Socialism: Utopian and scientific (1880)

Attempting to read Fidel’s Autobiografia en dos voces, in spanish (already read it in english). Its a slog but its increasing my vocab a lot.

Does this happen outside the US? Every single white-collar job I’ve had in the US, work lunches were like this. Everyone suddenly becomes a puritan and gasps when anyone drinks alcohol at lunchtime.

All things have a class character. In the PRC, surveillance is used to keep the people and the streets very safe. In the US or UK for example, surveillance is used to protect the property of the rich, and imprison poorer peoples. The only reason for skepticism, is because people see how these things are used against the people in the west, and not for them.

You can walk around in nearly any city in the PRC and feel completely safe, and the cameras are definitely a part of that. You can watch videos on youtube with westerners walking around at night in any given city in the PRC, and they’re stunned at how safe it is. Even from a liberal perspective, security and personal safety is liberty / freedom. From a proletarian perspective, its a very non-intrusive way to prevent street crime on a mass scale and make sure cities stay walkable and safe.

Chandler was a big influence on Philip K Dick, and I could totally see him writing : “my breath froze into pink pretzels”

Yes, even though it’s written by a Kennedy liberal, it’s unavoidably good, and very worth reading.

Nixon was a bit of an outsider in D.C. He wasn’t Ivy League, he had had a less prestigious upbringing, which gave him a mentality of loathing the rich kids - in part because the rich kids were dicks to him due to him being “poor” (he wasn’t, but in their eyes). The CIA at this time was a real old-money blueblood boys club. All yachters.

This doesn’t track with anything I’ve read. I recently finished that biography of Allen Dulles - The devil’s chessboard. Nixon, despite initially being a DC / georgetown outsider, did prove his loyalty to them, especially during the Alger Hiss case. The OSS/CIA supported his initial political rise through one of the m, and over the years he gained acceptance to that circle. Nixon was one of Allen Dulles’ / the CIA’s main political assets.

And they had fucked over Nixon before, during his campaign against Kennedy.

Never heard this one, but the CIA tried their best to elect him there. He lost to Kennedy by less than a percentage point.

Columbo nooooooo

The most famous mob movies all talk about how they’re ultimately a bunch of backstabbers but they’re still so heavily mythologized.

Agree, outside of maybe don corleone in the godfather (which despite being a good movie and book, is a major whitewash of the mafia), none of the movies really glorify them.

The only theme I can think of that would cause this, is the “rags to riches” motif that coincides with the american dream, which is a major product of the US film industry.

There are a lot of cities that fit that description, but being the US, you’re not going to find a lot of good options that have a decent overall quality of life, and aren’t incredibly expensive.

The best metrics to look for IMO are:

• Bikability
• Usable public transportation (< 10 US cities have this)
• Good infrastructure / livability
• Green spaces / parks

That leaves only a few options, all of which are expensive, but still far better than any other alternative:

My top picks are:

• San Francisco / bay area
• Washington DC area
• Boston area
• Seattle area

I’ve lived in many of these places and can vouch for them.

I personally hate these below, because they’re grimy / filthy, have a ton of cops, and are filled with podcasters, but they do have good public transportation and a few other redeemable things.

• NYC area
• Chicago area
• Philadelphia area

I saw this episode of black mirror.

??? Both corn and flour tortillas are incredibly easy to make at home.

There’s a whole set of comics written in the Bush era called trickle down jesus.

I’m also quite desperate for an alternative to android-studio, but unfortunately nothing is close yet.

kmp-lsp shows promise, but it has very limited intellisense and shows no errors.

Secondly yall, this should be an educational space, please post sources along with your commentaries.

We should be doing better than vibe-posting liberals who never cite a single source.

Not only are the means of production privately owned by the capitalist class but the state, likewise, is controlled by the capitalist class who make up the majority of the communist party’s membership. To deny this obvious fact is pure cope and doesn’t help our analysis of the Chinese model but hinder it.

This is completely false. See my sources above.

China is not state capitalist.

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
• Didn’t China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn’t it liberalize its economy? Is China’s drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
• Is the CPC committed to communism?
• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn’t China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn’t it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
• Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
• What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
• How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev’s market reforms?, 2
• Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2

No probs.

Keep it civil please. The merits of non-interventionism should be discussed in good faith.

Nothing better than pure black IMO, and ideally using a simple launcher without distractions, like Olauncher, minimo launcher, etc.