IceWallowCum [he/him]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Genuine questions, I’m still a baby Marxist.

    by selling their goods and services (built with the help of China) to the US!

    … which flood american markets with cheap, quality products and drowns America’s own productive capacity, right? Isn’t that precisely how america lost its means of production? American capital is even trying to prevent this on the electric vehicle sphere.

    I understand that production and consumption are moments of a whole, so the dependence goes both ways - you can’t keep producing unless someone is buying. I also understand that all this is somewhat secondary to the problem underlying the whole thing:

    If you don’t accumulate dollars, you can’t import food and fuel

    Do the major food/fuel-producing countries have dominance over their own production and commerce? Where do their dollars go next?







  • Just going to think outloud too since I’m way out of my expertise (and could be completely missing the point).

    I think it’s interesting that, by thinking the process as negation of negation instead of just negation, period, we force ourselves to think of phenomena as a continuum - instead of “this came from that”, it makes we think “this came from that and is going to become something else through the continuation of the proccess being studied.” In the Marx quote above, he doesn’t stop at having capitalism negate individual private property, which would present the system to reader as the end point of the historical process, instead he goes on to show how capitalism gets negated by the same process and develops into the next thing.

    It provides a dynamic point of view that forces you to consider how changes will accumulate over time and shift the whole thing around an axis of sorts. Reminds me of Wang Huning (I think?) writing about how the dollar hegemony may have put America at the top, but it’s also the very same process of it’s deindustrialization.







  • I agree with teapot.

    the supply of JYNNEOS available for distribution through the end of this year is estimated to only be sufficient to immunize half of the individuals at highest risk for monkeypox

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    More specifically, ACAM2000 may not be appropriate now for a potentially immunocompromised population.

    “Population” just means “group of people with this particularity” in epidemiology, not “the american population.” Nothing in the text you shared suggests america is immunocompromised