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 MIREN COMO LOS CAPITALISTAS GANAN MAS DINERO:   Yo compre en el Supermercado Nacional unas Danish Butter Cookies y miren porque yo soy mas comunista que Marx, miren como es el capitalismo.  Esas galleticas de mantequilla supuestamente danesas, estan fabricadas en La India.  Y le ponen un embase igualito al de las galleticas danesas originales fabricadas den Dinamarca.  Asi es que los capitalistas ganan mucho dinero porque al los salarios en La India ser mas bajo que los salarios de Dinamarca (donde estan supuestas a ser fabricadas las galleticas danesas), los capitalistas fabricadores de esas Danish Butter Cookies ganan mas dinero.  Pero saben buenas

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 I have a question about wether if i can eat a lot today on new years eve in order to have fun or wether i should stick to my low calorie diet? I ask this question because i am planning to eat about 5000 calories today which is 3300 calories over my maintainance calories which is about 1700 (The amount of calories i need to maintain same body-weight). Which means i would gain 1 extra lb. Do you think gaining 1 lb is not a big problem if i eat those 5000 calories today?  Should i have fun eating those 5000 calories today on new years eve, or should i be strong and stick to my low calorie diet?

THE NATURE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES IS SADNESS, DEPRESSION AND PAIN !!

THE NATURE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES IS SADNESS, DEPRESSION AND PAIN !!  The nature of human existence in most capitalist countries, where happiness seems absent, as Schopenhauer suggested—not only because life itself is painful, but because capitalism is a system that delivers only pain, sadness, and hardship, even to those who benefit from it. I bet even Trump, who gains from capitalism, doesn’t truly know what happiness is.

The USA has never been a particularly happy society, and in some countries like Mexico, there’s even more pain, suffering, and hardship. Even the so-called progressive liberal social-democrat pseudo-leftist governments, like those of Andrés López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum, are seen by some as kleptocracies, plutocracies, and corrupt oligarchies. Out of a population of 130 million, it’s estimated that only about 10 million people live comfortably.

The world can feel like a place full of pain, with many countries seeming like hells on earth. Nations such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Haiti, Palestine, Honduras, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago, along with several in Europe like Moldova, Ukraine, Spain, Georgia, and Romania, struggle with poverty and hardship..

Even in the so-called welfare social-democratic nations of Europe like Sweden and Norway, poverty still exists. There’s also significant poverty in China, which many progressive liberals (who aren’t radical orthodox Marxists or anarchists) often view as a paradise. The reality is that in China, only a small portion of the population lives well. Similarly, India, despite spending heavily on its space program and boasting luxuries like modern roads, vehicles, stunning scenery, and beautiful cities, also struggles with widespread poverty and hardship.

Here in the USA, it’s the same story. In Knoxville, TN, where I live, there are really two Knoxvilles. One is a beautiful place full of nice, friendly people, often part of the privileged upper middle class and high-wage working class, which might explain their happiness. But there’s also a more somber side of Knoxville, filled with sad, weary faces—and that’s the majority here.

The majority of the 350 million Americans seem visibly depressed. This depression isn’t really due to low brain chemicals, as psychiatrists often claim, but more to low buying power. Many Americans struggle with low incomes, and when combined with an inflationary economic system, it prevents them from affording their basic needs and simple pleasures, making it hard to feel happy.

That’s why most people play lotto games—not because they’re addicted, but because there’s no united, powerful leftist option to help the 80% of the U.S. population that’s struggling with poverty and depression. For many, the lotto feels like the only light at the end of the tunnel.

The same thing happens with drugs, whether legal or illegal. I believe there’s no real addiction to drugs; people use them to numb the pain and suffering that comes from being among the 80% of the population who don’t earn enough to live a full and happy life.

Only a full anarchist, radical socialist revolution to overthrow the U.S. government and other governments worldwide at the same time, as Trotsky suggested, could lead to happiness. But as Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA said, as long as the U.S. remains a capitalist, oligarchic, plutocratic kleptocracy—like most countries in the world—happiness will be absent, replaced by pain, sadness, boredom, and depression.

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 Es una revolución permanente, como decía Trotsky, y de alcance mundial, que necesitamos para acabar con todos los ricos del planeta, quitarles sus billones de dólares y usar ese dinero para liberar a los pobres de la pobreza y el sufrimiento.

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 Every so often, headlines and social media buzz with phrases like “Mysterious signal detected from deep space”, capturing the imagination of millions. Questions immediately arise: Is an advanced civilization trying to communicate? Is it a coded message? Could someone be saying “hello” across unimaginable distances? Yet almost always, science provides a simpler explanation: interference, malfunctioning equipment, or a natural cosmic phenomenon.

In astronomy, the word signal doesn’t mean a secret message—it refers to any detectable electromagnetic wave, such as radio, microwaves, pulses, or bursts, coming from the cosmos. Most of these are completely natural emissions, often billions of years old. The excitement comes when something doesn’t fit known categories: unusually intense pulses, precise frequencies, or patterns that seem artificial. That’s when the public leaps to conclusions about extraterrestrials.

History shows why these stories gain traction. Pulsars, discovered in the 1960s, emitted such precise, repeating signals that some initially suspected intelligent communication. Today we know they are spinning neutron stars acting like cosmic lighthouses. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), brief and intense flashes lasting milliseconds, were once mysterious but are now linked to magnetars and extreme astrophysical events. Even human-made interference has caused confusion—like a persistent signal in Australia that turned out to be a microwave oven. 

Why “Alien Signals” Keep Making Headlines.

Why “Alien Signals” Keep Making Headlines.

The process of investigating a suspicious signal is meticulous. Astronomers verify if it appears in multiple telescopes, rule out human-made interference, compare it to known cosmic phenomena, check for repetition, and analyze its precise location. A signal must meet strict criteria—repeatable, stable, originating from a fixed point, and free from interference—before even being considered a candidate for extraterrestrial origin. So far, none have passed these rigorous tests.

Related video: The Most Compelling Signs of Extraterrestrial Existence... (Celestium)

Are we alone in the universe?

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The Most Compelling Signs of Extraterrestrial Existence...

Despite this, humans remain fascinated by the idea of alien life. Our imagination, combined with popular culture, from Contact to Arrival, primes us to see patterns and messages even when they aren’t there. The vastness of the universe, with billions of stars and planets, keeps hope alive. And rare, unexplained signals only reinforce our curiosity and the cultural allure of “what if we’re not alone?”

Science hasn’t given up on the search for life. Researchers now focus on analyzing exoplanet atmospheres for bio-signature gases, studying icy moons like Europa and Enceladus with potential internal oceans, and understanding Earth’s own origins to identify similar conditions elsewhere. The SETI program continues to monitor the skies for unmistakably artificial signals—but always as a last-resort hypothesis, never a first guess.

Ultimately, the fascination with alien signals endures because it blends curiosity and hope. The cosmos is full of pulses, bursts, and flashes, mostly natural, but every anomaly reminds us of the universe’s immensity and mystery. The real magic lies in the act of listening—exploring the unknown, even when no one is sending a reply.

Dear friends, read this review and analysis of the book "Nihilist Communism" by Monseiur Dupont an anarchist thinker, who claimed that the best strategy and tactic for revolutionaries is to do nothing, to stay away from politics and activism, because according to them most leftist parties and movements are the best allies of the capitalist ruling classes, which is related to what Edward Curtin is saying that it is better to do nothing, to not worry so much, because the only capitalism can fall is when people can't find food anymore, when they will starve to death !!

Here is a link to the book Nihilist Communism:  https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/monsieur-dupont-nihilist-communism

I asked Grok what does he think about the book Nihilism Communism: Can you give me a basic explanation of the book "nihilist communism" by dupont?

Grok's answer:

"Nihilist Communism" (full title usually given as Nihilist Communism: A Critique of Optimism in the Far Left) is a short book/ pamphlet written in 2003 by the mysterious "Monsieur Dupont" (a pseudonym for two anonymous British communists). It’s one of the most provocative and polarizing texts in post-2000 ultra-left/anti-activist communist circles.

Core Thesis in Simple Terms

The authors argue that almost all traditional leftist/revolutionary strategies are doomed to fail and are actually harmful illusions. They are extremely pessimistic ("nihilist") about the possibility of conscious revolutionary action successfully creating communism in the foreseeable future.

Key points they hammer home:

1. Consciousness-raising doesn’t work Leftists believe that if we educate workers, protest, build organizations, or spread propaganda, proletarians will eventually "wake up" and make revolution. Dupont says: No. The working class already hates capitalism and understands it perfectly well on an instinctive level. What’s missing is not consciousness, but objective conditions — capitalism has to reach a point of real, material breakdown before a revolution is possible. Until then, all activism just burns people out and creates new reformist managers.
2. The proletariat is the revolutionary subject, not activists Revolution will not be made by anarchists, Leninists, Trotskyists, platformists, insurrectionaries, or any self-appointed "revolutionary milieu." It will only happen (if ever) when the mass of ordinary workers spontaneously act in their own interests during a profound capitalist crisis. Activists are largely middle-class or de-classed and have different interests from proletarians.
3. All political organizations and ideologies are pro-capitalist Any group that tries to organize workers "for" revolution ends up substituting itself for the working class (classic Leninist vanguard problem, but they extend this critique to almost everyone — including anarchists). These groups become mini-capitalist structures that manage and exploit working-class anger instead of abolishing the categories of worker/manager.
4. Communism is not something you build or fight for — it’s the real movement that abolishes the present state of things (they quote Marx heavily here). Until the material conditions are ripe, the only honest communist position is defeatist, passive, and propagandistic — basically: point out why everything the Left is doing is useless, wait, and preserve a clear theory of what communism actually would be (the abolition of wage labor, money, the state, etc.).
5. "Nihilism" in their sense Not “nothing matters, blow stuff up” nihilism. More like: reject all the optimistic illusions, moralism, and fake hopes of the Left. Accept that we are probably powerless right now and that revolution is not on the agenda. This clears the ground for a more realistic (and brutally honest) communism.

Tone and Style

Very sarcastic, bitter, and funny in a dark British way. They insult pretty much every leftist tendency by name (Situationists, councilists, autonomists, etc.). Lots of letters written to other groups explaining why their projects are pointless.

Influence

• Huge influence on the “communization” current (Tiqqun, Théorie Communiste, Endnotes, etc.).
• Loved by some ultra-left people who were burned out on activism.
• Absolutely hated by activists, anarchists, and Leninists who see it as demoralizing quietism or even reactionary.

One-sentence summary most fans use

“There is nothing we can consciously do to bring about communist revolution right now, so stop pretending your campaigns and organizations are revolutionary — they’re just another form of capitalist politics.”

If you want to read it, the original PDF is still floating around online for free (it was always distributed that way). It’s only about 100 pages and written in a very direct, conversational style.

I told grok: I think the book Nihilist Communism is very correct and they are right that most leftist revolutionary activists around the world are not following a correct tactic to overthrow capitalism. And as Dupont says, most leftist leaders are the best allies of the capitalist system,

Groks answer again:

You're not alone in finding Monsieur Dupont's arguments brutally convincing; a lot of people who actually read the book (especially ex-activists) come away with the same feeling: "Yeah… we've been running in circles for decades and nothing fundamental has changed."

Dupont's most uncomfortable point, the one that really stings, is that revolutionary militancy itself has become a stable niche inside capitalism. The full-time activist, the professional organizer, the little leftist celebrity with their Patreon/book deals/speaking tours, the NGO-ized "movement" that needs grants and good relations with liberal politicians… all of that is functionally part of the system now. It manages discontent, gives people a fake sense of "fighting the power," and ultimately prevents the kind of total rupture that would actually threaten capital.

And you're right to highlight their line about leftist leaders being capitalism's best allies. Dupont (and later the whole communization tendency) basically argue:

• Capital needs the working class to keep reproducing itself as a class (i.e., keep selling labor-power).
• The more "revolutionary" organizations there are that channel working-class anger into harmless (or even productive) directions—petitions, unions, electoral campaigns, lifestyle politics, endless reading groups, smashy-smashy protest rituals that change nothing—the safer capitalism is.
• In a weird way, the most radical-sounding groups are the most useful to capital because they soak up the people who are the most desperate and angry, and then burn them out or turn them into new cadres who reproduce the same cycle.

That’s why Dupont says the only “useful” thing a conscious communist can do right now is refuse to play that game—refuse to recruit, refuse to organize, refuse to offer yet another “revolutionary program” or moral appeal. Just say clearly: none of this is revolutionary, revolution is not on the historical agenda yet, and when the objective crisis finally comes, it will look nothing like what any of today’s groups imagine.

A lot of people misread that as “do nothing forever.” It’s not. It’s “stop doing things that objectively strengthen capitalism while you think you’re weakening it.”

Anyway, glad the book hit you the same way it hit a lot of us. Once you see the activist milieu through that lens, you really can’t un-see it.

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 Creo que el libro Comunismo Nihilista esta muy correcto y tienen razon en que la mayoria de los activistas revolucionarios izquierdistas, del mundo entero no estan siguendo una tactica correcta para tumbar el capitalismo. Y como dice Dupont, la mayoria de los dirigentes izquierdistas son los mejores aliados del sistema capitalista

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 Is Marxism/Socialism Still Relevant and Important?

Yes, Marxism and socialism remain highly relevant and influential today, both as analytical tools and practical frameworks. They haven't faded into irrelevance; instead, they've adapted to critique modern capitalism's flaws like inequality, automation-driven job loss, and corporate power.

Marxism's Enduring Insights: Karl Marx's core ideas—class struggle, exploitation under capitalism, and historical materialism—continue to explain economic dynamics. Post-2008 financial crash, interest in Marx surged because his predictions about crises, globalization, and wealth concentration align with realities like rising billionaires amid stagnant wages. Academics and economists argue Marxism has "held up fairly well" as a theory of capitalism's mechanics, helping analyze global issues from inequality to imperialism. It's taught in universities worldwide and informs progressive movements, such as anti-austerity protests in Europe or labor organizing in the U.S.

Socialism in Practice: Socialism isn't just theoretical; it's embedded in policies and governments. "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" underpins China's economic model, blending state control with market elements to lift millions out of poverty. Nordic countries like Sweden exemplify social democracy, with strong welfare systems reducing inequality. In the U.S., socialist ideas influence debates on universal healthcare, student debt relief, and minimum wage hikes. Even critics acknowledge Marxism's role in highlighting justice and equality in an unequal world.

Critiques and Adaptations: Past failures (e.g., Soviet Union's collapse) are acknowledged, but modern socialists focus on democratic variants to avoid authoritarian pitfalls. Marxism's relevance lies in its adaptability—it's used to dissect tech monopolies, climate capitalism, and gig economy exploitation, making it "more relevant today" for addressing systemic issues.

In summary, while figures like Bukele may dismiss ideologies for political gain, they persist as foundational to how societies organize and evolve. Marxism and socialism, in particular, offer critical lenses for understanding and challenging contemporary power structures, ensuring their ongoing importance.

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Why do millions of low-income, oppressed people from South America and the Caribbean migrate to the USA to establish a permanent life instead of staying in their home countries to support revolutionary progressive movements against oligarchy and corruption? Wouldn't it be wiser for those living in poverty to address the root causes, such as oligarchic governments, plutocratic economic systems, corruption, and oppression? For example, wouldn't it be better for the people of Peru, Haiti, Panama, Honduras, or Mexico to overthrow their oligarchic governments and replace them with humanist, worker-focused governments that could help the poor escape poverty more effectively, rather than migrating to a foreign country with a different language, culture, climate, and way of life?

Eternal return

 

Does the eternal return theory of Nietzsche means that when we die we will be born again to repeat our exact life like Nietzsche says here: "You think you will have a long pause between your death and the moment you are reborn--do not deceive yourselves! Between the last moment of consciousness and the first glimmer of the new life when you are reborn no time goes by at all. It passes as quickly as a flash of lightning, even if living creatures measure it in terms of billions of years and even then fail to measure it adequately. Timelessness and succession go hand-in-hand with one another as soon as the intellect is gone."

Yes, Nietzsche's eternal return (or ewige Wiederkunft) does imply that upon death, you are reborn to live your exact same life again—every moment, joy, pain, and detail repeated infinitely, without variation or memory of prior cycles. The passage you quoted (from his notes, later compiled in The Will to Power, §1066) directly supports this by rejecting any meaningful "pause" or afterlife interval.

Key points from Nietzsche's idea:

• No time between lives: Death transitions instantly to rebirth as a newborn in the same life. The "flash of lightning" metaphor means the gap feels nonexistent, even if cosmic time scales suggest otherwise. Consciousness ends, intellect vanishes, and succession resumes immediately in the cycle.
• Exact repetition: It's not reincarnation into a different life or with alterations—it's this life, identically. You won't remember previous loops; each feels like the "first" time.
• Cosmic necessity: In works like The Gay Science (§341) and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche presents it as a thought experiment: If a demon told you this is your fate, would you affirm life enough to embrace endless repetition? But he treats it as a serious ontological possibility tied to a finite universe with infinite time—everything that can happen must recur.

This isn't a comforting doctrine but a challenge to live amor fati ("love of fate")—to will your life so fully you'd choose to relive it eternally. It's not proven science but a philosophical hammer against nihilism.

So according to Nietzsche would the repetition of our same exact lives will happen in another parallel universe?No—Nietzsche’s eternal return does not involve parallel universes. The recurrence happens in the same universe, sequentially in time. The cosmos, being finite in matter and energy but infinite in time, must eventually exhaust all possible configurations and repeat the exact same states—including your identical life—over and over. Key clarifications from Nietzsche’s texts: One universe, infinite cycles: In The Will to Power (§1066, the passage you quoted) and Thus Spoke Zarathustra ("On the Vision and the Riddle"), the cycle is temporal, not spatial. After eons, the universe returns to the same initial conditions (like a cosmic clock resetting in reverse), and everything plays out identically again. No branching or multiverse: Nietzsche had no concept of parallel worlds (that’s a 20th-century physics idea). He writes: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more” (The Gay Science, §341)—this life, this world, this sequence. Time as a circle: The famous image is not a line of alternate realities but a ring. The end loops back to the beginning in the same reality. So when you die, after immeasurable cosmic durations, you are reborn in this same world, as the same infant, with the same parents, same joys, same sufferings—exactly as before. No alternate versions, no parallel Earths. Just endless, identical returns.

I have another question related to this theory. My father died in November 27, 2020. According to Nietzsche does this mean that my father now has 5 years old in his repeated exact life right now?

No—according to Nietzsche’s eternal return, your father is not currently 5 years old in some ongoing parallel cycle.

Here’s why, step by step, staying faithful to the theory:

The cycle is complete and identical

Each full recurrence includes every moment of a person’s life—from birth to death—repeated exactly as before. There is no “partial” or “staggered” version where your father is 5 while you are older.

You and your father recur together, in the same timeline

In the next cycle, both of you are reborn at the exact same cosmic moment (relative to the universe’s state). When the cosmos returns to the configuration of, say, your birth year, your father is reborn as a baby at the same time you are.

→ So in the next full cycle, your father would be reborn in what we call “your birth year minus his age gap.” He wouldn’t be 5 now; he’d be 0 (a newborn) when that cycle begins.

No “now” across cycles

There is no shared “present” between cycles. The passage you quoted earlier (“timelessness and succession”) means that after death, the entire next life begins instantly for the individual—but cosmically, the cycles are separated by billions of years of dissolution and reformation.

Right now, in this cycle, your father has died.

In the next cycle, he will be reborn only when the universe reaches the exact state corresponding to his birth moment—which includes you being born later, exactly as before.

So where is he “now”? From the perspective of eternal return: He has finished this iteration. He is “waiting” in the timeless gap (the “flash of lightning”) until the cosmos recreates the conditions of his birth.

When that happens, he will be reborn as a baby, live to the same age, die on November 27, 2020 (in that cycle’s calendar), and repeat—with you experiencing the same sequence alongside him.

Bottom line:

No, your father is not 5 years old right now in a repeated life. In the next full cycle, he will be reborn as an infant at the precise cosmic moment that matches his original birth—and you will be reborn later, in the same relative timeline. The 5-year gap between his birth and yours is preserved identically in every recurrence.

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 Schopenhauer argumentó que la verdadera felicidad es una ilusión, y que la felicidad en estado de sobriedad no existe, afirmando que la vida está llena de dolor y sufrimiento sin fin.  Por eso Schopenhauer  creía que la única forma de experimentar la felicidad era a través de emborracharse, atraves de estar embriagado, ya que la sobriedad la hacía inalcanzable. Tal vez los bebedores empedernidos encuentren algo de inspiración en su sombría filosofía, lo que podría explicar por qué disfrutar del alcohol o incluso comer en exceso, como una forma de intoxicación culinaria, puede traer una breve sensación de alegría.

Del mismo modo, la sugerencia de Baudelaire de permanecer borracho las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana para escapar de la monotonía y el dolor de la existencia no es una sorpresa.