Right. While I do have doubts as to whether the workers truly control the state in China, I admit it is not my area of study. After all, commodity form production is still very much a thing in China.

I'll do some more research and then come back to it if I have more questions. (I really need to re-read Das Kapital, lol)

I hear your claims and raise you: The internet is for cat videos.

Depends on which, um, "plumbing" you got down there.

If only if burnt a couple decades earlier. A bit too late there mate.

Okay, even if I grant you that, does everyone in the Chinese government have to sell their labour-power for a wage, aka the definition of a proletariat?

Of course they did…

Unrelated, but I absolutely adore your pfp.

I see your point, but we shouldn't allow corporate interests with comedic amount of economic capital to simply take over an entire project through what basically is ye olde EEE tactics.

That's kinda the point. If we can't have economic growth without considering the humanistic aspect of it, then maybe we don't deserve said economic growth.

Does the "Don't Track Me Google" userscript still work?

I would not say life can't be lived without it, but it's more so that Facebook has so successfully commodified the public sphere that it seems almost like a natural, inherent part of contemporary communicative actions.

I completely agree.