wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(1997_film)

IMDB user reviews: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119794/reviews?ref_=tt_urv

i feel bad for ppl having consumption as an hobby. what a life.

My opinion: people need to chill. and also to understand that English is used by different people in various contexts. Not everybody grasps the subtleties of the language. For instance, if discussing something like “a product highly recommended for our discreet female audience” or stating “no problems have been encountered in the department for female prisoners” is considered appropriate, somebody might feel that writing “To look at a female’s behind” (as seen in the original r/therewasanattempt post) is also acceptable. And it’s no big deal.

Also, it’s a typical Anglo-Saxon harry potteresque magical thinking, and obsession, with language, magic words and formulations. Censoring words just make them stronger. Stop being fucking puritains stupid ameriremoved. Scarlet letters never work. Changing words doesn’t change the world, activism about language is just slacktivism to feel smug and superior, and ultimately keeping the status quo as it is.

Why should we care about you? What’s your favorite book?

lol, i see vast agreement in the answer you got. but you need to be a bit more careful and thoughtful. your ideas so far are a confused potpourri. you need to read what marxist theory and communism are, more than a few slogans. and this can be done just alone, with a book. perhaps start here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/marx-a-very-short-introduction-9780198821076 (Marx: A Very Short Introduction - Peter Singer)

i think they must be very young, no need to be hostile :)

i find this whole discussion kinda cute to be honest…

Communism is usually associated with historical materialism, the theory that everyone here is trying to explain to you. However, there have been other forms of socialism before and after Marx. You might find interesting Henri de Saint-Simon and his theories, Paul Lafargue, or for another, more recent example of non-Marxist socialist, Karl Polanyi.

If you don’t believe in Marxism, that’s okay. But you need to study it first, and based on your original post, it might require some more time, patience, and reading.

so you are not a marxist, bye lol :)

i’m joking. but you really need to read about marxism.

What does everything you just said have to do with communism?

It’s the very basics of our theory. and it’s basically what i told you before.

ofc, you can believe in socialism without being a marxist. You might be interested in reading Polanyi for example.

“but I just don’t see what part of it requires belief in an objective world of matter.”

that’s not what materialism means, at least in marxist therm. materialism means humans facts are dependent on space and time, so to say. so, the relationships of productions, are historically connoted and situated in space. that’s why we are materialists. historical materialists.

we reject idealism: we don’t believe that culture is the engine of history, for example. we reject all forms of idealism, we reject the “idea” of state (for example), the state for us is a product of the relationships of production . we believe material relationships of production are the engine of history.

that’s a very synthetic answer. but the point is: materialism is not primarily concerned with physical objects or “things.” Instead, it centers on the intricate interplay of historical and spatial contexts in shaping human realities.

So many!

https://www.contretemps.eu/ (theory)

https://alencontre.org/ (news)

https://lanticapitaliste.org/ (news)

https://positions-revue.fr/ (theory)

https://www.frustrationmagazine.fr/ (pop, theory)

https://lvsl.fr/ (pop, theory)

and 543654 others…

Yes, Polanyi was not a Marxist, and literally nobody would say he was. He had distanced himself from Marxism at a personal level after an initial flirtation with it in his youth. Polanyi turned away from Marxism in the years leading up to the First World War.

Certainly, he was somewhat of a socialist, though his theory differed significantly from Marxism. His theory revolved around conflict, similar to Marx’s theory; however, the terms, dynamics, and mechanisms were all distinct. Upon rereading “The Great Transformation,” it becomes clear that the second Karl (Polanyi) had deviated considerably from the first Karl’s (Marx) fundamental insights on various critical points: the emergence of capitalism, the origins of the Industrial Revolution, the dialectics of commodification, the exploitation of labor, concepts of value and money, class power, and class struggle.

Some Marxist authors were indeed inspired by Polanyi, as with the already mentioned Burawoy, Nancy Fraser, etc. However, that doesn’t retroactively make Polanyi a Marxist. Aside from that, Polanyi was very religious; he converted to Protestantism and remained a Christian for the rest of his life. He leaned much more towards being “communitarian” than “communist”.

edit: https://sandbroo.faculty.politics.utoronto.ca/why-polanyi-and-not-marx/ here’s a text with a better explanation.

true

well, I will stop to use YouTube, and that will solve 2 problems

Bordiga was a pure genius, but it’s quite a difficult read because of his idiosyncratic writing.

Among the non Marxists, I like Polanyi a lot.

technical solution are palliatives, but why not…

yes, it’s the same for everybody. and sometimes you just encounter positions that are just so pure lunacy that you feel the URGE to say something. Hours wasted, goals forgotten, loved ones sitting in houses with each other distracted all day by technology made by the hands of other poor souls in sweat shops in a foreign land.

most of the time, debating online is just useless. frustrating. pointless. who cares if somebody is wrong on the internet.

i dont really understand how last.fm still exists.

i know why last.fm still exists, but i don’t know why spotify hasn’t created a clone of last.fm. At spotify, they have all the data, and people clearly enjoy seeing those statistics about themselves 🤷

me! https://www.last.fm/user/o

“Your compatibility with Shellfish989 is Low. You both listen to Lil Ugly Mane, Tyler, the Creator and Oliver Anthony Music.”

Imagine growing up with this mentality, being so scared of “outside”, public transport, walking alone, etc… how this can influence the sensibilities, the mindset, and finally the politics of the people involved? Young adults that are requested to be indoor at 8pm in front of their computer or phones doing bullshit alone; either idealizing or demonizing a world they don’t know and they don’t want to know.

And that’s supposed to be the country’s elite, lol. This gated community mentality is and will be absolutely detrimental for everybody involved.