I mean with the defunding of USAID maybe? China giving an alternative to the IMF that allows countries to take loans to develop themselves in a more flexible way. It seems more promising than it ever has for the third world.
I think the working class in the west and eu is still too disorganized for a revolution. I believe the material conditions are there, but the class conscious and organizational structure to guide the working class are not, for various reasons.
100% agree that education focuses way too much on test scores. I went through alot of college realizing that "I dont have to actually learn this stuff, I just have to know what questions will be asked on the test and have good answers for those". When you approach it that way as a student, you dont actually go through the process of really learning the material and cultivating your mind. After spending alot of time out of college and reading alot more, I realize that true education is having the space to acquire knowledge and wrestle around with it until you really understand it, and socializing with others about the material. You kind of do this when studying for tests, which is why I guess tests have been around for so long. In my time though there was the internet, which was just kind of like an extended library that was easier to search, and I realize that it saved me the hassle of needing to socialize with people about the material, which I think is pretty important when learning. LLM's are probably going to result in worse outcomes, though maybe test scores will remain the same.
I had a friend in college who I thought was very intelligent, because he would basically take every assignment or exam and distill it down to what needed to be done to fit in with the grading system. I realize now just how harmful that approach is to truly educating yourself, yet it seemed right at the time because that is how the education system is designed (and it relates to capitalism because people want to use education to get a job and to get a good job you need good grades etc.)
It's also pretty telling whenever I ask someone if they ever studied for a test and forgot all the material on the subject right after. That is contradictory to the whole purpose of education.
Wartime revolutionary action against one’s own government indubitably means, not only desiring its defeat, but really facilitating such a defeat.
banger quote. So he's calling out the people who say they are against the war, but take no action that would impede the government from waging the war.
The war cannot but evoke among the masses the most turbulent sentiments, which upset the usual sluggish state of mass mentality. Revolutionary tactics are impossible if they are not adjusted to these new turbulent sentiments.
I think this is important when analyzing our own modern day situations, and not just taking what Lenin lists out here and applying it willy-nilly. It is my belief that we do not need to gain the support of the masses before performing an action because if we can understand the "turbulent sentiments" correctly, then we can come to a conclusion of what the correct action is. By performing the correct action we gain support of the masses. I think of it kinda like the whole UnitedHealthcare CEO situation, but the killer was not organized and only arrived at a correct action by chance.
Those who stand for the "neither-victory-nor-defeat" slogan are in fact on the side of the bourgeoisie and the opportunists, for they do not believe in the possibility of inter national revolutionary action by the working class against their own governments,
This is a nice way of framing it. In the end our goal is the revolution and everything we do is to achieve that end.
edit: I dunno how you are going about selecting texts, but could I submit a vote for Theses on the National and Colonial Questions
Forming a study group seems like a no brainer now that I realized Lenin, Mao and even Marx had their starts in study groups
Unfortunately I think I alot of people would be turned off by it being marxist, even if they dont have a real conception of what marxism is. I'm kinda wondering if its worth going straight to marxist texts, or maybe start with something more borderline to attract liberals that can potentially be converted.
This is actually the first time I've seen the original
Yea the vision is very unclear to me, at least what they've announced publicly. I've seen people say the goal is achieving AGI but I'm not sure what that even means.
From internal docs leak it seems that the company is totally capitalist brained and it doesn't have a clear definition of AGI either.
According to leaked documents obtained by The Information, the two companies came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-clear-definition-of-agi-2000543339
Again this is also unclear. How is it going to generate profits?
If it's supposed to replace Google search, one avenue I can see is trying to incorporate ads into the LLM answers, which just degrades their product, but I suppose if they hit a mass market then they can create a sort of walled Garden that keeps people on it.
Another way is that it will totally replace workers. I don't think this is possible and is AI idealism.
The other way is you make this a product that increases productivity. In that case you can replace workers because it makes the average worker more productive and then a company can do more with less.
But I'm just speculating, I think any of these can be totally wrong.
I wish that OpenAI and their ilk would die already so I could begin to make sense of the world
Ignoring the incoming climate catastrophe, I think the only way for AI to die is for something else new and shiny to come in that VC's then stop throwing their money into AI buzzword bullshit startup and into that new industry. I think all these VC's think the same way and want the next "internet". It's also why I think so much money was thrown into crypto as even though it was bs, it had a next big thing kinda vibe.
I'm hoping it doesn't even get to that point and we can have some kinda revolution in the west because, fuck, we're all dying so that these assholes can maintain their profits.
NYPD budget is higher than North Korea's military budget. These people are hallucinating
Mass immigration didn't exist before 2001
Right Wingers: left wingers just thrive on fear mongering. Also we should be scared about the flood of immigrants coming into the country and the government trying to kill us with vaccines
Is that because they associate Assad with Putin?
I'm also wondering what evidence there is for this rebellion force being "pro-Assad" besides being against the current government.
Ironically that last comment is just describing the normal behavior of people under capitalism
Bernie and AOC have demonstrated that they will compromise on their "principles" ( if you even consider them that) to fallback to the Democratic party line. Putting our support in them is not a way to move their supporters to the left, but for them to move leftists to the right.
I think AOC is just a careerist, and Bernie is genuine, but functionally they are the same. I think of it similar to the SPD in Germany during the late 1910s and how it compromised with the bourgeois which killed any real revolution from happening.
Bernie wants billionaires to "pay their fair share" and then what? Is that really the root of the problem? They start paying more taxes and everything becomes fine for us?
I think in order to move people further left, we have to break their trust in AOC in Bernie. They have to see that there is no politician out there that actually is fighting for their interests, and their salvation lies in their own hands and they must organize.
Edit: oops I meant to reply to your other comment