Oops, all platitudes!

It is for me, I use an account on Lemmy.ml for general browsing (and correcting misconceptions about Marxism, if I’m being honest), and a Hexbear.net account I pretty much only browse locally if I just want to relax and not have to worry about getting into an argument.

The Steam Deck fixed this for me, the ability to just turn it on and start playing makes a huge difference!

An imagined, hypothetical base is not a real, existing base, and thus it can’t project the superstructure but be a part of an existing superstructure. That’s why the existing base helps distort it and even coopt it.

Seeya!

All of these radical restructurings of society were based on gradual buildup until catalyst points shifted the dominant Mode of Production. By analyzing Capitalism, a decentralized market economy that necessarily gravitates towards centralization in Monopolist Syndicates, we can predict that Socialism is the next step. Marx is correct.

The USSR was better for the vast majority of the population, 7 million people died due to its collapse. When the former Socialist state was sliced up and sold for parts, just like the “Washington Consensus” wanted, the people paid the price with their blood. The modern Russian Federation and all its ills stem from that liberalization of the economy and subsequent plundering. Putin is just a label for what liberalism accomplished, even without Putin the RF would have taken a similar if not near identical course.

The admins and moderators are Communists, so I doubt it, but they can feel free to let me know if I’m going too far and need to cut back a bit. I’ll act accordingly.

Nice! Feel free to add feedback in the comments or ask any questions you like!

Oh almost certainly, I just never waste an opportunity I see to hopefully educate someone a bit more on Marxist Theory if I can.

Would you mind elaborating?

Guess I can stop worrying about job security for the forseeable future

Healthy communities come from healthy instances and local browsers coming across it when sorting by New.

Sometimes they try to decouple liberalism from fascism and claim they went straight to fascism from Socialism.

I skimmed the article, but I find it unsatisfactory. It focuses very much on imagining a better future, and that by doing so, we can accept and work towards it. This is fundamentally Utopian and Idealist, it doesn’t emphasize a materialist foundation for how to get there beyond hoping and trying to modify the Superstructure deliberately so that the Base forms based on it. The problem with that mode of thinking is that the Base is constantly reinforcing the Superstructure projected from it, and thus the changes to the Superstructure you propose are going to be modified and even coopted by the Class in power, ie the Bourgeoisie, with little effort.

The basic DNA of humans is that our ideas form from our Material Conditions, and the driver of this is the mode of production.

What “Utopias” are you referring to, here? The old, Utopian socialist of Owen’s kind, or the modern, Marxist form of Socialism (which rejects the term “utopian”)?

It’s easy, there’s no such thing as a good Russia for Liberals. Can’t be Capitalist, can’t be Socialist, can’t be Tsarist…

Thanks for checking it out!

As for Solarpunk, I think it’s certainly useful, but like any aesthetic-based movement it can be easily co-opted without a strong emphasis on theory. Namely:

1. Why do we need Solarpunk?
2. Who can push for Solarpunk?
3. What is Solarpunk?
4. How can we transition from our present conditions to Solarpunk?
5. When can we transition to Solarpunk?

Those are a few questions (among others) that need to be consistent across the board for any real change to occur, simply having an image of a “good society” is Utopianism, and thus prone to failure like all previous Utopian movements.

Eventually, the contradictions necessarily created by Capitalism, ie decentralized markets leading to centralized monopolist syndicates, will result in said syndicates being pulled from under the feet of the Bourgeoisie. Marx has remained correct in his predictions thus far. I don’t think it will take half the world dying either for the US Empire to fall. This better future will be Socialist in nature, Solarpunk is more of an aesthetic than an ideology but this Socialist future will most likely heavily rely on solar power among other renewables.

I made a Read Theory, Darn it! introduction to Marxism reading list if you want to check it out.

AES states historically plan production based on fulfilling needs, not profits. Profit is driven by consumption, so there is always an incentive to overproduce. Combined with a focus on green energy and efficient planning, Socialism is a necessity, and again, returning to earlier production methods will only result in repeating the historical development in Mode of Production.