I guess some people see nations as rational actors acting in their own interest, if that’s your world view and large nation has the potential to exert its influence over other nations. Or that’s what I gather they mean when some people use the word imperialist.

I only trust the CIA 😤

What do you mean? There are several governments that have socialist governments. On a theory point its very hard to built a different kind of society especially when you’re forced to compete with a capitalist society, its why lots of the Bolsheviks used to believe that a global revolution would be nescissary to completely other throw capitalism. Have you never lived in communal living or with your family where you had to clean up your own shits? Because I have and I’ve seen it work. I’ve also seen worker coops work, and yes there are people who work in worker co ops who clean the toilets.

I’ll say it again: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

What? You think there is no way that we could organise a society that doesn’t require a permanent underclass to clean up your shits?

Who says you need to organise a society in a way that needs toilet cleaners, and who says cleaning toilets is such a God awful job that nobody would do it. I clean my toilet at home and have cleaned toilets at work. Who says cleaning a bathroom isn’t something that every one in a firm can be involved in?

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"

Did I say that? I’d say socialism isn’t attainable without some kind of civil war. Also there are lots of different ways a society can be built and organised and how it interacts with technology.

Did I ever say you should be expected to?

Yes that sounds more fulfilling than working in a coal mine, obviously most jobs are bullshit. Recently I’ve been wondering wtf is going to happen with all those skyscrapers once AI takes every ones white collar job (if it even can) one of the main reason of trying to get people back into the office was that commercial property owners.

I’m obviously aware that our economy needs to fundamentally change.

Yeah, nobody wants to do those jobs, but we all rely on people doing them, the obvious answer would be to automate the jobs people don’t want to do. Instead you see modern capitalists automating away the jobs people do want to do, like white collar work.

I mean who knows maybe he does spend more time on his work, whether his work is productive for society is another matter. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with work, there is something wrong with being exploited.

I think it really depends, if I were to work at a workers co op where I’m a part owner of the business I really probably wouldn’t mind working more. All these CEOs get insane compensation for their work, why do you think they don’t mind working more? Obviously I wouldn’t want to have to spend 7 days a week in a steel factory a coal mine or a slaughterhouse etc.

Honestly I agree that if people were not alienated from their labor they would probably want to work more.

Found some people talking about it in German stoner mags

The cool thing is soviet hemp wasn’t restricted to the same weird THC laws that western industrial hemp was which only benefited big AG , it naturally had a higher THC content so I’ve read some stuff about East German guys smoking industrial hemp it wasn’t as strong as the drug strains but you probably got a buzz.

Wait till you try a miswack.

Except that guy didn’t come up with that comic, he stole the text from some one and did the drawing. Bit like Corey Doctrows whole entshitification schtick, also taken from some one else whom he refuses to credit.

Chill if you’ve ever taken codine its like that AFAIK codine is the psychoactive chemical in opium.

Israel starts illegal war with Iran.

Fixed that headline for you.