
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
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"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
... to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify #apocalyptic levels of #exploitation & bloodshed in the periphery.
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This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded #economy. If you intensify the #exploitation of your domestic #workingclass & #resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a #revolution.
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just here to point out i've been completely correct about the AI bubble since 2023 and only not before that cos i hadn't yet bothered
my quick crib was realising they were the crypto guys, like actually the same individual guys
fucking worldcoin man, jfc
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Over one quarter billion on #strike over Indian government's pro-employer attempts to bust unions and worsen working conditions
https://www.bwint.org/BwiNews/NewsDetails?newsId=666
#strikes #union #unions#UnionStrong#India#UnionBusting#BharatBandh#AllIndiaStrike#CTU#MinimumWage #pensions#SocialSecurity#PSU #privatisation #neoliberalism#INBCWF#WorkingClass #capitalism #exploitation#ClassWar
@ Ulrike Hahn
You are arguing about technicalities and nuances. This is a valid approach as long as there is an agreement about the larger framework. But there isn’t.
Whether or not a nation state is democratic is no longer a meaningful framework for analysis, according to me. (Was it ever a meaningful framework? I won’t go into that here.) That’s the essence of our disagreement.
A world/country/society characterized by horrifying levels of inequality and exploitation obviously cannot have the substance of democracy, even if it exhibits all the forms. I agree with, and repeat, what Bertold Brecht wrote all the way back in 1935.
Certain countries are still able to maintain their property relations by methods that appear less violent than those used in other countries. Democracy still serves in these countries to achieve the results for which violence is needed in others, namely, to guarantee private ownership of the means of production. The private monopoly of factories, mines, and land creates barbarous conditions everywhere, but in some places these conditions do not so forcibly strike the eye. Barbarism strikes the eye only when it happens that monopoly can be protected only by open violence.
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