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  • Whataboutism is often used as an argument to fight typical Western hypocrisy and moral relativism. They often go about hey county/political party X did something they consider bad, but when you point out the historical context and imperialist ramifications, they claim this is whataboutism.

    An example, lack of freedom of expression is bad in China, but when you point out their moral relativism when give examples of people who suffer serious consequences when they manifest themselves in Western empire countries, they start the whataboutism rant.


  • If you are from the US, then your concept of left is completely broken and meaningless. Even in other parts of the world where there is a weak reformist or neoliberal working class left, they are one step ahead of the US. How come you don’t even have a bad workers’ party? Liberals are the left in the US, when liberals are, in every other parts of the world, part of the right or center-right.

    No chud, please study a little bit of theory to understand what are class interests, who are the dominant class of society. Even reformist literature would be good for you.


  • Yeah, but the actual gain these companies are having is that AI is giving them the perfect excuse to increase labor exploitation. They aren’t producing more with AI, but they are actually getting less people to do more work by simply increasing their workload and working hours, with the excuse that somehow AI will make the work easier.



  • This is not simply a matter of morals. Israel was created from a land grab, making enemies on all sides. And Israel was created to be a nation-state of Jews both in religion and also in ethnicity. Israels own existence as a project depends on creating an ethno-religious hegemony in the region and they can’t tolerate the existence of other peoples being the majority in the land. Not only that, but they can’t even rely on the birthrate of the current Israeli population, they need to bring migrants to become settlers until they become a majority. Settlers want land and jobs

    Imagine if Germany had a ethno-nationalist project where they had to guarantee an ethnical superiority with very strict national values, and they had to deal with a bunch of different ethnicities in their own territory and in the neighborhood of their territory, what would have happened? What destiny would have happened to the Jews, Romani, Polish, Czech, Slavs, Communists, Socialists, and other religious minorities?




  • LATAM Marxists aren’t a classification, what I mean is Marxist orgs that exist in LATAM. Regarding the specific lines, we have MLs, trots, maoists, hoxhaists, postmodern marxists, liberation theologians, and others.

    A curiosity about some LATAM currents, the Posadist tendency is originally from a Trot org based on Argentina.

    But LATAM has been an intense battlefield of Marxists orgs/tendencies vs reactionary forces and we had guerrillas and civil wars basically everywhere in the 20th century. The PC do B from Brazil took part in the “Guerrilha do Araguaia”, MR8 and other armed resistance movements. Dilma Rousseff, ex president, was also a guerrilla fighter. Gustavo Petro, recent president of Colombia, also participated in the M-19 guerrilla. Argentina had the Montoneros and Uruguay the Tupamaros. However, not all guerrillas were Marxist, and there were many other liberal tendencies in those as well.

    Edit: but the problem is that, after the fall of the USSR, many parties split, many parties and leaders became revisionist, and the remaining ML/Trot parties became insignificant, dogmatic or sectarian.













  • What distro did you use? Don’t tell me you used Arch Linux… That’s not beginner friendly at all.

    I’d advise you to use Mint or Ubuntu (preferably the first). When I have NVidia drivers I usually used one that is install through “additional drivers” app, because those are the ones which were tested for your distro. But if you have a really new GPU, there might be an issue because devs weren’t able to update the drivers and test them.