“Citizens” 🙄 Not every person is a citizen; I’ve got a pet peeve about this.

He edited that book, didn’t write it

It’s essentially a compilation of articles, and he wrote or co-wrote about half of them.

New tagline just dropped: Kape Technologies, the MindGeek of VPN

I wouldn’t trust anything at MB/FC. I trust Alan Macleod’s work, though. If you want to actually understand the media, he wrote a book on it: Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent.

I’m not the one who needs to chill: the reporter whose name I redacted does.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: piracy

😂 you-wouldnt-steal-a-car.png

Only one Breaks Community Rules so far.

Is this photo supposed to mean something to someone? Because it doesn’t mean anything to me or TinEye. No idea who that guy is.

Please, tell us more about your Uyghur friends and their imprisoned parents.

What’s it like to completely make stuff up and post it online pseudonymously?

Again, fantasy.

Who calculated the GPD of a command-driven, non-capitalist state, and how did they do it? It’s incomparable using such a metric: apples & oranges.

And regardless, GDP is a garbage metric. All sorts of unproductive income is included, things that are not part of the real economy.

Finance Capitalism versus Industrial Capitalism: The Rentier Resurgence and Takeover

Today’s national income and GDP accounting formats are compiled in keeping with this anticlassical reaction depicting the FIRE [Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate] sector and its allied rent-seeking sectors as an addition to national income, not a subtrahend. Interest, rents, and monopoly prices all are counted as earnings—as if all income is earned as intrinsic parts of industrial capitalism, not predatory extraction as overhead property and financial claims.

When the socialist states privatized what had been public—which was nearly everything—and sold them at fire sale prices to the neocolonial capitalists of the imperial core, that would have been included in the GPD as well. What did that get them but a new class of local oligarchs? Just bonkers.

If you compare the GDP of suddenly collapsed, suddenly capitalist states—that were being actively pillaged by the Global North—to their GDP 30 years later, of course line go up. But that’s a very different comparison to their situations pre-collapse.

If there are communists who think communism can be attained in our lifetimes, I don’t know them. We’re not going to sell people a fantasy, some overnight utopia. Some places are now socialist, and more may become so in our lifetimes. But, as socialist states themselves will tell you, communism has not yet been attained anywhere.

And all Eastern European countries experience explosive growth post communism?

You live in a world of pure fantasy.

• The Shock Doctrine
• Shock therapy (economics) | Post_soviet states
• Deindustrialisation and the post-socialist mortality crisis
• Communist nostalgia in Eastern Europe: longing for the past
• Polling Suggests Soviet Nostalgia Isn’t Going Away

China is not “extremely” capitalist; its capitalism is intentionally limited. To paraphrase Grover Norquist, the Chinese government keeps capitalism to the size where it can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. It may appear massive & dominant to you, because 1) you see almost nothing but products by Chinese capitalist companies and 2) you’re not accounting for the full scope and size of China’s population and their production and consumption.

😂 You know who defines the metrics for democracy indexes? Liberals who wouldn’t know democracy if it bit them in the ass. People who believe in bourgeois democracy.

Economist Intelligence Unit is by venerable rag of the bourgeoisie, The Economist. Karl Marx himself called it, “the tribune of the aristocracy of finance.”

The US score is 7.8, even though it is not a democracy and never was.

Most in China Call Their Nation A Democracy, Most in U.S. Say America Isn’t

I wouldn’t know.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Artificially upvoted

😂 There is a spectre haunting Lemmy — the spectre of communist bots & trolls 👻

This is just getting silly now.

Here’s a list of peasant revolts for you to browse through, take note of those through the 16-18th centuries

The fact that peasant revolts happened is neither here nor there. The point is that capitalism was borne of bourgeois revolutions against feudal powers and not of peasant revolts against burghers who were a product of mercantilism.

As shown in proof above; China has bigger inequality than Japan and South Korea.

Thanks for repeating yourself I guess?

High class wealth disparity

Compared to what? Real r/SocialismIsCapitalism moment.

Humans wouldn’t allow it thanks to human nature.

Say the line Bart!
It’s human nature.
\o/ \o/ \o/

These comments are rife with capitalist realism.

If your username ends in 88 then communism is bad for you, yes.