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  • And this ain’t the first time, Roderick’s a bit terminally online, arguing against other based progressive like JT (Second Thought) and Michael Hudson…

    Why shouldn’t he? Hudson’s following reproduces Industrial Capitalist apologia in the same way that fed Social Chauvinism in Europe prior to WW1 (and during the height of Imperialism’s African carve). I can see the consequences of Hudson in the patsoc space. Second Thought’s video on MMT was uncritical and like Hudson reproduces petty booj cope about “the economy” and reform.

    Hudson and ST are Marxist educators, they should be criticized so that their performance at that role can improve. If we are giving these people a living as revolutionary educators, shouldn’t they be held to the highest standards?

    The western left has a deep cultural lack of seriousness (I wonder why that is?). Memes and jokes are fine but bigotry and anti-intellectualism shouldn’t be passed off as jokes to avoid criticism.


  • The market of ideas is not the battleground of Imperialism. The US struggle against the PRC over Bytedance is the US Bourg trying to enforce the International Rule that large corporations outside of the US are not allowed to exist outside of the public exchange. Americans need to be able to buy it up, whenever they want. This is also how the US exerts national domination over the Bourgeoisie of other nations. They can only invest in certain things on the continent, like real estate (which there are talks of banning Chinese nationals from owning land), and tech companies (inclusive of entertainment infrastructure), to keep the bubbles in both growing. They store their wealth in the US, under restrictions, so the US can remain liquid and clip coupons.

    This is similarly why some European big whigs are calling for liberalization of pensions so they can be spent on militarism, which as we know from books like Palo Alto, the STEM sector in the Imperialist nations and militarism are two sides of the same process. Imperialism is Scientific Capitalism. 401k funds are also workers giving their wages straight to International Capitalism without going through the government.


  • Sure, but this is an excuse and a diversion. So are the anti-Comm and Sinophobic excuses. The reason why TikTok is facing an attempted force buyout is because the US-led Bourgeoisie wants to bring Bytedance into the stock market for the biggest IPO in history.

    Something that the CPC blocked from happening in 2021:

    US based firms like Blackrock have huge stakes in private Bytedance, they want to force an IPO so they can make dozens of billions at least. The American employees who own significant private stock also stand to benefit from a force takeover of Bytedance. The Tech Industrialists in California are in a win-win if the state is to be weaponized as well, TikTok goes public and they buy pieces of it up or TikTok is banned and their software cartel holds firm.

    Remember which banks collapsed last year? The ones that deal with startup-to-IPO schemes? TikTok is the dream company for the IPO industry that is US Tech and California banking.














  • Oklahoma was the “Indian State” that the so-called 5 Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chocktaw, Seminole, etc.) were relocated to during the Trail of Tears which ended in 1850. The land was chosen for them because it was the eastern edge of the “Great American Desert”. These are corn farming nations and they were moved to an unirrigated plain, as you can expect, many starved to death from crop failure.

    California and Oregon were valuable for gold, extensive salmon runs, lots of fresh water (in the northern areas) massive forests for logging, and the central valley was formerly a massive lake so the soil was fertile (which was still around until the settlers drained it.).

    The last part is that the Spanish had already killed many indigenous people so the number of natives was already low, even then, California peoples were not military cultures like those of the plains and basins like the Diné (i.e. Navajo), the Bannocks, or the Lakota.


  • The quotes are from the book Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris. We consider this book required reading for Communists in North America. You can find it in the Chunk Luta Library.

    Some more facts about transportation between the west coast and the NA east:

    • It’s around 2000 USD cheaper per container to ship from LA to Memphis through the Panama canal than it is by overland train.
    • The railways cost the lives of 1200 Chinese workers (who had already been racially barred from mining labor by California’s white working class).
    • Of the three primary routes to California (and Portland/Vancouver), most went by boat, despite the boats actually being more deadly due to diseases. The demand for crossing Nicaragua/Panama spurred the development of the Panama Railway, further making the boat trip to central America the fastest and easiest method, still the priciest. Overland was actually considered the safest, but again, settlers that could afford not to, did not want to cross through “enemy territory” to get to California opportunities.
    • Lewis and Clarke, as a slight tangent, didn’t really have that tough of a time traveling to what would become Portland, no more than usual for overland trips like that. What put them in the most danger was misbehavior towards the native peoples. In one instance, the L&C party threatened natives seeking a toll with a vial they claimed was smallpox to avoid payment.
    • Mind you, the 1860 electoral map looks like this. California and Oregon became states before the plains and any of the mountain west was colonized and settled. Many of these areas only became states nearly 50 years after California.