About what I was expecting. Cause the correct content for this book would be: we, we(Rockefeller institute) made it go bad

Man my brain hurts as I start to read the article and it says that the writer has a chair in the rockfeller institute and wrote a book called what went wrong with capitalism, which is just about the weirdest thing ever

Maybe APL could be better at any rate I believe organizations at least in the west retroceded rapidly since the fall of the Berlin wall, the loss of the USSR, for a bunch of reasons contributed (directly and indirectly) the structure of Marxists organizations to un-radicalize. The best example in recent memory of Marxist organization on the US is in my opinion the black panthers, particularly in Fred Hampton’s time. We should go into that direction, do collective action towards empoverished populations. Work with them for them, take Marxism out of the college grounds and into the back allays where nobody else looks to. Of course that isn’t easy, and especially doing it right and respectfully, but it’s the only way, without going towards the masses it’s just spinning wheels in vain, it goes not very far, refining the theory is helpful but we got to the point that it’s all many organizations do and often in the wrong direction. So I don’t know how to move things to the right direction but hopefully I kinda painted a picture of where said direction is, now the hard part is to get there.

I’ve heard good things about the APL(American party of labour) and there are some comrades from CPUSA around here, seek out one or the other, or if you find any Marxist organization around you and join the struggle, being a Marxist in isolation is somewhat contradictory and very saddening as well, seek an organization (assuming you have the time and energy for it) and work together

Unfortunately not so “wild” a lot of them seems to be in the interest of big agricultural companies

Still strikes me as arbitrary stuff like how much of the rural us is quite undeveloped, plus how much of the population live in poverty or hanging on by a thread with a job that if they loose they’ll die from lack of proper treatment from a disease. The parameter of development seems to be tailored to fit western countries

Keep up with comrade yogthos around here, its how I do it

Still I don’t see how it’s a developing country, the poverty indices are extremely low quality of life very good, by that metric the US should be an undeveloping country with its job crisis opioid epidemic, real estate prices running rampant, I just don’t understand the metric of what is a developed country if China isn’t one

Somehow I think that’s not what the person meant

Am I tripping or the article called China a developing country? It says at the very beginning China and several OTHER developing countries…

If that’s the case I’m stunned because if the second(being very charitable here) economy of the world is a developing country then the US is the only developed one? Or Europe is ahead of China now?

But that will mess the economy!! CHINA WILL COLLAPSE THIS WEEK !!!

Doesn’t it has a lot of fats and other shit that isn’t on blood? Cause filtering to me is taking stuff out of a system not adding things in

I find it puzzling for a country not to have space for neither, what is the source of the economy of the country? Even if its the export of natural resources I would think that processing the resource before exporting should be both viable and desirable. In any case the most effective source of fighting for any postive change is through organized Marxist action, although I know that often said organizations are far from powerful enough right now to do something that’s why its important to expand their ranks

It’s exactly this type of nation that socialism can help, by empowering national development, changing the logic of how the country works internationally, the issue is that it’s always a traumatic experience the post revolutionary situation. And the change will not come by vote, so if you believe that Marxism can change things the only way to change things is to find an organization and join them or create one. It’s not an easy job but its the only one that can be done

I have nothing but good words to say for the effort and enthusiasm comrade. But there are some issues in that way of thinking, it is extraordinarily difficult to outcompete the captalist companies, just look at popular Korea or Cuba, they could have something in the line of that zaibatsu that you describe, but the capitalist forces did not stood still, they did a blockade. Since they can do that to a whole nation imagine what they can do with a company. Furthermore it pressuposes something we do not have, the numbers to do such thing and to my eyes that’s where our focus should be, to keep a strong revolutionary Leninist line and to manage it to spread it, and that is done by mingling with the poorest parts of society learning with them being among the people, and figuring out how to apply the Marxist teachings to their reality and show them that we are for them. But few people are willing to do that, Marxism especially in the west is much more of an academic endeavour than a popular workforce one, and the further away we get from the masses more we leave the field open for facist ideas to take root. I think the best example of strategy we have in recent memory is the black panthers under Fred Hampton and the rainbow coalition, we cannot mimic that step by step but I think that the future revolutions in the west must learn from their actions of how to resonate within the masses.

So you have to spend money to make money and the west is surprised about it, because there wasnt a collapse of the company when it wasn’t profitable, like it happens in the US with every investor bailing on the company and worsening the issue. Almost like infrastructure projects are worthwhile investments even if it does not provide short term gains

I find funny that this comic makes it seem like the small government is bad in itself, and quite weirdly, the comic obfuscates the fact that it’s the market or the bourgeoisie that are doing the fucking, the small state just is less on their way

It’s not a conspiracy theory it’s the only strategy because a crisis would kill any chance of electing someone of Biden’s party, and if they loose the election the bomb blew up in the hands of the opposition, and if they do get elected they have 4 years to figure something out

I would say that it has something to do with the dedollarization that’s growing around the east, but the drop precedes it, so yeah the problem goes deep

The scale of this graph is anxiety inducing, its at least an order of magnitude bigger than any other swing including crashes, which makes me think either there was a change and the thing going down is actually working out for the banks, or shit’s about to go down hard