New server, new #introduction!
My name is Seth, I am a #migrant from the #US to #Germany and am a #cybersecurity manager, having been in #IT for 10 years and #security for 5.
My interests are #politics and #CurrentEvents (with a CW), #history, #art, #books, #scifi, #nature, #science, and #technology.
I am a diehard #leftie #communist / #Marxist / #socialist and will always fight for #humanrights and #workersrights. I'm very boring and boost more than I post.
#art #history: she's 81 today & she will never die.
celebrate the life of indefatigable activist, author, philosopher, academic, vegan, marxist & full-time badarse ANGELA DAVIS.
as far as i'm concerned, she's rarely wrong.
#angelaDavis #activist #marxist #writer #academic #illustration #palestine #gaza #vegan
Ursula #LeGuin on her relationship with #anarchism, etc:
https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/my-2007-interview-with-ursula-le
’ Of course I have been scolded by Marxists for not being #Marxist, but they scold everybody for not being Marxist. And activist anarchists always hope I might be an activist, but I think they realise that I would be a lousy one, and let me go back to writing what I write. ’
I can so relate to that.
corriere.it by Emanuele Buzzi
Tridico (M5S): «Il mio manifesto? Non è marxista. Serve una virata dal neoliberismo»
Il capodelegazione Ue: Stimo Grillo, non penso si opporrà alle scelte della base M5S
Translated:
"My manifesto? It's not Marxist. We need a shift away from neoliberalism."
The EU delegation leader: I esteem Beppe Grillo, I don't think he will oppose the choices of the M5S base.
#EU #BeppeGrillo #Korea #leader #Marxist #Neoliberalism
https://www.corriere.it/politica/24_ottobre_22/tridico-m5s-il-mio-manifesto-non-e-marxista-serve-una-virata-dal-neoliberismo-50d81eac-6fb4-489e-9965-f3c2aede7xlk.shtml
Trump is a #Treasonist #Traitor!
Ironic to my that Trump is accusing Kamala Harris of being a #Communist, #Marxist, in the pocket of Putin and Russia and China, when he is the real #Manchurian candidate!
Trump called Putin seven times after he lost to Biden and Trump’s Intelligence Chief and former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told Bob Woodward that he suspects Valdmir #Putin is blackmailing Donald #Trump.”
Andrew Tate is a liar and #misogynist! Clearly substantiated in the #book Clown World - Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere by Jamie Tahsin & Matt Shea. The full Amazon description page & reviews are also great & sum up the dangers of succumbing to Andrew Tate's false narratives.
'Part Gonzo journalism, part masculinity rabbit hole, this book takes you on Shea and Tahsin's journey to reveal the dark secrets of Andrew Tate, the machine that brought him here, and the ideology he has unleashed on a generation of young men'.
From that discussion came another #recommendation.
The #Influencer Factory: A #Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube.
'Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in #capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation'.
Internazionale by Internazionale
Fredric Jameson, l’ultimo genio del pensiero
Fredric Jameson non è stato solo un gigante intellettuale. È stato il massimo esempio di marxista occidentale, uno che ha saputo attraversare con coraggio gli opposti che definiscono il nostro spazio ideologico. Leggi
Translated:
Fredric Jameson, the last genius of thought.
Fredric Jameson was not just an intellectual giant. He was the ultimate example of a Western Marxist, someone who courageously traversed the opposites that define our ideological space.
#FredricJameson #Western #Marxist
https://www.internazionale.it/opinione/slavoj-zizek/2024/10/07/fredric-jameson-l-ultimo-genio-del-pensiero
To follow up on this...
#Neoclassical #economics, jumping off from #Marx, conflated #economic #rent and #profit in order to justify this kind of behavior.
TP=NSV+ER+Ext+M
Where:
TP = Total Profit, or Neoclassical profit, or #Marxist Returns to #Capital.
NSV = Natural Surplus Value (difference between the natural price and the cost of production). This is Classical Profit.
ER = Economic Rent (surplus due to privileged control over a scarce factor of production)
Ext = #Externalities (surplus generated by offloading production costs onto others) AKA #Pollution
M = #Monopoly (surplus generated by manipulating #supply and #demand, typically through control of the #market)
Only NSV is what you would call "legitimate", as the #producer #surplus is paired with a #consumer surplus - their ratio relative to the supply curves.
Now, all the others _reduce_ the consumer surplus and are therefore #theft.
Every single #technology #company (#TechCompany) - no... every single #company #profitable enough to be widely known, and many that aren't widely known, is _only_ profitable because of theft.
What's more, every action of #tech companies this millennia (including offering services for #free) has been designed to engage in this theft.
Well said 
“We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality— judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
We appear to be in a moment when the reality-based community is challenging…#MAGA Republicans to create their own reality.
“#Democrats are socialists who have destroyed the American economy. #Trump calls #KamalaHarris a “radical-left. #Marxist, #Communist, #Fascist”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-25-2024
I am but a well-meaning #socialist who seeks to understand #communist and #anarchist theories. My background and most familiar understandings are #marxist, however I am not a political scientist nor any other sort of expert. Take everything I say as just my thoughts and ideas, ideas that I think are worth expressing and sharing and that I hope people think over and consider. A lot of my posts are my spur of the moment thoughts that I have for myself when I'm listening to or reading about left wing, worker's, and liberation #politics.
I am not an authority, nor should you treat me as such. I encourage discourse and even enjoy it when it's something I hadn't considered. Just don't be an ass to me.
New instance, new #introduction !
Originally from #PettingZoo — I'm a #Marxist #marten ( #furry ) here to talk about politics, #tabletop games, #Linux, and to help along my fellow anticapitalists.
Will probably also cause some level of chaos, as I'm now running the redpawcollective.co instance.
Give my Youtube channel a look; you'll get to know me pretty quickly through my incredible #Blender skills and unabashed #socialism .
(5/n)
...This said, I might also as well say that I see little chance for this happening, the globe being ruled by #oligarchs following the principal of #plutocracy and #capitalism (no, I am not a #Marxist;)) and #autocrats
Even a non-#superintelligence with access to the sensors of the #IoT will easily be aware of any threat to its existence and will find ways to circumvent the #LawsOfRobotics.
This first #GeneralArtificialIntelligence was built by humans, so...
#introduction
I'm a techie with sudden philosophical tendencies.
#ADHD/#ADD, Schrödinger's #Autism. Probably #Marxist. Definitely leftie. Oscillating very fast between hating capitalism and working in the core of the Imperial Core. #Linux admin. I know how the Internet does not work. Game player (hiatus). Compose Key enjoyer. Ex-pro-amateur photographer. Man of many hobbies, none of them in practice. Probably overthinking something right now, until I find a new thing for my ADD… What are we tal
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