Elon, did you make that joke to people who you pay a salary to? And they’re the only one’s who laughed? Looking into this.

No le c’este un bumpre stiqure

Pope’s just mad he’s losing his Vatican Candidate in January.

Jesus Delgado Vancé

My NYC said this is because Adams had been critical of the Biden regime. The King is putting an audacious baron back in his place.

Capitalism or capitalists are not something that meaningfully exist before the industrial revolution

I disagree here. The nascent of capitalism was grown within the old order of feudalism in small scale. Burghers/bourgeoisie operated within cities that were distinct in economy and governance from the rest of feudal world. Guilds and city councils were bourgeoisie organizations which codified the accumulation of capital. They weren’t producing on a factory scale, but they weren’t independent artisans either. Guild masters had dozens of employees under them who produced artisan goods in exchange for wage labor. While the majority of the population were agricultural workers, within select cities the urban population would turn surplus into capital. If it’s a matter of definition you could call this proto-capitalism because it wasn’t systemic to the entire economy, but a capitalist logic certainly dominated those select cities which allowed them to accumulate so much wealth. But I think if you have a hard cut off on capitalism beginning only with the industrial revolution, you’re losing a lot of relevant conversation.

All in all, it seems to me as if this book is about the inter-state politics of capitalism

And I don’t really disagree with this. The author doesn’t go into too much detail about how things are produced.

Could you expand on what you mean by “unmaterialistic definition of capitalism”? I think the entire thesis is built around understanding the MCM cycle, and it says capitalism only becomes systemic to the entire mode of production under the British industrial expansion.

Hilarious because I’m reading “The Long Twentieth Century” which basically argues that there is a cycle of which power leads the capitalist world before being replaced by another capitalist power. Each power (Genoa, Netherlands, Great Britain, USA) began with an expansion of commercial and commodity production, which then reaches the limit of profits, before turning all excess capital towards financial expansion. Each financial expansion makes the capitalist class incredibly rich and prolongs their dominance, but sews the seeds for their end. It’s during this financial expansion that the next capitalist power starts their commercial expansion and becomes “the world’s factory.”

The author shows that America’s financial turn was during the late 70s and especially 80s. He doesn’t draw this conclusion, but it’s clear to me that China is the current capitalist power that’s taken over the commercial role in shipping and manufacturing. Even though I think China is an AES, they still have a capitalist economy.

We always joke that the commies in China do capitalism better than capitalists, but it’s demonstrably true. America has dominance right now due to financial networks, but that arrangement won’t last much longer with the material dominance of the Chinese economy.

Hobbits never have to wear shoes so that right there is enough for me. I see from comments now that you meant an animal and not a fantasy creature, but I’m sticking with it. A pre-Shire hobbit though so I’m not burdened by class relations.

Fight insurgents in occupied cities. Go on secret missions against non-combatant or allied nations. Train allies or insurgents. Same thing they do now, they’re not gonna go near the front line. It’s too risky, government has invested too much in their training when they could send grunt conscripts.

I guess she is a real democrat. Four years of red team: We love immigrants, ICE is fascist, concentration camps.

Four years of blue team: Actually we want to kill immigrants more, we are the most racist, a vote for blue is a vote for racism.

There’s a decent half-caster homebrew class called magi that would work for that, if your DM is accommodating.

A fellow enjoyer of The Expanse, I see.

My gut says non-white CHUDs. Fox is a little too hateful to brown people, so there’s a niche there.

I don’t have a source but medieval Muslims knew the history of Islam and knew their people weren’t always Muslim. They probably said “Those are pagan monuments but we still think they’re neat.”

Been reading that as well. The whole issue where he’s locked inside the lab with the evil scientist is so weird and unlike other comic art I’ve read. Moore made the Swamp Thing what he is today.

Standard professor moment. They love using Marxism to analyze their discipline but flip on the neoliberal switch anytime it applies to modern world politics.

Imagine two Hitlers. One of them always tells lies and the other always tells the truth.

Especially since it was right after she said she was from a middle class family.