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Well then mate, let me just tell you. Pakistan is just as bad as India lol. Two sides of the same coin.

Just meant the opinion of people outside these two places.

The Hammad airpord is lovely. The layovers I expect must've been good.

I also always love a hitchhikers reference.

You data isn't hoarded up and sold by the likes of meta etc.

OK this is cool

No I'm not claiming capitalism disproves dialectics, but perverts it. A pest that resists larger historical changes for very long stretches.

All dialectic movement is contained within the system and not breaking through.

I do like the idea of Lenin in regards to revolution. Hadn't heard of this before.

J'en parlerai au diable • Johnny Hallyday

A lot of classical music

Thanks for the reply. I've seen you around before with good takes.

Honestly that was a thought I put in writing for the first time and took barely a moment to write with not much thought behind it. It was a mostly instinctual idea.

I'll try to rewrite it better.

Capitalism mutates through its contradictions—think of “ethical consumption” absorbing critiques of exploitation.

The dialectic doesn't lead to radical rupture as expected, but instead to ideological synthesis that maintains systemic continuity.

Instead

States and capitalist systems do change, post-2008 financial regulations, pandemic-related economic interventions, or global shifts like China's state-capitalist hybrid. Just in less revolutionary forms than Marx predicted. (I feel this claim could be disputed).

Contradictions produce systemic adaptation rather than rupture, challenging the revolutionary assumptions of some classical Marxist reading. (Perhaps this is more airtight, although still vague)

I'm trying to form an idea of how systems of power adapt to survive, often by co-opting critique.

Modern capitalism and state systems have evolved mechanisms that absorb and deflect dialectical contradictions, transforming potential crises into forms of stability. This raises the question of whether contemporary power systems have short-circuited dialectical transformation by preemptively synthesizing dissent.

I think this gets my point across better.

Also yes. Maybe historical materialism is a better framework to work with, my brain always says Hegelian dialectic even if my idea has nothing to do with the spirit.

Although I wanna consider other dialectic systems. I'm open to an Althusserian or psychoanalytic view. Maybe I could explore this with the lens of ideological jouissance.

Imperialism is also capitalism in a more conscious sense imposing itself. Its not a different system overtaking capitalism, it is still a capitalist system.

(This was just me thinking out loud, there maybe contradictions here but thanks for getting my brain juices flowing.)

I would argue that none of those systems are socialist but I honestly have no mental energy for that. Thats not smth I find worth arguing over.

I'm reading what I wrote and wanna add a few things.

I feel like I'm not clear about formal and structural transformation.

Capitalism has demonstrated a remarkable ability to reconfigure around contradiction. But I'll accept there may be thresholds which I think you were saying, just not in those cases or any significant case I can think of either.

I see the capitalist resistance as global.

I think I could relate this to Gramsci by using the idea of hegemony becoming common sense or capitalist realism. Maybe even Marcuse' one dimensional man.

Also the more lacanian idea of enjoyed failure.

(I'm again confused where to go from here lol)

An idea I'm working on is how both capitalism and states as a system in many parts of the world have resisted the Hegelian dialectic. Instead of the issues of capitalism leading to change we incorporate the issues into the system.

Its also frustrating to see how in a fast paced reactive and quick changing world, our broader systems seem to be so stable despite failing the masses so consistently.

I wanna write an essay on this sometime soon

That happened 70 years ago. What we still waiting for 😭

I don't think this is smth that is to be put on a scale.

You can force the matter by choosing a narrative.

I mean you could argue for self deification, science, totalitarianism. Anything could be forced to make sense.

Now from your angle, where a groups beliefs offer predominantly positive benefits, eco restoration groups, foss folks, creative commons collective etc.

Yes the lemm.ee admins seem to be ending it cleanly. I expect they will be responsible with this.

.world went back and forth and back and forth and eventually blocked it (unless smth changed in my inactive months)