Wtf is a western Maoist? The only Maoists I’ve met are old dudes who were part of the red guard
Any society will have vestigial elements of the past societies even after revolution.
Beauty standards in a future socialist society will be from leftovers of our current society. This is something that will exist and its contrary elements will need to be resolved. It won’t go away by itself.
Similar to how Castro made racism illegal and thought it was resolved, but then years later he had to admit its a lot harder to deal with than that.
Capitalism is an ideology of capital — the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit,
To me, capitalism is irredeemable,” she added, arguing that capitalism’s goals come at a cost to people and the environment
Guess who said this quote
China is successful and thus it can’t be socialist.
MF can’t see that China is successful because it IS socialist.
Do you really think left wingers spend all day in books?
Well, I do. If audiobooks count.
How “actually intelligent” you are doesn’t matter, because you will come out ahead in life if you are motivated, have self control, and have grit. Non-intelligence traits account for 8% of career success compared to 1.6% accounted for by intelligence alone.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1018601108
I also would love if intelligence depended solely on environmental factors that we could easily improve, but alas that is not the case.
You fucking can. It’s called studying and it’s what everyone does.
Someone with high grit and high intelligence can still be expected to perform better than someone with high grit and low intelligence, all else being equal.
When it comes to the real world outside of academia, this is false. Intelligence doesn’t matter all that much.
In a capitalist system, intensified differences between intersectionalities can be monetized, and prevent organization and unionization. So they won’t fix this.
The third riche provided social services to only white people to alienate any working class minorities so that they can’t organize across race boundaries and strike.
Joe Biden slip-up “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” is indicative of US domestic policy; keep a poor population as a labor reserve desperate for any wage, and alienate them from each other across race lines.
As socialists, we are for the working class, but that also means we must first unite the working class against the owning class, by focusing on commonalities and developing class awareness. Only then will they realize that their enemy isn’t their neighbour, but rather the owning class and the state owned by the owning class.
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However, even in a socialist world, discrimination based on attractiveness (lookism/pretty privilege) and height (heightism) would still be genuine concerns,
Yes. Even after the dissolution of class as defined by their relation to the means of production, there will be intersectionalities remaining which we would need to address. However, these intersectionalities are not antagonistic in nature, (unless they are made antagonistic by policies that favour one intersection over another like in fascist regimes or in the US) and they can be resolved through reconciliation and understanding.
To suggest genetic alteration would be to intensify the contradictions between intersectionalities, as it would be to suggest that their existence is not tolerated, which is why you’re getting downvoted into the dirt.
To anyone who suggests gov mandated catgirl/catboy sex slaves for ugly people: gulag.
Lot to unravel here, so I won’t address everything.
intelligence has a significant genetic component,
Intelligence (as measured by iq tests) is not mostly dependent on genetics, but rather motivation. Motivation to succeed is decreased by discrimination, and ostracization. When the motivation factor is accounted for, natural intelligence (talent) is much less predictive.
Edit: iq testing and academic performance is heavily influenced by motivation but more influenced by intelligence. Real world performance is more influenced by motivation than intelligence.
Angela Duckworth did a lot of work on this, and I recommend giving her a read if you are interested in this.
So, as an answer to your concern, we should seek to eliminate discrimination of differences, and seek to understand the struggles of the ones who are different rather than make everyone the same.
Yes. A communist signifies your political allegiances, while being a landlord or business owner signifies your class. They’re mutually exclusive. If you are both, then it means you are arguing against your class interests and you are fighting for a state that doesn’t cater to your class interests nor represent you.
Similarly, being a communist doesn’t automatically make you working class, because class is defined by your relation to the method of production.
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