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    that plus Mossad death threats on ICJ staff

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    Twitter is now prohibiting the red triangle hamas-red-triangle

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  • covid covid People who are living in an apartment - how?
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    haven't heard about evidence of fomite transmission, are you sure?

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    gunther-fear

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    ??? they had Crimea and Sevastopol for at least a hundred years at that point

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    I know the Rambo title card is a hoax.

    I dunno I'm not convinced. I remember seeing this shit on VHS

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    was that Boredom? I've been seeing a lot of questionable takes from that one

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    doubling my antidepressant dose to avoid getting banned from the hexden

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  • politics politics Oppose anti communism 🚫🚫
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    graphic-design-is-my-passion

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  • main main Hexbear its time to do the newest purity test to keep your radical left card!
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    are the people who made this really this stupid? yes. yes they are.

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  • politics politics Oppose anti communism 🚫🚫
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    incoherent messaging on that first one

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse 10 years ago we had people who's names also meant things, now we don't have those things, I sure hope nothing happens to that other guy who's name is also a thing
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    I might have PTSD (Posting Terrible Shit Disorder)

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  • memes memes "Hawk Tuah? How about a "WALK TUAH" the POLLS and VOTE ON THAT THING!
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    but I can't walk, because this joke broke my legs

    (GOOD post)

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    acting is his core competency

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  • badposting badposting lmao did you hear what Bill Murray said?
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    it wraps around to being funny after a few dozen posts

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank King Bazinga presents some poetry about how we actually need Supply-Side Cultural Christianity.
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    putting the "emetic" in "memetic"

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Palantir CTO basically confirming their involvement in Israel's pager attack
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    Princess Leia Organa : Governor Tarkin! I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.

    Grand Moff Tarkin : Charming to the last. You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life.

    Princess Leia Organa : I'm surprised that you had the courage to take the responsibility yourself.

    Grand Moff Tarkin : Princess Leia, before your execution, I would like you to be my guest at a ceremony that'll make this battle station operational. No star system will dare oppose the Emperor now.

    Princess Leia Organa : The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

    Grand Moff Tarkin : Not after we demonstrate the power of this station. In a way, you have determined the choice of the planet that'll be destroyed first. Since you are reluctant to provide us with the location of the Rebel base, I have chosen to test this station's destructive power on your home planet of Alderaan.

    Princess Leia Organa : No! Alderaan is peaceful! We have no weapons, you can't possibly...

    Grand Moff Tarkin : [impatiently] You would prefer another target, a military target? Then name the system! I grow tired of asking this so it will be the last time: Where is the rebel base?

    Princess Leia Organa : ...Dantooine. They're on Dantooine.

    Grand Moff Tarkin : There. You see, Lord Vader, she can be reasonable. Continue with the operation; you may fire when ready.

    Princess Leia Organa : WHAT?

    Grand Moff Tarkin : You're far too trusting. Dantooine is too remote to make an effective demonstration - but don't worry; we will deal with your rebel friends soon enough.

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank Elon Musk Reveals SNL Cast Didn’t Find His Pitch to ‘Take My Cock Out’ During the Show Funny
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    thanks, much easier to read. I think you missed a '>' on the line that starts with 'So,' after 'idea:'

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    desert painted M4A1?

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  • dredge_tank The Dredge Tank Elon Musk Reveals SNL Cast Didn’t Find His Pitch to ‘Take My Cock Out’ During the Show Funny
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    I wanted this to be an Onion headline. in fact hey maybe I'll just retreat into a reality where this is an Onion headline.

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse Palantir CTO basically confirming their involvement in Israel's pager attack
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    did these ghoul companies like Palantir and Anduril have to license the name from the Tolkien estate? if they did I wonder how cheap it was to tarnish all his works with this reprehensible bullshit, and if it was a one-time fee or an ongoing annual payment. if they didn't haha IP law for thee but not for me

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    pavlichenko

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  • the_dunk_tank the_dunk_tank From Radical to Lib: Angela Davis "Electing Harris will open space for more radical struggles"
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    Adolf Hitler doing car videos, yelling at the camera about how the other fascist is worse

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  • labour labour Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead
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    historical meaterialism kelly

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  • main main THE USSR WAS 100 YEARS AHEAD OF THE U.S IN EVERY ASPECT INCLUDING MEMES
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    to follow existing conventions I suggest :lenin-point:

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    this is going to do decades worth of brand damage to that label

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    puff, the stress of your arrest this morning for sex trafficking may be clouding your judgment

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    oooh the Occupation is going to get a strongly worded letter!

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  • latam latam Paulo Reglus Neves Freire - New General Megathread for the 18th-19th of September 2024
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    ::: spoiler foot fetishist parody of Drift Away gimme the feet boys and free those soles,
    I wanna get lost between those toes, and lick away :::

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    this is after the pogroms are complete when it becomes acceptable to feel bad in the past tense. like the native genocide in the americas. liberals are against every pogrom except the current one

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  • chapotraphouse chapotraphouse More of me fucking with my dad by pretending he's way older than he is
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    WE BUILT THIS CITY
    WE BUILT THIS CITY ON COCK AND HOLE

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    “Crowning" the landlords and parading them through the villages. This sort of thing is very common. A tall paper-hat is stuck on the head of one of the local tyrants or evil gentry, bearing the words "Local tyrant so-and-so" or "So-and-so of the evil gentry". He is led by a rope and escorted with big crowds in front and behind. Sometimes brass gongs are beaten and flags waved to attract people's attention. This form of punishment more than any other makes the local tyrants and evil gentry tremble. Anyone who has once been crowned with a tall paper-hat loses face altogether and can never again hold up his head. Hence many of the rich prefer being fined to wearing the tall hat. But wear it they must, if the peasants insist. One ingenious township peasant association arrested an obnoxious member of the gentry and announced that he was to be crowned that very day. The man turned blue with fear. Then the association decided not to crown him that day. They argued that if he were crowned right away, he would become case-hardened and no longer afraid, and that it would be better to let him go home and crown him some other day. Not knowing when he would be crowned, the man was in daily suspense, unable to sit down or sleep at ease.

    —Mao Zedong, Report On An Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927

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    [huge explosion]

    I was just trying to charge my Samsung Galaxy 8!

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    "bluh bluh bluh Trump would have made them twice as homeless!!1" —some liberal worm begging for their life in 2027

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  • covid covid Anecdotally, it feels like people around me are being affected by COVID
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    putin is the devil

    if only these pesky compradors we install would stay loyal, this empire thing would run just fine

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    for more on this: How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth | Jackoffbin

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    if you hate gas station advertisements on the pumps, avoid Circle-KKK

    no mute button, volume was so loud it was still clearly audible after I walked 50 meters away

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    dreaming about the social impact of the internet in 1999: everyone will become informed and we'll finally start solving some problems! 2024:

    >**About this item** > >Safeguard your home with the powerful protection of Heimdall, guardian deity and protector of the hearth. Just as ancient people sought his blessing to shield their homes from enemies and wild beasts, you too can invoke his power to create a sanctuary of safety and security. > >This ritual goes beyond mere words; it weaves a potent energy field, an impenetrable barrier around your home. I utilize crystal talismans, possessing strength rivaling that of a diamond, to fortify your walls and enhance Heimdall's protective embrace. By combining Heimdall's might with the ancient energy of crystals, we create a powerful fusion, ensuring not only the safety of your property but also shielding it from any hardship. Imagine an unwavering guardian, deflecting all threats and dangers, ensuring your well-being and peace of mind at all times. > >This ritual also harnesses the unique properties of tiger's eye, red jasper, and carnelian, amplifying the protective barrier and infusing your home with additional beneficial energies. Tiger's eye is renowned for its ability to deflect negativity and enhance resilience, instilling confidence within you and your home. Red jasper, symbolizing strength and protection, creates an energetic shield, empowering you with the determination to overcome any challenge. Carnelian cultivates an atmosphere of comfort and safety, dispelling anxieties and attracting positive energies to ensure tranquility within your dwelling. > >In a world where security is paramount, this ritual addresses the need for reliable protection against potential dangers. It establishes a resilient shield, reflecting negativity and providing you with peace of mind and confidence. > >Allow me to forge this impenetrable shield around your home, protecting it from external threats and creating a sanctuary of peace and security. Don't miss this opportunity to secure the well-being of your home and yourself. 🛡️ > >Interested in experiencing the power of Scandinavian magic through a personalized ritual or reading? > >First, determine which ritual best suits your needs. Unsure where to begin? Share your situation and the challenges you're facing. I'm happy to help you choose the most effective ritual for your unique circumstances. A preliminary reading can also be performed to provide further clarity. > >Once you've chosen a ritual, please provide the full name, date of birth, and a photo of yourself (or the intended recipient if the ritual is for someone else). > >Then, patiently await the completion of your ritual. Scandinavian magic involves working with crystals, potions, and specialized incantations, so the process takes time. I will notify you via email once your ritual is complete. (Be sure to check your spam folder if you haven't received confirmation within a reasonable timeframe. If it's still missing, please don't hesitate to contact me.) > >Please remember, in accordance with Etsy policy, all readings and rituals are for entertainment purposes only. By purchasing, you confirm you are 18 years or older. These services are not substitutes for professional advice (legal, medical, etc.). Should you require professional guidance, please consult an expert. While I believe in the power of crystal magic, I am not responsible for any choices or actions made by individuals after receiving a reading or ritual.

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    Hairy-Balz 2024
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    corruption is loosely defined in capitalism, and comparisons with socialism are inherently unfair

    cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3444788 > TL;DR: actions that society considers morally reprehensible and "corrupt" when carried out by public institutions, are seen as normal and acceptable when it comes to private institutions, so traditional comparisons of "corruption" between capitalism and socialism put socialism at a disadvantage by definition. > > 1- Let us imagine that I'm a business owner, and I decide to carry out some renovations in my building. I decide that, since I have a reliable friend who owns a renovations company, I will simply carry out the renovation with their company. We sign a contract, the renovation is carried out, the work gets done, the other company gets paid. Nothing out of the norm here. > > Now let us imagine the case in which this first business, instead of being owned by me privately, is socialized and owned by the state: a public entity. Some renovations are necessary, so I, as a public administrator, decide to order the renovation to be carried out by a friend... except that's corruption! I need to organize an auction and order impartially from a variety of firms, by lowest expense and by highest level of satisfaction! What is normal and approved in capitalism, is unthinkable and in most instances illegal under the principles of public ownership! > > > 2- Another example: I'm a worker in a private company. One year, the CEO that is put in place by the stockholders, happens to be a former employer of mine, and because they know me and my performance, I get promoted. Meritocracy! Some people even call that "networking", which is a necessary social skill in capitalism and highly regarded in wealthy circles. > > Now let us imagine the case of a soviet workplace, in which I'm a worker with excellent performance. The union-approved party member in charge at this time, sees my performance and my contributions and involvement with the union and party, and decides to offer me a promotion. Oh, what a blatant case of dictatorial bureaucracies, in which only party members giving each other favours get to rise to the top! What an unfair and corrupt system! > > > Whenever we hear these claims of "corruption", "bureaucracy" and such from socialism, please make it a point to compare these events with similar instances in capitalism, and how normalized and approved by the social majority they are. Why do we only expect transparency, efficiency and impartiality from public institutions, but normalize the opposite behaviours in capitalist enterprises?

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    hexbear miz 1 week ago 100%
    the emoji picker has a bug: keywords take precedence over the actual name of the emoji

    example: selecting "kelly" is a needless chore, because you have to sift through a bunch of kelly emojis to find the one named kelly. similar things happen with "slammer" and several others. the canonical name of an emoji should always have precedence over keywords in the picker

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    latest chapo trap house (ep 865) is antisemite David Sirota plugging his new liberal podcast where he complains about the GOP plan to corrupt America's perfect democracy with money

    Sirota is a liberal zionist who [conflates antizionism and antisemitism](https://hexbear.net/post/823015) and shithead Menaker is having him as a guest what a joke, this podcast is nothing but a Matt-shaped hole now. skipping without listening

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    a catalogue of all hairstyles currently approved by Hexbear

    make your choice and schedule an appointment with the Hexbarber

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    From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

    from https://xcancel.com/Aldanmarki/status/1830441250882764930

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    bug report: seems like Thumbnail URL field does not work for text posts (posts without a URL or an image)

    can anyone else verify

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    Why did some people support communism in China during Mao Zedong's time but not in other countries like Cuba or the Soviet Union? | 真理 zhenli answers

    >**Why did Marx believe in Communism?** > >Marx had argued that capitalism is initially founded on private labor and private appropriation. In other words, capitalism is founded on small enterprise. People labor within their own businesses (private labor), and they then appropriate the wealth of their own business for themselves (private appropriation). > >Over time, Marx argued that capitalism has a natural tendency for the scale of enterprises to grow. This leads to small enterprises to be replaced by big enterprises, or, in other words, private labor being replaced by socialized labor. Dozens, hundreds, even hundreds of thousands of workers cease to work in isolation and begin working co-operatively in larger and larger enterprises. > >Despite private labor being gradually replaced with socialized labor, appropriation of the fruits of that labor remains private. A bigger and bigger part of the population labors collectively, but a portion of the population separated from them, that is continually growing smaller and smaller, decides what is done with all the wealth they produced. > >Marx saw this as a societal contradiction, and only sustainable when it’s not at a very large scale. If society becomes too “polarized,” if the contradiction between socialized labor and private appropriation grows too large, then it would no longer be sustainable, there would be a break, and the only way to resolve it would be to replace private appropriation with socialized appropriation, in other words, to nationalize enterprises so that the collective laborers also control what is done with the fruits of their own labor. > >Marx believed that capitalism, as it develops, has an inherent tendency for enterprises to grow larger all the time due to technological advancements. So he did not see this as a question of “if” it would happen, but “when.” > >**Why did the Soviets Implement Communism the way they did?** > >Marx’s argument inherently implies that there is a relation between the amount of enterprises that could be nationalized and the size of those enterprises, which is also related to the total amount of development of the economy. It would actually contradict Marxism to nationalize all enterprises immediately, because the purpose of nationalization is to resolve the contradiction between socialized labor and private appropriation. Nationalizing a small enterprise would only introduce a new contradiction, between that of private labor and socialized appropriation. > >However, the problem is that the separation between a “small” and “big” enterprise is not clearly defined and there is not agreement between Marxists. While Marxists tend to argue that we should have a scientific approach to political economy, it is very difficult, and probably not even possible, to entirely abandoned moral viewpoints as well. > >A lot of communists become communist not solely because of economic arguments but also moral ones. Utopian socialists even prior to Marx focused their arguments on criticism of the bourgeoisie and their exploitation of working people. In fact, because it is difficult to actually explain to people Marxian political economy as it is quite a lengthy and complex subject, a lot of Marxists often have adopted these moralistic slogans as an easier way to rally people. > >These moralistic slogans, however, have an impact on people. Because the line between “small” and “big” is somewhat vague, people who are heavily influenced by the moralistic rhetoric may be inclined to exaggerate what counts as a “big” enterprise to include as much as possible, without really trying to analyze the question in a scientific way. > >Personally, I see the Soviets since Stalin as having done exactly this. They nationalized almost everything in the economy, and were clear in their writings that they were trying to “abolish the exploitation of man by man.” They never once tried to present any sort of scientific arguments to why they thought this was actually economically achievable, but were largely moralistically motivated. > >The only thing they did not nationalize was the kolkhoz sector, and that was because it was so underdeveloped, so isolated and dispersed, that they could not even figure out a plausible way to achieve it. Even then, in their quest to abolition “exploitation of man by man,” they still intervened to collectivize them into farming co-operatives. > >**Why did the Chinese abandon this model?** > >Initially, when Mao came to power, he adopted market economic policies, and in fact criticized the USSR for not using the markets *enough*. > >However, the USSR’s rapid collectivization seemed to be having initial positive impact on their growth, which was partially true but also partially exaggerated as the USSR tried to hide some of the problems that came with it. > >Ultimately, this led Mao to change his mind and adopt Soviet policies towards rapid collectivization, embracing a sort of “communist wind” that communism could be fully completed in a short amount of time. > >When this led to economic hardship, this caused communists in China to split into two camps. > >The first camp is Mao’s camp. He argued the problem was a “cultural” one. The political system, the shared social ideology, the culture, etc, all these things he viewed as having been corrupted by capitalist elements. Hence, he believed China’s adoption of the Stalin Model from the USSR could be made to work if they had a “cultural revolution,” a radical transformation of the country’s culture. > >The second camp, Deng’s camp, instead did not believe the Stalin Model could work at all. China was even less developed and more poor than the USSR, in fact when Mao took power initially they were basically the poorest country on earth. The idea they had developed enough to achieve the full abolition of private property was just an absurdity beyond words. > >The first camp initially had an advantage because all the moralistic rhetoric was on their side. They could condemn anyone who talked about China having to maintain some private economy as “betraying the revolution,” of “supporting exploitation of the workers,” of being a “capitalist roader,” etc. The second camp was seen initially as the killjoys. > >However, the first camp gradually fell out of favor when their Cultural Revolution failed to make the Stalin Model work, and the Cultural Revolution itself was a disaster, leading to a lot of chaos, which caused mass death, and ultimately towards the end and caused the economy to start to decline. > >This culminated in the Gang of Four declaring that they didn’t even care about development, they it was “better to be poor under socialism than to be rich under capitalism”! This really shows the moralistic bent to Mao’s factions, they were more interested in the morality of abolishing all aspects of capitalism rather than just building a system that actually works. > >Eventually, people got tired of the chaos and instability and this lead to Deng Xiaoping’s faction gaining power, and they implemented the policy of “grasping the large, letting go of the small.” In other words, to privatize all the small-to-medium sized enterprises that Mao had nationalized, but to maintain public control over the large enterprises. > >This does create a conundrum, though, because most of China’s enterprises are small enterprises. If they privatized them, they’d privatize most their economy. Some would conclude that means socialism is impossible for China, which is actually a position some Marxists even to this day hold, some Marxists think China is just too poor to have socialism and that only western countries are developed enough for socialism. > >However, the argument against this actually goes back to Rudolf Hilferding’s writings back in 1910. Hilferding argued that enterprises *are not equal*. If you nationalize, let’s say, a bouncy ball factory, this will give you less influence in the economy than if you nationalize, let’s say, a rubber factory. Why? Because the bouncy ball factory, as well as millions of other factories, *depend* on the rubber factory, but almost nothing depends on the bouncy ball factory. > >Hilferding thus argued that nationalizing large enterprises at the “heights” of the economy like a rubber factory gives you far more authority and influence in the economy than nationalizing the small bouncy ball factory, and hence, he did not think you actually need to even have the *majority* of enterprises nationalized to control the economy, only the overwhelmingly majority of *large* enterprises, because everything else *depends* on those enterprises and thus would be “indirectly socialized.” > >That’s how China still is to this day. People will often point out the fact that 60% of China’s GDP output is from the private sector and conclude that means China “abandoned Marxism.” What they don’t also realize that is 60% of China’s GDP output also comes from small-to-medium sized enterprises, meaning that the overwhelming majority of large enterprises are public. > >**Why Do Some Communists Love China in Mao’s time But Attack Everything Else?** > >The Stalin Model even in the USSR was showing cracks pretty early on, leading to the Soviets to try and reform it and change it after Stalin’s death. Mao was still alive at this time, and he saw how the Soviets were gradually moving away from the model that he had come to believe in, and so that’s why he started to formulate the idea about the Cultural Revolution to prevent that from happening in China. > >Mao did more than this, though, he also accused the USSR of having abandoned socialism, of being overtaken in a bourgeois counter-revolution. In fact, under Khrushchev, Mao described the USSR as a “Hiterlite dictatorship” of “the big bourgeoisie” and said it had become a “socialist imperialist” and “capitalist state.” > >If the USSR had become a capitalist state equivalent to Nazi Germany, then what did that make its allies? It made its allies aligned with Nazism, it made them horrible and worthy of condemnation. Vietnam and Cuba both sided with the USSR, which made them fall other this very same condemnation. > >This also meant the USSR was something worth combating, and this led China under Mao to begin supporting Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia because they were opposed to the USSR. > >After Mao died and his faction lost control, the PRC gradually adopted a non-interventionist approach in order to focus on economic construction rather than ideological dissemination. While they still even supported the Cambodia guerrillas for a short period of time, this too gradually died down, eventually causing the Cambodian guerrillas movement to wither. > >Some communist guerrilla groups in various countries, such as Peru, India, and the Philippines, did not like this idea that China stopped supporting guerrilla movements, because they are guerrilla movements and want support from China. So they started to argue that China had undergone the same transition Mao said the USSR underwent, that China today must be an imperialist capitalist regime, and that’s why it’s not lending support to them. > >This makes these guerrilla groups, the modern day “Maoists,” view themselves a direct continuation of Mao Zedong and the Sino- side of the Sino-Soviet Split. They see the USSR as having been overthrown in a bourgeois counter-revolution, and that Mao tried to stop it in China but China was overthrown in a bourgeois counter-revolution as well. > >Since the USSR was supposed equivalent to Nazi Germany back then, they also condemn its allied, they claim Cuba isn’t a socialist country, and they claim Vietnam isn’t a socialist country, still to this day. But they will then turn around and defend the Khmer Rouge as “genuine” communist revolution. > >So, in their mind, the only “true” communist revolution was USSR until Stalin died, and China until Mao died, and then everything else has been a bourgeoisie Hitlerite dictatorship. (To my knowledge, there is no group that says they like Mao’s China but not the USSR at any point in time, they usually say they like the USSR up until the death of Stalin.) > >They don’t actually acknowledge that the reason every socialist country abandoned the Stalin Model was because they couldn’t actually get it to be long-term sustainable, and instead insist that Mao’s Cultural Revolution could’ve “saved” it if only they “had done it early enough.” They think Mao’s only flaw was that he “discovered” the Cultural Revolution too late, and if it was implemented for a much longer time, then at some point, the Stalin Model would actually start to work… somehow. > >There was a Maoist revolution in Nepal but just like China, they ended up abandoning that model very quickly. I would presume if the “Maoists” in the Philippines or in India ever take state power, they would abandon it fairly quickly as well. They refuse to acknowledge *why* it was abandoned and delude themselves into thinking it was just a cultural failure. --- from [this](https://www.quora.com/Why-did-people-support-communism-in-China-during-Mao-Zedongs-time-but-not-in-other-countries-like-Cuba-or-the-Soviet-Union/answer/真理zhenli) quora post

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    Is Juche a form of Marxism-Leninism? | 真理zhenli answers

    Juche was inspired by Marxism-Leninism but not the same. From what I understand from reading a few books on the subject, Juche seems to be an ideology that is supposed to be specific to socialism in the same way liberal ideology is specific to capitalism. The fact is, most people don’t deeply care about economics and philosophy, most people aren’t going to sit around for hours and hours each day reading through hundreds of philosophical and socioeconomic textbooks to gain a deep understanding of these subjects. Most people instead just form very general opinions. Capitalist societies thus focus on not propagating a very deep and complex philosophical and socioeconomic ideology, but a very simple one, liberalism, which talks vaguely about “individual freedom” and is easily understandable by the general public without having to read a single book on the subject. Marxism is very very complex, and even in societies that try to teach in public schools, most people still don’t fully end up grasping it. It’s sort of like how people regularly say that they have forgotten all the mathematics or the foreign language they were taught to speak in public school, they only memorize certain phrases to pass their exams and then entirely stop caring to remember it once they graduate, because ultimately most people just don’t care. Juche is supposed to a simpler ideology specific to socialism in the same way liberalism is a simpler ideology specific to capitalism, that is supposed to promote socialism not in terms of some deep complex socioeconomic and scientific theory, but in terms of a much simpler ideological formulation based on a few key principles which everyone can understand. The main takeaway Juche has from Marxism is the idea of humanity “making their own history.” This was a term Friedrich Engels used to compare capitalist society to the potential future human society. Before humanity came to harness fire, they could only *react* to fire. If they encountered fire in nature, they might run from it, but they could not *control* it. Over time, humanity has learned what causes fire, how to create it, and how to utilize it for human purposes. You can think of electricity as well. Humanity used to just see lightning and run, or get a static shock and not be sure what caused it, and ignore it. They could only *react* to it. But as we’ve developed a greater understanding of electricity, we can now *control* it, to utilize it for the benefit of human civilization. Engels had pointed out that there is a similarity between *natural* phenomena and *social* phenomena in this regard. In the same way that when humanity had lacked an understanding of natural phenomena and could thus only react to them, humankind does not fully understand ***its own social structure.*** Take, for example, the laws of supply and demand. Capitalist societies do not fully grasp all the causes to supply and demand, and they thus are incapable of actually predicting them. As a result, individual businesses can only *react* to market forces. They do not *control* the market but instead *react* to changes in the social system that are far beyond their personal comprehension or control. Things like this cause human societies to be somewhat “anarchistic.” Even the central government in capitalist societies cannot fully understand or predict what is going on capitalist societies, it instead just *reacts* to changes in the economic system and tries to make general corrections, but it does not *control* the economic system. As Engels once put it, "What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed." The “anarchy of production,” in some sense, takes on a mind of its own. If you build a capitalist society, you cannot fully predict the outcome. It may sometimes grow, may sometimes crash, may lead to rapid industrialization, and may even lead to rapid de-industrialization. You just have to hope it turns out well. A socialist system attempts to overcome this anarchy of production by making human economies *deliberate*. The whole socioeconomic sphere would be meticulously and scientifically planned from the ground up. If, for example, you see a potato with a specific price in a store, the potato producer may say they set that price as a reaction to the market. The potato business themselves may have no idea why the market price of potatoes is what it is, but they don’t really even *need* to know, they just have to make sure they can sell at or below market price and balance their internal budgets, and they’ll be fine. In a planned economy and socialist system, if you wanted to know the price of potatoes, you could pull up a spreadsheet of potato production that goes down its entire supply chain and all the resources that went into it and the algorithm used to compute all those resources and understand exactly why the potato was priced the way it is. There would be no market it was reacting to, rather, the price would be deliberate, and there would be a full accounting of why the price is set to what it is. The entire socioeconomic system would be deliberate, it would all be meticulously scientifically and rationally planned. The political system would not just be a body that reacts to changes in the economic system that are largely outside of its control, trying to nudge them in the right direction, but instead everything that occurs in the economic system would be a deliberate and intentional plan carried out by the political system. This is what Engels meant when he talked about, in socialism, humankind would “make their own history.” The development of human societies would become something entirely deliberately carried out by the conscious will of humanity, rather than much of it being the result of unintentional developments outside of anyone’s control. Korean communists particularly liked this notion because it fit in well with their strong beliefs of national liberation. Korea was colonized by Japan, and as Japan was falling, the USA invaded Korea and outlawed any attempt at forming a grassroots democratic government in Korea and began to carry out massacres against pro-democracy protestors (e.g. the Autumn Uprising), then established a puppet autocratic regime that would only increase the massacres against those who wanted democracy (see Bodo League Massacre, Jeju Uprising Massacre). Korean communists did not want to be subjected to foreign powers outside of their control, they wanted the Korean people to, well, “make their own history,” and not have it made by foreign powers. Even if the Korean communists managed to kick out the foreign imperialists, if they established a capitalist system, there is no guarantee the foreign imperialists could not take over the country through economic means, through buying up Korean means of production and subjugating the country through economic dominance. This led to the “self-reliance” aspect of Juche, which is really just a rephrasing of the idea of the Korean people “making their own history.” Marxists see political power as ultimately resting in control over production, so the only way to make sure the Korean people, as a whole, can “make their own history,” is if the Korean people as a whole control their own economic base, i.e. the economy is controlled by the Korean public and not foreign countries or some elite faction of the Korean public, but the Korean people as a whole. Juche basically takes all the complex ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the thousands of books about philosophical and socioeconomic writings, and puts these aside. The general public does not need to fully understand this, because from their point of view, if Marxism-Leninism is correct and correctly predicts that socialism is the next stage of human history, then rallying people around certain basic principles of socialism should be enough. They instead take the idea of building an economy where the people are the creator’s of their own history, the “masters of their own destiny,” and make this the central point to rally upon. It simplifies socialism down to just the liberation of humankind, with the abolition of one class exploiting another, with one country exploiting another, and the replacement of all of this with a system in which everyone participates in creating their own future, in writing their own history. >The Juche idea is, in a word, an ideology that the masses of the people are the master of the revolution and construction and they have the strength to push them. In other words, it is an ideology that man is the master of his destiny and he has the power to carve out his destiny. While it is inspired from Marxism, it is not Marxist, but its own independent ideology. It does not necessarily fully replace Marxism either, as people in Korea still study Marxism. However, Marxism is more-so relegated to the social sciences, it becomes not the ideological center of the state but instead something people study who are particularly interested in the social sciences, it becomes relegated to academia so to speak, while Juche instead has replaced Marxism as the ideological center of the revolution in Korea. We have seen something pretty similar show up in many Marxist-Leninist states. Marxism-Leninism is so complex and so academic that it’s often supplemented with other ideologies because it is difficult to get the general population to fully grasp it. In Cuba for example, they ended up merging Marxism with “humanism,” where humanistic rhetoric tends to play a supplementary role in the state’s messaging in order to appeal to people in general. The Cuban constitution both describes the Cuban state as one working towards the construction of both “socialism” and “humanism” and that it follows “humanistic principles.” Lenin himself in his book *What is to be Done?* had made it clear he didn’t believe the general public could come to easily understand the deep complexity of Marxist ideas because they were developed through academics who had spent their life researching the social sciences. He thus advocated that the socialist revolution would have to be led by a “vanguard party” where the people in the Party are compromised of those who have the deepest understanding of these ideas. This inherently implies that there are gradations in society of how well people understand Marxism, with some people understanding it well, and some people not all, and many people in between, and that somehow the “vanguard party” has to appeal to the masses which, if the vanguard party is defined as those who understand Marxism well, then by definition the masses outside the party they are trying to appeal to don’t understand Marxism well. This has lead every Marxist revolution to seek some way to resolve this contradiction, some way to build a socialist system with broad population support, where by definition only a subsection of the population even understandings the ideology the whole revolution is centered around. Different socialist and communist parties have tackled this problem in different ways. In Korea, it has been tackled by replacing Marxism with a more general ideology that ultimately calls for the same end-goal but without all the complex academic baggage and that appeals to broad sentiments of the Korean people for national liberation and autonomy. In Cuba, they have tackled it by merging Marxism with other philosophical ideas so that they have a broader pool of rhetoric to pull from depending on who they’re talking to. --- from [this](https://www.quora.com/Is-Juche-North-Koreas-ideology-a-form-of-Marxist-Leninism/answer/真理zhenli) quora post

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    memes miz 3 weeks ago 100%
    Mr. Sullivan, your mom is here to pick you up

    [source](https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5530318/5000465)

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    AUDIO: Harrowing Phone Calls Expose Global Campaign of Repression | Drop Site News www.dropsitenews.com

    Pakistani diaspora worldwide being targeted in sick ways to maintain imperial control of Pakistan

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    SinoFuturism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fymf7uNVTPw

    reposting because previous posts are dead links due to the previous account being banned

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    politics miz 4 weeks ago 97%
    Allah, could my dad drive a car

    listen Jack, a long time ago they came for the Armenians and I was like, damn that sucks but Turkey gives me a lot of money. then they came for the Palestinians and hey, you gotta break some eggs on the curb if you're fighting with the, you know, the Corn Pop terrorists. EDIT: [context](https://hexbear.net/comment/5287894) tags: Ilhan Omar DNC

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    chapotraphouse miz 1 month ago 100%
    my colleague and I saw you from across the bar and we really like your vibe

    from https://xcancel.com/Aldanmarki/status/1825608076944371851

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    badposting miz 1 month ago 94%
    don't know which elongated-snout beetle I should vote for or if I should vote at all, but all of my friends are telling me the smaller one is better

    I'm just tired of it, because instead of envisioning a better world I'm always being told to vote for the lesser weevil

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    history miz 1 month ago 100%
    Al Aqsa Flood was not the first concentration camp uprising to take place on October 7th | Sonderkommando Revolt at Auschwitz

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_Revolt_in_Auschwitz image from https://xcancel.com/EmCohen_/status/1823136443813986762

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    main miz 1 month ago 100%
    NYT in the lead for most inhuman nazi headline of 2024 award: Unrest at Army Base

    but there are still four months to go so the competition will be fierce death to the New York Times

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    videos miz 1 month ago 100%
    Matt Christman on Kamala Harris [CushVlog Cuts] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysvsvt1V25Q

    a bunch of clips from cushvlogs of Matt talking about Bombala Harris. 38 minutes or so

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    main miz 1 month ago 93%
    one of Bombala Harris' campaign slogans is "We're Not Going Back", turns out she heard it from the driver of the IOF bulldozer that killed Rachel Corrie

    America is a racist country built on the boards of genocide ![started-blasting](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/6805f6cd-6c70-4672-b4e4-d6267d742395.png "emoji started-blasting")

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    chapotraphouse miz 1 month ago 100%
    Aaron Bushnell Banner in Beirut

    >Aaron Bushnell, from the people of loyalty and sincerity, to your pure soul. Your devotion and loyalty to the Palestinian people will remain a [trust in?] our necks for eternity. from https://xcancel.com/roqchams/status/1822608289277858168 little known fact, roqchams is a former Chapo guest (Episode 15) who turned on them for iirc being "bros" (maybe because of Hillary but I can't remember)

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