@workertenant Liberals aren't the same as SocDems. Idk who or what josh is but DSA is a socdem organisation in that it's official practice is to play in electoral politics to try and reform the system.
Idgaf about Zohran's popularity. Fact is, the general tendencies of capitalism demand amore militarized, authoritarian world to try and remedy TRPF.
Do socdems have a viable plan regarding this? Because all they do is subordinate themselves to capitalism and tolerate fascists.
Something seriously wrong about American politics is they don't understand shit and yet talk with full confidence.
AI is a tool that can be used by fascists or anti fascists. Saying AI is fascist would be like saying lines of code or an assembly line are inherently fascist.
I do not think Mamdani has built up the institutional power yet to try and do this while at the same time trying to change other structural aspects of the NYPD, as he's doing now. Some things are a multi-term project.
It would be political suicide to oust Tish hence what communists have been saying all along: social democracy won't save us and is subordinate to capitalism.
The only way forward is to recompose the political independence of the proletariat. Building a socialist alternative.
guys it would literally be political suicide to oust her for no reason other than her personal zionism, especially after mamdani has made so much headway in getting people in new york leadership on his side. a lot of ppl are being really short-sighted about this
@Phormio_Lake It's targeted to people who care about art.
Why should the proletariat as a whole support IP laws that won't realistically benefit these small artists instead benefiting large capitalists?
The only definite solution for both the livelihood of artists and free art is socialism.
These people always use this strawman to defend social democracy and the status quo.
Ofc the revolution isn't tomorrow but if we don't even contest bourgois rhetoric and put up the need for socialism there will never be a revolution. And I'm just proposing doing that with art.
@addiebee03 which includes many artists. But buying into the rhetoric that IP can be stolen and we should reform the state into incorporating IP laws favourable for middle classes is not only unrealistic but also not a solution that actually protects artists. Mind you most artists don't
One thing that the AI people dont get when they call artists doing commissions on the side "petit bourgeois" is that they are almost correct in the regard that art should not be done for profit. Art should be done as a means to express yourself only, the reason why so much of-
The reason there's already little recourse and there will be less and less is because IP laws are being used to benefit large capitalists (who hold most political power) and their rate of profit.
We in turn should stress the need to destroy the system. Not argue to enforce it.
@KeyTryer There are no good arguments against ai because ai is not the problem, the productive model is.
Everything negative you can think of ai is a direct result of it being a tool the bourgeoisie are using for class war against the proletariat and middle classes.
@AlterKastel Nor can you subscribe to petit bourgeois rhetoric that "we need better IP laws so ai companies can't use them" (which pragmatically is never going to happen as large capitalists have far more political power).
We have to stress the only way to freely develop art is socialism.
@BoothsRiley I think we should use this topic to push artists away from supporting petit bourgeois intellectual property which is never actually going to benefit them over large capitalists and make them understand that the only way for art to develop in a free way is surpassing capitalism.
@Jaereku This is bad example that demonstrates you don't get the discussion. Anything shared to a large group has a risk of going public regardless if IP.
Even playing into it, IP would not protect you as IP already exists and protects the interests of large capitalists like AI companies