Peterson?

EDIT: AOC is doing what the unions wanted her to do.

https://hexbear.net/post/236928/comment/3033122

DISCLAIMER: Before you jump on me, the below post is to show how much of a dead end electoral politics is. You cannot vote in socialism.

But you should still vote in socialists. The more, the better. Building up the organisations needed to actually bring in socialism is much easier under a more left-adjacent government.

AOC and the other progressive Democrats did not vote for the anti-strike legislation because they’re liberals or hate workers or anything. Their vote was necessary to pass the 7 paid sick days bill. That was the agreement between the progressive and conservative Democrats.

But this nuance is fucking lost on people here. When you play the electoral game, you have to compromise. Every elected official will do so. AOC, Bernie Sanders etc. are not betraying the working class when they support such bills. They’re doing the best they can.

But it’s as if the people here don’t want the best. They just want empty gestures. And when people like AOC do the smart thing that would at least benefit some people, they act as if AOC is the same as Nancy Pelosi.

Guess who wants you to believe that? Guess who benefits from that? The Republicans. It’s grifters like Jimmy Dore and Infrared and Glenn Greenwald that push this rhetoric all to drive more leftists to either apathy or direct support for people like Tucker Carlson and DeSantis who are the “true” populists.

The vote passed by like over a hundred votes. The handful of progressive congresspersons couldn’t have stopped it. But what they could do, was get the other bill with the paid sick leave passed in exchange for a vote that was already going to pass. I mean, it’s like people are forgetting that the latter vote barely passed. Almost no Republican voted for it.

Why? Because the Republicans hate the working class more than the Democrats.

Please don’t forget that.

TLDR: AOC, even if it doesn’t seem like it at times, is better than most Democrats and all Republicans. A Congress and Senate filled with people like AOC will be exponentially more conducive to implementing socialism than any other. It will still not bring in socialism. Socialism can only be achieved by a revolution. But creating the conditions and the organisations and the class consciousness necessary for that revolution, is easier under a social democratic government than any other.

It makes my blood boil.

It's not illegal, but it's still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about "the problematic age gap discourse" will make it not true.

There’s this new video by a good YouTuber - Value by Unlearning Economics. There was also an article by Ben Burgis for the Jacobin which argued the same.

Is it possible, as both these people argue, to separate Marx’s critique of capitalism from his theory of value? To keep the former and discard the latter?

Edit - I’m not siding with the video or with Burgis, btw. I think Marx’s value theory is correct. I’m just looking for people who can shine some light on this new(?) phenomena of leftists speaking out against LTV while trying “save” Marx’s critique of capital. To me, that just seems like a pointless and hopeless endeavour.

Here's a simpler diagram that to me seems to be the same.

All information from this thread:

Valuable chart from leading Chinese Marxist economist Cheng Enfu I saw while doing a pre-read skim of his book, summarizing stages economic development ultimately leading towards communism. Provides a perspective for CPC plans for potential future economic arrangements

For context, the 2049 date routinely cited is when the CPC expects to move from the primary to intermediate stage of socialism

This shows that Chinese Marxists do view abolishing the commodity form and move towards a full planning apparatus as consistent with the goals of a realized communist society.

The book is China's Economic Dialectic by Cheng Enfu. Other books mentioned in the thread are Socialism with Chinese Characteristics - A Guide for Foreigners by Roland Boer and 2050 China: Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country by multiple authors.

Here is a talk given by Cheng Enfu, Roland Boer and others on modern China.

Some Additional Information:

Product vs Commodity Economy:

He’s using the term “product economy” for an economy that produces products for use and need rather than an economy who’s primary focus is the production of commodities meant for the accumulation of capital

Product-economy as opposed to a commodity economy, i.e. that things are produced in accordance with a social plan to meet real needs rather than exchange-value realization.

State Monopoly Capitalism:

State Monopoly Capitalism is a Leninist term designating Capitalism past its competitive phase.

This latter term is synonymous with Imperialism in its Leninist sense. Finance-capital and arrangements of monopolistic trusts in collusion with State power to divide the world into colonies wherein the export of capital takes on an added significance vis a vis of commodities.

What is a State:

He is using the Marxist definition of a state where its primary function is to maintain the power and position of the dominant ruling class. In a communist/advanced socialist society, class distinctions ultimately fade away, therefore making this form of state power redundant

On China's Current Stage:

Yes they see themselves in the primary stage which corresponds to the current arrangement of the Chinese economy - commodity production and mixed market mechanisms within a dominant state guiding and directing framework

I believe there are various subdivisions within each stage (for planning purposes) which is where the 2030s date comes from

Anyways, I'll probably repost this tomorrow when more people are likely to see this. Just thought I'd share.

I’m sorry. I failed to understand how deeply the Western propaganda machine is embedded within all that we consider “news” and uncritically believed the AP article because it “seemed true” i.e. confirmed my biases.

Then I got pressed and malded in the comments, when called out.

Thank you for education me. I have some serious learning to do.

Special thanks (and apology) to @Awoo @kristina @American_Communist22 and everyone else who engaged with me over multiple comments. Sorry for being so thick-headed. I’ll do better in the future.

A Dunk on Scott Alexander (the guy behind SSC, an internet "rationalist" community). Basically super pro-silicon valley, "AI will save us" types who hate arts, lgbtq+, women and bipocs. They're scared of imaginary snakes .