It’s pretty liberal, the first game portrays a Mexican revolution as “evil dictator vs evil opportinist swindling the public,” but nevertheless the games are fun and you get to be a cowboy. Given that Stalin was genuinely a fan of westerns, it would make sense that he’d like RDR, even if there’s a good amount of liberalism.

Great, thanks for your feedback!

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Haven’t really used Reddit in a few years, been only on Lemmy.

That tension between proletarianization and the dreams of being one of the “greats” is the basis of the modern desparation of the artisinal worker. I do think that in socialism, at least higher stages of socislism, artists would return to being “happy” as a subsection of the proletariat. George Lucas expressed jealousy over soviet filmmakers and their freedom from the profit motive, after all.

In modern, capitalist society, there are proletarianized writers, ie contracted writers paid piece-wages or even hourly wages, and there are the petite-bourgeois writers that generally work with a publisher, or even self-publish. These do near identical labor, but the class character is different, and it manifests in the ability for the rare petite-bourgeois writer to pull a J. K. Rowling and strike it big, to use an example.

The artisan that owns their own labor and means of production holds a precarious position, the vast majority are being proletarianized or live worse lives than the higher paid proletarian occupations. However, their class character often gives them a highly individualist outlook, believing themselves deserving of a privledged position in society next to the big names like Stephen King.

The median artist doesn’t live such a life, they struggle to live off of their skills and are forced into proletarian occupations. This tension and desparation is the basis of reaction for the artisan. It isn’t a moral judgement, artists aren’t the enemy. This is just the naked consequence of art as a commodity, and artistry typically taking a high amount of training but a low price amount of outlay in materials and tools compared to other fields to produce art.

Artisans that own their own means of production and produce at their own behest, but must perform this labor themselves, are petite-bourgeoisie. They are not bourgeoisie proper, but they live by their own labor and means of production. They are constantly at risk of proletarianization, because they generally can’t compete with the bourgeoisie proper, but they as a class are generally more assured than the proletariat. Obviously edge-cases exist, but as a class this is generally true.

This petite-bourgeois relation is why as a profession it is more common to become mega-wealthy than, say, the upper-paid skilled proletarians like doctors or engineers, even if those skilled proletarians have it better on average. Sanderson, George R. R. Martin, J. K. Rowling, etc. all made their vast wealth from royalties, because they own the IP they created. It isn’t a proletarian wage that they recieve, they have a different class character than proletarians.

Now, the merits/demerits of AI is a different question, but if your only objection is to the correct identification of artisans as petite-bourgeoisie then that should settle that critique.

You too comrade!

Helps me get access to more theory, the screen is similar to paper so less eye fatigue, and I don’t get intimidated by the size of bigger books.

Thanks so much! Do you have anything you would suggest for the economics section instead? Was it at least helpful?

I use a kobo! Sideloaded with KoReader.

In what way? In general, cooperative ownership is “nicer” than capitalist ownership, but is incompatible with more developed stages of socialism, where production and distribution is collectivized. In general, I’m more supportive of public education, especially in socialism.

eReaders have been massive for me. Much better at reading for extended periods.

Hope everyone can keep up with the goals you’ve set out for yourselves, has a pleasant week, and stays safe in this troubled times.

As always, communism will win.

The phone notes are a necessary evil, haha. Can’t read my own handwriting. I don’t think you should just copy my style, find what works best for you! Anything to keep you more engaged with the text.

When I’m on my A-game? As I go, a sentence per 2 or 3 paragraphs on average. Right now? A short sentence the day after, too tired to keep up and mostly reading to keep up the habit until my schedule lightens up. I do go back, but it’s mostly to force me to engage with the text and retain info, rather than just try to absorb it. I get a lot more out of the text that way.

I try to summarize the key points in a notes app in my phone.

.world is defederated from Grad, and users like cm0002 are rabid anticommunists that are frequently banned. You can use mander.xyz, but so can users that are banned from here or that we cannot see. It’s a quirk of federated media.

The complete and total withering of the state must be global, yes, and can only truly exist once the basis of class and thus the state is no more. However, any socialist state that exists, exists to collectivize all property eventually and thus eliminate the basis of the state and class, and thus this process already is present from the outset. This is economically compelled by centralization and building up the productive forces.

The process of withering, ie the basis of a state that cannot help but wither, is there from the start. A socialist state intent on collectivizing all of production and distribution, and eradicate all class, is already eroding the basis of the state.