"Capital" is not rational, it is just an abstraction of market forces, and that is an abstraction of bourgeois individuals with often-time competing economic and political interests. Nor is the bourgeoisie all-knowing and wise. The bourgeoisie decided to side with Adolf Hitler early on which harmed the world economy more than anything else in the 20th century. The bourgeoisie decided to side with neoliberalism over neo-Keynesianism, which later on led to a quicker fall of the rate of profit than there would have been without neoliberalism. I do not share your trust in the rationality of capitalism. Not to mention that the political superstructure always shapes the economic base as well, it is not a one-sided relation which a lot of Marxists misunderstand (not that you are a Marxist, but a lot of Marxists think only the base forms the superstructure, not vice versa).

I’m not saying capital is rational on a moral or ethical sense, but when we discuss capital as discerned by market forces, those (or at least, most) market forces are making consulted and educated decisions based on projections and research, they aren’t making decisions at the drop of a hat based on public morality. This isn’t a complement of capital markets or placing trust in them - it’s just to say when you make guesses alongside the route of “what makes companies the most money”, you fall under a far shorter set of decisions and outcomes than if you try to incorporate any forms of moral or ethical thinking; something companies and capital clearly doesn’t have.
This isn’t to say they’re always right in an individual connotation (I.e individual companies always knowing how to make money), but rather that these decisions typically are reflected ion a top abstract level of how markets then manifest, due to not only the incestual nature of capital at the highest level but also due to the means at which capital flows itself. Markets continue to grow because the forces within it want to - the abstraction of decisions being made are always for the purpose of market inflation, no companies make decisions to deflate their market growth; all decisions are made in the interest of predictive market growth alone, regardless of moral or societal implications - if I thought otherwise, I’d be a right winger.
There are no (powerful) non-capitalist forces in the world now like there could have been argued to have been in a pre-globalized economy . This is important to mention because it means that capital growth continues down a path reflective of a linear path of accumulation - places like China may have state markets, but at the end of the day they’re still participating in capital growth on the level of the corporations themselvesh, at least until they’re (theoretically) seized by a government.
You can’t really compare market situations in a world pre-full globalization and post-full globalization. The markets don’t work in the same manner and the way capital acts and grows is fundamentally different.

The biggest event of the 2020s thus far was the coronavirus pandemic.

The Western economies would have been better off if they implemented a heavy lockdown of two months (like China) rather than trying to do half-assed measures on and off over the course of two years (like EU + USA). Yet latter half-assed measures were defended because "a full lockdown would ruin the economy", when in fact the half-lockdown did far more damage because all it did was increase the length and scope of the pandemic, depress consumption rates, kill off more potential workers and consumers and completely crash some industries.

This was a recent and very obvious decision where all capitalist nations utterly failed and suffered from recessions because of it for 2 years, now exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.

So really, capital isn't even rational when it makes to making profits, since the entire financial system is built on a short-term basis. You have to pay bills this month, pay workers this month, pay your debts this month to the bank, pay off interests this month, impress shareholders this quarter - and then you come up with the brainworm of two years of Schrödinger's lockdown, harming your society and economy than a harsh and swift lockdown would have.

Capitalism isn't even efficient at making profits anymore, and will be less and less efficient as the contradictions within capitalism grow and grow. The idea of the EU completely cutting off a quarter of its energy supply just to appease the USA is a blatant example for a contradiction within capitalism.

It's not an argument about the agency of all forces within the system of capitalism, it's argument very specifically about how capital forces act for motivations and in turn reflections of motivations manifesting in the economy. This argument about lockdowns doesn't really work because actual corporate conglomerate businesses had record profits coming out of the COVID era. If i was trying to argue about capitalism being some benevolent all knowing force which benefits the population, then yes, i agree with you, but that's not the case, it's just an argument about how markets perpetuate and how decisions are made relative to that so long as other market forces allow such.
This has nothing to do with ethics or morality - it's not a libertarian argument about the invisible hand of the market or about capitalism being a good thing. It's solely an argument about the morphology and tendencies of capitalism and its actors.
Capitalism doesn't need to make "profit", it needs "growth" and growth is represented by a means of essentially fictitious and arbitrary modeling not based in the realm of reality - hence why you see record profits during a time and set of decisions which should have otherwise completely destroyed the economy. We're far past the tipping point of rationality within this system. I'm not arguing the strength of capitalism, only the results of its motivations and decisions - obviously the more capitalism strains during growth the stronger anti-capitalist forces become against that,but that assumes the working power and universality of those forces existing, which in a current sense do not. WIll they in the future? Who knows, probably at one point, but that time certainly isn't now and until then (an arbitrary prediction), it is very easy to predict the abstract results of actions made by capital on a high level

Cursed anarcracker collection

God even thr covers of his lenin and engels are atrocious

He's got like the complete Evola bibliography there

lmaoo just peeped

The idea that Trump won in 2016 because Russia spent like 150k on Facebook memes has to be the wildest lib cope frfr

People still believe that s*** in 2022

Sorry if this has been posted already but lol

Nazi

China is still doing hard lockdowns 2 years after + their economic growth was more harmed than most western countries.

almost as if its a worldwide pandemic

China barely had lockdowns and the reason they had any post-summer-2020 is because they lockdown locally after finding even a few cases.

No, China's economy wasn't harmed as much. China's economy grew several percent in 2020 and 2021, while many Western economies still haven't reached 2019 levels yet.

“Russian ties”

They do strict local lockdowns that actually work, not half assed nationwide lockdowns where mfs couldnt go to the gym for like half a year

And their economy absolutely has not been impacted as much lol

So true.

People just need to shut the f*** up

I f***ing hate reading dogshit ass takes like that
Just ruins my f***ing mood

Just SHUT

THE F*** UP!!!

I gotta be honest everyone.

Are we “L”-eftists? Because I’m starting to feel like a massive L nerd at this point.

Lmao wym

Stalin shoulda said f*** Poland and supported revolution in Greece instead them Polish mfs too reactionary

It feels like solid “Ws” are so few far between for us, and often times when we do score them, they’re so lightweight (both in terms of their overall impact, and the ease at which they can be cast aside).

I don’t mean this is in a “I surrender” kind of way, but I guess more of a cynical perspective.

I feel like being a leftist is like being a giant callus, and it’s a necessity that you develop into one, but that’s what you are and always will be unless you soften up and wilt away.

Leftism is like toxic masculinity, but with genuine, well-founded righteousness