Yes, it’s important to skill stack in order to remain competi… Hey where are you going! No you’re not allow up there to live your own life and develop as you please! Get back down here to compete against others just like you!

…and whatever you do, don’t form collective sympathies for each other, against your economic “betters”.

For that would risk a general strike.

No, the onus of evidence is on you to show me this “early definition of Capitalism” that predates Marx. Although it seems if you’re claiming such, you simply didn’t read my comment.

If it was an accident, the accident repeated several times. Even engineers got murdered for correctly saying you shouldn’t overload trains (1).

Wow, you mean Authoritarian Communism is still Authoritarian? Yeah no shit (and as you can read from earlier I’ve already mentioned many such things happening under conditions of Capitalism, directly from the doctrines practices of cost cutting and wage theft or brutalization, but fine, “I’ll see your engineers there and raise you the British Bopal disaster” that killed and deformed generations of Indians in their home village and is still causing health effects today).

As you’ve dropped in I’m going to assume you saw me mention that Stalinism was not Communism in its ideal form, but was a Stalinist form.

Your point is thus not about Communism, but about Communism under Authoritarian leaders… And I have already shown that Capitalism is capable of mass killings and atrocities under all sorts of conditions as part of the philosophy (ingrained to it). Where as Stalin’s actions here aren’t specifically connected to Communist doctrine. I’ve already covered this point several times with the previous respondant.

That there is a written philosophy - that of Marxism, that of the Communes and the Commons, is why I can say these things. It has a primary set of writings. But we can say that about Capitalism too…

That’s because real capitalism hasn’t been tried yet. All the capitalist systems still had subsidies, governments beyond enforcing property law, …

…because Marx was ALSO the person who first defined and wrote about CapitalISM, in his work DAS KAPITAL 1867.

You can look and find commentaries about other concepts in different languages and different sounding words that aren’t Capitalism, such as Merchantilism, or in The Hollantse, or you can find the word Capital here and there and claim it relates, or instance around the time of Marx’s first treatise on the subject, but none are systematic, focused on the right topic using the ism repeatedly and providing a widely agreed in definition of it.

Like all concepts it has these forerunners that are related but NOT it. So you have tried to be clever here without realizing that when we discuss Capitalism in the way I have - we are talking about Marx’s original definition of it. Which was the phenomena of using an unearned accumulation of KAPITAL in order to purchase, own, and exploit workers for the purposes of profiting from exploiting their now alienated Labor.

No, because that was not real capitalism.

Oh yes, as you can read above, it very much is. It is in its original description as found in the criticism by Karl Marx in Das Kapital, in 1867. A description so accurate that it’s widely agreed with - even among the Capitalists. He was the first and primary text on what the doctrine of “real Capitalism” is. Capitalists hitherto didn’t want what they were doing to be known so openly, and intimately and for good reason. Just as any abuser doesn’t want what they’re doing to be described. It comes naturally to them, and that is no excuse for it, doesn’t make it more moral or acceptable. Only once it’s pointed out accurately described does the argument start, only then can the behaviours meet reforms. Which is why in Marx’s writings we also find advocacy for labor rights.

Sorry my friend, but what I’ve spoken about is indeed, Real Capitalism™ - down to the origin of the term.

P.S there’s also Proudhon: the capitalist’s employee was “subordinated, exploited: his permanent condition is one of obedience” - so not much better. People of the era were writing things as they saw them emerge. It’s still the problem of the abuser as described above.

What’s embarrassing was seeing lemny try to censor commentary and discussion of events whilst reddit just let things rip.

I thought this was the free speech platform but reddit put this place to shame. What a let down.

I just hope Lemmy learnt something when they tried to censor comments on the issue. Meanwhile Reddit is looking like the free speech platform now.

Much of ideology and much of the beliefs of a culture work this way. We’re all in on spreading our beliefs. We reproduce these cultures and behaviors down through the generations.

Wonder how this comic got made.

Of course, Marx had some stuff to say about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Z4qNNRPZo

Isn’t there a big union that aligned it’s general meeting with something… I forget what year that’s set to happen. Supposed to open the possibility of a massive general strike.

2028, just in case Trump doesn’t leave office:

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/

Part of why Lemmy can federate and why they’re so innovative is because they’re not stored in a traditional server space, instead, theyre run on old Bitcoin graphics cards . Some of which AMD 600 - 1000 series, are supposedly easier to network and run in parallel, so when I talk about AMD Lemmy, I mean using thise parts of Lemmy as a bridge, or network gateway to Threads.

…oh and it’s so easy to tell the two sides… Hmmm… Much friendly fire going on?

I love how this is painted as hacking when the root cause is an unrestricted number of telco subsideries that pay for access to the system, this then essentially gives them the powers and credentials to monitor, intercept, and clone anyone’s phone and send/receive their messages/calls (Linus Tech Tips teamed up with Derek from Veritasium to show the extent to which it can be done, stealing his identity to intercept texts to and from his wife).

This is a product of the market deregulations of Capitalism. Capitalism is once again a security risk to citizens of free democracies. Shit happens all the time.

People say China represses free speech, but at least there they recognize the repression and have a rich lexicon of codewords to get around it already.

The shaping of the western mind has been much more subtle and total that few even accept that it’s happened.

Open List or Mixed Proportional Voting would be better. As the name suggests it would match the percentages to keep the proportions of representation accurate to what was voted for.

It’s questionable as to whether there are any actual democracies in the world. So much of the modern human condition and thought is constrained by Capitalism, the Culture Industry, and the moneyed interests behind such things.

BlueSky seems like an obviously better fit. The more corporate interests are protected on and by Lemmy the less interesting it is…

…and plaves like c/News are already there to mostly protect and defend corporate interests.

Whilst it was done in the name of Siberians, it happened in Bosnia.

…and even you use legal means of consensus building to pass a law that’s perceived as disagreeing with Trumpism, that perfectly valid, perfectly legal bill won’t be enacted without his Trump-loyalist rubber stamp for funding it.

A law without funding isn’t really a law. That’s going to be the new legal system.

Depends on how far away the civil war is.

Turns out mainstream journalism, news agencies, and even forums that deliver “the news” are actually there to force a particular cultural interpretation of the news whilst preventing others. We can see this in the sane washing of Trump.

It’s another aspect of cultural Class Warfare - The Frankfurt School pointed it out in this essay. They called it “The Culture Industry”, and Marcuse said it was an inescapable part of the reproduction of culture in the age of “mechanical reproduction”… Which is what Marcuse’ book “One Dimensional Man” is about.

Of course the millionaires and billionaires who fund the news and social media don’t want anyone seeing a certain kind of justice in the death of one of their own. Even if it’s really a byproduct of a system (techno feudalism) that really offers no other pathway to justice.

Russia is getting really low on tanks.

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