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Old 05-15-2020, 06:26 PM   #5495 (permalink)
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Maoism has really been resonating with me recently.

You’re probably right about my blinders but I don’t care. China isn’t actively killing me. I believe I am methodically being murdered by capitalism. I want it rinsed from the earth the way I would want a pathogen removed from body. No holds barred.
On some level I totally understand as on some timeline we might be able to vote ourselves to a Danish model of some sort but clearly we're never going to be allowed/never have the mental wherewithal to even try to vote ourselves out of capitalism, so a drastic solution is necessary, but I've never seen a more drastic solution that produced ultimately desirable results. Revolutions, be they Russian, Chinese, French, Cambodian, whatever, are hampered by everything that hampers democracy and capitalism: people are short sighted, people are petty, people are power hungry, people are lazy, people are sheep, people are ****.

AI authoritarianism might be the only solution tbh.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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