Comments about ML aside, are the fact that Luna is a landlord and associating with a far-right nationalist group that harasses LGBTQ minors not concerning?
Comments about ML aside, are the fact that Luna is a landlord and associating with a far-right nationalist group that harasses LGBTQ minors not concerning?
I’m glad you agree. I’m not a Marxist-Leninist by the typical usage on the internet, I’m much more of an Open Marxist, and I think actual discussion of China and any other AES’s faults is necessary for a healthy community.
Yeah, Risk Labor as a concept is just simply capitalist apologia, no other way to describe it. I know China was founded on the union of the four classes, including the bourgeoisie, but at this stage allowing any capitalists into the CCP is straight up betrayal.
I really wish there were more discussion of the topic. I think too often communist spaces can be so focused on geopolitical strife or following a specific historic line that analysis of these modern and extremely pressing issues just isn’t available.
I’m interested in why you say there aren’t any resource issues. For example, if every person on earth were to live like an average American we would need something like 5 earths for all of the resource inputs and land usage. I see many, from socdems to purported marxist-leninists (really patsocs) saying that we must spread American living across the world, and it’s simply not feasible.
Absolutely agree that borders being abolished is a bare minimum to help with these issues.
Michael Heinrich is undertaking this project right now. The first book is “Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society.” It’s on my shelf, but I haven’t had the chance to read it, yet. Heinrich is primarily known for “value form theory.” He’s somewhat controversial among theorists, but is a committed student of Marx.
I’m still making my way through Tears of the Kingdom. I liked Breath of the Wild, but didn’t love it. But the world feels much more alive in this new game. I’m at like 100 shrines completed and I’ve still only done one dungeon 😅
It’s an important concept primarily because many still hold on to the “automated luxury communism” ideal, saying that the ultimate goal of communism should be essentially the unchecked fulfillment of human desires.
I agree that it is essentially impossible under capitalism, and I agree that it essentially implies communism. However, that’s not the standard view. Ecology and planning production according to planetary boundaries aren’t necessary in communism, but I think they should be.
I don’t see how it is “first-world-y” if it’s pretty explicitly anti-first world. To me it’s a demand that gives primacy to revolutionary movements in the third world.
I also disagree greatly that it is “utopian,” given that it interfaces directly with physical ecological and gelogical processes and calls for planning production according to human needs and actual resource availability. It’s taking climate change, land use, and resource extraction as the starting point of analysis and molding a program to fit within and fight all of these things. Couldn’t be further from utopian.