People are not inherently evil. Your pessimism was indoctrinated into you, and you can be undoctrinated from that wrong view.

It’s an issue that Marxist economists debate about. We have ways of calculating the costs for machine depreciation (so we can factor maintenance into surplus value), but it can get really difficult, or is sometime impossible, to calculate things like the value that a transport worker adds.

Meanwhile for commodity / direct producers, surplus value is an easy calculation: worker value added - wage paid.

There’s also the issue that transportation and point of sale workers are in different economic sectors, in many different countries, which has implications for their place in the class struggle. John Smith’s I imperialism in the 21st century gets into some of these.

Who did?

Agree, we 100% need to push back against NATO’s tanks, bombing and encroachment. The US and Israel must be defeated at all costs.

whose labour is the primary source of their income and who also have a material interest in the maintenance of private property, such as home-owning middle-class people.

Private property in the socialist context doesn’t refer to home ownership (unless its being used for landlording). It means ownership of means of the production, exploiting labor power. You can consider it synonymous with “absentee property”.

There are certainly some workers who earn some from their labour, and some from exploitation of others labor, but one is usually dominant. And of course in the long term, the trend of centralization of production means that these small-scale exploiters (petit-bourgeios) are eventually pushed out by bigger fish, and have to become workers themselves (called proletarianization).

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/capitalism_doesnt_work.html

Assuming this is serious: There’s a slew of jobs that aren’t part of commodity production, but still vital: organization, administration, management, transportation, distribution, maintenance, point-of-sale workers, etc. They make up a smaller proportion of workers, and are paid out of the surplus value created by the commodity producers, because they’re still 100% necessary for production.

Nice, this is pretty cool.

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Whatsapp and instagram are owned by facebook. Youtube is owned by google. Still US tech companies.

You can also find an audiobook of this on torrents and youtube.

You obviously didn’t look at even a few of these links either!

The fact that they get memory-holed or paywalled after a few years isn’t my fault, but I’d be happy to update any ones that aren’t working with archived links.

This not sharing information, this flooding. This is a way of shutting up any kind of disussion.

Just silly. For one person its “too much info”, for another its “not enough”. AI really broke people’s brains. If they actually have to read some things and can’t be given a short summary, they call it “shutting down discussion”.

Was summoned once, and ended up on the jury. It was a really sad case where the cops were trying to put an 80-something year old former convict back in prison, because his son in law had a gun in the house (that they searched because of something the son in law did, but no charges were brought against him), and that was a violation of the 80-year-old’s release conditions from like 40 years ago.

I really wanted to end up on the jury in order to keep this guy out of prison, which luckily we did. The defense was very smart in making his case sympathetic, even though legally the guy had no leg to stand on. There were a few jurors that wanted to imprison him, but we finally got them to go with the majority to ignore the law and keep him out of prison.

The easy rule of thumb if you do/don’t want to be on the jury: the less you talk, the more likely you are to end up on the jury. The more annoying you are, especially talking about how busy you are, or asking a lot of pointless questions: the less likely you are to end up on the jury.

Why does the country have private businessmen owning large companies at all? China has domestic billionaires. Billionaires that have grown fat on the backs of their workers. This is not socialism.

You’re right, you didn’t read even a few of the links, and you’re proving the post correct.

Most countries of the world are capitalist. Most of them are poor or middle income.

Only a tiny number of them are in the imperial core, and fit most modern definitions of imperialist. Russia is not among them.

Authoritarian in the modern day is only used by westerners to denigrate countries that build alternatives models outside the western order (Cuba, Vietnam, PRC, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, etc), so much so that it basically means: “when you tell white people they can’t do imperialism”.

Somehow, this country is excluded from its definition:

That doesn’t mean the Chinese government and Chinese oligarchs aren’t also exercising an unjust degree of control over their own citizens. The Chinese government surveilling its citizens and tightly controlling the flow of information is not being done out of benevolence.

Just vague, unsourced orientalism. You only feel this “in your gut”, because your are propagandized by western media to hate the enemies of the US.

Like a solid 4th of trek episodes involve some sort of transporter malfunction. I’m not getting in one either.

Basically either the more honest, and less competent imperialists, vs the dishonest, more competent imperialists.