Yup came right at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union and they couldn't hold their nerve

Later Mandela tried to rationalize it like "ayyy we were never close to communists, we just used them for our gains" which seemed like an ex-post excuse to me for their failures

Haha yeah kinda sad he founded a whole ass communist militia in the 60s and then tried to say that late in his life

Shows how capitalism and reformism (and 27 years in a f***ing prison cell I guess) can break people

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one of the rules is no politics

Liberalism = no ideology, default settings

many cases

Carl Shmitt really didn’t miss with the concept of the political

man had an abhorrent life but he was spittin in his writing

Wait i didn't know finland pm had a guy kissing her neck in the club tho isn't she married with children lmao

Just say you hate women

this was the actual controversy btw but people tried to memoryhole it and change the narrative to "why do people hate women partying"

Okay loser neocon tankie

PM and a FREAK

Leif is so annoying

Li-bruh-ls when Boris Johnson parties: >:(

Li-bruh-ls when Finland PM parties: ;)

She rules tbh

@krishna_bound reading Carl Shcmitt and Mao politics of transition now just at the intro but he mentions how chinese scholars basically hated Mao i know why and such but i find a similar trend among other Chinese writers talking about how when they grew up before they learned about Mao on their own they mainly heard negative things about him, you know by chance how much Mao is still respected in the CPC or more influential positions in China or is he just held up as a figurehead

it's hard to say specifically esp. as a non-chinese speaker but afaik mao is seen definitely as an important figurehead, but you have to remember most of those in power atm were essentially those the cultural revolution intended to weed out and are now politically involved because of post-Deng moderization. afaik i know, he's seen as more of a historical figure than a thought leader. I think most in the CPC separate pre-Anti Rightist struggle and post-Anti Rightist struggle eras as well when discussing whether or not they have an affinity for him. It's definitely true though that most scholars and chinese politicians aren't keen on any politics from the Cultural Revolution era.

"Mao was 70 percent right, 30 percent wrong" -Deng Xiaoping

that’s what i thought on ur previous post

always found this funny cause i read this account that deng said that but the propaganda that was pushed after was more like 30% right and 70% wrong with the media denouncing everything Mao basically did after the revolution

Normal chinese ppl still love Mao for the most part

yea figured out that whatever "property" intellectual skills fall under would constitute a fundamentally different social relation than the strict relation to the means of production. obviously accreditations that increase labor power is not capital.

i also figured that what i meant by language issues could more accurately be assessed as "is it possible for there to be contradictory locations within class relations?"

what do you think about the idea that the proletariat is the people that "have nothing but their labor power" ?

and what about wage earners that receive a wage in excess of the value of their labor power? like top managers of a company etc

Decided I’m gonna bring Behemoth by Franz Neumann instead of For Marx