[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think one of the main effect a state should have in this model is offset the negotiations in favor of the ruling class, since the point of the state is to allow the ruling class to guaranty their control over the means of productions.

For example, if workers try to occupy their employer's factory as a bargaining chip, the owner would call the bourgeoie police to chase them, taking the bargaining chip away from the workers and back to the capitalist who hereby maintain his control over the worker's jobs and consumption.

So the rulling class should be assumed to have an advantage in negotiations.

If you can find a way to quantify both classes' negotiation advantage/disadvantage through their amount of control over the means of production, and maybe find a way to have it change over time as class struggle changes the amount of control they have, maybe you could even model the effect of protests and revolutions.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

This is very interesting.

I think you should try to see what happen if you take into account the influence of the state, not just the bourgeois state but try to see what happen when either classes have state power.

You should also try to account for the tendency for the rate of profit to fall as automation squeeze labor out of production.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Turkey is cooking.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Why is it R = p X_A - k p X_B? Shouldn't it be R = (p X_A) / (k p X_B)?

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think I understand how the model works.

What is R exactly and how do you get it from X_A and X_B. And what are X_A and X_B in the first place?

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

If I understand correctly the graph, there are 3 distinct regions.

The very small region at the to where R>1, that seems to imply a situation where A and B would sort of switch roles, A would own most of the capital and B would own little to no capital and would live off of their labor power.

The large middle "north-east" region where 1>R>0, where B's capital increases faster than A's. Itself made up of 3 regions, one where A does most of the labor and own little to no capital, one where A does little work despite owning little to no capital, and one where A work little and own most capital similar to the first big region.

And the bottom right corner region where R<0, where either A or B is losing capital, but I'm not sure which.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What did you use to get this graph?

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

What are alpha and beta?

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

These are the facts and I could give you charts with the soviet export.

Why say I could and not do it? If you have sources, give them. You haven't linked any source whatsoever in this entire thread to back up your wild claims.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Ha yes, you can just do that. It's totally not out of reach for all the peoples who have to work 2~3 jobs at once and still can't save any money because even the basic necessities for survival are sold at extortion prices not to mention possible medical, college debt or mortgages.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

You're confusing private property with personal property. While this is a very common mistake, you can't claim to have an informed opinion about communism while still making it, it's 101 level stuff.

Further, you are also making the other very common error of assuming the state is oppressive because it is like some kind of monolith somehow cut off from the rest of society as though the peoples staffing it weren't as much part of society as everyone else, this is not the case, whether a state apparatus is oppressive and against whom it is oppressive is dictated by the class character of the state, a factor that is systematically neglected by the peoples using variations of "power always corrupt" truisms to "analyze" a state.

tl;dr: you're knowledge of communism and communist theory and praxis is very surface level at best, go read some reading list from prolewiki's library, To criticize something you need to know at least the basics of it first.

[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes but not only, small business owners, small landlords and "casual traders" who own some stocks but not enough to be considered rich or have influence in the company the stocks are from are also part of the petty bourgeoisie.

Generally, the petty bourgeoisie are peoples who technically own means of productions and may even have a few employee working for them, but don't make quite enough from that to not have to work anymore. They are constantly under the threat of being out-competed by larger businesses, especially corporations owned by the high bourgeoisie, and becoming a proletarian.

Basically, they are the subclass at the boundary between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. They are better off than the proletariat and own means of production and private property but are under constant threat to lose these privileges and become part of the proletariat, especially in time of crisis.

They are the source of the overwhelming majority of fascists as I've said, because they still benefit from capitalism and generally aspire to become part of the high bourgeoisie even tough they are very much the underdogs. The bourgeois state will intentionally let fascism grow unopposed so that if the bourgeoisie feels their privileges are threatened by working class movements, they can give power to the fascists who will crackdown on the proletariat and protect the capitalist system from being overthrown.

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A few years ago I found the youtube channel sudgylacmoe and watched what is still their most viewed video A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra where he introduce in a vulgarise fashion a branch of mathematics I didn't know before, Geometric algebra more formally known as Clifford algebra(s).

Basically, geometric algebra is a generalisation of linear algebra which allow operations impossible in classic linear algebra such as multiplying vectors together and adding vectors and scalars and also generalise the objects of linear algebra to higher dimensions.

For example, you have 0 dimensional points (scalars) and 1 dimensional oriented line segment (vectors) just like in classic linear algebra, but on top of that, you have generalisations for every other dimensions: 2 dimensional oriented surfaces (bivectors), 3 dimensional oriented volumes (trivectors), etc...

One of the most interesting quirks of geometric algebra is that it makes a lot of the formalism of linear algebra as well as their applications in all sorts of sciences (physics, computer science, engineering, etc...) much simpler and more natural. For example, complex numbers, quaternions and spinors appear on their own naturally from the properties of multivector multiplication and a lot of physics equations and computer science algorithms are greatly simplified (this youtuber give the Maxwell's equation(s), special relativity and a simple computer graphics algorithm as examples in the videos linked).

The channel is full of videos and shorts about geometric algebra for those interested.

I'd like to hear lemmygrad and hexbear's math community's' opinions about it.

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Hello everyone. I am looking for any resources (videos, books, ect) that explain what a vangard partie must do to prepare for revolution and how parties that have led successfull revolutions did it. Things like: how to build a dual power stucture able to compete against the bourgeois state, how to deal with reactionnary infiltration of the partie, how to build popular support, how to get ressources, weapons and money, ect.

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