Guryong Village If anyone’s wondering.

They’re called moka cups

No, mixing coffee and tea together and chugging it while claiming that it’s the superior drink would make you a centrist.

I extract the caffeine through food-grade ethanol, concentrate it in a rotovap, combine it with a thickener and surfactant, whip it and serve on top of a slice of bagel.

What flavour am I?

Marx: the contradictions within capitalism will tear itself asunder

Boy boy:

Marx:

The fall is inevitable because it creates revolutionaries. But it’s up to the revolutionaries to take action.

Horrible artist. But he’s right.

As soon as NK confirmed that they have ICBM nukes that can hit US territory, the US backed off in their hawkish rhetoric.

Machines keeping you in a dream-like state to extract your energy/labour. Waking up means realizing your material conditions and joining the resistance against the machines.

The reason it’s so good is because it pulls at your subconscious. You know deep down that the wool is being pulled over your eyes, and you’re not being told the whole truth. Because in one way or another, you understand class struggle

The answer is no, because of the fundamental differences in how Japan and China are run.

Japan is modeled off of a capitalist imperialist economy, similar to the US. And as such, it will stagnate and requires imperialism and increasing levels of exploitation to maintain its economy. It does not have the tools or methodology to develop further without imperialism. And thus, it stagnates.

Meanwhile, China is socialist. It uses dialectical materialism to solve social issues and promote cohesion. And instead of profit, it will seek to optimize material conditions, and identify the barriers to doing so, creating a strategy for development. Through Marxian economics, it understands that productivity comes through cooperation and labour, and not profit. Optimization can be performed throughout the supply chain through central planning.

China runs under C—>M—>C, while Japan runs under M—>C—>M.

China does have problems but it also has the tools to solve them, instead of just sweeping it under the rug.

Great Recession, for those who are wondering.

If you want to know a certain thing or a certain class of things directly, you must personally participate in the practical struggle to change reality, to change that thing or class of things, for only thus can you come into contact with them as phenomena; only through personal participation in the practical struggle to change reality can you uncover the essence of that thing or class of things and comprehend them.

-Mao Zhe Dong

They used the pic with the two tea cups.

Well, it is, but this comic doesn’t show this well.

While business owners must exploit labour to profit, larger businesses must exploit smaller businesses. The formal term is tier 2/3 suppliers.

There is necessarily exploitation at every level. If you are to participate in capitalism, you must exploit those under you, while you are being exploited yourself. This is why capitalist countries always push capitalism as a path forward for development.

ML is pretty important. If you support China because you think they’re great capitalists, then that’s pretty sus. Supporting China while being ML shows that you’re pragmatic and not dogmatic.

Either way, just these three are fairly loose standards already.

Self fulfilling prophecy

Literally any country with socialized healthcare.

Biden just increased sanctions on Cuba when he came into office.

But if you want a fucking list:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

Does that look like “little to no involvement”?

Like can you at least read theory before posting reactionary shit?

I don’t know if you’ve watched Kung pow, but there’s this guy who gets beat up on purpose and thinks he’s winning, and it turns out that he was trained wrong as a joke.

I’m getting the same feeling here.

A game changer, but at what cost?