MizuTama [he/him, any]

There is only one road left: Resistance. Dignity is never given, it must be claimed.

This letter reminds me of the introduction to Newton’s Revolutionary Suicide, particularly when Huey is summarizing what he believes the idea means:

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. When reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death. We will have to be driven out with the stick.

https://archive.ph/xulPa here is an archive link.

Everytime a French company has assets taken, an angel sprouts its wings.

I mean, labor aristocrats are still be proletariat. Socialism would be in the best class interest overall, but would cause a considerable decrease in the standard of living during the transitional state (I’d have to lose my treats during a revolution? ). Due to imperialism, the current unipolar order elevates entire nations to the level of labor aristocrats, meaning they have been sufficiently drained of revolutionary will. With this comes a destruction of solidarity with the rest of the proletariat. From my understanding, the idea behind multipolarity is that the ability to continue keeping the entire population of nations or international blocs in a state of labor aristocracy is vastly diminished or outright impossible in a multipolar world, as it gives nations who experience the worst of the exploitation bargaining power to uplift their nations and break away from the imperialists they are being subjected to. This would decrease the rate of profits, leading the group’s bourgeoisie to relocalize the formerly exported exploitation, rapidly deteriorating the standards of living of those at home. This would drop the standards of living to the point that the offerings of the bourgeoisie are no longer sufficient for that nation’s or nations’ masses, leaving them better primed for revolution.

Edit: Sidenote: I don’t actually think it’s imperative for us Western Marxists to necessarily fully comprehend the idea behind it, as I don’t see what action we take that would call for pushing for multipolarity that isn’t already done under the banner of anti-imperialism.

So i did make a mistake there the non-ASD neurodivergents should be their own group as an unknown as to how they’d generally respond. But i would guess theres atleast a bit of overlap with ASD and some other types of nuerodivergency on this. Since its pretty common to have overlaps like that.

Gotcha, I know ADHD has an extremely high occurrence rate on ASD diagnosed people so it would be elevated if not simply for the fact that this behavior is common in ASD folk as is ADHD (I believe roughly 70% of people tested diagnosed with ASD who test for ADHD are diagnosed with that as well though this is me also vaguely recalling a study I read some time ago). I wasn’t sure if there was information I had missed regarding similar trends in ADHD populations when controlled for ASD co-occurrence.

I can’t see the comment to directly respond to it on Hexbear for some reason, but do you have a source for the ADHD portion of the claim? The source seems to only concern ASD, not ADHD.