Increased productivity or reduced cost, neither of which is actually true.

I’ve never read Kautsky, so I’ll have to take Lenin at his word since he was the first author to successfully lead a socialist revolution.

My first interaction with that text was Marx Madness podcast, they had plenty of love for Kautsky dunking as well.

State and Rev also has some of Lenin’s best one liner quips ever written, definitely recommend that one. I should probably give it a second reading, it’s a real banger of a book.

Who is paying 10 quid for instant coffee?! Oof

I was coming to recommend the same. GPL is a solid license for anything you plant to put in a public repo.

The only thing that gives me some solace, for now, is that SCOTUS hasn’t entirely abandoned the pretext of the constitution still existing. If Trump wins on ending birthright citizenship though, all bets are off. The reason I say that is that as of right now, there’s still national elections in 2026 and 2028 that could, theoretically, install a new regime that would immediately turn their back on Russia again and Russia knows it. They also know that even with change in leadership, if Xi steps down or is removed, the next leader is less likely to be as flakey as USA politicians are.

Now, if SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is over and effectively abandons any pretext of the rule of law, we’ll be truly witnessing a fascist dictatorship (I do think that this is a fairly likely scenario) and then I think that Putin would be more likely to engage in your line of thought.

Fred Hampton, he showed a generation how to build dual power and properly threaten the settler colonial governments of North America. Sadly, that government saw the threat to power he actually posed because he was so effective and they murdered him for it.

Remember, Steve wouldn’t want you to.