Pavlichenko_Fan_Club [comrade/them]

Can confirm it works on Linux

This is fundamentaly a liberal conception of the world, that the solution to everything is to just have the right people in charge. The constant regeneration of capitalism is not born out of some individuals conscious will. It is ideological, structural, etc.

Conceptually you’ve jettisoned the very idea of class struggle, you’ve interalized defeat to such a degree that revolution is preemptively liquidated, and in its place put forward the same blathe utopianism that has been repudiated for hundreds of years. I will give you things though, you are correct to not tail this or that power, but by no means are you a Communist.

To think that millions of people of this world bled, toiled, and dedicated their lives under the sky of a Communist horizon, in the name of revolution, could be swept away in just a few sentences in an internet comment is not just a horror of its inadequacy to capture the experience of the world proletarian revolutions of the past, but it is pure arrogance!!

I’ve wholeheartedly become one of those ‘boycott the elections!’ people recently. Obviously getting progressives elected isn’t the goal–I would hope this is a starting point most would agree with here–, but neither is it good strategy to say we’ll win reforms by creating powerful working-class organizations. I’ll go even further and say that the shame-faced agnosticism of saying that election are wholly irrelevant misses the point in that the farcical nature of Bourgeois democracy behooves us to put this fact forward as primary. We don’t ignore elections because everybody knows politics is a shame, a rich mans game, and so on, as although this may be true we understand our ‘democracy’ itself is a tool of class oppression by the Bourgeoisie. Therefore, we dont posit more working-class representation in government, we posit the dictatorship of the proletariate instead. We understand that all consessions, and reforms won through popular struggle are meant to bury the contradiction driving class-struggle, to quash popular discontent by channeling it through safe, legal avenues. The state legalized unions because the alternative was killing your boss. The state became ‘democratic’ because the alternative was overthrowing your government.

https://unity-struggle-unity.org/unity-prospectus/

It’s an interesting piece, and yesh while their position is basically that FRSO is a cut above the rest they do have some criticisms (correct IMO) of how they operate.

With that said the program they lay out meant to address the issues they see as primary in the Communist movement, nnamely theoretical backwardsness and amateurism, strikes me as odd in that this has all basically happened before with the attempts at empire-wide party building during the New Communist Movement in the 80s. There is so much that has gone with even an attempt at summation that it all feels a bit preemptive: why did it fail to cohere in the 80s? Why is it different now?

I agree it is a sorely under theorized issue, and it is striking just how many groups during the New Communist Movement came to some pretty backwards positions for instance. This document, published in 1975, deals with these incorrect lines: https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S21-Towards-a-Scientific-Analysis-of-the-Gay-Question-3rd-Printing.pdf

Definitely not related to queer theory as an academic discipline, but should be relevant nonetheless.

The actual answer is calling it ‘the old state.’ ‘The old spanish state’, ‘old brazilian state’, etc.

Shout out to the four corners in the Navajo nation. The world’s most geographicaly exciting empty field!

That’s why I always shoot first. If ur a motorist its on sight lil bro

Solja Boy tell em

Oh FFS there is nothing magical about COBOL like its some kind of sword in the stone which only a chosen few can draw. COBOL is simple(-ish), COBOL is verbose. That’s why there is so much of it.

The reason you don’t see new developers flocking to these mythical high-paying COBOL jobs is its not about the language, but rather about maintaining these gianourmous, mission-critical applications that are basically black boxes due to the loss of institutional knowledge. Very high risk with almost no tangible, immediate reward–so don’t touch it. Not something you can just throw a new developer at and hope for the best, the only person who knew this stuff was some guy named “John”, and he retired 15 years ago! Etc, etc.

Also this is IBM were talking about, so purely buzzword-driven development. IBM isn’t exactly known for pushing the envelope recently. Plus transpilers have existed as a concept since… Forever basically? Doubt anything more will come from this other than upselling existing IBM contracts who are already replacing COBOL.

Right, its nearly impossible to talk about changes in society as a wholly quantitative thing. Nominative identities are ‘fuzzy’, they shift, are created by peoples, and create peoples.

Nevermind the unsubstantiated claim that there are fewer people with sexist beliefs today than in the past–what we can say, and indeed what really gets to heart of the matter of the interplay of forces in society, is that an identity, or “global person” has emerged–first as descriptive and then as something consciously taken on–set apart from the rest of society in an antagonistic relationship that as its entire foundation is predicated on sexiat beleif.

IDK there is a bunch more that needs to be said. Lot to unpack in that original comment…

Your analogy to farm wage-labour is silly. Yes, those those thoughts are actually wrong /in form/, and yes it is a characteristic of reactionaries to essentialize existing conditions. But the point is that you cannot stop there as that would conceal its contradictory elements, its laws of relation, and so on.

Yes the farm worker is suffering under low pay, and long hours, but what’s important isnt the just the truth of said claim, but the /history/ of its development. No, wage-labour is not natural–it had a historically specific development, so how did it come about and what are its contradictions, what is the specificity of farm work compared to other kinds of work, etc., Etc…

Without a dialectical, historical materialist approach we cannot understand the world scientifically, and thus all of our actions will be blind in a sense.

So given the discussions about cities and suburbs the question is /why/ are they like that–we all already know /what/ it is–so what is its concrete history that lead to its specific form today? With that know that valorizing a thing is not just valorizing its affect, but also its valorizing its history, and its function within the system as a whole. You may say that the comment you’ve made are simply about personal preference, but there is an (unconscious) probably) ideological component underlying them.

Cities with good public transportation being packed with cars speaks to the absurd inefficiencies of cars–not their necessity.

No it is not, plus vscode is something entirely different. Really i am specifically talking about the Visual Studio debugger compared to FOSS debuggers.

Honestly? Visual Studio. Like I am an Emacs user through and through. When properly setup with LSP, ccls, etc. it offers a better editing experience, and when it works its similar to, if not better than VS–even on huge codebases. But I would rather go live in a dumpster than have to use GDB over the VS debugger again. Its so slow, its a nightmare to use with multithreaded code, it just isnt capable of handling a large, GUI driven application.

Maybe there is some GDB config guidebook that I’m missing, but it better be something more than ‘lmao just write a python script to pretty-print std::vector’.