Tachanka
joined 2 years ago
maybe. very easy to tweet the occasional good take while still being an operative for a bourgeois reformist party, no?
Is there any good literature on capital co-opting leftish figures, movements, & ideas to diffuse revolutionary energy or effective resistance to imperial/liberal desires
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher covers this, but I've also seen it subjected to criticism for various reasons.
According to Fisher, capitalist realism has so captured public thought that the idea of anti-capitalism no longer acts as the antithesis to capitalism. Instead, anti-capitalism is deployed as a means for reinforcing capitalism. This is done through modern media which aims to provide a safe means of entertaining anti-capitalist ideas without actually challenging the system. The lack of coherent alternatives, as presented through the lens of capitalist realism, leads many anti-capitalist movements to cease targeting the end of capitalism, but instead to mitigate its worst effects, often through individual consumption-based activities
I read it like 5 years ago but forget most of it.
mah boi, this ~~peace~~ garden is what all true warriors strive for
china does a heckin chip but at what cost
Do you have employees by any chance? 
The only thing this embargo does is force China to arbitrarily build this specific supply chain entirely in their own country.
development of productive forces go brrr
I think the bourgeoisie collectively, as a class, holds the leash of government, and the government, like a good dog, fetches subsidies for them. The state is an instrument for the suppression of one class by another, which is why we should seize the state from the bourgeoisie 
he gets a lot of subsidies from the government, yes. I don't know if he's a government asset so much as the american government is an asset of the bourgeoisie as a class. It's sort of a chicken and egg problem at this point, but I'm inclined to believe the latter rather than the former.
context matters. a proletarian fucking off and partying on the boss's dollar is cool because it goes against the normal oppression happening.
a bourgeois public official partying and fucking off while being paid public money is business as usual.
the mental illness, the drug addiction...
which is, as you point out, highly exacerbated by poverty and homelessness and able to be treated more effectively if one is housed
