California typewriter is a really neat documentary that scratches the surface.

Fusion power and small modular reactors.

Maybe read the post again and put yourself in the shoes of the admins and mods who do live in Germany.

From zak cope - divided world, divided class:

Labour Aristocracy

The labour aristocracy is that section of the international working class whose privileged position in the lucrative job markets opened up by imperialism guarantees its receipt of wages approaching or exceeding the per capita value created by the working class as a whole. The class interests of the labour aristocracy are bound up with those of the capitalist class, such that if the latter is unable to accumulate superprofits then the super-wages of the labour aristocracy must be reduced. Today, the working class of the imperialist countries, what we may refer to as metropolitan labour, is entirely labour aristocratic.

The labour aristocracy provides the major vehicle for bourgeois ideological and political influence within the working class. For Lenin, “opportunism” in the labour movement is conditioned by the preponderance of two major economic factors, namely, either “vast colonial possessions or a monopolist position in world markets.” These allow for ever-greater sections of the metropolitan working class to be granted super-wages so that it is not merely the haute bourgeoisie which subsists on profits. Thus, according to Lenin, it is not simply capitalists who benefit from imperialism:

The export of capital, one of the most essential economic bases of imperialism, still more completely isolates the rentiers from production and sets the seal of parasitism on the whole country that lives by exploiting the labour of several overseas countries and colonies.

For Lenin, superprofits derived from imperialism allow the globally predominant bourgeoisie to pay inflated wages to sections of the (international) proletariat, who thus derive a material stake in preserving the capitalist system:

In all the civilised, advanced countries the bourgeoisie rob—either by colonial oppression or by financially extracting “gain” from formally independent weak countries—they rob a population many times larger than that of “their own” country. This is the economic factor that enables the imperialist bourgeoisie to obtain super-profits, part of which is used to bribe the top section of the proletariat and convert it into a reformist, opportunist petty bourgeoisie that fears revolution.

There are several pressing reasons why the haute bourgeoisie in command of the heights of the global capitalist economy pays its domestic working class super-wages, even where it is not forced to by militant trade-union struggle within the metropolis.

• Economically, the embourgeoisement of First World workers has provided oligopolies with the secure and thriving consumer markets necessary to capital’s expanded reproduction.
• Politically, the stability of pro-imperialist polities with a working-class majority is of paramount concern to cautious investors and their representatives in government.
• Militarily, a pliant and/or quiescent workforce furnishes both the national chauvinist personnel required to enforce global hegemony and a secure base from which to launch the subjugation of Third World territories.
• Finally, ideologically, the lifestyles and cultural mores enjoyed by most First World workers signifies to the Third World not what benefits imperialism brings, but what capitalist industrial development and parliamentary democracy alone can achieve.

In receiving a share of superprofits, a sometimes fraught alliance is forged between workers and capitalists in the advanced nations. As far back as 1919, the First Congress of the Communist International (COMINTERN) adopted a resolution, agreed on by all of the major leaders of the world Communist movement of the time, which read:

At the expense of the plundered colonial peoples capital corrupted its wage slaves, created a community of interest between the exploited and the exploiters as against the oppressed colonies—the yellow, black, and red colonial people—and chained the European and American working class to the imperialist “fatherland.”

Advocates of imperialism understood very early on that imperialism would and could provide substantial and socially pacifying benefits to the working classes in imperialist countries. Cecil Rhodes, arch-racist mining magnate, industrialist and founder of the white-settler state of Rhodesia, famously understood British democracy as equaling imperialism plus social reform:

I was in the West End of London yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for “bread!” “bread!” and on the way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism … My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and the mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists.

Also, John Smith - imperialism in the 21st century.

Read Engels - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, especially the section on Owenism.

They clearly state in one of the rules that I just linked, that calling for an end to zionism is a bannable offense.

The german state is full of witch-hunters and its people have learned nothing.

Any wiki would work for this. @nutomic@lemmy.ml is developing a federated wiki called ibis that is quite far along now.

Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular.

Calling for a destruction, annihilation, an end of all Zionism or the like.

Zionism means colonialism not just in practice, but from its very inception:

You can use either, but I will never use anything but SQL-type databases for data storage. I’ve been burned too many times with alternative data storage methods that didn’t think through all the problems sql devs have dealt with for decades.

Does anyone else find “speed coding” and X-day code competitions weird? Like I’m sure they do the same for painting, short story writing, and other creative things, but the point of all these is to have fun while doing it, not arbitrarily put yourself under pressure.

Franks has no equal.

Hello fellow leftists! I’m a Cuban from Cuba! Here’s why Cuba has abandoned socialism, and what it needs to do to fix it!

insert 10 paragraphs of unsourced statistics

Everyone nods in agreement

The PRC does not suddenly become a liberal country because it has some advisors who studied in the US or worked for the WTO, nor do the excesses and missteps of the wild 90s negate the socialist character of the CPC. The claim that the PRC is now a liberal country, and abandoned Marxism, because it became a member of the WTO, is equally ignorant. The PRC did not join the WTO because it “became liberal”, it did so because its one of the larger international trade orgs, and the PRC’s socialist market economy tends to do a lot of world trade.

Cuba and Vietnam are also both WTO members. Are they also liberal countries now too?

I apologize if I unduly called you an ultraleft, but this one drop of blood fallacy you’re committing here is typical of ultraleft critiques of AES states. “You’re a member of the WTO? You must have abandoned Marxism!”

I’d also like to say that its extremely sus that XHS goes after defenders of the PRC, jumping to arguments of authority that (since we must not live in China, or must not be Chinese, we don’t know how liberal/bad it is!). XHS talks down to anyone who dares defend the socialist character of the CPC. This is exactly the strategy that we’d expect from an intelligence or influence op, to claim indigeneity to a country that they then demonize on any ground.

The belt and road initiative is that plan. The PRC has infrastructure and development partnerships from countries in Southern Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

https://qutnyti.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/belt-road-initiative-an-anti-thesis-of-colonialism/

Wikipedia I know, but this is a good outline: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_projects_of_the_Belt_and_Road_Initiative

I encourage you to ask for sources, don’t take anything on faith, especially long-winded diatribes filled with unsourced stats from people claiming that AES countries abandoned socialism. The fact that so many people upvotee their posts (claiming that the PRC is run by liberals now), without a single person questioning it, is shameful.

Claiming that the CPC abandoned communism and has been taken over by neoliberals is a very bold claim, and you shouldn’t accept it without some sources.

I can provide some alternates, but I don’t know what basis XHS is claiming that on. Is it the standard ultraleft position that the “reform and opening up” was a liberalization? If that’s the case here are some on that:

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn’t China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn’t it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
• Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
• What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
• How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev’s market reforms?, 2
• Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2

For a longer text on why the PRC is still absolutely communist, and communist thinking drives the party, I recommend Jin Huiming - Marxism and Socialism with chinese characteristics. Or any of the chinese marxist journals from the academy of marxism which go through what the current difficulties and focus points.

Liberals desperately need to read Losurdo - Liberalism, a counter-history.

Even the liberal equality before the law, (ie, the illegality for the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges and beg for food) was denied to colonized peoples and peoples of colonial origin.

Every one of your liberal ideologues was extremely racist, and didn’t think colonized peoples deserved any of the rights they proclaimed for the white community. John Locke, and the first 5 or so US presidents owned slaves. Tocqueville pushed for the decimation of civilians in Algeria at the hands of the french imperialists, and wrote a book on the US that ignored slavery, lynchings, and native eviction. There are too many more cases to cover.

You said not two comments ago that you, “know better than the PRC’s planners on how to correct its economy”.

You also claim than the PRC abandoned workers rights by the 90s, and purged all Marxists from the CPC’s leadership stucture.

You apparently know better than the 100 million members of the CPC, that their country is a neoliberal one now? Who’s being arrogant?