farmer_of_song Now • 40%
We're back to the old problem again, however. CPRF's reactionary sexual politics is used to legitimize NATO passive-aggression, when they toe the UR line as much as needed to maintain electoral support and infiltrate the Russian state apparatus.
As I've shown with Hamas and the Palestinians, Zionists use the traditional or reactionary politics of Palestinian independence organizations to delegitimize them.
To put it another way, the Orthodox Church was not abolished in the Soviet Union, and the Chinese did not put out foreign religions when they had revolutionary success.
Critical support is not the same as either uncritical support or opposition: we are not opposing Hamas or CPRF based on their traditionalist gender and sexual attitudes, even if we oppose their traditionalist gender and sexual attitudes.
If you cannot critically support revolutionary movements, then you cannot be a Marxist, but instead a neo-conservative, because NATO raping your country is the fastest way to get feminist and LGBTQIA+ policies enacted.
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There's also a difference between pushing hard for LGBTQIA+ issues and passive support in countries where popular opinion is against you.
I think this is the point of critical support.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_North_Korea
Fact of the matter is, most of BRICS and AES are more retrograde on LGBTQIA+ than Western nations, and China has shown backsliding, with the Global Times editor-in-chief being censored for plugging a transgender talkshow host on his Weibo.
It is a perfectly valid position to take a pro-Western bourgeois democracy stance if you make LGBTQIA+ the core of your politics, but if you don't, you accept critical support as your main line.
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CPI has 650k members, CPI(M) has 100k members.
CPC is the largest Communist Party in the world.
farmer_of_song Now • 92%
CPC has almost 100 million members. Are they China campists, Marxist-Leninists, or both?
I'd argue that of the international Communist movement, the majority of party members are Chinese.
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That was literally made and supported by Moffin', who was, if you trust Zeke Roa (an admin on Getchan) a board developer on Leftypol.
The serious issue I see right now is more a push by "parts of the left" to cancel China using the "anti-campist" line.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_Russia
Slavic culture is relatively homophobic, including during the Soviet era. I'd see this as Socialism with Russian characteristics and not ask Russians to hold a Western attitude toward LGBTQIA+ unless they are in the West.
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Campist is a difficult word, given its association with board collapse on Leftypol.
Moreover, you make it difficult for me to try to argue for a more balanced and critical take on China (i.e, avoiding over-idealization that will lead to disapointment on encountering realities), because this aligns with the general Western anti-China take too much.
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I support a common-sense level of paranoia. As long as you don't do something illegal or too threatening, you're fine.
I don't think people here are on the verge of crossing the line, whereas on Leftypol you had former posts discussing guns, as well as NAFO glowtrap posts discussing drone terrorism.
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TBH, I just think it's best to assume everything is a glowop and try to focus on useful praxis and useful theory. Even if things aren't glowops now, if you get enough visibility, security agencies will come after you.
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It's three fabs. Intel, meanwhile, is falling apart.
The important thing, imo, is that the US doesn't achieve full chip independence before 2030, which allows a peaceful resolution of the Taiwan issue (i.e, Chinese customs blockade redirecting Taiwanese shipping and passenger traffic to China). I don't see American reshoring settling the issue early, even though Intel is likely to get automated fabs up by 2028.
So, Leftypol supposedly had a hard drive crash, but on Getchan, the admins admitted that Moffintosh (Moffin'?) was Zankaria (board developer). As far as I'm concerned, Leftypol was a glowtrap the entire time. (There are rumors about lemmygrad as well, but tbh, Moffin actively tried to force a pro-NATO / anti-Chinese and anti-Russian point of view with what seemed to have been NAFO. https://getchan.net/GET/res/103743.html#103800 *** Ultimately, I have some ideas for alternatives, but I'm not yet able to permanently cut ties with the West, so I can't implement yet.
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I'm probably going to repost a finished version soon, but I'll leave this comment.
I'm basically trying to import/export socialism with Chinese characteristics to Western contexts.
The only real difference is that we generally do not have control, and are insurgents until we control enough of the economy. And adventurism around the 33% scale becomes viable: i.e, aggressive means to destabilize competitors, like forced unionization, industrial espionage, and financial warfare (hope you liked your CDS in 2008!)
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I've never said anything about having the right people in charge; this post is about a change in strategy and methods.
I also don't think I've jettisoned the idea of class struggle because the idea of using industrial cooperatives that are also party-owned means that such enterprises are essentially proletarian and proletarian controlled in character, but it moves class struggle from the social and political environment to the economic marketplace.
Destroy Porky's market share. Kill bourgeois profits. Different mindset, different mechanisms.
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I'd like to put out a fuller response, but I'd rather have fully posted the OP.
I think Hazan put out a similar idea for how he'd want to build the ACP, but I think he's oversimplified things and hasn't identified the flaws, even at a minimum stage. I think the ACP, in general, is not qualified for his business plan of having party cells operate as enterprises, and it'll rapidly go down the sink for that reason.
As for your criticism concerning capitalist opposition, the simple way to do it is simply to publicly list the POE / industrial cooperatives (but not the party itself) once the business is viable, taking care to maintain worker / party control, but allow the bourgeoisie to buy stakes.
It's Dengist insofar as that's how Deng and China succeeded; capitalists will sell you the rope that will hang them, if they think it'll make them a quick buck. If, say, Blackrock and/or Goldman own a 30% stake, you essentially have cover from elements of the capitalist system, because they want to protect their investment.
As an addendum, part of the idea is simply to have a lopsided incentives structure (in at least some of the firms within Red Zaibatsu) such that the business HAS to be Marxist in order to function. To cut to the chase, the level of labor discipline and pay is such that you won't work at a Red Zaibatsu-held firm unless you were ideologically committed, and if these firms somehow lose their Marxist character, it simply no longer makes sense to work at such a company.
It's what I'd bring up as to how Huawei works (Huawei is abusive insofar as its prospective long-term employees are expected to sign a strivers' contract pledging dedication to the firm, which includes being assignable across the planet as the company sees fit, and working extremely long hours. Note that Huawei is still a worker's cooperative with profit sharing).
The ideological commitment to socialism, in my view, is the competitive advantage that allows "vanguard-type" (not all Party-held firms are vanguard-type) firms to defeat their capitalist competitors, and if you destroy the system of worker and party ownership while capitalists are invested, well, you just forced Goldman / Blackrock to take a huge haircut on their investment, because the company is no longer competitive. That protects the Party-owned economy from the wider capitalist system.
*"Comrades, come rally! The last fight let us face! The Internationale unites the human race!"* Comrades, after a bit of digestion, I think this should be promulgated and publicized, if at least for discussion purposes. The international Communist movement is not in good shape. We are facing the combined crisis of failed revolutions, liberal subversion, aging parties, and mounting fascism, and traditional Communist praxis no longer offers a solution to the need for a global socialist revolution. To solve these crises, I introduce the notion of Dengist revolution and Communist Zaibatsu as a solution, using Party-owned industrial cooperatives as a mechanism for global Communist subversion, with the end goal of abolishing capitalism simply by out-competing the capitalists and ultimately buying them out. As for replacement Praxis, I suggest embracing Stakhanovitism, looking to encourage existing Communist parties to go into business, as well as for new start-ups to seek a worker cooperative model and aim to be party-owned. Examples to learn from would be the Japanese Communist Party's influential newspaper, which earns the JCP 110 million USD a year, Mondragon, a European industrial cooperative with more than 60,000 workers, Haier, a Chinese SOE known for its radical organizational structure and exceptional growth, and Huawei, technically a worker's cooperative but generally so successful that the United States levied sanctions on it. *** Here are the problems of existing Communist praxis. The Soviet Union has fallen, and the Chinese have gone Dengist. There is no longer a serious and viable base of Actually Existing Socialism to support, nor can the Soviets continue to fund foreign Communist Parties. Consequently, Communist parties are no longer vibrant and powerful in much of the world. Worker's revolution simply does not succeed; most parties are in incipient stages globally, and are essentially doomed to stillbirth. Illegal action, as with the Japanese Red Army, or the Japanese Red Army faction may make the news for a couple of years, but the forces of reaction generally track down the members, then jail or kill them. Unionizing action, in much of the world, simply does not get that far, and it can easily be subverted by social democracy increasing government subsidies and protections to workers. The electoral strategy does not work. The actual Communist Parties with electoral dominance got their way through an insurgency (the Nepalese), or simply by being there after the fall of the Soviet Union (the Mongolians). The Japanese Communist Party, as an example, is graying and aging, and its representation in the Japanese Diet is on a long-term decline. The remaining two options are either to wait for the downfall of capitalism on its own accord (late-stage capitalism theory), or to hope the Chinese somehow bail Communism out. The problem with the former option is that due to bourgeois control of bourgeois democracy, the degeneration of capitalism sees the rise of far-right parties (as in France, Germany, Italy), right-wing populists (the United States), and the terminal stage of capitalism is fascism, which often does a good job of suppressing Communist movements. Praying to the Communist Party of China is fraught with its own risks. First, the Communist Party of China may not succeed. There are Western rumors that they managed to subvert the Chinese defense minister, there is strong Sinophobia in the West, the Chinese state and corporate sector is saddled with high levels of debt (around 120% of GDP in each, whereas 100% usually sets off alarm bells in capitalist democracies), and the Chinese are threatened by the most powerful and advanced military force on the planet. Second, there is no guarantee that the CPC will bail you out. While the CPC claims to be Marxist, it has already embraced capitalism in the sense of Dengist reforms, and it's always had nationalist memetics. Even if the Chinese win, you are not guaranteed that the Chinese, seeing the wreck of the West, won't behave in the same way as the Americans did to the fallen Soviet Union, and through malign neglect, allow the West to fester in fascism. *** If the Chinese aren't guaranteed to save us from capitalism, what options do we still have? Here is where I introduce the concept of Communist Zaibatsu and the Dengist Revolution, exhorting Western and international Communist parties to follow the CPC's lead in developing a modern, competitive, and powerful Communist nation-state. The incredible thing is, you don't even need to seize the means of production, whether electorally or through other means. To begin with, one oft-overlooked fact is how ridiculously rich the CPC is. The total level of assets managed by the Chinese central government and the localities is around the level of 40 trillion USD. You heard right, the Communist Party of China owns 40 trillion dollars worth of stocks and companies. The richest Communist Party in the West, the Japanese Communist Party, owns only 1.1 billion worth of companies, mainly its newspaper. The total market capitalization of the New York Stock Exchange is only about 45 trillion. The total net wealth of all of America, haute bourgeoisie, petites, and workers alike, comes up to 120 trillion. What I am exhorting you to do, then, is to make your own Communist parties rich. The essence of Dengist revolution, as opposed to Maoist (Protracted People's War) and Leninist (a coup against a weakened moderate state), is to control the means of production through capitalist mechanisms. That is to say, if the wealth of Communist Parties in the West were a substantial percentage of total privately held wealth, Communist Parties could employ the exact same means bourgeois individuals and entities use to influence the levers of power. This would allow Communist Parties to gradually manipulate the political system to favor their own firms, allowing further expansion of the co-op / party-owned enterprise model, with a goal of eventually just buying out some of the remaining capitalists and abolishing the rest. The goal is that in 20 years, the POE sector of various Western countries comprises 1% of total production, in 30 years, 10%, and in 40 years, we will have abolished capitalism from the inside. What then, are the means? *** partial post (will get back to this later, but: -Generate worker cooperatives that are substantially party owned to outcompete existing capitalist firms -Most of the details would be in how to obtain market advantage and start outcompeting Porky -As well as keeping the firms Marxist, where "unfair labor practices" are acceptable, where they are not -How to design a socialist economy inside of a capitalist one -How much it would cost for Communist parties to attempt such a project, what potential funding sources may be, etc -Actual praxis of existing Communist workers)
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Less outrage, more shades of Diem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem , who persecuted Buddhists.
Zelenskyy's approval rating, likewise, is starting to go down the tubes.
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Iirc my math was for 3x overbuilding on solar and using massive battery banks, although the 4 cents per kwh figure assumes 1.5x overbuilding and enough batteries to capture all of a summer day's generation.
Fission and solar are actually enemies because the extreme intermittency of solar overloads the grid in the summer, and provides no energy at night. Coal and natgas have fast generation spoolup, whereas nuclear takes too long, hence solar forces nuclear off the grid.
Ultimately, solar is here. At present prices, in China, at least, panels with battery can compete with natgas and coal for total generation.
With further reduction in battery prices (40 USD is the marginal cost of batteries), and multi-junction carbon or carbon silicon, we probably can get solar + batt to completely replace all existing fossil fuels, as well as limit fission and fusion to baseload or strategically crucial power supplies.
Leftypol, afaik, has always been a glowop, and the government seem intent on crushing its support of Z and Gaza. Currently, the level of NAFO attack is increasingly high, and with an appropriate level of human, automated, and semi-automated attack, we could go under, especially since mods want it to collapse. How would you feel about an evac? I understand you do need to filter as Leftypol is very loosely moderated. And do you have plans if government troll farms go after you as well?