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Interesting, if flawed, article I came across on the potential of AI. Of course, the Chinese ruling class has no intention of moving beyond capitalism, whatever the author may think
The CCP affirms the “decisive role of the market in resource allocation” because the market has been proven more effective than any other ways of resource allocation in the past. Even so, it is possible for AI to come up with a more superior way of resource allocation than the market.
While the market will still be a part of economic life, it will consequently abdicate, so to speak. It will no longer sit on the throne playing the “decisive role”. When that happens, Western neoclassical economics and the ideology of liberalism that comes with it will depreciate…
https://www.thinkchina.sg/politics/utopian-post-capitalist-world-we-can-create-ai
Who would have thought of it? The Greens winning the Gorton and Denton by-election with a majority of 4000 votes. I wonder what impact this going to have on the “Your Party” party…
More daft comments from Musk
“Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk predicted a world of ‘zero scarcity’ due to advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics in the next 20 years….”
The system he so conspicuously benefits from cannot help but work to reinforce and reproduce scarcity as a condition of its own survival
Thanks, Bijou and Howard,
Seems I will have to sack my chatbot and replace it with another. Or do without. Just can’t get the staff these days….
I am distrustful of these things and routinely ask for a link and a quote when I ask any question. It tends to have the effect of making the little buggers think a little harder.
On the RCP, I got into an altercation with some of their people on FB. I questioned why they called themselves communists when they did appear to be remotely interested in promoting the idea of a moneyless, wageless, classless and stateless alternative to all forms of capitalism. The people who responded to me insisted that that was exactly what they do.
Since I am about 1500 miles from one of their nearest paper sellers, I couldn’t really determine that for myself.
If they are what they claim to be, then they should be queuing up to join the SPGB, but alas…
Posted on the Michael Roberts blog
Talking about Greenland, here´s a rather shrewd commentary from a Greek nationalist, pointing out the inconsistencies in the EU´s stance on Greenland, on the one hand, and Cyprus, on the other:
For decades, the capitals of Northern Europe have lived in a comfortable, self-righteous state. From the glass towers of Copenhagen to the secure ramparts of the Baltics, the mantra has been the same: Ιnternational law is the ultimate shield, and NATO is a sacred brotherhood of democracies. To the virtuous Northerners, the Greek-Turkish conflict has always been a messy, southern anachronism – a “bilateral dispute” that always called for more dialogue.https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/01/seizing-greenland-so-europe-how-does-it-feel-to-be-greece/
Well said, Roberto…
We shouldn’t have to have all this personal stuff aired on this forum. This is not the place. I don’t know what Ozymandias was hoping to achieve, but since he seems to be intent on slinging mud against the entire membership of the SPGB, I, for one, am not impressed. That’s putting it mildly.
Perhaps the Moderator ought to intervene at this point…..
Ozy
It’s not acceptable that you bring up your own personal issues here (I don’t mean just because this is a thread on Trump). Period. It’s also totally out of order that you should then turn this into a rant against the SPGB and its members in general.
Who the hell do you think you are to say such things?
This is quite an interesting commentary that I came across. Has the Trump regime reached a tipping point after the murderous antics of his ICE thugs? The popularity of the regime was already in decline but does this latest cock-up finally spell the end of the regime or any hope of re-election in the next few years?
Multiple videos of the incident were out in the public and everyone was able to see that what really had happened were crimes committed by multiple ICE agents. Every newspaper and channel which discussed the video called out the lies by the Trump administration.
The false narrative coming from the White House turned out be a huge own-goal. It has become a complete unnecessary public relation disaster for the Trump administration.
It was why I asked Why Is Trump Causing His Own Downfall?
Wouldn’t this make anyone with even the slightest shred of decency or humanity in their bones physically sick at the thought of it?:
His son-in-law Jared Kushner unveiled bizarre new pictures of a New Gaza at the opening of the board, which featured a data centre, luxury apartments and “coastal tourism”.
The presentation contained CGI-generated images of luxury apartments and data centres, as well as plans to build more than 100,000 housing units and 75 medical facilities.
Seriously? Luxury apartments constructed over the bones of thousands of people who have died and whose surviving relatives will no doubt be, at best, the cleaners and gardeners in these luxury complexes – if that.
“Disgusting” hardly covers the feelings this arouses
I read on their FB site (I think) that YP voted to allow dual membership, but that Dave Nellist of SPEW was complaining that he was blocked from standing for elections to the EC
“Scale and speed of president’s moves have stunned observers of authoritarian regimes – is the US in democratic peril?”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/trump-american-democracy
So Trump has now come out and declared at the WEF forum that he won’t take Greenland by military force. That was not unexpected, even though he previously declined to rule it out. The stakes were just too high even for a crazed narcissistic nutjob like him, who mostly seems to live in some alternative universe
Trump criticized U.S. leaders at the time for relinquishing the Danish-held territory, calling his predecessors “stupid” for doing so and accusing Copenhagen of being “ungrateful” in return.
He also said the U.S. would be “unstoppable” in any attempt to seize the island but disclaimed any interest in doing so.
“I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland … It’s the United States alone that can protect this giant mass of land, this giant piece of ice, develop it and improve it and make it so that it’s good for Europe and safe for Europe and good for us,” Trump said.
The “markets” had earlier signalled their displeasure with Trump with a drop in the indices. Probably also the realisation that a military takeover of Greenland would, indeed, spell the end of NATO led him to make this statement.
Nevertheless, you can’t really tell with Trump. He seems no less determined to acquire Greenland on behalf of American capitalism but equally, Greenland, Denmark and Europe seem no less determined to resist this.
So we have a stalemate and the prospect of yet more uncertainty
I think the world is going bonkers. This is why I wouldnt trust what the media says further than I can spit.
In his piece for the Daily Mail, he further added: “And, in this instance, to show our intent – that means being open to the prospect of European forces fighting a ground war against the US in Greenland.”
Seriously?
FFS
