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

libs will lib

indeed

I can’t imagine that Russia would start the war with NATO by flying 5 drones into Poland. Most likely explanations are that it’s an attempt at a provocation, or they might’ve gone off course. Given that Russia sends in hundreds of them every night, it’s not impossible. Overall, I think it’s a nothing burger.

context for those out of the loop https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/europe/poland-scramble-jets-russian-drone-reports-intl-hnk-ml

lol time to make lemmy.ml upset I guess

no idea

I think he captures the problems with postmodernism pretty well.

always keep growing :)

Well put, pretty much any sci-fi that’s not dystopian in nature is essentially a vision of a communist future.