Ok that was hilarious. I was hoing to post some choice quotes but don’t want to spoil it for others who haven’t seen it yet.

For most things the majority of the world is on our side. And for the rest is partly why MLs aren’t tailists.

I think the author’s perspective is the solution should aim towards the social organisation of workers (in this case artists) as a group as a step towards the worker’s state; the technology is not the problem but the privatisation of the surplus value from socialised labour is. Art-luddites (if such a thing is even possible now) would actually be a good thing - they could threaten “machinary” to gain leverage for workers at large.

It is not your personal failure for you attempting to survive in a system that exploits you and your labour, neither is a recognition of any classes that we fit in that is not exclusively proleteriat. As invididuals maybe our only realistic solution be attempts towards becoming petty-bourgoisie - if not already there - but as an organisation your scope is much much more.

We have to remember when we are reading more radical writing that they are trying to push where we could be as a society ie the opposite of tailism. However, we should always place those ideas in the context of our own realities and trial them where appropriate, and learn on the feedback from this process - that is the more scientific and dialectic approach.

I found this article a really interesting read (52 min), it is a well-written dialectical take which one may find useful if not already read:

Artisanal Intelligence: What’s the Deal with “AI” Art? (2023)"

https://redsails.org/artisanal-intelligence/

Original from: https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2023-02-03-Artisanal-Intelligence.html

The same author has also written (which I have yet to read): https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2022-01-20-To-save-the-arts-we-must-kill-the-artist.html

Thanks. Do you know if Patreon does Monero?

Are they on anywhere else?

Yeah I didn’t get that reference till you explained despite knowing that meme.

No, it’s the children who are wrong…

I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean!

These developments look increasingly structural. The authorities’ stance since 2020, including regulatory tightening and zero-COVID lockdowns, appear to have inflicted long-lasting damage to China’s private economy, the dynamism of which was a defining feature of its economic miracle in the past four decades. Nearly 20 months into China’s COVID reopening, the private sector has yet to bounce back, despite many pro-private business utterances and gestures from China’s leadership. In sum, the findings here corroborate the view that China continues to suffer from “economic long COVID.”

I wonder how the “pro-private business” countries are doing and whether there are any other markers of a healthy political economy that might not be the profits or revenue of the private sector.

If we define the worst countries as the ones that can affect the most people negatively by capitalism; this means imperialism, and also to consider if the country in question has a domestically large enough population to affect.

Which means, aside from the countries mentioned, they could be: UK and India.

Happens commonly in Europe too. I remember reading a while back since China stopped a significant amount of recycling for Europe (I think due to trade restrictions) a bulk of the waste ends up in the hands of organised crime? Hopefully someone with more up-to-date knowledge can correct this if not accurate.

His channel has excellent insights and well put together. Short, easily digestable, well cited and nicely presented along with often beautiful drone photgraphy of China at the end.

He is a business analyst who sees through the western media smoke screen, the destructiveness of the western military indsutrial complex, the gains China has made, and the sophistication on how China develops out of poverty and builds out diplomacy. He clearly either lives in China or visits often and has first hand experience.

However, he is an excellent example of how deep Western delusion runs.

Despite all of this, what is the reason he believes China is winning? Christianity. And though he doesn’t understand it the language he uses to explain the trade diplomacy alludes to imperialism (remember he does not have marxist understanding of capital). It is almost as if it is from another channel. It is amazing that China’s strategy can even win loyalty from these kinds of people. The video in question:

https://youtu.be/7-WA64ecsgM

He knows that there is an understanding that zionism is not judaism which is why he has to specify the contrary. As others have noted:

1. Zionism is not Judaism.
2. There are multitudes more non-Jewish zionists than there are Jewish ones.
3. To the Zionist the only valid Jewish identity is that of the fascist settler-colonialist. They seek to erase other Jewish identities especially anti-zionists ones; zionists seek to normalise colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Zionists often slur Jewish peoples that oppose zionism as “self-loathing”.
4. Number 3 is a common imperialist/capitalist phenomenon. See for example the erasure of communist Ukrainian identities in favour of fascist diaspora.
5. Zionism is deeply anti-semitic.

Ultimately the defence of anti-communism is the defence of fascism. That is the road this takes. The volunteer nazi safety advocates must be getting desperate to be triggered this badly; I wonder if they are cognizant at some level of that tap of superexploitation slowly turning off and their economies imploding.

Like I have said before if one is voting for Democrats because of the perceived threat of potential fascism under Trump against them they are then admitting they believe they are immune from the current and future barbarism of the Democrats. For many they are not a “lesser evil”; the Democrats deserve Trump.

Tea a la Menthe was a nice touch.

In a a capitalist state they may at some level be de facto correct.

Nothing meaningful unless the working classes develop leverage; history suggests that in the imperial cores a sufficient portion of the masses turn towards fascism.

Liberte, egalite, fraternite offered potential political and economic rights; liberals ultimately rejected de jure economic rights for the working classes and thereby rejected de facto political rights.

It’s funny how all these liberal democracies have these “checks and balances”… to thwart any potential threat to capital.