2nd cold war between 
Maoist United Soviets of America vs Stalinist Mexico-Brazil-Chile Pact(M-L) 
Uncritical support for Chile’s claim to invade Argentina and eradicate the Trot forces.
Unite Latin America under the banner of Leninism-Stalinism. Pretty based.
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Posadism is the truth and you’re just jealous you can’t speak to dolphins.
You’re right dude, Argentina should echo locate from 3,000 feet below sea level. That would make me more jealous
I know you’re trying to get a bit more sectarianism in, but don’t lie to me and say you wouldn’t think it would be sick as hell to echolocate.
It would definitely be sick, and I’d be very impressed if Argentina could do it from the ocean floor
What do you think we are doing?
United SSnakes of Amerikkka
Trot Argentina and Bolivia
Argentinians do really like their trot parties
Peronism’s fault. /s
Gotta get some of that pointless sectarianism in or it wouldn’t be hexbear
Eat shit, Argentina (and to a much lesser extent, Bolivia)
Ah that explains a lot about why we suck
Maoism was historically widespread amongst the black community of the usa. BUT also was “accepted” by the us government as a harm-reductive element (along with Trotskyism) for radical left sphere in america to switch too. Due to the sino-soviet split. Thats why surviving radical leftist in america are mostly like old academicians.
I actually think Mao is more applicable to the material conditions in America than Lenin/Stalin.
Mao solved a critical problem that the Russian revolutionaries and later, Stalin, could not, which is how do you unleash the revolutionary potential of the peasantry whose labor was tied to their lands, unlike the proletariat in the Russian empire whose labor was tied to production and capital profit.
His answer was land reform, which finally allowed the communist movement to defeat the much larger, much better equipped KMT. It was an ideological victory, not so much a military superiority against the KMT.
The material conditions in the US today is predominantly characterized by finance capitalism, where the labor of the working class is tied to debt (in a neofeudalist manner akin to the feudal serfs and their relations to the land), whereas industrial capitalism has long since been shifted to the Global South.
There are no means of production to seize in the US, unlike during the Russian revolution, or in the Global South today. To unleash the revolutionary potential of the working class in America, you need to destroy the Wall Street finance capital and transform people’s relation to debt. How to achieve that is something that leftist theorists in the US have to figure out for themselves, and I’ve seen far too few people talking about private debt in America. This also includes the US monetary imperialism it has imposed upon the rest of the world to extract surplus value from, and how will the American working class be affected by/react to the loss of its financial hegemony.
The ability to disentangle how the middle class wealth is tied to the stock market, the over-leveraged private debt (medical/student/mortgage etc.) amongst both the middle and working class, and the extraction of surplus value from the Global South the American citizens have enjoyed through dollar hegemony, and how exactly to overcome these contradictions, I believe, is going to be a huge step forward in achieving an ideological breakthrough from the left.
At the same time, American capitalism is also dynamically adapting to its own internal contradictions. If you listen to Varoufakis, he believes that American capitalism is actively transforming itself away from finance capitalism to the more pernicious technofeudalism (cloud capitalism, or cloud finance as Michael Hudson would call it) where tech and AI are being used to control and modify social behavior.
His answer was land reform
Bolsheviks famously did land reform as one of the first decrees, so whites could gain some support only among wealthier peasants, cossacks and in Siberia, where landed gentry was absent, and even there they still had less support than Bolsheviks. Peasantry was 80% of Russian population, and their support was decisive.
I wouldn’t say the “door dash” subproletarian class as the revolutionary base is similar to semi-feudal peasantry of 20th century china. But you are correct that “traditional marxism” based on the typical blue collar image is not applicable to the material conditions of the anglosphere. Manufacturing makes up 10.58% of total GDP of the US compared to 19.7% of Germany, 5.36 % of Australia, 8.81% of New Zealand, 10.37% of Canada, 15.37% of Italy, 20.6% of Japan, 26% of China, 10.3% of Burkina Faso, 3% of Tchad and a mere 8.6% of the UK’s GDP.
The anglosphere is more deindustrialized than the vast majority of global south countries at this point. Only extractive economies such as Tchad, Niger and Australia can be classified as less “industrialized”
where tech and AI are being used to control and modify social behavior.
I do not believe this works. It’s reddit and social-media ideology. Its foundation is in gameification and algorithm being a tool of modifying online behaviours into the outcomes that social-media site operators want.
To unironically modify human behaviour offline using the same methods you would have to implement a dystopian social credit system like the one they’ve always claimed exists in China.
If this comes about, the pushback will be enormous and I genuinely do not think it would have a positive outcome for them. I do not think you can normalise it.
Really! Have you seen the Alt right playbook?
Yes but this isn’t behaviour modification. This is just putting people in media bubbles then training them into thought loops that reject information outside of those bubbles. It’s not what is being referred to by the method of tech doing behaviour control through systems. If anything it’s actually just the same as media has always worked except translated from television and newspapers to various “influencers” online. Your everyday Daily Mail reader becomes everyday Andrew Tate tiktok viewer or w/e. Same shit, different platform. Is not really a transformative change of how the right gets people. The only particularly interesting thing that did occur in this time period was the methods used to keep people in bubbles and averse to outside information come from cult training methods.
Well surely you agree that our thoughts influence our behaviors, though. If someone never thinks capitalism as a source of their problems, they won’t try to end it.
I agree that the mass messaging is similar to how other forms of media have worked in the past.
iiuc, the new proposition is that influencers are the peasants of technofeudalism: they create content that makes the platform money and are given some money in return. Critically though, the platform has control over the recommendation algorithm and which creators have access to the platform.
If someone is making their money from YouTube, then they must acquiesce to whatever terms that YouTube dictates or face a huge financial hit. That’s why “unalive” and other safe-for-tiktok terms have taken off - creators must adapt to the platform.
Influencers are just the news media or the newspaper. There’s no real difference in what they do, they give information to their audience that is complete and total bullshit in order to make them think something.
This isn’t behavioural modification. It’s just information control. And it’s something that has been majority-controlled by the bourgeoisie to varying degrees forever, more so during the radio and tv generations I would say. Less so during the newspaper era when a lot of competition was occurring and printing presses were being utilised by socialists well.
Critically though, the platform has control over the recommendation algorithm and which creators have access to the platform
This is not different to a news channel having control over what gets put on and what does not. The tech barons actually have less control through algorithms than television and newspapers did. The fact they have less control is exactly why the Palestine message ran away from them and they totally lost control over it.
What is more dangerous is gameification programs. Gameification is a deeply powerful behavioural modification tool, it doesn’t just give people thoughts it completely changes their behaviour. Even here on hexbear we demonstrated this with how significantly different people behaved before and after the removal of the downvote. Each and every only social platform that uses gameification creates a specific environment and vibe through the use of its gameification methods and these methods deeply influence the behaviour of audiences. Reddit-behaviour is not a personality trait inherent to the people that are attracted to reddit, reddit-behaviour is created by its gameification system enforcing a debate-bro atmosphere in which people aren’t actually engaging with each other in each reply you receive, they’re not replying to you they’re instead soapboxing for the potential audience of voters in a zero-sum game of aiming to win interactions so that they get upvotes and the person they’re replying with gets downvotes. It’s not a normal human behaviour, it’s a modified behaviour inherent to reddit’s gameification approach.
This kind of thing can and will spill over into society when the tech barons gain greater control over it and it poses a far greater danger than the social media sites themselves functioning as less well controlled newspapers and tv channels.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
as another commentor said, bolsheviks also did land reform. Mao was inspired by it! im not sure that its what distinguishes PRC from USSR ideologically, though i agree that the peasantry dynamics were different in the USSR.
I’m more than well aware.
Damn, that’s a mark of shame for China, that they’re known as such back stabbers of the soviet union that Maoism, which was far more ruthless than Soviet communism, was being sold as a Soviet alternative
Well the united states government at least thought so. Since a lot of (western) maoist could use “soviet imperialism” or “the soviet union has abandoned socialism” (which isnt that untrue, of how Khrushchev acted tbh) to basically disarm soviet support inside the west from the left. Ironic how now the very same people sometimes, do the same to the PRC? Although I am not nearly educated enough to tackle the sino-soviet split or give an adequate informative and productive analysis of that issue.
Mashallah Uruguay is saved from the trotskyist disease (they have their own posadist party (terminally online of course))
What’s that green stuff over there in the south?
Hexbear
Malvinas
Posadists
Central America United in Leninism
The Central American Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
