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It's columnist David Brooks!

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    That's what life looks like under Capitalism, yes. Might as well drop human beings into a magma flow and observe that the average human life span is less than a minute.

    A better world is possible, and it might be the case that the West isn't going to be the one to do it, not first and not alone. You seem like you'd enjoy revolutionary defeatism.

    • FlintstoneSpiceLatte [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I apologize if this is a really stupid question, but here goes. What makes revolutionary defeatism different from a type of accelerationism?

      I didn't know what the term meant and I looked it up, but this sentence on the wikipedia page: "Workers would gain more from their own nations’ defeats, he argued, if the war could be turned into civil war and then international revolution." made me raise an eyebrow.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        Because we don’t want the nukes to launch in the first place. The USA is sick and it needs to go to bed.