The thing is is that exchange value doesnt really exist. Thats the whole part about commodity fetishism and linen. And use value is highly subjective where for instance postmodern art designed to have no purpose still gets placed in museums where it is transformed into an object w exchange value.
Humans have use for art where even if there was no commodity production at all people will still be making use of art.
The way i usually break it down is
Tell me you have no idea what mao is talking about while quoting mao lmfao
Not specific to this but a good primer on what the US has been doing in the region and why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFsyyWJ-G70
Gist is that the US has been forcing anti china political candidates for a long time through the NED and leftist movements in Thailand, while Cambodia a few years ago outlawed all NED funded groups and the US funded political opposition who openly admitted to working with the US.
Another front to open in the encirclement of China
Damn cant believe kneecap killed ozzy osbourne thats gonna fuck up their trial for sure 
Youre correctly looking at the link between the intelligentsia and the left, but instead of seeing it as an issue youre seeing it as fact. People go to college, have the opportunity and environment to learn about this stuff, and then enter the left; unfortunately with their class position intact. Hence the reason why the left is all college educated upper middle strata and why the means of life create a petty bourgeois ideology that vacillates and makes it weak.
Theres a whole merry go round of union staffers and non profit workers who do nothing to create the conditions of struggle that constitute the left. This exact current reason is why all the left from the New Communist Movement of the 70s and 80s liquidated into adventurism or the democrat party. They were all students who instead of transforming the movement into a working class one never challenged their class conditions and followed the spontaneous ideology of their strata.
I dont have optimism because i dont need it, because i see the sections of our society that are revolutionary and i organize in them. Your life is miserable and you dont see a way out, because youre accurately assessing the dead end of the strata and class around you. Im telling you if you can figure out how to change the political economy of your life, you will be proud of yourself and happy to be a communist in this country. Youre smart and picking up on the right things - ive met a lot of leftists that havent picked up on half of what youve mentioned - and i want you in this movement, but our social being conditions our social consciouseness and you will have to change the political economy of your life if you want to be happy. I can see how you can be happy, and i hope you are able to figure it out too.
This is gonna be my last reply cuz theres not really anywhere else for this conversation to go. Its either through the experience of your life that the ideology of the working class - communism and marxism leninism - makes sense to you or you smash together a hundred ideologies like the petty b.
Your ideology is petty b, and not close to marxist leninist, or even communist. To believe students are the revolutionary force in this country is literally the ideology of the intelligentsia and petty b. I dont know how much more apparent that can be.
You cant claim to know the fate of the working class in this country without having even struggled against the enemy. People learn through struggle, and you cant call the shots of history from the caboose without even participating.
The issue with the left in this country is that its largely a movement from the upper middle strata to the petty bourgeois, meaning the socialist movement and the working class movement are entirely separate entities making both extremely weak and easy to push aside. If we can succeed at fusion of these two movements we can have the type of communist movement youre imagining. As marxists we start from our objective conditions and unless you want the next generation to suffer the exact same struggle as you with previous generations suffering from petty b ideology and skipping out on struggle, we have to build a real communist party thats representative of the working class. You either participate, or let others do it for you.
You despise the petty bourgeois rightfully, but you carry their ideology around with you with your resentment towards the working class. You need stronger class analysis which i dont blame you for not having cuz the left in this country has incredibly weak class analysis in comparison to international groups. You make a lot of correct analyses but youre blinded by the lack of clarity in the relationship between strata.
Youre correctly analyzing that the lower strata of the working class is too immiserated by the conditions of existence to effectively organize, while the upper strata and petty bourgeois have too much disdain for the working class and too much self importance to make a difference. The reason why i point towards unionized working class sectors is because the unions provide stability and an extra working class association to organize in.
Unions can only ever prevent losses to the working class, and yet every win in a union both provides real benefits to people and teaches working class people how to struggle against the enemy. However unions only staving off immiseration is why we need a real communist party, and we need to build one in this generation so next generations dont get handed down the same problem.
Ultimately imo it all boils down to you being an individual. You will not be revolutionary and you will not be a communist if youre not in a party that can effectively facilitate your transformation into a revolutionary. You can either contribute to the cause of revolution in this country - the heart of empire where we can deliver the most possible damage to imperialism - or give up on being a communist, which to be clear is fine. Our subjective life experiences determine how much we can contribute to the struggle in our lives. From what ive heard, i would love to have you in my party and your class background and upbringing would make you an incredible fighter, but its ultimately up to you whether your personal life trajectory lines up with this cause or not.
Look at teamsters unionized warehouses, package delivery sectors, bus driving, and worst comes to worst find a craft trade sector. I know plenty of floridians that are building real revolutionary organization, you definitely will need to move to an area thats less petty bourgeois though it seems that aligns with what you want in your life anyways.
I can tell you want working class connections, and youre gonna have to leave petty b areas if you dont want to slowly lose your mind with them. You might have to sacrifice a bit, but it will be worth it i promise. Ive known plenty of people in your exact situation and all of them even the ones that work rough jobs are much much happier in their lives and all their loved ones can tell too.
you have to organize, and you have to move somewhere that it’s possible. join a party, get a job in a real working class unionized sector, and do community work. you’re dying on the vine and you have so much more life and joy to bring to the world than getting it out on the internet!
you will be so much happier, even if it’s hard you have to try. it’ll take time but it’ll be worth it i promise you
Street gangs are an mi6 psyop 
Trans people get better healthcare in iran than i do lmao
Heh virologist more like LIErologist amirite
Yea the multiplier stacks
Theres no spiritual satan imbued in AI. The spiritual satan is in capitalist relations of production 
Islamic hackers are on such a whole other level. Almost no combination of autism in the world could compare.
Im pretty sure NK actually does have capitalists. Most of them cooperatized, but there are special economic zones like china
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