#statist

Du bist Statist*in, aber am falschen Filmset

#starwars #lotr #filmset #movies #stormtrooper #orcs #orks #sturmtruppen #midjouney #MidjourneyAI #midjourneyV52 #hdr #statist #komparse

The second sequence of the #communist hypothesis runs from 1917 to 1976:
from the #Bolshevik #Revolution to the end of the Cultural Revolution and
the militant upsurge throughout the world during the years 1966-75. It
was dominated by the question: how to win? How to hold out—unlike the
Paris Commune—against the armed reaction of the possessing classes; how
to organize the new power so as to protect it against the onslaught of
its enemies? It was no longer a question of formulating and testing the
communist hypothesis, but of realizing it: what the 19th century had
dreamt, the 20th would accomplish. The obsession with victory, centred
around questions of organization, found its principal expression in the
‘iron discipline’ of the communist party—the characteristic construction
of the second sequence of the hypothesis. The #party effectively solved
the question inherited from the first sequence: the revolution
prevailed, either through insurrection or prolonged popular war, in
Russia, China, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, and succeeded in
establishing a new order.

But the second sequence in turn created a further problem, which it
could not solve using the methods it had developed in response to the
problems of the first. The party had been an appropriate tool for the
overthrow of weakened reactionary regimes, but it proved ill-adapted for
the construction of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ in the sense
that Marx had intended—that is, a temporary state, organizing the
transition to the non-state: its dialectical ‘withering away’. Instead,
the party-state developed into a new form of #authoritarianism. Some of
these regimes made real strides in education, public health, the
valorization of labour, and so on; and they provided an international
constraint on the arrogance of the imperialist powers. However, the
#statist principle in itself proved corrupt and, in the long run,
ineffective. #Police #coercion could not save the ‘#socialist’ state from
internal #bureaucratic inertia; and within fifty years it was clear that
it would never prevail in the ferocious competition imposed by its
capitalist adversaries. The last great convulsions of the second
sequence—the Cultural Revolution and May 68, in its broadest sense—can
be understood as attempts to deal with the inadequacy of the party.

[Alain #Badiou-Bibliography/The Communist Hypothesis/Lacan Dot Com](https://www.lacan.com/badcomm.html)

#statism #Statist

#Statist monday #VOTE

https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/captivate-tag/mmt/

#BobMurphy did a few shows on #ModernMonetaryTheory.

Ep. 25 "Discussing MMT Through the Eyes of a Socialist"

Gives the best overview.

To summarize: Ultimate #Statist #MonetaryPolicy:

"All money comes from the State. #Deficits do not matter. The State can make as much money as it wants. The purpose of taxes is to create a demand for the State's #currency."

Do you expect the State to reach any other conclusion?

Fri. 20/03/27 14:18

@billstclair wrote (https://gab.com/billstclair/posts/103884179873547965):
Not sure of your point.

I apologize for my delayed response to your comment, which I assume refers to my original post, here:
https://gab.com/UntamedFun/posts/103883813946810768

Recall @fourteenwords1488 's dismissal of @Paul47 's request to define terms as "clinging to a dictionary".

@fourteenwords1488 is an obvious impostor; he is a #NaziImpersonator whose interests and intentions have nothing to do with Nazism and everything to do with slandering Libertarianism.

As such, he corrupts language in order to deceive, hence his rejection of any attempt to define terms during a "discussion". This is to be expected and, as a good #AntiFa #statist, he is doing his job.

But language corruption also comes from ostensible defenders of liberty. Ostensible defenders of liberty will frequently refer to our current system as "capitalism" or "the free market." Libertarians know what those terms mean and instantly realize that our current system is most assuredly not capitalism or the free market. But many others ("practical men") will be duped and accept without question the incorrect use of these terms.

Keynes said:

"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."

I agree.

Both Libertarians and "practical men" agree our current system is, in many ways, unjust - a rigged game that benefits the few at the expense of the many.

But when Libertarians promote Capitalism or the free market, what does the "practical man" think? He thinks "Those evil Libertarians are promoting our current, unjust, rigged system!" And so the practical man, understandably, rejects Libertarianism.

So, @billstclair , my point, or perhaps my suggestion, is that Libertarians reject this particular example of language corruption - and not only reject it, but call it out whenever and wherever it is encountered.

@MandyBaldwinWriter @KittyAntonik @LibertyDoll @FaithGoldy @LaurenSouthern @truMalma @billstclair @Caitoz @dsfgs @dsfgs @krisxx @fourteenwords1488 @Paul47 @HighImpactFlix @rongeorge @God-KingNobodyLoser

This year, New York (America's most authoritarian state) started imposing at gunpoint a "Stargazing Permit" that forces everyone whether locals or visitors to pay a penalty for admiring the stars in public parks. You read that right. In New York, you must pay for a license to look at the freakin stars or otherwise you'll be kidnapped (arrested in doublespeak) by the state's licensed killers (cops). This draconian new law that sounds as if it came straight out of George Orwell's 1984 dystopia is actually being enforced TODAY in New York. The Big Brother state is charging residents $35 for a 1-year permit and the fee jumps to $60 if you're a visitor. This new draconian law is obviously an extortion racket and a brazen money grab designed to separate New York residents and visitors from more of their hard-earned cash.

#StargazingPermit #Stargazing #NYStargazingPermit #NewYork #NYC #AuthoritarianState #Dystopia #Orwellian #BigBrother #BigBrotherState #BigBrotherGovernment #DraconianLaw #GeorgeOrwell #Statist

Sources:
https://is.gd/a59Mdr
https://is.gd/wui9V8
https://is.gd/Z9x0Ri
https://is.gd/YohjoF

Many of us are all too familiar with this!

#Mainstreamer #Normie #Statist
#TheFreeThoughtProject #TFTP

Q = #STATIST PSYOP @edwill

What part of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED do u not grasp? #STATIST @olddustyghost

If you believe the Government Gangsters, you are possessed by demons of #LYING #MindControl (#HYPNOTISM #TRANCE?) and more. Don't be a #STATIST @VARACKI

Fact? Link your source you #Satanic #STATIST. @TImW381

Threatening people who don't like being stolen from.

#Statist
#BlockMe
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RT @IMLazzaro@twitter.com
I'm going to maim the next asshole that insists taxation is theft.

Roads, water, waste, fire department, police, city planning, community centers... All paid for by taxes.
https://twitter.com/IMLazzaro/status/1070544614694764544

Look, a #statist!

@profoundlynerdy #RonPaul's 2008 campaign got me on the train, for sure. Before that I was a dumb normie #statist. I started reading/watching RP stuff, then I went down the rabbit hole, and when I came back out a bit later I was an #anarchist :)