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Really hope they aren't trying to say that linguistic influence from other cultures makes a language "cucked"

Gonna go out on a limb and say you don't actually hate the ultra right as much as us lmao

It's not a whole book, but I would refer you to chapter 4 of Michael Roberts book on capital crises and profitability. That chapter deals specifically with the commonly defined western neoliberal era. If you like that bit, then I'd recommend the entire thing if you want to know why and how crises are generated as a baked in symptom of capitalism in its search for profitability.

Otherwise, I know David Harvey has a book called a Brief History of Neoliberalism. I read it a few years ago but can't remember enough to specifically recommend it. Worth noting that Harvey doesn't consider himself to technically be a Marxist afaik.

If you're talking about the episode Three Slaps, that was actually based on a real event. (Cw suicide, abuse)

I would be surprised if prices went down significantly, seems like the oil corps operate as an unofficial cartel. There's not much compelling them to cut prices unless there's a huge drop in demand like a second pandemic, or some kind of government intervention (lol). There's still much oil storage capacity left in Alberta.

At what level of Rule of Law™ (sponsored by Checks and Balances®) does the defendant get to sentence the judge/jury?

It would be more like fleeing to pei not Newfoundland/Labrador

how can you be fairly compensated if you don't control the surplus value you have created?

also yeah it does sound like slavery, Marx wrote a lot about this thing called wage-slavery.

the (unfinished) cartoon in question

Yeah a lot of it is informed with his past neuroticism over his health and fear of death (justified in the end). I don't quite get his afterlife beliefs, but I do like his characterisation of economic modes as essentially ways to manage who must feel pain in class societies.

Would you say Xi is the leader of the faction within the party most willing to reverse these conditions? And are there other movements in the country with this aim? I'm just curious if there's an explicit timeline to transition away from the need for these kinds of special economic zones and the practices that come with them.

I think this is one of the fairer takes. I think what's obvious is that since Deng the Chinese model is unquestionably the most effective growth model as far as global capitalism is concerned. They can beat anyone on those terms. But those terms have fundamental social and ecological limits and so we cannot afford to play by them any longer.