Holy fucking hell, the material conditions described RADICALLY ALTER THE FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATION OF YOUR THEORIES. You can’t just say “they don’t contradict anything” when the basic interaction of humans and the control they exert has radically fucking changed. It’s not possible to present any worldview integrating all these facts because you’re trying to apply broad-brush classical political physics to the unknowable future decisions of a shrinking handful of rulers and drained resources. Don’t worry though, God Lenin works in mysterious ways.
“Socialism works”. Sure does when you can slap the label on any old country without critically examining how they operate or how much they deviate from the stated core goals and road map of a socialist project. If the CCP determines that the only way to maintain control in a shrinking geopolitical landscape is to sedate 1/3 of the population and violently repress 1/3, how does that functionally differ from their post-capitalist neighbors doing the same? Is there any social progress to be made in such a state? But utopia soon ™️, just have to sink to new lows to match our neighbors.
And again, not a strawman when you can go to your history and read our convo to see yourself posting the same links and toeing the same party line verbatim. But if you don’t want to that’s fine. Just say I’m incoherent and confirm that you don’t have a sound response to the basic facts of life in 2025.
Holy fucking hell, the material conditions described RADICALLY ALTER THE FUNDAMENTAL FOUNDATION OF YOUR THEORIES. You can’t just say “they don’t contradict anything” when the basic interaction of humans and the control they exert has radically fucking changed. It’s not possible to present any worldview integrating all these facts because you’re trying to apply broad-brush classical political physics to the unknowable future decisions of a shrinking handful of rulers and drained resources. Don’t worry though,
GodLenin works in mysterious ways.“Socialism works”. Sure does when you can slap the label on any old country without critically examining how they operate or how much they deviate from the stated core goals and road map of a socialist project. If the CCP determines that the only way to maintain control in a shrinking geopolitical landscape is to sedate 1/3 of the population and violently repress 1/3, how does that functionally differ from their post-capitalist neighbors doing the same? Is there any social progress to be made in such a state? But utopia soon ™️, just have to sink to new lows to match our neighbors.
And again, not a strawman when you can go to your history and read our convo to see yourself posting the same links and toeing the same party line verbatim. But if you don’t want to that’s fine. Just say I’m incoherent and confirm that you don’t have a sound response to the basic facts of life in 2025.