I think the problem here is defining what communism is supposed to be, or what constitutes these “political structures.”

For Marx the “political structure” stems from the mode of production, what we usually call the base. In a very shortened form, it’s the interacting between productive forces, means of production and the property regime (and all its consequences). As Capital tries to multiply itself, capitalism has shown a development of the complexity and productivity of the means of production, along with requiring workers that are able to deal with this complex production (specifically, this is dealt with by having multiple people act in unity towards a single product), in other words, developing the productive force. As capitalism develops, it accumulates property under a central command while simultaneously making it a collective tool. So, in capitalism’s specific case, we’re dealing with private property that is only used by a capacitated collective.

The developing self-consciousness and organization of this productive collective pressures the regime of private property, which will strike back violently to keep existing, in the specific form of blunting the collective organization at all costs, as well as pushing back against the superstructure reflexions of these changes (i.e. fascism). If the self-conscious productive collective is victorious, it has been through a period where: the means of production have been transformed; the productive forces have been transformed; the property regime has been transformed. Thus, we have a new mode of production, and a new “political structure.”

This is the tendency of capitalism. But notice that this assumes a more or less constant development of technology, for example. What if climate catastrophes hit too hard too fast in the coming years? Parts of civilization could be severed from eachother, and develop in different ways, depending on what exactly gets destroyed. Would an electricity-starved modern nation still develop factories as we know them? Or would property get fragmented again? What knowledge and techniques would be lost or gained? That we can’t predict.

like ‘a commodity is a use-value’ or ‘a commodity is an exchange-value’

How are those contradictory? Or what other things do they contradict?

Depending on the actual thing you’re considering, it’s putting the knowledge into practice and having a clear way of evaluating whether you’re failing

I think this could be a community that aims at politically organizing the users of Hexbear on IRL marxist orgs. Or, in the very least, a center for resources on organizing.

For example, next week is march 8th. Orgs all around the world are currently planning events and wondering how they can get more people to join. This site full progressive, marxist-inclined young people with varying degrees of political experience will, at most, be exposed to a post or two about the women’s struggle in general, and then it’s march 9th. There is a lot of energy, but it starts and dies here.

We could be developing techniques for transferring that energy into getting people to join or even start real life orgs, campaigns and parades, calling events, coopting lib events with left-wing speeches etc. I can also imagine an art comm were people can request help with agitprop for certain stuff.

This site’s widespread culture of stimulating reading marxist theory and of bullying lib behavior is a great indication of the potential we have, IMO. All we need is to add IRL organizing to that culture.

Edit: and although we should avoid too many specifics, we could be a great center for help on recruiting strategies, agitprop, theory etc without the risk of any doxxing.

Me sowing (parasitizing third world countries for extracting capital): hahaha yes!

Me reaping (decomposing my productive state into a bloated financial institution): owiee nooo

Get’em boys! 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

Studying new types of policies and their effects? What could possibly be the use of that?

Startup announces the 24hour workday

Then get ashamed for how you acted

I’ll get that reaction immediately to almost any noise 🙉

Mostly if I’m already kinda stressed. If not, then it will take a few minutes of noise before I crack

How is it defined? Usually understood by whom? Are you talking about abstract concepts or historical examples of “free markets” and their development?

Cartels and monopolies are the result of “free markets” btw. The strongest agents will organize to dominate and destroy the competitors however they can.

It’s always just leftists who aren’t western brand “leftists”, i.e. completely averse to action and change.

Libs will demonize all forms of action and analysis of oppression and then wonder why things just keep getting worse despite them doing a lot of useless, performative things. In the lack of a correct theory, it always comes down to “it’s those damn Asians!!!”

It also takes much less time and effort to create content for a foum compared to a video platform, that might interfere when trying to build a community from the ground up