Munrock ☭

As military officer you could say he was a (disloyal) servant of the bourgeois state, but to say he was bourgeois just by being a military officer is stretching the definition. Saying he held “power and relative privilege” is a reach. He didn’t own capital; he made money selling his labour to the state: he wasn’t and isn’t bourgeoisie.

He’s a African bourgeoisie revolutionary

Do you have evidence that he’s from the bourgeoisie class?

I would suggest that ‘is it possible’ isn’t the best question. The majority of us would agree that it’s somewhere in the range of ‘unlikely’ to ‘impossible’, but any answer seeking to be more accurate than that necessarily involves speculation.

I think, at least in terms of finding surety of direction, it might be more helpful to ask yourself and others: if you weren’t trying to build a Western left, what would you do instead with that time and effort?

For some people, even if they knew the chances of making a difference were 1000:1, they’d still think it was the best use of their time. And some others, depending on their means, might direct their efforts abroad. Some might be Luigi.

I doubt very many would give up entirely and live a life of leisure. I don’t think anyone who’s at the point where they’re having this kind of conversation with this kind of community would sleep well at night knowing that they just walked away.

local and subscribed.

Another view where one could view ‘local’ for multiple selected instances (instead of all of them like with ‘all’) would be really handy.

The US having to allocate more resources into Ukraine opens up space for progress all around the world.

This is the biggest thing, for me.

If the US wasn’t directing all of its effort toward Ukraine and Israel, there’s no way Burkina Faso and the rest of the Sahel would have been able to make so much progress with such little pushback. And that’s just in the Sahel.

It’s a disruptive new technology that disrupt an industry that already has trouble giving a living to people in the western world.

Yes, and the solution to the new trouble is exactly the same as the solution to the old trouble, but good luck trying to tell that to liberals when they have a new tree to bark up.

The messaging from the anti-generative-AI people is very confused and self-contradictory. They have legitimate concerns, but when the people who say “AI art is trash, it’s not even art” also say “AI art is stealing our jobs”…what?

I think the “AI art is trash” part is wrong. And it’s just a matter of time before its shortcomings (aesthetic consistency, ability to express complexity etc) are overcome.

The push against developing the technology is misdirected effort, as it always is with liberals. It’s just delaying the inevitable. Collective effort should be aimed at affecting who has control of the technology, so that the bourgeoisie can’t use it to impoverish artists even more than they already have. But that understanding is never going to take root in the West because the working class there have been generationally groomed by their bourgeois masters to be slave-brained forever losers.