@UnAmerikkkan Exactly… AI is a revolutionary technology; we are still in the early stages. It could be used to eliminate dangerous and unfulfilling work. Most people could be artists and scientists.
But, under capitalism, the opposite will happen. It will be used to *intensify* exploitation.
@LukeHandCool2@trishaposner If you are genuinely interested in understanding how and why Israel was established then read this:
https://t.co/NmbR1yXgT7
@globeandmail I suppose the fact that the authors, two 20-something fascist know-nothings from the Fraser Institute, are still too young to shave and have no life experience outside of daddy's company has something to do with their recommendation that Canadian capitalism attack old people.
My latest: "The celebration of the fascist war criminal Melnyk by the Ukrainian oligarchy is part of the systematic rehabilitation of fascism worldwide, as the ruling class prepares for even greater crimes as part of its descent into a new world war."
https://t.co/41GKglF1Zs
The radicalism of the youth of the 1960 was not "drug inspired." It was a response to Vietnam, the struggle for civil rights, and, even more fundamentally, the fresh and not-forgotten horrors of the two World Wars. The 1917 October Revolution had not disappeared from memory, capitalism and anti-communism were in bad odor, Stalinism was increasingly discredited, and there was a revival of interest in Trotsky, whose extraordinary books were recognized as political and literary masterworks. This resurgence was suppressed by the reactionary political climate of the Reagan-Thatcher years to which Mr. Luce was exposed, to his own misfortune, during his intellectually formative years.
But Mr. Luce correctly detects a process of radicalization among the world's youth. The question is, at what point will this radicalization break beyond the bounds of the media-vetted pseudo-leftism of people like Sanders and Mamdani and reestablish contact with the the genuine Marxian-socialist political perspective and culture that was exemplified in the October Revolution and figures like Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg. This break must and will occur, and the rediscovery of Trotsky's extraordinary political legacy and writings will be a critical element of the reemergence of Marxism as a mass socialist movement based on the working class.
The World Socialist Web Site has posted today a preface I have written to a new edition of Trotsky's autobiography, My Life. It can be accessed at https://t.co/79dx4RaCkC
Nearly one century after its publication in late 1929, My Life remains a work of undiminished significance. A great memoir must, of course, be very well written. It must also convey—through its recollection of social, political or psychological experiences—a sense of what it was to be alive at a particular time.
https://t.co/YKcD9AuQyV
@PaulSorrentino3 Mamdani chose to retain Jessica Tisch - a Zionist, a staunch supporter of Israel, a scion of an ultra-wealthy family and chief architect of mass surveillance infrastructure keeping tabs on citizens.
https://t.co/XqOzAq7Y7V
Piker reminds one of Trotsky's description of Kerensky: "He had no theoretical preparation, no political schooling, no ability to think, no political will." He has "that kind of eloquence which operates neither upon mind or will, but upon the nerves."
https://t.co/u0UdgBzo3C