Authoritarianism against capital - especially USAmerican - is why your tears Mr David a-million-Iraqis-murdered Frum are nourishing.

There are quicker ways of learning environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.

I think it’s because of racism more often than not.

I think this plays a large factor. One can see this in the Philipines and India too (for the general populatuon rather than marxists alone). I think the propaganda often ends up being an advertisement for a license of bigotry rather a tool of “mind-control”.

A lot of MLs are criticial of CR; they should really visit India (maybe sans Kerala) to see a timeline without it.

A potential approach: “Isn’t it funny how the demonic military-industry-complex that bombs and tortures people all around the world seem to have similar goals as you? I wonder how they managed to convince someone as smart as you that what they did was Christian? Matthew 24:24 - For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive”

However, be aware of the problems with theories of brainwashing -

1. https://redsails.org/dont-work-that-way/
2. https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
3. https://redsails.org/false-witnesses/

With regards to mental health: even in a capitalist society universal health care would go along way. However, we have to unfortunately contend whether that alone would help abolish the superstructures - including the institutions of imperialism and colonisation - that enable the license of bigotry.

Ok that was hilarious. I was hoing to post some choice quotes but don’t want to spoil it for others who haven’t seen it yet.

For most things the majority of the world is on our side. And for the rest is partly why MLs aren’t tailists.

I think the author’s perspective is the solution should aim towards the social organisation of workers (in this case artists) as a group as a step towards the worker’s state; the technology is not the problem but the privatisation of the surplus value from socialised labour is. Art-luddites (if such a thing is even possible now) would actually be a good thing - they could threaten “machinary” to gain leverage for workers at large.

It is not your personal failure for you attempting to survive in a system that exploits you and your labour, neither is a recognition of any classes that we fit in that is not exclusively proleteriat. As invididuals maybe our only realistic solution be attempts towards becoming petty-bourgoisie - if not already there - but as an organisation your scope is much much more.

We have to remember when we are reading more radical writing that they are trying to push where we could be as a society ie the opposite of tailism. However, we should always place those ideas in the context of our own realities and trial them where appropriate, and learn on the feedback from this process - that is the more scientific and dialectic approach.

I found this article a really interesting read (52 min), it is a well-written dialectical take which one may find useful if not already read:

Artisanal Intelligence: What’s the Deal with “AI” Art? (2023)"

https://redsails.org/artisanal-intelligence/

Original from: https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2023-02-03-Artisanal-Intelligence.html

The same author has also written (which I have yet to read): https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2022-01-20-To-save-the-arts-we-must-kill-the-artist.html

Thanks. Do you know if Patreon does Monero?

Are they on anywhere else?

Yeah I didn’t get that reference till you explained despite knowing that meme.

No, it’s the children who are wrong…

I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean!

These developments look increasingly structural. The authorities’ stance since 2020, including regulatory tightening and zero-COVID lockdowns, appear to have inflicted long-lasting damage to China’s private economy, the dynamism of which was a defining feature of its economic miracle in the past four decades. Nearly 20 months into China’s COVID reopening, the private sector has yet to bounce back, despite many pro-private business utterances and gestures from China’s leadership. In sum, the findings here corroborate the view that China continues to suffer from “economic long COVID.”

I wonder how the “pro-private business” countries are doing and whether there are any other markers of a healthy political economy that might not be the profits or revenue of the private sector.

If we define the worst countries as the ones that can affect the most people negatively by capitalism; this means imperialism, and also to consider if the country in question has a domestically large enough population to affect.

Which means, aside from the countries mentioned, they could be: UK and India.

Happens commonly in Europe too. I remember reading a while back since China stopped a significant amount of recycling for Europe (I think due to trade restrictions) a bulk of the waste ends up in the hands of organised crime? Hopefully someone with more up-to-date knowledge can correct this if not accurate.

His channel has excellent insights and well put together. Short, easily digestable, well cited and nicely presented along with often beautiful drone photgraphy of China at the end.

He is a business analyst who sees through the western media smoke screen, the destructiveness of the western military indsutrial complex, the gains China has made, and the sophistication on how China develops out of poverty and builds out diplomacy. He clearly either lives in China or visits often and has first hand experience.

However, he is an excellent example of how deep Western delusion runs.

Despite all of this, what is the reason he believes China is winning? Christianity. And though he doesn’t understand it the language he uses to explain the trade diplomacy alludes to imperialism (remember he does not have marxist understanding of capital). It is almost as if it is from another channel. It is amazing that China’s strategy can even win loyalty from these kinds of people. The video in question:

https://youtu.be/7-WA64ecsgM

Ultimately the defence of anti-communism is the defence of fascism. That is the road this takes. The volunteer nazi safety advocates must be getting desperate to be triggered this badly; I wonder if they are cognizant at some level of that tap of superexploitation slowly turning off and their economies imploding.

Like I have said before if one is voting for Democrats because of the perceived threat of potential fascism under Trump against them they are then admitting they believe they are immune from the current and future barbarism of the Democrats. For many they are not a “lesser evil”; the Democrats deserve Trump.

Tea a la Menthe was a nice touch.