Funny part is that the term “middle class” originated from feudal times to describe people who were neither aristocrats/landed gentry (aka upper class) nor peasantry/proles (aka lower class). So basically, the bourgeoise and highly educated bureaucracy.
Jan 6th did not succeed … because Mike pence and the secretaries of states of PA and GA stopped it
And how the fuck is this an argument for linking up with Liz cheney exactly? Did Liz Cheney stop Jan 6th?
Settlers applies to POC as much as it does white people.
Eyo? It really does not.
I’ve heard self-described neo-liberals praise neocons by saying “neocons fight wars to make the world safe for neoliberalism”. The difference between the 2 does not exist and even the neolibs/neocons don’t think it meaningfully exists. As best, they could be said to have different immediate priorities.
The labour theory of value would predict that higher wages don’t increase prices, but reduce the rate of surplus value.
The labour theory of value says that prices are most strongly correlated with the labor time needed to produce the commodity regardless of the wage rate.
The theory that prices would increase based on wages is called the prices of production theory, in which price = (1+rate of profit)*(material cost + labor cost). It conflicts with the LTV and this conflict was actually something that troubled marx quite a bit.
Inflation is something that occurrd in even ancient class societies. It is noted in ancient societies that they originally issued silver coins for daily use, but as the centuries passed by successive governments debased the currency until copper coins were being used, then iron, then zinc and now today most money is digital, being produced at close to 0 cost.
The reason why Inflation happens in class societies is that the state debasing its currency, or banks increasing their lending (both of which cause inflation by jncreasing the money supply) are easy ways for the ruling class to generate financial power and keep liquidity in the economy up.
Another aspect to this is selection pressures for businesses. “Inflation” and “deflation” are statistical properties of an economy. That means that they exist as the sum of many small interacting parts (the prices of individual commodities).
If any business lowers their prices pre-maturely while everyone else keeps up their prices, the business will loose profit and thus shrink relative to others. This is a strong disincentive against deflating prices except in dire circumstances (recessions) where you can safely expect everyone else to also lower prices.
Even the Democrat “autopsy” of the campaign is delusional. “Biden’s economic achievments”? If he had such achievements kamala would have won. And the article also berates kamala for not distancing herself from trans rights even more, praising Biden by saying that he would have take a firm stance against “men in woman’s sports”.
What a joke, but unsurprising. If the Democrats has actual introspection skills, they would have never lost against trump the first time around, much less loose to him twice.
Economic worries have taken center stage as the slump in the housing market deepened, fueling pessimism among consumers. Where once was a gilded age, social media users now refer to the present era as the “garbage time of history.” Coco Li, 46, used to spend about HK$600,000 ($77,000) a year — or roughly 20% of her income — buying luxury items. After losing her job as an executive at a multinational company in Hong Kong, she’s curtailed her habit and put some of her Hermes handbags up for sale on mainland Chinese online platforms.
The things the petty bourgeoise say sometimes are just completely unhinged.
Yes, because historical materialism is now racism.
It is also racist to consider that the history of power structures in a country/region will impact future power structures.
That isn’t what you said. You said, and I quote
My whole point on the Xinjiang topic was that you all chose to ignore chinese history that goes pretty much as far as we have written history of it, explaining the whole way of dealing with minorities by forced assimilation, coming from the clanic and dynastic organization of Chinese provinces for millenias.
Which is pure bullshit and completely flies in the face of historical materialism. Not only have you failed to explain how “clanic and dynastic organisation of chinese provinces” is relevant to the forced assimilation of minorities, but you have also failed to explain how this “impacts future power structures”. Are you saying that the PRC is organised on clan and dynastic lines?
And furthermore, the idea that thousands of years of forced assimilation of minorities would be continued despite the transition of the mode of production from slavery all the way to primitive socialism is completely absurd and flies in the face of historical materialism. You have not posited a historically contingent/transient process, you have posited a static unchanging constant of Chinese culture, which is apparently to genocide minorities.
You chose to ignore the whole area of study about sinicization, which is pretty much that subject, and you also chose to ignore how similar the situation is between the PRC and provinces that want to be independant, to what Israel is doing with Palestine, which stems from the same imperialistic logic. You chose to ignore that the acceleration in the settlement and ethnic erasure of the Xinjiang province is strangely close to the acceleration of the BRI project.
You have not even considered that the so called “sinicization” occuring today in China amongst minorities is simply the natural result of economic integration. Any nation is constituted of community of people united by language, territory and economic life. When underdeveloped minority regions are integrated into the broader national economy, they gradually loose their minority character. How do you think France came to be? Did the French nation simply exist from the beginning of time? Or did it form after various minority groups were brought under the same government under one market?
Furthermore, that you would compare palestine to xinjang betrays your lack of understand of either region’s history and utterly privileged position as an imperialist, who cannot tell the difference between live streamed mass murder and economic development where God forbid, a people’s culture is changing in ways you don’t like.
even if they claim to “disagree” with the methods.
Nah, they don’t even pretend. Just watch them talk about “terrorists”. Liberals unsurprisingly have a full on statist view of violence. Their violence to protect property is legitimate and all other violence is illegitimate.
The US government is putting the boot on your necks too. The empire isn’t run for your benefit, it is run at your expense.
Virtually any geo-engineering solution will have horrific side effects. It’s a matter of how systems work. You can easily control a linear system with a feedback loop. We know all of the math and the equations are easy (if sometimes tedious) to solve by hand or by computer. For some non-linear systems, you can approximate them as linear and control them that way. For other non-linear systems like the climate, which are chaotically non-linear, only god can help you.
Hell, even if the climate did respond linearly (enough), controlling it would still be very difficult. For an N-order linear system (that is, there are N number of states, or energy storing “devices” in the system), you need to continuously provide N inputs in a precisely calculated way to control it. You also need at least N sensors to be able to keep track of the N states, whether directly or indirectly. On top of that, we would still need massive amounts of energy and materials to actually provide the control inputs.
If you did all that, then geo-engineers could control the climate in a predictable way. But the thing is, in political consciousness, very few people actually know what it would take to control the climate. Most people think of geo-engineering as a cheap and quick way of solving climate change. It is not.
To use an analogy, imagine you are driving your car off a cliff. You could press the brakes (reduce emissions), or you could build a paraglider, attach it to your car and then fly off the cliff (geo-engineering).
Probably depends heavily on where you live and field.
A lot of engineers are actually sympathetic towards implementing a planned economy to reduce emissions. They just don’t make it to the news or are promoted by social media algorithms.
It is a trend that has worried European officials. “We are losing the appeal of the EU to brute Russian force,” said one western official in Tbilisi.
The appeal of what? Forever austerity?
The Chinese never found a way to make profit in spite of radically lower prices
Source? Your dreams?
Real late reply, but Kamala is a direct fascist.
All of this means it’s becoming harder for global companies to operate in both the US and China, Peter Mandelson, a former European trade commissioner who co-founded the consulting firm Global Counsel, said during an interview in Hong Kong. “A rupture has emerged,” said Mandelson, now a close adviser to UK leader Keir Starmer. “This is a very strong headwind blowing across the global economy, and international companies need to navigate that.”
Neoliberals are now scrambling to kill neoliberalism.
I don’t think any international framework after the UN should have the ability to “reign in” rogue nations. We should not build some kind of world police, the US international order shows the pitfalls of this. The more powerful and influential nations will exploit punitive measures.
Instead, we should strive to create a world where rogue nations can easily circumvent economic and political pressures, at least if they enough allies, even if the majority is against them. Basically, a kind of global anarchism (horizontal order). I would be very skeptical of a one world state, or something that tries to be like that if it was bourgeois led, or consisted primarily of bourgeois members.
Her tactics did work for her. Her base has become immensely cult like and she did have a lot of voters. The actual problem was inflation + Palestine.
You cannot get by with an incoherent narrative on those issues because when people feel things with their wallet or have dead family members, they will pay a lot closer attention.