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i wonder if that keeps researchers from developing economies from becoming impactful, because $3k is like 15 months of a minimum wage in brazilian reais, and more than entire month's wages for 99.9% of our professors

edit: for the humanities this seems especially bad, it kind of makes it sure that western social thought remains dominant since only you guys can actually pay for it

The multi millionaire friedrich engels is a communist?

Hahaha..

i wish i could live in a place that is like that all year long (and isn't in terf island or some other 1st world shithole)

And therein lies the problem, you and a lot of people like you, genuinely can't differentiate life and politics

the problem is precisely that for us politics has a practical effect on our daily lives. we have to worry about it, and talk about it, because if we simply let things go we get absolutely fucked

good for you that your current condition makes you immune to even moderate sways in the political environment. that is not the case for millions of people, even the majority of them

i've been using a moto g5 for years and i drop it all the time, no phone case

to the point where it's become a bit of a joke among friends in class, since every time it drops it kind of spreads around, battery on one side, back cover to the other, volume button goes wherever, and like 1 or 2 people help me pick up the parts lmao

but the screen is still pristine, not a single scratch, not a single crack

i'm really sad it's becoming too slow even for normal daily shit, i doubt any current cell phone could take such a beating

i think what he means is that the "developer" has the power because he "develops" the games and without him the games can't be "developed"

it's a silly way of mistaking a role for the individual that fulfills it. the role is necessary... not that particular individual

but it's not like they had a gun on their head.

they do have a metaphorical gun in the form of bills that need to be paid...

yea, but my idea was always that this type of transition can't work because eventually the bourgeoisie picks up arms (or rather, they get their goons to do it through the army or paramilitaries) and if we don't react accordingly we just get killed and lose, as we've seen countless times

so i wonder what made it work this time. maybe easier communications allow for faster mobilization so that we can organize strikes and road blockades really fast? was it because it's now a bit (a lot??) harder to cover up a massacre and that discouraged the police and soldiers? was it dissent among the coup leaders? did covid make it harder for them to consolidate their power? was it all influenced by the fact that the crazy reactionary evangelicals were the ones to gain notoriety (remember that ridiculous añez photo with a gigantic bible lmao), and that screwed up the propaganda effort? maybe all of these together? which variables were more significant? this isn't just out of intellectual curiosity, i'm actually interested to know if it can be replicated, especially here in the continent, because if it can, well, revolutionary wars are perfectly justifiable, but if the war part could be avoided it would be uhh... nice

basically you can only be in the red quadrant if you're a nazbol

"adopts Marxist views on society and the economy while also refraining from taking a definitive position on revolution and reformism" (centrist marxist(?))

used to be orthodox marxist, i guess bolivia really did fuck me up. it's not my fault that they managed to reverse a military coup without a revolution, that threw a wrench on my convictions, though i'm still 2/3 revolutionary in the graphic

i'm always baffled by these because they show how these morons really do think socialist states were/are horrible authoritarian hellscapes

The "average American", when polled time and time again routinely profess to have viewpoints waaaaaay to the left of mainstream discourse

for domestic issues, sure, especially because most of those would favor them in the end

but when it comes to the expansion and maintenance of the empire (in territorial, military or even ideological terms, as in believing and/or helping spread the belief that these actions are commendable or in any way fair, deserved or justifiable) i have never seen this

If you view everyone who isn't actively radicalized as evil

i only see them that way if they live in the 1st world

and i do believe evil people can become good or even just, i don't know, better, but i can't see them as anything but evil until they realize how the modern western mindset - their mindset - is built upon a supremacist worldview. how is a person whose worldview is built off supremacism not evil? until they start dialing back on that shit, which i can't see happening before radicalization, i can't think of them as good