

That’s from the previous ship, the Magic Seas. Still relevant though.
That’s from the previous ship, the Magic Seas. Still relevant though.
I’m not religious at all, but did you see the rainbow glimmer for a split second when all the charges exploded? Like a reminder of God’s promise to humanity, that hope will prevail in the end.
Are the people who read the propaganda really the customers? Or are they the product being sold to the billionaire class?
Then the inherent contradictions of capitalism really started to hit, quantitative change passed to qualitative change and progress grinded to a halt and science and technology are regressing now in the imperial core.
It can be forced to be at an exact position, but the basic LaTeX approach is to just let LaTeX handle figure placement automatically at an approximate position, that works well enough.
Did you try AntennaPod?
There is another unnamed, off screen Irish character mentioned in the movie, whose only known features are: hangs around in pubs and sold a dangerous and probably illegal three headed dog. Funnily enough, that guy was Greek in the book — makes sense with the dog stemming from Greek mythology. But someone from the movie must have thought:“Greek? No, that can’t be right. That pub guy must have been Irish. I’ll correct that.” As if the book wasn’t racist enough.
Wow! What a treasure. 🍋
Same. Though I also like me some “dangerous radicals” as comrades. Or maybe some “dirty commies”, if I’m in the mood. But my dream would be to become a “red menace”.
What? No. Comrad, of course you deserve to have it good! You’re not a villain. The idea of labor aristocracy is about people allied to imperialist interests. People with privileges are free to reject them. Depression or other issues can lie to you and skew your self image but remember you still deserve to be happy.
They proved it for n=5 and 10.
Might have something to do with Iran and Russia being capitalist, torn by contradictions, led by liberals and ideologically idealist.
This was some years ago. I tried, but couldn’t find it again. Crimethinc is a bit like this though. They were never anarcho-capitalist, but they changed from vaguely apolitical lifestyle individualism in the 90s to actual anti-capitalism around the time they wrote this book called “Work” in 2012.
I totally feel and understand your frustration. Vijay Prashad is great though, isn’t he? The thing about Marxists is, that they are always pretty harsh with each other, always polemic, but still comrades in the end. So I won’t take sides against any of the people you mentioned in general but still disagree with them on certain points. I’ve read biting polemics critiquing Michael Roberts too. And Harvey’s Answer to Smith isn’t pulling punches either. I guess some stuff might have been taken out of context and he definitely spend decades teaching thousands of students Marx’s labor theory of value. I’m still thankful to Harvey for getting so many people to read Marx, even if I’ve grown beyond lots of stuff and always looked to other teachers for insight on imperialism.
In the end, it’s not purity of theory that counts, but the impact on organizing movements. People who read theory on that level to inform their on the ground organizing efforts can definitely think for themselves anyway and will only take what is useful for their place and time and leave the rest.
from what I can gather, he seems to have imperialism flipped on its head - saying that its Global North workers who are actually exploited by the global South.
Really? I didn’t hear him saying that. But he does seem to have a rare speech impediment, that prevents him from saying the word imperialism: here is his friend and comrad Vijay Prashad rightly and brilliantly chewing him out for that.
Value and circulation. MMT is not completely wrong, it’s just incomplete. And it’s weird to see incomplete alternative economic theories pop up again and again who’s main selling point is avoiding the term Marxism. Keynesianism is another example. And there was this weird phase in US anarchism, where a whole lot of anarcho-capitalists finally started becoming anti-capitalist (which is good of course) and they wrote a whole book about it like they just personally came up with the idea capitalism is bad for the first time ever. And it’s weird every time because, like, Marx is right over there, way, way in the back of the economics departments library. Ready to be read whenever you decide to become a serious scientist.
Even David Harvey started out like this. He just started calling himself a Marxist after people had repeatedly pointed out to him that he had become one. And his response was something like like:“Oh, I guess I am a Marxist then. I didn’t set out to become one, I was just looking for theory that makes sense for a change.”
Of course, most economists would do everything to avoid being called a Marxist in order to keep their funding. And that’s where things like MMT come in.
Both have multiple schools, so that is a very broad question. I think the most interesting direction to take it is to look at philosophical differences. But even that is much too broad to answer. Also these philosophies are seldom if ever representative of theological orthodoxy.
Historically and very broadly speaking, Sunni philosophy could be said to be more Aristotelian or peripatetic (Ibn Sina, Falsafa) and Shia philosophy more platonist or neoplatonist (Ismaili Shia). But that’s a huge oversimplification, since there is a huge overlap, especially with Aristotle, since Ibn Sina is sometimes claimed by both. Both are connected to different mystical Sufi traditions. Shia has Illuminationism and transcendent theosophy (existence over essence, Twelver Shia, Mulla Sadra). Sunni also had Averroism (Ibn Rushd). Ibn Rushd and Ibn Sina (Avicenna) together strongly influenced almost all medieval European Christian thought and scholasticism.
If you want a good overview, you can listen to the 75 episodes of Peter Adamsons podcast “History of philosophy without any gaps” on philosophy in the Islamic world.
That sounds like the script to a weird road movie. We’d just need to change it so the crazy roommate is reluctantly accompanied by the sane roommate for some reason and they both change and learn something along the way or something like that. Also the toilet pucks all have famous landmarks of the places they are supposed to go engraved in the resin, so those can later be sold to fans of the movie as merch.