Alice Malone
@alicirce
Read broadly, like a bee. — Lu Xun
The French Revolution proposed: 1) all humans are equal 2) politics and economics are inseparable There were 2 philosophical paths forward: 1) Deny: Burke & other liberals (Constant, Toqueville), then neoliberalism (Hayek) & fascism 2) Affirm: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lenin
In his highly critical book on Tesla & Musk, Niedermeyer credits Elon with having an intuition for what will sell — for a certain type of buyer In dire financial straits, he released a red car & saved the company The porny anime grokbots seem like the LLM version of the red car
Possibly the most Burger Reich coded headline I’ve ever read
Friend by Paek Nam-Nyong. A slice-of-life story about marriage. The beauty and severity of the DPRK's geography act as metaphors for love, with its ability to both nurture and devastate, or be forgotten and underappreciated. x.com/alicirce/statu…
Friend is a lovely story about marriage, and how marriages can be strained as individuals grow and change and as socials norms change, if the individuals in the relationship don't communicate and adapt.
Even funnier when you remember that they also posted other stories about how the DPRK built things only for tourists that their population never get to use, their propaganda often contradict itself
How strange that a country in the Global South opens luxury facilities for its own people and not for tourists from the Global North, right? 🤭
the imperialist mindset is when you're upset that a less developed country builds beach resorts for its own citizens instead of letting you stay there.
The historical pensions were too much wealth in the hands of the state, a state that had enfranchised many of its workers, who the Imperialists view as too inept to manage Imperial relations themselves. To regain control of wealth they onboarded workers into Capitalist interests.
For those in Canada / Ontario, this is a good book on the topic. OMERS and OTPP are even more directly involved in real estate. The transformation of public sector pensions into investment juggernauts occured as part of neoliberalism's discipling of the welfare state.
marx uses the metaphor "behind the backs" of the producers to describe commodity fetishism, which i think is clearer about the problem and solution than either the "illusion" interpretation or the "impersonal domination" interpretation. like we need to have it in front of us
Could publicly-owned grocery stores break Canada’s grocery oligopoly?, by @JeremyAppel1025 open.substack.com/pub/theorchard…
"When the Fascist Party makes a change in its policy, its members read about it in the newspapers just like any other citizen. In no measure do they participate in determining its policy. Every form of internal democracy is lost." What other parties work like this?
One of Uber's main "innovations" that allowed it to outcompete its competitors was the exploitation of labour law loop holes, so this is great to see. I'm curious if it will just leave entirely, like Amazon in Quebec. readthemaple.com/uber-drivers-h…
