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Thanks, it’s truly incredible to see how such sizable gains can be erased in just 4 years.

This sounds like an excellent material analysis that shed some light on the current economic situation in Pennsylvania (I’m gonna assume you know what you’re talking about). Thank you.

Heh, that’s nothing. My mentor, one of the best Marxist theorists in the country I grew up in, is now a reactionary who spouts right wing conspiracy theories lol. He got me into Marxism some 25 years ago and was one of the most progressive activists back in the days. Also we’re not from a Western country.

I honestly think that failures after failures of left wing movements globally since the 1990s have broken the brains of many who used to be at the forefront of left wing activism. It also coincided with the period of neoliberalism being spread to the Global South in the form of overseas educated professionals returning and joining social democratic/democratic socialist parties en masse and brought Western liberal ideologies into traditional workers parties.

I sense that many here are probably quite new to the whole socialism/communism thing. It’s sometimes discouraging to think that in another 10-20 years, probably half of your comrades would be fighting you on the other side of the struggle.

Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed.

I saw a chart a few weeks ago that the Democratic gains in PA from the past two cycles have been wiped out. What’s going on with PA? I know about Fetterman but he cannot possibly be the sole reason that the Dems lost almost all their advantage there.

Hexbear News Mega America desk, I have caught the electoralist bug and want a sitrep on the upcoming US presidential election - which are the key swing states? what are the battlegrounds to look out for? where are the biggest upsets likely to happen for Harris and Trump?

Give me your informed analysis, give me your spicy takes, give me your conspiracy theories, but please keep them realistic and not the wishful thinking ones. I want to become an “expert” on US electoralism.

The problem is that the right to strike has been removed from the PRC Constitution since 1982. It was first introduced in the 1975 сonstitution by Mao but they removed it after his death. There is very little constitutional protection for workers rights and trade unions in China which was part of the reason why Western capitalists so happily de-industrialized from the Imperial Core and moved their production to China (it allowed them to crush the rising domestic trade union movements in the West that had been increasing their demands for workers rights.)

China has done a lot of great things but labor rights is not at all like the Soviet Union, which is possibly the closest example we have to a workers state despite all its flaws. There have been positive signs of China returning to its Marxist roots since Xi came to power in the mid-2010s, but if you have ever lived in China in the 1990s and early 2000s, it was very clear then that the deep rot of capitalist corruption was already set in that coincided with the turn toward neoliberalism. The current endeavors to reverse course is not going to be trivial. There is still a lot of work to be done.

She’s playing the long game. Have to humiliate yourself for the greater good before you have reached the top and finally reveal your power level.

#HistoryWillAbsolveAOC

Why are Chinese delivery drivers having meltdowns? by SCMP Deep Dive

Looks like China’s delivery gig industry is reaching its breaking point, in what we call 内卷 (or involution). The means of exploitation is not so different from what I’ve heard about Uber and Lyft drivers have to endure in the US.

The fuck north star stands for

Palestinians don’t have to remember every time they wake up. It’s been happening every day through their entire lives. They stopped remembering when they can no longer wake up.

Very long, unfortunately. One key factor that I don’t often see discussed is the US is now able to tap into the European labor force with very little cost.

Europe has a large pool of labor especially in the high tech sector that can sustain the US leading edge industries for a long time, even as a declining empire. As the European economy goes to shit and fascism takes hold and the region continues to be destabilized by wars in the periphery, many people will be looking to emigrate.

Since the Ukraine war in 2022, the US has resettled some 200k Ukrainian refugees and another 350k Ukrainians arrived on temporary visas, with little controversy:

While the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border has strained resources in some communities like New York City, Chicago and Denver, the resettlement of Ukrainians has not provoked the same backlash, nor triggered major political problems for the Biden administration.

Unlike the program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, which is capped at 30,000 approvals per month, Uniting for Ukraine has no numerical limit. Applications for the Uniting for Ukraine program are also adjudicated fairly quickly, sometimes in a matter of weeks or even days — a rarity in a backlogged and understaffed U.S. immigration system.

Incredible. The process has already begun. While brown and non-white immigrants have caused much controversy, the white European immigrants are being welcomed with open arms with no backlash.

This is also why Harris is comfortable with getting tough on the borders and immigration - the timing matters. Trump and the Republicans have no answer to their “America for Americans” plan when it comes to replacing the gap in labor force after the “purge”. The Democrats actually made the Fourth Reich possible by first destroying the European economy.

This. Moscow is the most heavily defended city in the world in terms of anti-air defenses and still some stupid Ukrainian drone managed to slip through and crashed into Kremlin’s rooftop.

The S-400 batteries have also been somewhat vulnerable to ATACMS strikes, and the entire philosophy of Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) that the Soviets pioneered encompasses not just a long range weapons system (which the S-400 is and probably the best in the world) but networked layers of long, intermediate and short range weapon systems that provide a complete coverage against all types of aerial threats, and even then they are far from perfect when exercised in real world battlefields as demonstrated throughout various conflicts in the past few decades.

In other words, Iran is going to need more than just a few S-400 complexes if they want to stop NATO/Israeli air bombing, and while Russia is the only country in the world that has such complete system offer, the investment is not trivial.