Thomas_More
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How can it benefit the exploited and the exploiting? The exploited are still exploited. The exploiters are still accumulating wealth on the backs of the exploited. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the worst master is a kind one, because his/her slaves are content.
Look at Japan, so often praised as a ‘cohesive’ society – where many workers are so ruthlessly regimented and robotised that they die on the job, falling asleep in the street on their way home, and where the famous fake smile is compulsory.
Still no elucidation on this question.
Capitalism, though insane, is supposed to have its own logic. Namely, that states fight wars to open markets, seize and secure trade routes, and open the way to greater accumulation of capital.
I am not seeing any of this in Europe’s frenzied militarism. I am seeing European states closing themselves off from markets, militarising without any benefit to their economic aggrandisement (quite the opposite), depriving themselves of resources and isolating themselves by insisting on a russophobic path that their master, the US, launched them on but is now lukewarm to.
It is like symptoms which linger after an infection has passed. A frenzy that lingers after the mover has given up on it.
War becoming more likely, says German politician.
Again, more people trying to set up novel groups and with no interest in applying to us.
They know about us, but no doubt regard us as a museum curiosity behind glass, not a living viable organism.
But this is always the case because most workers are not materialists. Their voting and their blaming, their adulation and condemnation, are personality-based and “star”-based. They don’t see people being moved by a system of society, by material forces of which most are unaware, or at best partly aware.
“Greatness”, guilt and blame, criminality and conspiracy are their points of reference, not historical materialism. So individuals occupying positions are targets of their discontent, which is a blind and muddled discontent.
Blame and guilt (mis)inform the entire culture. So does the adulation of wealth and “success.”
The capitalist world around them is one of Marvel-like supervillains, with everyone waiting upon “superheroes” to “lead” them out of the bleakness.So far, Finland has been the only NATO state to signify that it expects relations with Russia to improve after the end of the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine wants Africans as cannon fodder.
Just as I said earlier, shuttlecock Trump already turning, again!
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/donald-trump-russia-peace-talks-putin-b2811039.html
” NATO military chiefs are due to meet on Wednesday to discuss the details of potential security guarantees for Ukraine amid efforts to broker a ceasefire to Russia’s offensive.” Al Jazeera.
The Alaska summit saw Trump agreeing that NATO wouldn’t be involved in this.
Born in 1960, I never came across as many stupid people as I have since the 2000s. Basic things, such as some sense of historical sequence, and the location of areas of the Earth, are now specialist subjects, as is a decent vocabulary.
