[–] 2 points 2 days ago

Not automatically, that's not how history nor capital works. If a crisis happens that threatens the rule of capital, be it proletarian uprising or catastrophic climate change, bourgeoisie aren't simply going to keel over and watch themselves lose their position, they're going to try and solve the crisis by any means necessary to preserve it.

If there's no solution found by capital because, for example, agriculture has become impossible and there's mass starvation with very little that can be done about it, then the question of mode of production will be irrelevant since humanity as a whole will be in the process of dying out.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    If you're talking election, sound gun or not they would have won anyway, people in general were dissatisfied with Vucic and student list was pretty much the first opposition that was loud enough and marketed themselves well enough, and to be clear is only tangentially related to the student movement.

    People on lemmy who only hear about the protests now from tabloids are giving it too much credit, it was a mess both internally and externally, a mess that's also been dead before the recent election for at least a year

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    While tenant farming still exists to this day which has peasants rent their land, there's plenty of free peasants who do own their land, utilize family labor and sell their surplus produce. That was the case under feudalism too, except that it was much rarer.

    In US though, which is what this dogshit post is referring to, the relationship to land was much different than it was in Europe (no entrenched feudal system carrying over obligations, homesteading acts, etc), majority of peasants owned their own land and that is still the case today

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Middle class was a... fluke.... that was created deliberately?

    And now those people are being pushed into being peasants, which means small independent subsistence farm owners in the countryside??

    What fucking nonsense is this 🥀

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    Ain't reading all that but yes, any marxist who had read Bukharin, Lenin and other marxists who had done analysis on imperialism knows that. Unfortunately, marxism has been suffering from its fair share of modernizers and falsifiers, most notably stalinists (ML's) and it's ideological offshoots (maoists, national socialists, communizers, eurocommunists, etc) who more often than not take up campist stances and distort material reality or texts and end up supporting """anti-imperialist imperialism""" because it goes against the west. There's no use bringing up Lenin since they operate within an entirely different worldview.

    Anarchism has pretty much the exact same problem though, there's a lot of 'anarchists' here who go through the exact same mental hoops to support Ukraine for exactly the same reasons for instance.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65041211

    The larger star symbolizes the CCP, and the four smaller stars symbolize the four social classes of China's New Democracy mentioned in Mao Zedong's "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship": the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie.

    Socialism is when proletariat and bourgeois work together hand-in-hand to build up and bring wealth to The Nation™ to the benefit of The People™! It's called dialectics buddy, read theory!

     

    The larger star symbolizes the CCP, and the four smaller stars symbolize the four social classes of China's New Democracy mentioned in Mao Zedong's "On the People's Democratic Dictatorship": the working class, the peasantry, the urban petite bourgeoisie, and the national bourgeoisie.

    Socialism is when proletariat and bourgeois work together hand-in-hand to build up and bring wealth to The Nation™ to the benefit of The People™! It's called dialectics buddy, read theory!

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