In this post: what you get when your brain attempts to synthesize the concept of socialism on top of its liberalism instead of trying to discard everything you know first (liberalism) and learning again from zero to grasp Marxism.

I’d have to go back and watch it to be sure, but I remember a lecture on Social With Chinese Characteristics that mentioned looking back on their history and drawing from from ancient/dynastic literature that wished for prosperity for common people (then the peasants) and that was the sign that the country and ruler was good.

So SWCC was synthesized with this part of Ancient China and the result today seems that part of the historical identity of modern China is about striving for prosperity for your fellow workers.

Perhaps you would prefer “America and its vassals” then?

The fight is not fought and won in debates online, as much as liberals love to think that. It is a slow process that will take decades of real changing material conditions and we are in the second century of that struggle. But history is inexorably heading in the direction of a victory for comrades and liberals will go the way of the Roman slave owners or the feudal lords. Or I guess to be more accurate, they will go the way of the bootlickers of Roman aristocracy or the bootlickers of feud lords.

But if you put them in a gulag they wouldnt be smart enough to get any good work done anyway

Yeah so first off, we need to acknowledge that people are social animals. We aren’t special creatures separate from our evolution. As social animals our outlook is determined by our direct relationships with other people and our place among our community and society at large. This directly informs not only our ability to live and survive and reproduce, but our kins ability to survive and also reproduce.

Here we see the rough outline of the beginning of larger society from the base unit. It’s an incredibly more complex topic than this but we must be brief. What’s interesting here is that we also see the beginnings of class once women start being traded. Again very complex and requires books, but let’s keep general trends in mind as we are supposed to when discussing macro concepts (as a side, that’s another point liberals tend to forget - the need to focus on overall trends, which is necessary for the discussion of massive economies and history over time). So now we have class within society which also directly informs our direct relationships and relationships abroad.

And this is a self sustaining mechanism (because we are social - that is to say we care about our relationships and thus shared interests because they benefit us individually or our kin) that changes very slowly over thousands of years due to many factors (reading a book is again required). We can use the European model of history and generalize that dominant classes tend to change hands every couple of thousands or hundreds of years. Because it is self sustaining (somewhat - civilizations can fluctuate, for example the collapse of the USSR*, or the existence of the southern American slave economy within a capitalist world), a dominant class can effectively shape its own society for a long period of time. There are obviously a billion conditions that can determine what state a society is in at any given time, but again, we are concerned with the model here, or in other words the general trend.

So in this we start to see how people actually behave through the unification of biology and human history. It’s extremely rough and in the works but strong enough that we can reject any suggestions about human behavior that fall short of the standard. What this means about “bad people fucking around” is that this is a view of people in a very narrow view of history. As class changes how people act (again, generally) accordingly to their relationships, in a dictatorship of the proletariat you expect over time the likelihood of bad actors (1) appearing to decrease and (2) the likelihood of succeeding at whatever they do to decrease as well.

*For a quick look at the fall of the Soviet Union (a sample size of 1, but important nonetheless) I recommend a video by either Hakim or Paul Cockshott.

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Not going to answer subsequent questions. They can be answered by further inquiry to proper sources.

Them blaming Milton Friedman for a shift in capitalism to (correct me if Im wrong) a rentier economy is like blaming one person for a shift in the ancient roman economy to tenant farming.

Somewhere between savage and not knowing we exist

Yeah fair enough then my bad

My bad I forgot to ask whitey for his opinion

It answers the question if you’re not stupid

You don’t have to read everything. The best thing I can advise is to learn the basics, getting an idea of the fundamentals of Marx and Lenin (these guys are like your primary literature). You don’t have to spend too long on this for now. And then after that find a topic that you enjoy and start to learn through that topic.

ex lets say you like Che then maybe you want to try learning about Cubas history and modern situation. Learning about Cuba in this way would give you some knowledge on material conditions, their revolution, important figures, their economy (historic and modern), government…you get the point.

Now that youve learned more specific stuff you can go back and learn a little more primary literature. I find there is this relationship where you can bounce back between the primary/fundamentals, and more specific topics, and they inform each other allowing you to understand more each time you go back and forth between them.

And don’t worry about how much you know. I’m still a beginner too. Just take it at your own pace.

So you don’t know the structure

I just feel like there is no future in this country. Even though my mental health is better these past two weeks, I wake up before I’m done sleeping, even though I go to sleep at a better time. It’s so frustrating because it cuts into my ability to make progress on my hobbies like language learning and exercise. I don’t think I have slept 8 hours in over half a year, and at least a year and a half if we’re talking uninterrupted sleep.

And I have to go back to school to start working on a real career (I have a degree but I don’t use it) but it seems like it’s pointless because this country is going down the drain. This is not a place I want to live in for much longer. I really don’t want to spend years at school in this country. It’s a fucking dump. It’s so depressing to hear about other countries with their cheaper housing and education costs.

edit: ok that was mean I should not have said that

Y’all really love that word authoritarian, don’t you 😂

And remember you don’t ever have to justify being anxious. It never comes from nowhere. Our brains are capable of feeling anxious because having the capability to be anxious is more beneficial than not having that capability.

Hey comrade!! First of all thanks for being a big contributor and consistent presence to the grad.

I am not a professional nor do I have any real experience with these kinds of techniques, but recently (in the past two weeks or so) I’ve been trying to work on my anxiety through consciously thinking about it.

Instead of fighting my anxiety and telling myself there’s nothing to be worried about, I just consciously tell myself something to the effect of “ok, I am feeling anxious” or “ok this feeling is there”, “that’s fine”, etc… Then I tell myself there is a reason for that anxiousness. And I try to think back and find potential causes for it.

This calms me down. I don’t remember to do it every time but it does work to varying degrees for me. Sometimes less than others.

Holy based

Just call them white boy and move on.