sure

NASA has been seeing huge budget cuts, and I can’t imagine that SpaceX will facilitate any serious space research or meaningful advancement beyond just launching commercial stuff into orbit. This was a pretty good dive into how bad things are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spw7nv79L5o

I really hope you’re right and Venezuela can withstand the onslaught. I’m worried that the US is basically planning to do what they did in Iraq and raze a chunk of the country to the ground.

yeah I agree with that

Because they failed to control capitalist forces that the US will leverage to overthrow socialism. Go read up on Chile and how Allende was overthrown and Pinochet installed after. This is basically the same scenario.

Right, and hence why the whole project might now be destroyed. You really have to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat in order to guard a socialist project from aggression.

Bolivarian revolution is a socialist project.

the fash seeing this post over on lemmy.ml are already getting rankled 🤣 https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9553904/7209791

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For sure, the leadership in Germany is already full of fascist ghouls. I do expect whenever the government falls, AfD is going to win by a landslide. In fact, seems that the longer they keep the circus going the more popular AfD will get in the end.

That’s a good point, cause synthesis simply evolves the dialectic further. It doesn’t become a stasis. That’s the whole negation of negation business. Once a new state is reached, then new contradictions emerge and the system continues to evolve. The concept of entropy being continuously reframed as out understanding of the universe deepens kind of acts as a nice allegory here. :)

Yup, natural world is full of examples. I find i can be useful to contrast material dialectics with thermodynamics as well. Both describe dynamic systems that are in constant flux, where change is governed by the rules that emerge from the resolution of internal imbalances.

In thermodynamics, energy gradients act as the engine of change. Heat flows from a hot object to a cold one, pressurized gas expands into a vacuum, and so on. The flow is driven by a difference in energy potential, and continues until the system reaches equilibrium. In material dialectics, it’s the opposing forces that act as energy gradients within the system. The contradictions between them create a state of tension and acting as selection pressures, pushing the system to evolve into a new state where the tension is resolved.

In both frameworks, gradual, quantitative changes accumulate until they trigger a qualitative transformation. Classic examples like water reaching a tipping point of turning into steam when heated are an intuitive way to explain transformation of quantity into quality. It’s a clear case of an old system being negated, and a new one with a different qualitative character emerging.

xinhua and people’s daily are both great I find

Now that the US is putting economic pressure on them, things are going to get a lot worse. The regime might actually collapse at this rate.

Also, here’s how things are going in the capitalist paradise of occupied Korea https://asiatimes.com/2019/12/75-of-young-want-to-escape-south-korean-hell/

Haha I just make sure to read news from China to counterbalance the horrors in the west.

a wild redditor appears, it’s very confused

indeed it does