We're also using AI internally to improve our coding processes, which is boosting productivity and efficiency. Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. This helps our engineers do more and move faster.
When text editors automatically create templates for boilerplate, that's AI.
Gotta remember to come back in 8 hours lol. This might be a fun experiment, since basically every corporate social media wants to be tiktok already.
You'll probably have better luck regarding history and theory of communes on hexbear's anarchism communities.
There have been many attempts at something like networks of self-organised communes, even before Marxism and Anarchism were coined.
In colonial Brazil, self-sustaining and self-governed communities called Quilombos were created as an alternative to the Atlantic trade slave-society imposed by the Europeans. As far as I've read they often organised themselves in federations with regards to war but were self-contained with regards to their own economy. Not sure what's a good English source, but Clovis Moura is the best Portuguese one.
Over time, with the consolidation of colonial (and eventually Brazilian) authority, the settlements were either wiped out or relegated to the margins of society. The few that remain today are constantly under judicial and criminal attack.
Other two more recent examples of federated autonomous communities would be the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities in Mexico, which recently got dissolved and the Shining Path (and following splinter groups) occupation of Peruvian territories.
Do note that all of the provided examples had to deal with the constant threat of organised violence, be it from the state or from organised crime.
Going back to Brazil, two other examples of communes would be some of the communities defended by the Landless's Workers Movements (which is less militant and more legalist) or the armed League of Poor Peasants (which, surprise surprise, was created as a reaction to brutal state suppression).
Given all that, I don't believe communes can be seen as "safer" or "more peaceful" ways of building towards socialism or fighting imperialism. They have a role to play (even under capitalism) and are objectively good in many cases, but they're still going to be in the crosshairs of imperialism.
Wherever alternatives to imperialism (and therefore capitalism) present themselves, they must be brutally destroyed and made an example of. This is probably paraphrasing a few dozen Marxists and also a couple Secretaries of State.
In all its bloody triumphs over the self-sacrificing champions of a new and better society, that nefarious civilization, based upon the enslavement of labor, drowns the moans of its victims in a hue-and-cry of calumny, reverberated by a world-wide echo. The serene working men’s Paris of the Commune is suddenly changed into a pandemonium by the bloodhounds of “order.”
And what does this tremendous change prove to the bourgeois mind of all countries? Why, that the Commune has conspired against civilization! The Paris people die enthusiastically for the Commune in numbers unequally in any battle known to history. What does that prove? Why, that the Commune was not the people’s own government but the usurpation of a handful of criminals! The women of Paris joyfully give up their lives at the barricades and on the place of execution. What does this prove? Why, that the demon of the Commune has changed them into Megaera and Hecates!
Translation for the gringos.
"Imorrível" is a purposefully wrong way to say "immortal". The correct word is just "imortal", but "imorrível" makes it sound more like "unable to die/be killed" than "doesn't die" and also sounds funnier in portuguese. Some fucko botched a stab 8 years ago and he's still riding that high.
"Brochar" is a verb for when a man loses their erection during sex. So "Imbrochável" would be somebody to which that is impossible to happen. I don't recall the context, but a while back Lula and Bolsonaro had some weird electoral exchanges calling each other "Brocha" (man who does the "brochar" thing a lot), and at some point some of his base started using "imbrochável" to describe him (and the opposition used it to mock him). You can probably imagine the toxic masculity connotations.
"Incomível" is somthing like "unable to be eaten". "Comer" or eating somebody is an euphemism/slang for having penetrative sex with somebody as the active person, with all the homophobia and misogyny that that entails. So loosely it means "unable to be fucked", but keep in mind that it doesn't proscribe being the one in the active side of the relationship, which is a common theme in homophobic discourse. The "Incompatible" translation on OP is just incorrect.
Funny meme, dude is still a fugitive from his own country. Hopefully Milei will follow suit soon.
It's very low effort and low reward praxis. Kinda like reposting stuff about rallies or from organisations to your friends, it is useful and probably not detrimental, but be careful not to fall into "consumer praxis" pitfall of liking, sharing and subscribing to Second Thought and being satisfied with only that.
If you have some green areas near you try climbing trees. It's a pretty weird hobby and you can start with what feels like humiliating small steps (climbing a hip-height branch). But it's a great way for getting a different and closer appreciation for nature and also of exercising balance and body control rather than just the muscle growth you'd get at the gym.
I also second martial arts, specially more cultural ones like Capoeira, Kung Fu or Karate rather than competition-focused ones like Boxing.
The OECD has some good sources for data and viz on trade, as well as many other topics related to global economics.
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/trade.html
Just be aware that it's a liberal institution.
Academic Marxism is the tendency to study Marxism solely as an economic theory without little to no organizative theory or practice, rendering it toothless.
This means that the beginning and end of the organisation's work is confined to universities, particularly economics and social science departments, bringing with that all the petty bourgeois and elitist trends in academia. In short, it's "people who only read Marx in German, but never went to a picket line".
This is extremely common in bourgeois democracies as a way of institutionalising critique, and therefore making it harmless. Rather than making communism illegal, the ruling class makes effective party work illegal, but "tolerates" intellectual Marxists with high pay, healthcare and good benefits.
For further reading, here's an (academic) article critiquing academic Marxists and warning of how actual militant workers movements are in danger of being co-opted by liberal ideology in 1977. Ronald Reagan was elected in 1978.
Actually completely unrelated, but since this quote is really famous by itself without context here's the full paragraph, formatted for convenience. Every meme quotation is an opportunity to read theory.
Communists do not fight for personal military power (they must in no circumstances do that, and let no one ever again follow the example of Chang Kuo-tao), but they must fight for military power for the Party, for military power for the people.
As a national war of resistance is going on, we must also fight for military power for the nation. Where there is naivety on the question of military power, nothing whatsoever can be achieved. It is very difficult for the labouring people, who have been deceived and intimidated by the reactionary ruling classes for thousands of years, to awaken to the importance of having guns in their own hands.
Now that Japanese imperialist oppression and the nation-wide resistance to it have pushed our labouring people into the arena of war, Communists should prove themselves the most politically conscious leaders in this war. Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. Yet, having guns, we can create Party organizations, as witness the powerful Party organizations which the Eighth Route Army has created in northern China. We can also create cadres, create schools, create culture, create mass movements. Everything in Yenan has been created by having guns. All things grow out of the barrel of a gun.
According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong army. Some people ridicule us as advocates of the "omnipotence of war". Yes, we are advocates of the omnipotence of revolutionary war; that is good, not bad, it is Marxist. The guns of the Russian Communist Party created socialism. We shall create a democratic republic.
Experience in the class struggle in the era of imperialism teaches us that it is only by the power of the gun that the working class and the labouring masses can defeat the armed bourgeoisie and landlords; in this sense we may say that only with guns can the whole world be transformed. We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Source is "Problems of War and Strategy", section II "The War and History of the Kuomintang".
This is an age-old debate (see Luxembourg's "reform or revolution").
The Marxist-Leninist line holds that protecting or enhancing the material conditions of the proletariat before the revolution can both increase the number of prospective party-members or militants (i.e. you can't organise rallies if you're starving) and gain the confidence of the working class by representing their immediate interests (i.e. protecting workers rights) unlike bourgeois parties.
Smaller more tangible reform fights are also ripe ground for recruitment of militants, as inexperienced comrades can get a lot of first hand experience organising for, for example, solutions for food security (Black Panther Party's free breakfasts).
However those reforms are means to an end, and that end is revolution. So reforms should not be a one-and-done thing (see the UK's NHS) but rather a front in heightening class war and highlighting capital as the enemy and their resistance to reform as evidence. I once saw a comment in another Lemmy instance that said something like "we tried to implement public healthcare, but capital resisted too hard so there's no hope". That is due to social-democrat and reformist monopoly over the discourse about public healthcare, which needs to be challenged by communists.
The term "class war" is not hyperbole. In a war, you should settle only for defeating your opponent, hopefully forcing them to capitulate or maybe even eradicating them. You don't take your single victory in a battlefield and pack your bags to go home, that's the reformist line represented by Jeremy Corbyn and in a more aesthetic sense, Bernie Sanders. But you also don't wait while your enemy marches into your territory hoping that their cruelty will materialise an uprising to defeat your opponent in a single blow, that is the spontaneists line held by every other Trotskyist splinter party or academicist communists.
I often help beginners with their school programming assignments. They're often dumbfounded when I tell them "AI" is useless because they "asked it to implement quicksort and it worked perfectly".
The next batch of software engineers are going to have huge dependency problems.