The control of arms should ideally be in the hands of the workers councils and the communist party (or parties), which may then delegate control to the red army and central comittee etc., or to individual members or cadre groups as deemed appropriate.
Working through the appendices of Unequal Exchange by Emmanuel. He’s on to a lot of stuff I think but not quite right always
I am still sick, thankfully I’ve got sick leave. Getting better though but this bug has been a real bother. It feels like I’ve had 4 phases of different symptoms which are all annoying in different ways as I’ve been getting better
It’s wool season 😎
I mean a lot of academia is underfunded, overworks most researchers, often even the top people in the field, and is for the most part pretty low wage, and it can often be very difficult to build a career in many fields. I’d say they are pretty proletarianized in many ways already.
I got a real bad viral throat infection … i was prepared to be under the weather but not in pain :((( slowly getting better though
Liberals think everything bad boils down to individusl priviliges which are idealist instead of structural economic relations. Thus indicating a necessary but though solution to a problem becomes a privilige because to them it implies that you can only advocate for that because it would not inconvenience you because you somehow have some idealist attribute shielding you from the tough work you suggest.
Talk to a financial advisor or something.
If it is an life insurance insurance policy they will have set things up so that they on average earn an average profit. If anyone could find a loophole to circumvent this and “win” then they would do so, not share tips about it online. At best it is some kind of loan against some kind of dividends on that loan. By nature the taker of a loan loses money unless they invest it in a venture with a higher rate of profit than the rent on capital (or at least circumvent an even larger loss equivalently).
If the matter is actually actually investing large amounts of money the answer is almost always index funds at some risk level with some proportion of the capital in international bond funds.
Not financial advice though but I would seek out an expert.
got flu :(( hope im better tomorrow or day after and ready to get work done again or atleast do something creative. im not too beat up about it though, im thinking of it as a forced break 😁
Every system has contradictions because unity exists through its contradictions. What these contradictions are determine what must be done. The difference in communism is that the science of dialectical materialism wielded by a classless society educated in diamat and scientific socialism can conciously relate to it’s own contradictions and work to resolve them amicably and constructively. What an economic system would look like after communism is uncertain, and ventures into science fiction about future means of productions and relations of productions. But the relation society has to its contradictions is permanently changed.
If we are sci-fiying, we could point to potential things like biological or cybernetic transhumanism or digital superintelligence as shakeups to existing production relations. Or something like revolutionary breakthroighs in technology like efficient and safe fusion or ftl travel or matter printing from energy and voce versa. Or settling new planets in the solar system. But this is all science fiction.
Hmm something about alienation and “deification” from ordinary objects through commodity fetishism. Plus conspiracism as a result of real conspiracies
Scandinavian social democracies and the SPD are examples of total failures of parties which once were revolutionary.
Capital vol 3. But also Unequal Exchange: Past, Present, and Future by Torkil Lauesen to procrastiread.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11450117
I wrote about dia.mat. a while ago. It’s of course not everything there is to say about it but it might work as an introduction or supplement. Other than that I think the best way to learn might be to read the classic texts from great Marxist thinkers, especially Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao. You really get a feel for it when seeing them use it. Mao has a text called “On Contradiction” which is also about dia.mat. The early writings of Marx and Engels focus quite a bit on dia.mat. and historical materialism as well.
Doing some writing for a marxist magazine in my country. Seems like they’re very well read and stuff. Hopefully I can write something of high enough quality 😅
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11450117
i tried writing a pamphlet some time ago which could give you some pointers