the reds

4y

@FranquitoReynolds @Sepah what if i hosted dinner and you guys could reall6 get to know each other and stop all the fighting. Maybe turn enemies to lovers? "Love conquers all — joseph goebbels"

FranquitoReynolds

4y

Are you gonna invite Jay Z?

the reds

4y

Very interesting article on why the US has the most powerful military but loses every war https://marxistsociology.org/2018/12/why-the-us-loses-wars/

the reds

4y

I've got connections

Plankton

4y

The US does not lose every war lol

the reds

4y

Since WW2

Korea - "Stalemate"
Vietnam - Loss
Iraq - Loss
Afghanistan - Loss

the reds

4y

Since WW2

Korea - "Stalemate"
Vietnam - Loss
Iraq - Loss
Afghanistan - Loss

FranquitoReynolds

4y

Iraq and Afghanistan were wins.
Uncle Samuel raided those countries and got rich. Don't always have to gain land. They had a 20 year raid plan. Much more accepted these days than grabbing land.

the reds

4y

Since WW2

Korea - "Stalemate"
Vietnam - Loss
Iraq - Loss
Afghanistan - Loss

Plankton

4y

Iraq not a loss. Stalemate also not a loss. Only Vietnam and Afghan losses

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Yea

the reds

4y

Americas iraq venture was an unambiguous failure. Only successful part of the plan was getting rid of Saddam.

the reds

4y

Whatever you tell yourself man

Womanpuncher69

4y

did u get banned again ?

i can’t keep moving heaven and earth man i’m only human

krishna bound

4y

this is @cloud_rap's lenin in exile moment

Plankton

4y

pretty ambiguous imo. definitely not an outright loss militarily

deadacc

4y

found this video recently that kind of talks about that thing we talked about a long long time ago on base and superstructure and overdetermination. (and LEIN made fun of me >:( )

i think this kind of adds one thing to it [just skip to like 9 minutes] which is that superstructure is actually not entirely like all ideological relations within a mode of production, but rather that Marx only referred to the superstructure as strictly the legal and political spheres.

I do think as a result there needs to be another term people use to delineate between the legal and political structures that emerge from the economic base and between all ideological formations, cuz it seems like a pretty widespread confusion.

deadacc

4y

found this video recently that kind of talks about that thing we talked about a long long time ago on base and superstructure and overdetermination. (and LEIN made fun of me >:( )

i think this kind of adds one thing to it [just skip to like 9 minutes] which is that superstructure is actually not entirely like all ideological relations within a mode of production, but rather that Marx only referred to the superstructure as strictly the legal and political spheres.

I do think as a result there needs to be another term people use to delineate between the legal and political structures that emerge from the economic base and between all ideological formations, cuz it seems like a pretty widespread confusion.

Scratchin Mamba

4y

I'm pretty sure superstructure refers to more than just the legal and political spheres tho

"The economic situation is the basis, but the various elements of the superstructure — political forms of the class struggle and its results, to wit: constitutions established by the victorious class after a successful battle, etc., juridical forms, and even the reflexes of all these actual struggles in the brains of the participants, political, juristic, philosophical theories, religious views and their further development into systems of dogmas — also exercise their influence upon the course of the historical struggles and in many cases preponderate in determining their form." - Engels

Sir Real

4y

Peep On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Althusser

deadacc

4y

· edited

im reading it rn

i think that there should be some form of delineation between what marx refers to as the superstructure and what others refer to

even in mamba's engels quote, he is specifically referring to the political ideology of people, and the legal and political structures that impact that ideology. its a kind of fine line but i think there are two conceptually distinct ideas where the superstructure influences ideological forms but is not inherently the ideological form of a society if that makes sense?

space0cadet

4y

Press statement from goon:

Brah i got muted again. Mods keep rabid anti-semites around but keeping muting me. P**** ass libs. Anyway site been getting stale since the Yeezy s***. Maybe I'll come back when the rebrand happens. kanye​tothe app coming November 2012