[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago

Feel like shit, just want it back

[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 7 months ago

This argument that higher wages = higher prices was discredited at length by Karl Marx in his pamphlet Value, Price and Profit

[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

I've met a lot of people by getting active in my party. The more I take on, the more I meet.

[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Step 1: Get off the internet

[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

From what I can tell a likely scenario is:-

  1. ICJ correctly rules on genocide, provisional measures are supposed to then come into effect
  2. Israel flouts the rules, withdraws from ICJ
  3. Issue is forwarded to the UN security council
  4. America uses its veto against any security council measure against Israel.
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[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 8 months ago

If thats the mark then wear it with pride

[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Whose argument is that?

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[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago

They are more akin to petite bourgeoisie

And yet so long as they aren't petty proprietors themselves their relationship to production is proletarian, just as it would be if they were a doctor or an engineer.

[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

If it just disappeared in a puff of smoke? I'd be inconsolable as I've lived here my entire life. Everyone that's important to me, from my friends, to my partner, to my family, all live here. My dad's ashes have been scattered here. If England disappeared tomorrow, myself and my loved ones would immediately lose our homes and our history and immediately become stateless refugees, along with the 55.9 million other people that live here.

If you mean in the sense of some kind of Balkanisation, I'd still be extremely upset. At no point in modern history has a country ever benefited from being Balkanised; from Yugoslavia, to the collapse of the USSR, to the partition of India and the colonial carve up of China, none of these countries have materially benefitted from being divided up in this way. The people living in all of the examples cited experienced incredible suffering and instability as a direct result of Balkanisation. In England's (and more widely, the UK's) case, it would almost certainly be preyed upon by the US and the EU. Its hard enough for the British establishment to compete on a level playing field with the other imperialist powers as it is with Great Britain unified, let alone if it was split apart into several smaller and poorer independent states.

Does this mean England should exist as it does today? I don't think so, personally. I believe the UK's best future (beyond the scope of a socialist revolution, of course) is in forming a federative republic, within which England would need to be legislatively split into smaller administrative units so that it doesn't perpetuate the existing relationship between England and the rest of the UK. A federal division of the UK should be weighted primarily by population, with the aim being to ensure that each administrative unit is a similar size to Wales or Scotland, meaning a range of 3-5 million people. This means some regions of England, such as Yorkshire, the South West or the East Midlands, would translate well into such a federative system. Others would need to be redesignated, such as the North West or the South East.

[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 9 months ago

Frankly, people should have just been savagely, viciously mocking these crazies from the moment their nonsense started to pick up an audience. As someone who studied biochem at the masters level, the things these people say are so far removed from any of the accepted science and so far down the rabbit hole of looney, sensationalist Hollywood nonsense that it genuinely puzzles me that more people didn't simply bully these people for having such a tenuous grasp of reality. If I made claims half as outlandish as these people, I'd have been rightly made fun of and become a public laughing stock.

[-] Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 9 months ago

It's not even right to call this evopsych at this point, its just quackery.

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When the mural by Jack Hastings at Marx House in Clerkenwell Green in London was rediscovered in 1991 behind its library's bookshelves, a film was made about the artist, his work with Diego Rivera in the United States, and how the mural came to be painted at Marx House in 1934.

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I remember a time when Lemmy had like 10 people and we'd be lucky to get 5 upvotes to a single post. Now we actually have a functional feed that will more or less have new content every day.

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A documentary on life, work and art in the early Soviet Union.

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