#Communism
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The left's operational lessons: from Trump to Singapore
Trump won by stating his extreme position; Mamdani's 'radicalism' is old moderate social democracy; Switzerland and Singapore model organic unity 'in a good sense'.
Stalinism, Luxemburg, and the Frankfurt School's blind spot
Luxemburg's 'socialism or barbarism' is wrong because Stalinism was both at once — a lesson the Frankfurt School, fixated on Western fascism, never processed.
Wang Huning: America Against America as CCP bible
Wang Huning, senior CCP ideologist: the soft-fascist question of preserving capitalism's productive energy while suppressing the social disintegration it causes.
Capitalism works — but must be controlled
Denying that capitalism organizes productive activity is a fantasy; but free markets exist only when a strong state breaks the monopolies capitalism generates.
Does the left need a Lee Kuan Yew?
Žižek backs Sloterdijk's prediction that Lee Kuan Yew will be the figure of this era remembered in 100 years — the left needs comparable social cohesion.
War communism: obligatory international cooperation
Against both voluntaristic cooperation and world government: 'war communism' as enforced coordination for the emergency state already arriving.
Marx's communism: capitalism without capital
Marx's communism kept capitalism's engine of ceaseless expanded reproduction while removing only surplus value — ecologically incoherent.