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Cake day: October 19th, 2024

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  • Validity of theory isn’t based on what its writers do, but on what its students do. It’s a social science and without practical application it is absolutely worthless.

    Marx, Engels and Lenin have been proven right by the practice of Marxist-Leninists, it isn’t the rule that the best theorists are also revolutionary leaders, but revolutionary leaders by their success prove the worth of the theory they applied to their circumstances.

    I’ve never met a Bordiga follower whose achievements amount to more than writing in opposition to AES. You didn’t need to read leftcoms for that.








  • Capitalism spent centuries being the secondary mode of production under feudalism before the bourgeoisie had developed the productive forces enough to transition away from feudalism. The USSR, Albania and others attempted to force a socialist mode or production before the productive forces were sufficiently developed and it didn’t work. China’s strategy of development of the productive forces has had very little downside and I think it’s unreasonable and kind of suspect to want them to turn back (to policies that ultras would also condemn for one reason or another, as they always do). Poverty fetishism isn’t Marxist and isn’t scientific.

    Or you could just read The State and Revolution where Lenin goes into it for about a hundred pages. It’s been out for over a century.









  • The games employ a lot of scammy dark patterns and rapidly, drastically diminishing returns to convince you to make ten purchases when you could have reasonably expected two would get you a free item. The game rules and terms of service basically amount to “Temu reserves the right to change everything for any reason at any time”.

    There’s also a lot of misguiding listings where there’s no option to buy everything in the picture. The products themselves are usually decent, but the way they sell them is absolutely disgusting.