Central planning with private ownership of capital. The economy is dominated by private enterprise that employs workers for a wage and collect profits from the surplus value created by workers, but politics are in command instead of the anarchy of markets.

Ultimately it’s a strategic step towards achieving socialism; a developmental stage that allows the centrally planned economy to attract foreign investment and implement rapid development until it’s not needed. China, for example, is replacing more and more of its private sector with fully/majority publicly owned companies. I believe a majority of China’s economy is now public, not private. If the trend continues, most private ownership will whither away.

Was it necessary? I don’t think so - this is just how history happened to unfold.

Imagine living in a world without being voluntold to do overtime every week.

*killed by colonial occupation troops

Defeatism was beaten into us by defeat after defeat after blatantly undemocratic defeat.

And it’s just electoral defeatism. You can’t beat the master at his own game because he’s the one that makes the rules.

Try a little revolutionary optimism instead.

To be precise, revolution is necessary because capitalists will fucking kill you if you get elected and try to do land reforms.

I’m not ignoring that! What I said was that this was inevitable after Israel started sucking up military aid. Once that process began they would suck the US dry to bomb all their neighbors, and no one in the US government would even try to stop them because they all support this course of events. I don’t mean to imply that Israel is unstoppable, but rather, that everyone in the US government loves helping Israel do genocide so much that the few voices against it would always be drowned out.

But you really want to wind this back to Trump’s first term, so let’s do that.

If you actually think about why Operation Al-Aqsa Flood happened, I’m not entirely sure the nuclear deal actually would have prevented it. The attack was launched because of normalization with the rest of the Gulf states, because normalization with Israel is a death sentence for Palestinians and a direct path to ethnic cleansing of both Gaza and the West Bank, and normalization was always the goal. Iran isn’t the puppet master behind Hamas. Hamas has its own agenda and leadership, Iran is just an ally.

If anything, in a situation where Iran has a nuclear deal and normalization with the Gulf states is progressing, Hamas would be under even more pressure to launch an attack before it was too late to fight back at all!

I also take issue with “There was no problem supplying Israel” - it was a big fucking problem because they’re fucking colonizers. They were colonizers before Oct 7th and now they’ve ripped the mask off, but they’ve always been settlers and colonizers and genocidiers.

Well after being betrayed the first time it seems obvious that Iran would require more assurances and a more binding nuclear agreement, and that’s just something the US would never be willing to agree to. Iran would also have problems with the Arab-Israeli normalization plan and, if they had a seat at the table, would have slowed everything down.

Also, Biden is very Zionist. I don’t think we can discount that he might just personally hate Iran for being a obstacle to Israel.

1. I’m a woman and

2. that’s not what I fucking said. Don’t put fucking words in my mouth.

Trump could, hypothetically, choose to supply Ukraine with weapons if and only if he stopped supplying Israel with weapons. That obviously isn’t going to happen because Israel gets priority over Ukraine, because they’re the unsinkable aircraft carrier. I said this was inevitable because Israel was always going to get the priority no matter who the president is and no matter which party controls Congress. Trump chooses to support Israel over Ukraine because that’s what every US politician would always do.

I guess a better term would be “variable” because that doesn’t imply a range between two binary points. There’s lots of sex variance that just naturally occurs because these aren’t neat categories.

It’s actually a self-own.

They understand basic biology, as in, the basics they were taught when they are teenagers. It’s when you learn more advanced biology that you learn sex and gender are a spectrum and that they aren’t actually simple binary categories.

He doesn’t kill political opponents just to watch them bleed? My point is that he does things for reasons.

The fact that Westoids can only imagine Russians as subhuman violent idiots is fascinating.

He’s not a demon that craves blood for no reason. There’s geostrategic goals at stake.

Peanut butter sandwiches will keep.

Also, don’t sleep on fruit!

The bunker busters didn’t even work lol

You say “everyone” but it’s still just other men.

She still lied. She openly refused to call it a genocide, she said Israel was “defending” itself, and she helped Biden sell the lie that they were working tirelessly for a ceasefire and a two state solution. That’s all lies too.

Lying to Americans about Gaza has been the bipartisan policy our entire lives lol

… although, yeah, him tearing up the nuclear deal in his first term and his Arab-Israeli normalization plan to unite Israel and the Gulf states against Iran actually might have set us on this course. The nuclear deal could have potentially brought Iran in-line with US interests in the region, and he blew that up. Normalization, meanwhile, was basically the reason for Operation Al-Aqsa Flood which started this phase of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians (to be clear, the genocide was ongoing before Oct 7th).

In the counter-factual, where Hilary won and the nuclear deal was maintained and Iran was brought in with the rest of the Gulf states in alliance against China, Israel probably would have been able to carry out its ethnic cleansing of Palestine without a war. Instead, thanks to Trump, Israel is going to destroy itself trying to wage war on all of its neighbors and will be broken against the Axis of Resistance.

Naturally people will blame Trump because he doesn’t really care about Ukraine, but this was inevitable when Israel started sucking up all of the USs military aid. Without a massive increase in industrial capacity to build even more weapons, eventually, the stockpiles were always going to run low.

Army recruitment is down, unionization is up. Support for the government has fallen and support for imperial adventures has also fallen. Wages have been stagnant when measured against inflation for decades. This all means something, don’t you think?

Maybe it’s premature to say the first world workers have been fully debourgeoisified, but I think the process has begun.