If only it were that easy… European countries with supposedly “better” burgoise democracies are in decline too. The crisis of capitalism is universal. You can’t reduce it to a crisis of democracy, though that’s part of it. It’s also a crisis of production, nature, unawaged reproductive labor and imperialism. All of this has to be addressed at the same time.

They have a cloaca. It’s all butt stuff.

Okay, thanks

But all three seem to be coiling in the same direction? All tilt to the left side and coil clockwise.

Oh, they’ll get rewarded, with more workload.

But one cuts into corporate profit and the other generates new profit opportunities.

That’s really impressive! From the report:

They achieved this depite a considerable brain-drain:

You’re right, maybe adolescents would have been a better word. “Child” can be meant as developmentally before puberty (which wouldn’t fit here), but in most English countries it also has a legal meaning of being under 18 (or 21) years old - that’s what I had in mind.

The participants of the protests are mostly underage and objectively lack the many privileges and rights of autonomy which our society awards older people. That they protest despite that is all the more impressive.

It’s only not compulsory if enough people volunteer. It’s like robbing someone and telling them at gunpoint: “I’ll only take your money by force, if you don’t give it to me out of your own free will.” “We’ll force half a million of you to die and kill for the oligarchy unless of course you volunteer to do that. (And by the way, we just destroyed the economy and the job market and brutally cut social services, so…)”

They don’t though. They do not have any right to do this protest during school hours at all. They literally disobey orders and risk being kicked out of school for participating. Those brave children are being threatened and punished by principals, teachers, parents, politicians and the police. All of whom have abandoned them to be grinded into mush at the eastern front for a pointless war. And the children stand up for live and peace anyway against the coming of the fascist death cult. Don’t let them stand alone. Read Karl Liebknecht.

They already passed the law that will bring back compulsory military service under the pretense of only resorting to it if not enough young people volunteer.

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Moths, they’re cool and cute.

Bombs are insanely powerful too and yet useless as an energy source. What matters is cost in cent per kWh. Fusion showes every sign of becoming very very expensive, even in the best case scenarios.

Laser based fusion for example literally uses gold coated diamond pellets, hundreds of which have to be shot into the reaction chamber per second to even break even energyweise in theory. At that point, no energy is produced at all and costs per kWh are still infinit. And the lenses get destroyed so fast you constantly have to exchange them.

Meanwhile both renewables and energy storage technologies continue to get cheaper and cheaper. Fusion faces barriers in engineering, fundamental physics and even in mathematics (modeling plasma is critical). Some of which might be insurmountable in principle. But in the end the one barrier that matters is the economic one. And no one even has a plan on how to tackle it expect for shoveling an insane amount of tax money into the fire indefinitely.

In Germany, funding for research is being cut alot. The solar cut happened a long time ago and fifty thousand jobs where lost at the time. Last year, they basically cancelled almost all battery research (needed for electric cars and stuff). Now, many more important stuff is being defunded. Except for fusion. Fusion is receiving a big boost in funding. Everyone and their dog are doing fusion research now

I think, that’s not despite the famous “fusion constant” (fusion being always “only” thirty years away), but because of it. Unlike solar or batteries or anything else that actually works, fusion does not threaten to disrupt the oligopolies of the power companies, or the car companies or anyone else’s. It enables a wealth transfer (accumulation through dispossession) to companies involved in the research, without contributing to the crisis of overaccumulation, because no use value exists, so no value ever needs to be realized. It’s like building a pyramid in the desert.

I’m not anarchist or libcom, but this was still interesting to read. Clearly a lot of work went into it. I like, that they actually cite Marx, Lenin and Stalin. What’s missing is a perspective on imperialism.

So, if we go by Max Weber’s definition of the state, often used by anarchists, which defines the state as a monopoly on violence over a given territory, the dictatorship of the proletariat would arguably not be a state. It would however, be a state on the definition often used by Marxists – that the state is the means by which one class exerts its power over others. A lot of confusion in the debate between Marxists and anarchists on the state derives from the differing definitions of the state that are used.

That last part is definitely true.

Sure and when was the last time a company in Europe was nationalized for similar reasons? That’s right, it never happens, except to targets of the empire. Mismanagement? Corruption? Tax fraud? They are ubiquitous. European politicians see it as their foremost duty to protect the guilty CEOs, stakeholders and companies.

I found this on wikipedia:

Irène “was accidentally exposed to polonium when a sealed capsule of the element exploded on her laboratory bench in 1946”. That was from her own work. She lived another ten years, then died from leukemia.

Ève lived to be 102 years old and died in her sleep in 2007.

Both actively supported peace and were anti fascists. Irène was a socialist, visited Moscow, befriended Soviet scientists and supported the Republic in the Spanish civil war.

It’s fitting to frame this in religious iconography, because protestant work ethic has permeated western societies. Now even in our down time we feel bad if we don’t work to further some “life goals”.

Hate it when I accidentally drive over a lagrange point on my bicycle and the resulting tire wear leads me straight into a wormhole.