you should repost this on hexbear

Yes or Iain m banks if they like sci-fi

I mean could use a little more colour imo but defending themselves from imperial powers comes first over aesthetic building facades.

also no gridlock, exhaust fumes, etc this looks very calm and confirms the notion that cities can actually be somewhat peaceful, it’s just cars that ruin it.

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yeah fuck u king george no one tells the u s of A whose native lands we can’t colonise into 🦅!

this is real journalism, maclean’s/nyt/wapo shut the fuck up until you’ve been on the wrong side of the cop’s gun.

nationalise construction and housing, expropriate landlords and consign them back to the 1700s. any wealthy society with people sleeping outside in -40 is a barbaric one.

Bad take

yes, being a communist in the imperial core does not mean you get to give up and watch the third world do all the work dismantling this grotesque system

Beavers live in the lodge not the dam but still I don’t think a beaver dam is gonna hold up a big ass turbine

-oh please don’t emphatically scathe us, anything but that

these people aren’t pro life, they inhabit the life denying ideology of capital like any bloodless liberal state apparatus. Only difference is they’re pro fetus

So things would run smoother without your petty bourgeois ass in the way? Hmmm good to know thank you sir

People for whom political conviction is an aesthetic. This is not anything substantial, it is a rhetorical fashion show.

Americans don’t want to be told how racist to be from a brown guy

By contrast, enlightened Canadians already have

Another thing I hate Tesla for is the fact that their shitty cars poison the well for basically any kind of electrified transport, by way of their greenwashing these bazingamobiles.

Trying to sell the public on electric transport that’s actually scaled properly to work, like buses and trains is hard enough without connections to tesla

I think the way out of the climate crisis is basically the question of what economic mode we want to inhabit, capitalism or socialism.

Countries that produce way more carbon per capita are going to need to drastically reduce their carbon outputs while at the same time allowing developing countries to raise living standards to some kind of agreed global level that is equitable and sustainable for all life on this planet. This should involve wealth transfers of huge proportions to areas of the globe that have been historically depleted (Africa, namely).

Manufacturing is going to have to be returned to sites more local to consumption. Animal agriculture, especially in the west, must be decimated. Oil and fossil fuels in particular have to go by the next twenty years, that’s not optional. Personal automobiles I would say too. Waste of all kinds must be minimised, from clothes that will need to last much longer to electronics that can be totally disassembled and recycled.

Imagine a kind of global War Communism, maybe for half a century or more. Except it would not be resisting an enemy that wants you dead, but giving life back to the only place we know where anything can live.

I’m sure all of us here could add to an eco wish list, but to cut to the heart of it is to say: socialism or barbarism is the choice. Production for exchange value can’t go on. the metastasising growth logic of capitalism must end, and with it all the long standing hierarchies and chauvinisms that it has both descended from and bred must end as well. Capitalism cannot accomplish this task, the market cannot price it’s own destruction in.

So again the question of how to emerge from the climate crisis is essentially the question of how to escape capitalism. And here I definitely side more with Malm. There is no economic mode in history that has disappeared without a world-scarring fight.

No one , especially not Marxists, can afford to be naive about it. Capitalism will kill us all unless we all kill it. Putting it extremely simply, We must organise everyone who is pissed at capitalism, and turn that into a disciplined mass organisation with international solidarity. The proletariat is the only class poised for revolution under capitalism, and that is where any real hope will lie.

go ahead, say that the world bank is not a real source. Say that they’re in the pocket of the evil commies of the see see pee. Say it’s run by tankies.

Here’s a source from the World Bank

Over the past decade, China has built 25,000 km of dedicated high-speed railway—more than the rest of the world combined.

Even the high priests of capital cannot ignore what are basic facts of infrastructure.

very rich coming from the leader of the catholic church

Actually was just going through an article about this. Haven’t finished it quite yet but planning on later today. Like most of Michael Roberts work I’ve found it useful , I appreciate the ways in which he guards against a vulgar or even Keynesianesque readings of Marx. You can try searching his website or Monthly Review for “financialisation” and that should lead you to some more resources on the matter.