darkernations

It's common to want peace in the Imperial cores where peace is defined as submission to the West and its capital.

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. Mark Twain, https://redsails.org/the-two-terrors/

Ok that was hilarious. I was going to post some choice quotes but didn't want to spoil it for others who haven't seen it yet.

For most things the majority of the world is on our side. And for the rest is partly why MLs aren't tailists.

I think the author's perspective is the solution should aim towards the social organisation of workers (in this case artists) as a group in a step towards the worker's state; the technology is not the problem but the privatisation of the surplus value from socialised labour is. Art-luddites (if such a thing is even possible now) would actually be a good thing - they could threaten "machinary" to gain leverage for workers at large.

It is not one's personal failure for attempting to survive in a system that exploits one and their labour, neither is a recognition of any classes that we fit in that is not exclusively proleteriat. As individuals maybe our only realistic solution be attempts towards becoming petty-bourgoisie or highly sought after labour aristocrats - if not already there - (which will not mitigate sufficiently the contradictions) but as an organisation the scope is much much more.

We have to remember when we are reading more radical writing that they are trying to push where we could be as a society ie the opposite of tailism. However, we should always place those ideas in the context of our own realities and trial them where appropriate, and learn on the feedback from this process - that is the more scientific and dialectic approach.

I found this article a really interesting read (52 min), it is a well-written dialectical take which one may find useful if not already read:

Artisanal Intelligence: What’s the Deal with “AI” Art? (2023)"

https://redsails.org/artisanal-intelligence/

Original from: https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2023-02-03-Artisanal-Intelligence.html

The same author has also written (which I have yet to read): https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2022-01-20-To-save-the-arts-we-must-kill-the-artist.html

Thanks. Do you know if Patreon does Monero?

Addendum: I think they don't.

Are they on anywhere else?

Addendum

African Stream:

• https://africanstream.media/
• https://rumble.com/c/AfricanStream/videos

RedStream:

• https://linkin.bio/redstreamnet
• https://thered.stream/
• https://twitter.com/redstreamnet
• RedSteam website appears to be down at time of writing.

Why is learning Mandarin symbolic of being submissive rather than being considerate/respectful to a person and people you have a close relationship with?

I wonder if it is their perspective too that learning English is subordination to the West. In many ways a validation of what Frantz Fanon was saying:

Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. Black Skin, White Masks

Thanks, I didn't get that reference till you explained despite knowing that meme!

Haha of course!

A post of yours from a while back that I remembered - I try to afford the credibility of intelligence, rather than stupidity which sugars my own egotism, especially with those whose perspectives I find repulsive:

China’s young people should avoid “wishful thinking” about the United States, according to Cui Tiankai, the country’s former ambassador to the US.

No, it’s the children who are wrong…

I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean!

Potential idiocy aside, this feels like an attempt to use Russian chauvinism to undermine relations with China.