tupac was a new afrikan communist

Rural land is organized in communes, you can move to the countryside from the city, but you must be invited into the commune or rent from it as a tenant, costing you for the privilege of using their land.

The cities are only so big as they are developed, and growth takes time and energy. Due to the market, living in the cities costs more, so you can move from the countryside to the cities, if you can afford it (i.e. stable job), which is hard because the city can only plan for so many jobs in any given time.

Moving like that is difficult, and is more expensive than staying put, because the real economic cost of such a move has an expensive impact on the whole economy. This applies everywhere, which is why some lineages haven’t left Southside Chicago or South Central LA since it those neighborhoods were redlined, and the life expectancy is almost a decade shorter than the metro average:

Movement only “feels free” in the US, because much of the population is able to pay for the freedom of movement (using surplus labor).

This system is also partially why many of the big cities are provinces in their own. It gives provincial, and hukuo powers to the urbanites to decide how they want to grow (within the constraints of the overall state plan). In the US, instead it’s often people with freedom cash pushing out existing urbanites, sometimes into the outskirts, sometimes into more concentrated enclaves, sometimes onto the streets.

It was about ST’s MMT video, it was deserved.

And this ain’t the first time, Roderick’s a bit terminally online, arguing against other based progressive like JT (Second Thought) and Michael Hudson…

Why shouldn’t he? Hudson’s following reproduces Industrial Capitalist apologia in the same way that fed Social Chauvinism in Europe prior to WW1 (and during the height of Imperialism’s African carve). I can see the consequences of Hudson in the patsoc space. Second Thought’s video on MMT was uncritical and like Hudson reproduces petty booj cope about “the economy” and reform.

Hudson and ST are Marxist educators, they should be criticized so that their performance at that role can improve. If we are giving these people a living as revolutionary educators, shouldn’t they be held to the highest standards?

The western left has a deep cultural lack of seriousness (I wonder why that is?). Memes and jokes are fine but bigotry and anti-intellectualism shouldn’t be passed off as jokes to avoid criticism.

Authoritarianism isn’t real. Every state aggressively defends its class base. If you don’t face repression from your capitalist country, that says a lot about how the state sees you.

These socialist states aggressively defend the project of socialism in their countries because it represents the working classes.