ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]

The bourgeois elections are the least important part of politics

Don’t forget to go metamagic adept so you can cast them without any indication that it is you twice a day! Or multiclass into sorcerer!

I’d argue you’re just describing vulgar idealist(as opposed to materialism, not cynicism) philosophy.

What I meant was that if we didn’t have it to start with, things would’ve likely still developed albeit much more slowly.

I dont think we will ever know, but Im not sure I agree. I dont know what the landscape would look like without relying on open source and patent theft. A lot of the stuff would probably not be financially viable.

I work in software development. Almost all modern architecture would collapse without the open source ecosystem.

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I have no formal training in philosophy maybe I need to read less philosophy if philosophy undergrads aren’t being exposed to it

suppose you could make an argument that a non-communist dialectical materialist is also a Marxist

That’s my argument

though I’ve never seen it used that way in practice.

Sometimes capitalists spout marxist shit and it is recorded. Marxist capitalists are the worst because they have an understanding of the contradictions their counterparts dont. More commonly there are non communist Marxists in philosophy.

I agree that almost all Marxists are communists, I just felt your initial response was a simplification that lost more meaning in the simplification than it necessarily needed to.

No, marxism is a lense through which to analyze capitalism. It isnt communist by itself, although marx was a communist.

Also without open source the capitalist tech sector would collapse

1 and 3 are pretty directly political lol

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You do realize that the incentives of capitalism necessitate that right?

Non pacifist feminists got the goods in England and scared american men enough for them to concede to the domestic feminist movement.

I agree but in this context I’m literally telling them to read about it.

I mean the stages of economic transition have been “fuedalism->capitalism-> socialism” as each one is progressively more efficient and supercedes the previous.

For more information, research “surplus army of labor”, “primitive accumulation”, and “accumulation by dispossession”.

Yeah, you get central planning (ussr) networked planning (Allende before the US murdered him) worker co-ops like Yugoslavia and dual co-op/planned workplaces like the DPRK

Also the Soviets weren’t responsible for arming and training the taliban, the US was lol.

It is pretty chauvinist to say you know better than basically all non-white socialists on how to do socialism without any successful socialist projects under your movement’s belt, if you are part of a movement.

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