Cowbee [he/they]

I’m not misunderstanding you, I simply disagree with you and your frame of analysis. Not everyone you speak to that disagrees is misunderstanding you, same with me.

You have a very idealist frame of analysis. Capitalism’s persistence is not due to ideas, but material conditions. The compulsion for socialism isn’t something won over because some people have socialist ideas, but because capitalism necessarily paves the way for socialism and creates its own demise.

Plus, the PRC is the largest economy in BRICS, and is a socialist country. Even if your frame of analysis requiring BRICS to have large socialist elements to supplant capitalism was correct, it’s already correct, China eclipses every other economy in BRICS.

All very fair points, comrade. Ultimately, even if we can see the US on a downward spiral and countries like the PRC on the rise, we can’t know for sure how this will pan out. All the more reason to get organized, rather than wait and see.

This is a very myopic, eurocentric point of view. Capitalism in the global north is sustained by imperialism. The global south, and its suffering, is what keeps prices artificially low in the global north. This system is crumbling, and disparity is rising faster than ever in the global north as a consequence. Countries like Burkina Faso are kicking out occupiers like France, and BRICS is gaining as the west is falling in relevance.

Further, the UK did not go socialist, unless I’m misreading your meaning. Socialism, as it exists in the real world, can be found in countries like the PRC, Cuba, and former USSR. I’m not talking about welfare.

Further, the US is seeing normalization of socialism. Mamdani may be a socdem, but has implied a far more socialist line, ie collectivizing production. The assassination of the United Healthcare CEO is being met with united support among the working class, and parties like the Party for Socialism and Liberation are reporting record member growth.

Opinions aren’t what drive social change, material conditions evolving and changing do. The material conditions of capitalism in the west are declining, and socialism is gaining. The global south is increasingly throwing off the shackles of imperialism. If you take a very myopic, eurocentric view, then it can be easy to only see companies getting larger and larger and disparity rising, but if you zoom out this very system is pushing the profit motive and capitalism with it to the brink.

The capitalists have always had control of governments within capitalism. States are not distinct from the ruling class, but an extension. What we are seeing is not a shift from capitalism to neofeudalism, but the consequences of the dying stages of capitalism before socialism. Capitalism has decayed and is dying due to monopolization and centralization of capital, and due to imperialism, but these same conditions prep capitalism for revolution and collective ownership and planning, into socialism.

The US doesn’t have the industrial capacity, there’s a difference between currency and the actual physical industrialization needed to maintain a proxy war.

The lead developers of Lemmy are communists. This is not “dead wrong.” Further, the communist instances are older than most of the right-wing instances. You’re free to complain about communists all you want, there are instances where that’s the norm, but there are instances where the opposite is the norm, like the one you’re visiting right now.

You’re on a platform made by communists, there are a lot of us here. Deliberately breaking the rules does get your comments removed.

Heartwarming.

Very cool.

Lemmy.ml is more broadly federated than sh.itjust.works, its users get exposed to more broad viewpoints and a more complete vision of the broader Lemmy. Its admins and a large portion of moderators and users may be Marxists, but it’s less of an echo chamber than instances that align with western consensus and ban dissent against that consensus.

Most users on Lemmy.ml can’t escape the liberal viewpoint even if they tried as hard as they could, while most users on the more liberal instances can comfortably live their lives without ever engaging with Marxism.

I also have no idea why you expect this article to be downvoted because it’s on Lemmy.ml, genuinely.

Good to see solidarity between socialist nations. Hopefully Cuba’s contemporary struggles post-COVID can be overcome and they can get back on their feet, steadily progressing.

People will defederate from Lemmy.ml because someone posted a news article going over oreshnik? I think if people want to genuinely understand the millitary balance of power in the modern era, a firm understanding of missile production and technology is a key aspect of that. Oreshnik, as the article suggests, blurs the line between ballistic missiles and tactical (not strategic) nukes, without going nuclear, which is why it’s significant. Other countries with competent missile programs likely have similar technologies, but we haven’t really seen many revealed to the public like oreshnik has been.

Yep, plus the DPRK has an interest in selling some of its missiles and getting troop training in a real combat scenario. The US isn’t capable of sanctioning the DPRK any more than they already have been, so ironically this means the DPRK doesn’t have to care as much how the west sees it.

Are you surprised that Marxists are on a thread on an instance with a lot of Marxists?

Sounds good!

Go for it, people need to know.

“Orcs” were based on asiatic features, similar to the Mongol armies. The association with “orcs” is based on ethnicity, driving an image of an ugly, warlike species with no regard for life.

This is genuine racism, holy shit. “Simple minded orcs?” Blaming the conflict on the inherent intellectual inferiority of the asiatic slavs, who you call “orcs” due to their asiatic features? This is straight up WWII Nazi propaganda levels of racism.

I do, actually.

The US is still the hegemon, and unlike Russia it doesn’t have a developed industrial base, Russia does relatively fine just trading with its own trading partners, but the US is decaying rapidly as a consequence of the failings of imperialism. The EU isn’t far behind the US either in a race to crumbling.