The events that led to the conquest of northern Africa by Arabs took place what, 1000+ years ago? You can hardly argue that “Arabs are colonialists” in modern times by judging 1000+ years old historical events, in the same way you probably wouldn’t judge modern Greek people as colonialists because they speak an Indo-European language and Indo-European languages are spoken all over the continent of Europe and much beyond.

Pretty sure that if you can see Valencia and surroundings, you should be able to see Barcelona which is to its northeast, and that small central peak in the Iberian Peninsula looks to me to be close to Madrid, what is it then?

Madrid is gone, reduced to ashes? And so is Barcelona? Weird

By whom? How could China’s numbers be less reliable than India’s?

Not really, and I say this being a communist myself. Capitalism just requires to extract the maximum profit from the capital investment, sometimes it leads to what you said, sometimes it leads to the opposite (e.g. no difference between i5 1st gen and i5 8th gen)

Funnily enough, I’m Spanish and the meme is somehow also accurate here?

Are they stupid?

“Grassroots organization raises $500k for the establishment”

Not exactly my field of expertise, but I can point you towards How to Blow Up a Pipeline

I’m sorry, just wanna say that made me lol. I understand your comment is serious and I agree with it, but the intro was too funny

That link is basically responsible for solidifying my beliefs that leftists are correct about labour regulations and the economy when I was a young adult. I showed it to a friend some time later, and he quite literally told me “millennials discover Marxian surplus value extraction from the working class”. Truer words have never been spoken

Exactly my point, it hasn’t been implemented anywhere because capital will fight tooth and nail against it, and they’re, well, the owning class, so they have plenty of power. My point is we can’t reform our way into solving social and economic justice and fixing climate change

Practical solutions like the ones we’ve been failing to implement for the past 50 years of erosion of labor rights and welfare state all over the western world?

How does guaranteeing jobs make people any less replaceable

Because there’s constantly a labor shortage instead of a pool of millions of unemployed people

Also we have a crises of bs jobs. UBI would help lower it a lot. Guaranteed jobs would make it ten times worse

Why would guaranteed jobs make it worse? Guaranteed jobs could be decided upon (at the very least partially) by local neighborhood councils. Care for children and for old people, cleaning the streets, building new housing… Even if 50% of jobs created were “redundant” (which is impossible), that’s still 50% of actual useful labor compared to 0% of UBI

And even then UBI is just another form of maintaining this “unemployed reserve army”. Guaranteed jobs for every citizen capable and desiring to work, on exchange for a living wage, would automatically eliminate the people’s need to stay at shitty jobs or accepting shitty wages, since they can’t be easily replaced; it would increase production of goods and services much more than UBI, therefore tackling possible inflationary tendencies… It’s really a much better patch to capitalism than UBI

I don’t think oppression of the global south is a valid criticism of Norway

You not thinking so doesn’t make it less true. Norway engages in unequal exchange every bit as much as the USA.

used by their representatives in the Party

Nah, mate. Not the USSR nor Cuba were like this. You simply couldn’t find wealth disparities in those countries as you can in modern capitalist ones, not even remotely close.

No gambling though

If you don’t wanna be insulted, don’t simp for the oppressors. I’d insult you if you said “I love absolutist monarchy!”

Blood is an ingredient in many other countries. We have blood sausages (morcilla) in Spain, and they’re common in many other places too

Why no mention to the democratic participation in Cuba in your response?

Who do you think makes such decisions in a capitalist context?

Markets make those decisions in a capitalist context, surely not a committee of experts consulting the unions.

According to Worshiping Power by Peter Gelderloos, decentralized structures have an advantage in self-defense but a disadvantage beyond their base territory. That’s why both the Spanish Civil War and the Makhnovshchina were lost once the popular front strategy were implemented.

I’d have to read that book to give an actual answer to why that analysis is made. My point is that the coup was allowed to happen to that degree in the first place due to the failure of anarchists of arming the working class and stewarding it against the increasing threat of fascism.