Nagarjuna
Watching the Biden admin is wild. At one minute he'll be escalating the wars in the Ukraine and Palestine, but the next he'll be funding the NLRB and addressing the housing crisis in a way that improves walk-ability.
It's like, he has two settings: "actually useful moderate" and "KILLKILLKILLKILL"
Unfortunately, this makes him the best US president since carter
Getting people to live in offices is good because it brings people back to walkable, urban cores.
Because the capitalist/state controlled media has been propagandizing them on it. If the media isn't democratic, neither are our governing structures.
Hey, if you hate me so much you find my day old comments and troll post on them you should probably just block me
Childhood was the last time they let empathy guide their morals
Also true.
The state going away comes from the analysis that states are tools of class suppression and that if there are no classes, the state loses its reason to exist.
There are lots of obsolete institutions that persist through their obsolescence. Institutions are self perpetuating. The state will have to be destroyed.
I think you agree with the private thoughts of most communists in leadership in AES states.
It's not democracy when shareholders control the news. It's not democracy when only the wealthy can afford to take office. It's not democracy when our workplaces are dictatorships. Democracy isn't the problem, capitalism is.
Some Marxists argue that decentralized production leads to exchange which leads to commodity production.
This is a bad argument because there's lots of ways to move things that aren't exchange (Graeber lists a few in Dawn of Everything), but lots of Marxists make it.
If you're self conscious about it, when people ask what kind of music you masturbate to, just say "Michael Jackson's later stuff"