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10·8 hours agoThat’s not what MLs actually believe, we have the concept of critical support. It’s the act of backing a cause, group, or individual while maintaining a clear-eyed critique of their flaws, contradictions, or harmful actions. It’s not unconditional endorsement but a pragmatic stance that balances solidarity with accountability.
Honestly, I find there’s a lot of overlap between Marxism and Anarcho-syndicalism, and I think this is essentially the correct way for the workforce to be organized.
7·8 hours agowonder if they use riscv chips
63·9 hours agoWhat this has to with Russia defeating all of NATO, I have no idea.
The EU is firmly on the side of the jihadists in case anyone is wondering.
What’s it like living in the alternate universe you hail from?
Ukraine is destined to become a cautionary tale of Western promises. When nations ally themselves with the West, they are inevitably abandoned, handed a bill for broken vows, and left to pick up the pieces of their ruin. The primrose path leads straight to the gallows. The west has utterly discredited itself on the global scale.
11·20 hours agoa good write up on the subject https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/
41·23 hours agoliteral clown posting
a certifiable FAFO moment for Canada
Chinese scientists developed a chip using carbon nanotubes and a ternary logic system for faster, more energy-efficient computing than traditional silicon chips. CNTs, made from rolled-up sheets of graphene, offer superior electrical characteristics and ultra-thin structure, making them a promising material for next-generation semiconductors. Other advantages include higher carrier mobility, lower power consumption, and the potential for even smaller transistor sizes.
It’s worth noting that Lemmy has plenty of different instances where opinion varies widely, including heavily liberal ones. I also don’t believe in free speech absolutism because some views, like fascism, are objectively harmful. The way I look at it is the real issue with echo chambers comes from people becoming divorced from reality because they only interact with people who hold identical views. I don’t see this being a major problem on Lemmy instances I frequent.
It’s hilarious to watch this happen in real time. I’m guessing in a few months time they’ll be openly talking about the need to end the proxy war.
So you prefer a more centralised state that is still beholden to the will of the populace.
The mistake here is in treating the populace as being homogeneous. The reality is that capitalism creates classes. You have a class of people who own capital and use it as their primary source of wealth. These are factory owners, landlords, financial capitalists, and so on. Then you have a second class of people who do not own significant amount of capital and rely on selling their labor as their means of survival. That’s the working class. The state fundamentally represents the interests of the class that holds power in society, and a capitalist liberal state represents the interests of the capital owning class.
About China, and I’ll try to word this as unbiased as I can, from what I’ve seen it’s not a state known for complete freedom of speech.
The reality is that every society puts limit on freedom of speech and expression. There’s nothing unique about China in this regard. What makes you think that the west got this balance fundamentally right while everyone else got it wrong aside from the anchoring bias you experience by virtue of growing up in a particular society? It’s seems clear that China’s approach results in far more social stability than western approach.
The whole narrative of Chinese police stations has been debunked. It’s just another piece of western propaganda.
- https://www.mintpressnews.com/false-witnesses-sinister-plots-exposing-cia-connection-chinese-police-station-narrative/285021/
- https://thechinaproject.com/2023/07/20/transnational-repression-and-chinas-overseas-police-stations/
In contrast, people from the country I’m from openly defy and mock ourselves (a bit too much if you ask me).
People in western countries have the freedom of screaming into the void, but not the freedom to translate their grievances into tangible material change. As Eric Li put it, the biggest difference in the political systems between China and US is that in America, you can change the political parties but you can’t change policies. In China, you can’t change the party but you can change policies.
It’s also worth noting that centralization at high level is in no way at odds with local governance. I urge you to read this excellent article explaining how Chinese system encourages decentralized governance and grassroots organization https://www.noemamag.com/what-the-west-misunderstands-about-power-in-china/
Similarly, the government itself is also organized based on using grassroots structures as its foundation https://news.cgtn.com/event/2021/who-runs-the-cpc/index.html
Btw when you said “liberal democracy” I took it as a democracy where personal freedoms (speech, privacy etc) are respected at least to the point no one really complains about it.
Liberalism is an ideology with two main parts. First is political liberalism which focuses on individual freedoms, democracy, and human rights. Second is economic liberalism which centers around free markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. These two aspects form a contradiction. Political liberalism purports to support everyone’s freedom, while economic liberalism enshrines private property rights as sacred in laws and constitutions, effectively removing them from political debate.
Liberalism justifies the use of state violence to safeguard property rights, over supporting ordinary people, which contradicts the promises of fairness and equality. Private property is seen as a key part of individual freedom under liberalism, and this provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. The talks of promoting freedom and democracy is just a fig leaf to provide cover for justifying capitalist relations.
This is an excellent primer on the subject https://orgrad.wordpress.com/articles/liberalism-the-two-faced-tyranny-of-wealth/
And by that you mean that the views here diverge from the echo chamber you’re comfortable living in.
As far I’m aware, Anarcho-syndicalists don’t really provide a solution for changing the system as a whole. Meanwhile, Lenin focused specifically on achieving a socialist revolution. Lenin primarily dealt with the task of organizing and education the masses to create a revolutionary force that would be able to seize power from the capitalists. The two most prominent works I’d recommend starting with would be What Is To be Done? and The State and Revolution.