Do we sieze the alien's means of production?

  • TawnyFroggy [she/her]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Okay I'm embarrassed for not knowing, but is Posadas like meme tier or actually worth reading?

    • Tanith [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Both at the same time:

      Ignore the dolphin stuff.

      the nuke stuff while not exactly wrong is him being doom pilled and overly optimistic about nuclear winter at the same time. Shades of mark fisher using nukes as a standin for capitalist realism.

      the alien stuff (as far as I interpret it) isn’t meant to be taken entirely literally). IE an inter system (yet alone intergalactic) alien species can only exist if they fix the capitalism problem first ergo they must be socialist at minimum and if they exist and arrive here they’ll be comrades. More of a way of demonstrating that until we move past capitalism we can’t move past being doomed to die with and on our cradle planet.

      CW: sectarian

      He’s also a trot so take that as you are already biased towards or against.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        The nuke thing was just the average trot take during the height of the Cold War, they called it "nuclear realism". They saw a nuclear war between the USA and USSR as absolutely inevitable, a semi-logical conclusion of their "neither Washington nor Moscow" position where they recognized the US as genocidal capitalist ghouls, but also perceived the USSR and all other AES countries as what trots call a "deformed workers' state". That's a fairly hopeless outlook, so the doomerism shouldn't surprise anybody.

        • Tanith [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          In hindsight, :doomjak:

          At least if they were right America wouldn’t exist anymore. Now we have hellworld where America continues and the USSR is dead