I think its definitely helpful since it exposes the contradictions within the market and focuses on this as its primary critique, the profit motive itself as opposed to "immoral" individuals. the profit motive is inherently contradictory to societal wellbeing, something that cant be solved through reforms like a carbon tax or taxing billionaires. also helpful in explaining why capitalism is so unstable and volatile. on the bullwhip effect:

• Just like the wave that travels along an actual bullwhip following a small flick of the wrist, a small change in behavior at one end results in massive swings at the other. Data in the system loses its fidelity to real-world demand, and the further you move away from the consumer, the more unpredictable demand appears to be. This unpredictability in either direction is a major contributing factor to economic crisis as companies struggle (or fail) to cope with situations of over- production, having produced much more than they predicted would be demanded and being unable to sell what they have produced above its cost. Insufficient stock can be just as disruptive as overstock, leading to panic buying, reduced trustworthiness by customers, contractual penalties, increased costs resulting from training and layoffs (due to unnecessary hiring and firing), and ultimately loss of contracts, which can sink a company.

it also helps dispel the notion that "planning = authoritarianism" or that planning must be done in a bureaucratic fashion, and how modern technology can be used to democratically plan entire economies, like what could have been in Chile if not for the US and Pinochet

Their take on the USSR was really bad but that's to be expected from a book featured on Jacobin

no i havent read TANS yet but will pick it up sometime this week

The funny thing about these people calling anybody who disagrees with them consumerist bourgeois is that their idea of socialism is basically FALGC

Communism no food

What's you guys stance on gun control?

Idk for me it's like, do people really think a revolution is gonna happen with guns bought from the gunstore?

Also actual socialist countries weren't always super pro-gun or anything, was that a mistake according to my pro-gun fellas?

Tupac was f***ed from the beginning though. He had too many enemies and came from too much of a volatile political family. He spent most of his childhood on the run from the FBI as they where tracking his step father Mutulu Shakur who was on the ten most wanted list for domestic terrorism. His own mother, spent time in prison on a trial for plotting to blow up New York police departments with the infamous panther 21. His godfather was geronimo pratt who was targeted by the FBI COINTELPRO. And his godmother is Assata Shakur who is also wanted for domestic terrorism, that Tupacs step-dad broke her out of prison and is now living in Cuba. Bush in 2003 put a $1 million reward on her head during the revival of targeting domestic terrorists at the start of the war on terror. In 2011, Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly had an argument over her, as Obama invited an artist to the white house who supported Assata Shakur (Common). Fox was trying to make that out that by default the president supports her too. Trump also said Assata must be found.

Tupac comes from a very serious committed family, and as a teenager he was the national chairman of the new african panthers, so he was on route to be the next leader of the movement.

Lets look at Tupacs life....

• Spent his childhood running from the FBI due to the actions of the Shakurs.

• At 16 became the youngest national Chairman of the New African panthers, himself then getting FBI attention. His FBI file, only 104 pages out of 4000 are released to the public, the rest 3896 pages are censored for "National Security".

• Quit the New African Panthers when he believed the Nation of Islam infiltrated it, the next leader after Shakur was surprise surprise, a member of the NOI.

• Got into a constant war of words with the Nation of Islam throughout his rap career. They would follow him everywhere, trying to make it look like they where associated with him. To get his approval, because he was a Shakur. Tupac hated the Nation of Islam because his family where connected to Malcolm X, and his family blame the Nation for his assassination.

• Became famous to the general public when released 2pacalyspe now, becoming the legendary rapper. Immediately denounced by the Vice President Dan Quayle due to its anti-american political content. It was obvious they knew who he was by his second name, even if the average rap fan didn't.

• Gets mentioned by name at the Republican Nation Convention

• From the help of Mutulu Shakur from prison, starts a movement entitled "Thug Life". Tupac helps enforce truces between rival gangs, including the bloods and the crips under "Thug Life". The plan was to get them to stop killing each other, unite, police their communities, and eventually fight the government. He was seducing gang bangers and trying to turn them into soldiers. After that his life turns to s*** and seems to be getting arrested and targeted by police on a weekly basis, most of which is was baseless, but people only remember him getting arrested, not acquitted. His "out of control" image increases.

• Two Police officers are beating a black motorist. Tupac approaches them and they fire shots at him. Tupac goes back to his car and gets his gun and returns fire, hitting both officers, one in the thigh and one in the buttocks. The charges are dropped against Tupac when it turns out both officers are intoxicated, and the gun they used to fire against Tupac was stolen from an evidence locker. Everyone else just remembers "Tupac shot two cops".

• From the help of Dan Quayle and other Republicans, they persuade family members of slain cops to sue Tupac over his music, stating that his music causes the violence.

• The republicans convince Time Warner to drop interscope records due to Tupac being one of their artists.

• Two criminals, Haitian Jack and James "Henchman" Rosemand try to extort Tupac. He tells them to f*** off and ends up on their hit list. Both later turn out to be working for the FBI since the late 80s until the late 90s.

• Haitian Jack (The FBI Agent) introduces Tupac to a woman, the same woman accuses Tupac of rape and sexual assault.

• Tupac gets shot by the orders of James Rosemand (another FBI Agent) 5 times in 1994, survives.

• Goes to prison for sexual assault, but found innocent of rape. Released after 11 months when new evidence helping prove his innocence is found. The prosecution states they "lost it" and it was not deliberate.

• The Jewish Defense League (JDL) threaten to kill Tupac due to his familys politics. He tells them to f*** off. This is in Tupacs (released) FBI files.

• Tupac refuses to remain silent about Jimmy Henchman and Haitian Jack, announces them as FBI informers, and publicly humiliates any other rappers being extorted by them, or associated with them (Biggie, Puffy, etc).

Just some of the main frictions in his life, only scratching the surface. Between Political Parties, terrorist groups, gangsters, FBI, police officers, gang bangers, Tupac had a lot of enemies...

Honestly no idea. In the US context there's obviously a problem with having millions of guns, more than there are actual people, and having so little regulation on their purchase/regulation that any extremly unstable social outcast can walk around like Rambo. Theres apparently so many of them that just the spillover from Texas basically arms Latin American cartels. Idk what "but what if there was a revolution" means to all the people subject to that violence everyday.

Deng coming back to take power in China shortly after the cultural revolution and surviving 2 attempts at purging him

Reddit MLs be like

Lenin 100% good
Stalin 95% good
Deng 100% good
Mao 70% good, 30% bad
Khrushchev 100% bad

You see folks, Karl Marx and Freddy Engels, two very smart guys from Germany - my ancestors are German as well, I have the Germany gene in me - they were smart guys, folks, scientist types, and they said, before the socialistic stage happens, you gotta develop the pro-duc-tive forces, productive fellas, not destructive, not constructive, but productive, productive forces, gotta have 'em, can't miss 'em, you really need them to build up the capitalisms, that's what Marx told us, very smart guy, so smart, so then a feller by the name of Mao came along and said you know what, let's jump straight into socialism, no good I tell you, no good - I respect Mao, 70% good 30% bad as they say, but you gotta do the productive forces first, that's what Marx told us, smart guy, so once Mao past away, may God rest his soul, then his buddy DENG came along, now Deng was no dummy, Deng thought bigly, bigly about the future of Chyna - great place, great people, great food, great women with tiny feet, the tiniest, I know 'cause I did Miss Universe, Chinese women had the tiniest feet, had to get their high heels in the children's department over at Macy's, but children, the female child, usually doesn't wear high heels, so they are hard to find, believe me, I looked - Deng said let's do what Marx toüld us and develop these productive forces, and boy are they being developed! Private property? It'll be gone by 2050, believe me. And Xi told me, he's the current leader of the China, he told me he's oppressing the billionaires, and you know what? I trust him, I trust the man, I meam look at Jack ma, what happened to him? I haven't seen him in outside and when i do, he looks scared, so scared, low energy, quite sad. But me and Xi we're good friends, very good friends and he knows what he's doing folks, trust me, trust the plan, trust God, may God bless us all, the People's Republic of China and the United States of America, both of em, we gotta work together, gotta do it, 2050.

Goddamn

Listening to the video rn but where did you learn about all of this?

I didn't learn it i copy pasted it

AI generator changed you

It's over.

Hmm, I also agree whatever revolution/civil war takes place, whatever guns American citizens have isn’t going to be the deciding factor in the struggle. I think foreign help and how unified the cause is will do more than arms

But I understand why people more pro-gun than me feel it’s necessary to keep themselves armed to a certain degree when you have such a militarized law enforcement like the US

Something I’m still learning thru myself. We’ll see

@Scratchin_Bandit felt that

i stay using @Scratchin_Bandit slang on this site

Bout 2 write an essay called Scratching Mamba: A Brief Biographical Sketch With an Exposition of KTT2 Politricks

Polytrix*

Cuz its a lot of trix

Politricks is a Pitbull original

crayz

Gonzalo 1,000% good

The dogs were already dead when we found em