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Everyone should read Rosanne Dunbar Ortiz's Book on the history of the 2nd amendment and its roots in settler-colonial genocide and slavery. http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=A493EDD3E93A1E7DCAED754A2195B1E9

“There’s no way it’s going to go to prisoners ... before it goes to the people who haven’t committed any crime,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told reporters earlier this month after his state’s initial vaccine priority plans put prisoners before the general public.

Fuck this piece of shit. Goddamn.

neoliberal propaganda radio

Indigenous people in what's now the US were enslaved (and exported to the Caribbean) by the English. Let's not forget this either. https://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/482874478/forgotten-history-how-the-new-england-colonists-embraced-the-slave-trade

http://commonplace.online/article/indian-slavery-in-new-england/

Let's also not forget the thousands upon thousands of indigenous people in Central and South America and the Caribbean who were enslaved by the Spanish. It wasn't just "germs" that killed them. It was the process of colonial violence, dispossession, enslavement, and resource extraction, in conjunction with Eurasian diseases. This is a very good paper debunking the "virgin soils" theory that's been promoted by people like Jared Diamond and Alfred Crosby. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3491697#metadata_info_tab_contents

It's by a Marxist academic. He published it in Monthly Review, which is a well known socialist magazine. https://monthlyreview.org/2007/09/01/the-state-of-official-marxism-in-china-today/

For all the people who still believe that the Chinese state is a revolutionary anti-capitalist force, I'll quote the statements made by the overwhelming majority of Chinese scholars at a state-sponsored conference in this article (shared by other ppl down below): https://people.umass.edu/dmkotz/articles/State_of_Official_Marxism_07_05.pdf

-- When an SOE is turned into a joint-stock corporation with many shareholders, it represents socialization of ownership as Marx and Engels described it, since ownership goes from a single owner to a large number of owners [among others this was stated by someone from the Central Party School].

-- If SOE's are turned into joint-stock corporations and the employees are given some shares of the stock, then this would achieve "Marx's objective of private ownership of property."

-- In dealing with the SOEs, we must follow "international norms" and establish a "modern property rights system." [As in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s, the terms in quotes were euphemisms for capitalist norms and capitalist property rights.]

-- Enterprises can be efficient in our socialist market economy only if they are privately owned. [This statement, voiced by several people, comes from directly from Western "neoclassical" economic theory.]

-- SOE's exploit their workers and are state capitalist institutions, and SOEs often have a very high rate of exploitation. [The point was that privatizing SOE's will not introduce exploitation or capitalist relations since both are already present in SOEs.]

-- The nature of ownership of the enterprises has no bearing on whether a country is capitalist or socialist. Enterprises should be always be privately owned and operated for profit. What makes a country socialist is that the government taxes the surplus value and uses the proceeds to benefit the people through pensions and other social programs. [Along with justifying privatization, this implies that, as China's economy becomes much like those of the U.S. and Western Europe, that would not mean China is abandoning socialism since, by this definition, all of the industrialized capitalist countries are actually socialist.]

-- The USA has companies with millions of shareholders, which is a far more socialized form of ownership than anything that exists in China

-- "[After World War II] Capitalism not only gave up its fierce antagonism to labor, but even began combining with labor...Modern capitalism ... is gradually creating a new type of capitalism that is more like socialism."

-- The CCP followed the correct approach, in line with classical Marxism, during the period of New Democracy [i.e., the period directly following the 1949 liberation, when the party said it was completing the bourgeois democratic revolution but not yet trying to build socialism]. The change in policy after that period [when the party shifted its aim to building socialism] was an error, and instead the New Democracy policy should have been continued. [This was spookily similar to the widespread argument in Moscow in 1989-91 that the Soviet Communist Party should have stayed with the New Economic Policy of 1921-27, which called for a mixed economy with a significant role for private business and with market forces playing the main coordinating role]

-- Besides current labor and past labor [the latter the Marxist term for the labor required to produce the means of production], there is a third type of labor, namely "risk labor." Marxist theory should take account of this third type of labor, which is expended by those who take risks through entrepreneurship. [The obvious point was that "entrepreneurs" i.e., capitalists are a type of worker, and hence it is correct that they are allowed to join the Communist Party

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Lol this guy was part of the Obama admin. What a POS.

He raped someone and went to prison for it. Alan Derschowitz was his lawyer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson#Rape_trial_and_prison

I think the concept of false consciousness in Marxist terminology should prove useful. The shared stake in Chinese nationhood, especially among those who have been designated as part of the Han ethnicity, serves to reinforce bourgeois hegemony. It's designed to snuff out any hint of class consciousness and class conflict between the proletarianized peasant underbelly, and the new (post 70s) bourgeoisie and ruling class. The Netherlands and Saudi Arabia both have extremely high percentages of "happy" people too, lol. Should we accept ruling class domination in these places, too? Should these states not be overthrown, and replaced with a genuinely working-class-controlled socialist regime?

Yes, there has been an increase in the availability of certain commodities and services, to a large number of people, that's defined as "poverty alleviation" by the state. Western European welfare states aren't doing this at China's magnitude every year because they, uh, don't have 1.3 billion people under their governance.

I really want to emphasize how much China's proletarianized masses are struggling, and will continue to struggle, against their capitalist oppressors, under the aegis of "progress", even if they themselves have not completely realized their class consciousness. I also want to emphasize that there are plenty who *have * realized this, including the Marxist students and unionizing workers I mentioned in my previous post, who have been crushed by Chinese capitalist forces. I want to emphasize how much non-human life, China's ecological base, has been completely terminated. It's a tragedy that you'll only only really be able to comprehend once you become familiar with the Chinese language, and visit and see the ravaged landscape in person.

Once again, I totally sympathize with you. You're my comrade, and we probably agree on much more than we disagree on. I really, really wish that China was a truly revolutionary force that could lead the way in saving humanity and our ecological base. But I think it's really important to make clear that that's not happening. Impoverished masses in the U.S., China, and all over the world cannot afford to rely on currently established regimes, because currently established regimes (once again, especially the US and China) are all deeply implicated in the continued functioning of the capitalist world system.

I highly, highly, highly recommend http://chuangcn.org/ for starters, in order to learn more about current political circumstances in China from a critical Marxist perspective. They're doing amazing work. If you have the means at all, or the interest at all, i also think it absolutely would be worth learning Chinese so that you could approach these things without relying on English sources.

here's a specific article from Chuangcn they released recently about Chinese delivery workers' struggles against capitalist logistics that I think would provide a good entry point: http://chuangcn.org/2020/11/delivery-renwu-translation/

Cheers to our struggles ahead.

Look, I understand that many of you want a savior out there that might be able to salvage the world from American-led capitalist ruins, but the Chinese state definitely ain't it. I totally sympathize with you. I wish things were different. As hard as it may be to accept, however, the Chinese state is a *capitalist * state of a particular form. It is deeply tied, along with the United States, in the continued functioning of the capitalist world-system. The current standoff is only a contest between who will become more hegemonic within the world-system. The two countries are very much symbiotic. Xi Jinping's daughter went to Harvard; Betsy Devos's brother is involved in logistics and security operations in Xinjiang; Mitch McConnell and the Bidens are both deeply financially implicated in Chinese state owned enterprises.

This doesn't mean that the Chinese state doesn't attend to the "well-being" of its citizens, or "alleviating poverty" (however dubiously defined) for biopolitical reasons. They do this better than the United States in many aspects, to be sure. But so do Scandinavian welfare states, and many, many others too. Is anyone here against eventually overthrowing these other states? Lol. Once again, i totally understand why folks out here romanticize China, especially with the insane volume of propaganda pumped from Western mainstream media and government outlets.

But it's obscenely insulting to our comrades who are fighting against Chinese capitalist class domination, including young Marxist students, who are getting arrested for trying to organize factory workers. It's insulting to the hundreds of millions of migrant workers who are forced to eke out a bare living, and to whom the recent economic "recovery" means absolutely nothing. You folks most likely have never seen the skyscrapers carved out of the rural landscape, dispossessed from farmers, furnished by speculation from the new Chinese bourgeoisie, who are buying 2nd and 3rd homes. You folks probably haven't seen the pollution, the pillage of our ecological commons, and fellow living beings, in many cases worse than the US. You haven't seen the smog poisoning the lungs of workers and the unhoused who are forced to breathe it in all day, while the Chinese bourgeoisie lounge in their filtered high-rises. You haven't seen the rivers, lakes, and streams swollen with trash, filled with pesticides and herbicides, coated with oil films, poisoning the bodies of peasant farmers and wiping out ancient giants like the Yangze dolphin, the paddlefish, the Chinese sturgeon, and many more.

Please, look beyond the shiny lights and gleaming bullet trains, into the masses occupying the Chinese undercommons. The class struggle is global, ongoing, everywhere.

I'm tired and wired as fuck, and I can't get too in depth into this in a single post, and I'm guessing nobody's gonna read this, so I'll just leave off with this article on urbanization through dispossession in China: https://sci-hub.st/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03066150.2014.990446?needAccess=true&journalCode=fjps20

as well as a link to a wonderful Chinese Marxist collective, Chuangcn, who can explain things better. http://chuangcn.org/journal/

No I'm pretty sure he posted this when Castro died a few years ago