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7·18 hours agolmfao menshiviks were not socialists 🤣
4·7 days agoYeah, pi3 isn’t quite there yet to drive a laptop. I expect RISCV to mature rapidly as well. There’s going to be a ton of money poured into it, and it’s always easier to do things the second time around. Apple has done a lot of the hard work designing the architecture o M series chips, and I imagine a lot of it will inspire RISCV designs now. This project in particular seems pretty promising as it specifically aims to deliver high performance designs https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
wonder if they use riscv chips
We’re not talking about the US here buddy.
I regularly use Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, and Lemmy.
0·9 days agoYou can’t solve what’s fundamentally a social problem with technology alone. Technology is simply a piece of the bigger picture where it can provide forums like this where genuine organic communication can happen without it being mediated by corporate interests. However, the shift in the Overton window is ultimately driven by the material conditions. As the standard of living continues to deteriorate in the west, more and more people end up falling out of liberal mainstream. We see this process happening at an ever accelerating rate now.
I fully expect bluesky to go the way of twitter eventually. Even though the protocol is somewhat decentralized, the reality is that there’s already one main instance and that’s where majority of users will end up. It’s still an oligarch owned and profit driven platform at its core.
I do think the situation with the fediverse is fundamentally better because the profit motive isn’t the driving factor. And yes, we do have big liberal bubbles here too, but that’s just an artifact of the fact that liberalism is still the dominant ideology in the west. It’s not surprising that they will be the majority on any western social platform.
I find Mastodon is avoiding this problem at least so far. Pretty much all the instances are run by volunteer efforts and they’re community funded, avoiding the problem with the profit motive. The federation aspect of Mastodon also makes it commercially unappealing because content doesn’t propagate as easily and this makes it difficult for people to build up huge followings the way they do on centralized platforms.
My view is that Mastodon or Lemmy approach works pretty well in practice. You end up with fairly small hubs of thousands of users that can create their own social norms, and then these hubs loosely federate with each other.
5·13 days agoshit like this is why I run LineageOS on my phone
this works pretty well https://github.com/DrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook
Oh how quickly them western values collapse.
Oh hey, quick question what’s the respective size of population of the two countries?
Also, China lost 36% of its billionaires in recent years. Hows the trend in the states going?
Lenin wrote a whole book about people such as yourself https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/
Turns out Marx wasn’t an actual Marxist. 🤣
People who refuse to learn the basics of what socialism is have no business calling themselves Marxists.
The percentage of private ownership continued to drop in 2024, accounting for just over 30% now. And of course, the other question is what type of industry is privately owned. The party sits at the commanding heights of the economy, and controls all the essential industries. Capitalist enterprise is strictly supplemental to that, and it very clearly exists in the service of the state as well.
It’s a tired and boring argument from people who don’t actually understand what socialism is. It’s not about whether a country has billionaires, but which class holds power in society. Socialism is a transitional stage between capitalist relations and communism.
I’m actually not sure what it is fb offers that people stay on it for. I find that you don’t need it to connect with actual friends. Even just making a Slack for close friends is a far better experience. It’s not great for finding news, it’s terrible for trying to have any sort of discussion. I genuinely don’t understand what purpose it serves.
True socialism, in Marxist terms, requires the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat. The Mensheviks argued that Russia must first undergo a bourgeois-democratic revolution to develop capitalism, create an industrial proletariat, and only later pursue socialism. Furthermore, The Mensheviks allied with liberal bourgeois parties like the Kadets during the 1905 and 1917 revolutions.
They advocated for parliamentary democracy, gradual reforms, and legal trade unionism within capitalist frameworks. Their approach was fundamentally opportunist and it perpetuated capitalist exploitation. Genuine socialism requires abolition of the bourgeois state, not participation in it.
Their faith in bourgeois democracy and the notion of gradual reform ignores the very core of Marx’s materialist analysis. Capitalism cannot be reformed into socialism because its state exists to protect private property and class rule.
To sum up, their embrace of liberal democracy and refusal to pursue proletarian revolution disqualified them as socialists. Their platform prioritized preservation of capitalist property relations over economic emancipation, the very system socialism seeks to abolish.