the richest man in the world (240 bn net worth) is acting like he’s a lone crusader against corporate tyranny and his reactionary simps are lining up to lick his boots.

Also that lib was full of shit. Steam has never actually banned racists, no matter how many times they’re reported.

Give people their freedom and they will fight tooth and nail to prevent themselves losing it again

“freedom” is the most meaningless word in politics. People use it to mean both “freedom from” oppression and “freedom to” oppress. Socialists, Communists, and anarchists want freedom from oppression but don’t always agree on how to get there. The bourgeoisie want the freedom to oppress the proletariat.

However put just yet another red boss on top

this is such a tired trope. you’re worried about the supposed “red boss” while is still in power. “We can’t do revolution because meet the new boss same as the old boss!” Give it a rest.

you will need that conscription and all the authoritarianism that will come after and will crush any advance towards socialism.

Authoritarianism is the second most meaningless word in politics. The ruling class always cries about authoritarianism as they are being overthrown by the very same people who they have been exercising authority over. A social class will dictate the conditions of production. Is it going to be the proletariat, or the bourgeoisie? Is it going to be the impoverished majority, or the opulent minority?

most historically-literate liberal

umberto eco

Xi Jinping is stupid

the chinese state is supposedly a ruthless machiavellian cunning genocidal dictatorial power structure but the guy who climbed to the top of it is dumb?

ah yes, the wolfsangel… about that…

Your whole woke thing is over. Trump will take 2024 and then normalcy will return.

Oh wow, you mean the ICE camps will open back up? Oh wait, Biden never closed them. What exactly are you threatening us with? Replacing one senile racist with another?

Thanks, linguistic differences are also important, that’s true. I’ll try to read the article when I have a chance.

Banderites have always hated LGBT and Ukraine has historically supported gay marriage even less than Russia. I am beginning to suspect from your other posts that you are one of those anti-LGBT reactionaries trying to paint LGBT people as imperialist, and the United States arming nazis in Ukraine as some kind of pro-LGBT agenda, when in fact that is simply some rhetorical window dressing America likes to use to justify their reactionary policy of arming anti-communists.

hmm, the social murder inherent in our current health care system must be radicalizing him right now since his brother Hank has cancer

he was well known for his havana banana

It’s a good question. I don’t have an answer. I would need to think about it for longer

well given the relationship between base and superstructure, it’s less something people apply daily to their lives, and more it is something that is applied daily, by society’s base, to society’s superstructure, and vice-versa, regardless of whether people are aware of it. I don’t think it necessarily makes sense for an individual apply it to daily life, but I welcome corrections if I’m wrong about that.

Comrade Dessalines, you rock. Your audiobooks and essays are great. No questions.