Marx employs Hegelian philosophy in several ways, not only in the familiar "battle of opposites" kind of analysis but as an entire world lens.

On the subject of the layoffs in tech: offshoring is an underappreciated consequence of the large scale adoption of AI by large corporations. It has never been about worker efficiency in the raw productivity sense. It's about efficiency in terms of the raw cost-of-labour sense.

This is all a misunderstanding based on a mistranslation. What people are supposed to know is that on September 23 we are entering the Age of the Velociraptors. The confusion is understandable. It's an easy mistake to make.

This is a much quoted and famously bad analysis of fascism. Eco conflates fascists with communists and never discusses the essential fact of Fascism as the failure mode of Capitalism. This was well understood by Italian leftists of the period. In other words this is a typically bad liberal take.

What's actually going to happen is rich people are going to use Al to replace workers. It's going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That's not Al's fault that is the capitalist system —Geoffrey Hinton, AI pioneer

What most people draw from this graph is how we all just need to join unions. But the union no one mentions in this discussion is the Soviet Union.

Because "progressive" is not a real thing. It's just a stinky word for people who are too afraid to use the word Socialist. And they're too afraid for good reason. Afraid of being exposed as frauds and fakes and the loyal servants of Capital and Imperialism that they really are.

Western Journalism: Serving truffles to power.

I guess if we are under attack from Iran @anthonyklan.bsky.social then we don't need those draconian new speech laws do we? What have we got to do with it? I thought Iran was doing all the attacking? Yeah, as always, every elite narrative is full of holes you can drive a truck through.

Yeah, nah, that didn't happen. The source of the anti-Semitic attacks in Melbourne was not Iran and everybody knows it. NO ONE hates Jews living peacefully in Australia more than the nation of Israel.

The Republican party is not red! Fuck this appropriation. Red is the color of the proletariat and blue is the colour of the hated bourgeoisie and their liberal functionaries. This inversion happened because of American election broadcasts in the 1980s. The workers movement ISN'T BLUE, it's red!

For what it's worth: It is legal under international law to fight against occupation and oppression. It's also necessary.

Make Israel Palestine again

Be careful!

Liberals really need to give up on idealism. The United States WAS NOT "built on an idea". No, it was built on an exercise of raw elite power. American independence was not a "revolution". It was a power grab during a moment of imperial weakness. That's it, that's the whole story.

Reminder that Australia too is a settler colony that sought over many years to erase its indigenous inhabitants.

Zionists are truly vile human beings. Here's that "Disturbed" zunt who was bitching about Bob Vylan over the weekend. Anyway, in an effort to be fair and even-handed, let me just say anyone who makes it their business to autograph BOMBS needs to be taken on a short voyage to visit the Titanic.

As plausible as it is, that figure comes from a misinterpretation of an Israeli report. Better not to disseminate it, as it stimulates genocide denial. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

By "strong support" I mean they are hotbeds Zionism and an assembly line for training pro-Israel cadres and other political drones. There's no point decrying the state of sorry socdem complicity with Israel. That sickness has been at the root of the pro-capitalist Left for over three generations.

It's worth remembering that Zionism started as a mostly "Left" political project. "Socialism" for Labor types. Kibbutz for the hippies etc. In the 50s, 60s and 70s the strongest support for Israel was from UK Labour, the ALP and similar parties. These parties remain strong supporters of Zionism.

Any person of European descent has a direct connection to monarchy. Every single European, it's not special. This is called "pedigree collapse" and it's a well-known statistical phenomenon.

No one understands Australia's diplomatic stance. It always seems so contradictory because it is. Australia will literally destroy itself in defence of American interests. This makes no sense until you realise that Australia is not a real country. It's an international mining corporation.

The real story of Australia's settlement. It was always a business.

American Democrats need to shut the fuck up. Kamala would have done exactly the same thing! Claiming otherwise is just lying.

A smarter president would have been able to say "no" to the Israeli/MIC double-cross that led to war with Iran. But smarter presidents don't survive long in office. JFK said "no" to an invasion of Cuba after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. The pigs (of war) never forgave him for it.

Do I condemn Hamas? Nope not even a tiny bit.

Despite all the schadenfreude of watching Tel Aviv's towers go up in flames, don't let this distract you. ALL EYES STAY ON GAZA! 🇵🇸 The Israelis have implemented a complete blackout on Gaza. We don't know what they're doing there but you can be sure it is extremely bad. Genocide, murder and famine

Not interested in American domestic bullshit. Israel has launched a hot war. Like, as if running a 2-year long genocide was not bad enough. The imperialist nations are naturally all jumping to Israel's defence despite that nation being as guilty as fuck. Fuck Israel. Fuck the West.

Bottom 50% in China now have more average personal wealth than the bottom 50% in the US

There can only be One State 🇵🇸and people selling you the Two State solution are only trying to divert you from this reality. They hold out the Two State solution while steadfastly refusing to recognise one of them! Don't believe them. Don't take them seriously. It's a sham and a smoke screen.

Serious question: In today's political climate, is there *any* common sense policy that doesn't require some dramatic and deeply radical left-wing politics? I'm finding it hard to identify a single one. Housing? Healthcare? Climate change? Ending genocide?

Free Greta Thunberg!

Trump tries to claim the Nordstream 2 bombing as his own work. Clearly it was Biden's work but who cares? America obviously did it and fucked Germany's economy. It was an act of industrial sabotage and terrorism.

Orgosolo, Cerdeña

Mostly just a consequence of the US being well positioned geographically and historically to benefit from the Industrial Revolution and WW2. Pressure from communist states to extend the social safety net also helped. Capitalism didn't have much to do with it.

I work 7 days a week and I lost my health insurance and I can barely afford my apartment oh and by the way I have a degree and 25 years of professional experience. This country is dogshit if you weren't born rich. We already know you were born rich.

Rodriguez is a principled socialist and not an antisemite. He correctly identified the Zionist state as a major source of evil. He's a hero acting rationally in a time when the Western liberal states are all showing us their fascist behinds.

It's the opposite of anti-Semitism. It's being precise as opposed to generic and racist. It's the equivalent of referring to the crimes of the Nazis instead of the German people.

In a word: Nationalism. i.e. Taking pride in shit you haven't done & hating people you've never met

I hope his death is not merciful or quick.

That's what they tell themselves and they're relying on anecdotes and bullshit ephemera like Eurovision. Meanwhile demonstrations against the genocide are happening every week in every major city.

listen guys stop virtue signalling, eurovision is for everyone

NATO's days are numbered by how many volunteers they can muster and send to the front line. It's somewhere between the number that can fit in a Volkswagen and the number that can fit in a telephone box.

Europe is a subcontinent or India is a continent it's one or the other

People seem to have forgotten about the nukes when they make warlike statements about Russia. Have they forgotten that Russia still has enough firepower to wipe Europe and the United States off the face of the earth? I think people need to start remembering that the nukes are still around.

Two signs of Western intelligence services involvement: The sudden emergence of Islamist insurgency groups linked to Al Qaeda or Islamic State operative in the country. And uptick in drug production and distribution (because every war needs a black budget).

I don't think there's any question about French involvement and for that matter, American in the violence in Burkina Faso. Show me an "islam-o-fascist" group affiliated with Al-Qaeda or Islamic State and I will show you employees of American intelligence and NATO.

Voting for the lesser evil is still evil. Stop being evil.