Immigration in Rentier Economy: Contradictions that Negate Past History Libs and rightoids always boil down immigration to identity axioms and then pretend there is no economic dimension. Everything in American immigration policy was based on growth and the need for cheap labor for every part of American history in it's industrial age, end of story. No fairy tales about the primacy of ontologies here, you need people to work in factories and populate a nation that had land and no people. Enough people, close the door. Not enough people, open the door. Post 1960 you get the first contradiction: America radically de-industrializes in favor of finance and specifically the finance of war. After 1971 it's a fully floating de-industrialized "service based" rentier ponzi scheme driven by electronics, computers, the internet, and AI (so all "information"). It's consumptive side is all gambling porno shit coins and slop entertainment and obscene military spending. End of story. Immigration at this point is integrally bound to consumptive economy. What does it mean to consume in a society that no longer produces anything and only produces half of what it consumes? Do we need more people now to substitute for growth in consumption when there is no hope of being productive overall in a society that prizes un-production through debt above all? Are we growing the American population so China can manufacture what it needs to exist? Do we want people to come here to strengthen the Imperial system and partake in the re-vitalization of the dollar's increasing reliance on rentier mechanisms? Because we are below the replacement rate in population, do we need more people? Door open or door closed these days means relatively little. It seems to have moved completely out of any concept of the base and is sustained totally from ideological wars within the superstructure. This is fundamentally abstract. Corporations need cheap labor, sure, and my analysis of immigrants class and productive labor status proves they make up 1/3 of America's last productive proletarians - another pressure on labor to never organize when they are essentially an unofficial foreign labor force that dominates construction and agricultural work (some of the most important industiries). But about 40% of immigrants work in the same service sector all Americans do, and their future is bleak. The concept of coming here to "have a better life" is absurd- they are here to partake in a ruthless shark tank of fleeting chances to become part of dollar rentier sinecure.

Bruh this already describes the present for me. For $20 a month I get AI to do a ton of shit for me, but nothing that changes my socio-economic position in the slightest. I just worked a 70 hour week trying to stretch every minute of overtime to pay the bills. Why does any of this shit dazzle people so much? I get AI to do finances, research topics, write, and create stuff. Finance capital dosen't care. I run a small business on the side manufacturing products and have used AI extensively in it every week. When does all this hyperbolic "AI will fo everything" come in and make all of my God damned labor a thing of the past?

Pathetic this passes for public intellectualism and drives the "right". The dream of muh western civilization reduced to totally abstract ideological dogma. How this sustains anyone is beyond conceivable.

Learn about financial oligarchy and the nature of the dollar, and how the west speeds towards rentier fascism that is completely unproductive.

"China has laid out a very ambitious plan to dominate sector after sector... most importantly by not requiring their companies to fundementally make a profit." Michael Froman - Council On Foreign Relations President and Former US Trade Representative

Playing the "last Socialist" boomer on earth in Washington so idiot millennials and zoomers can fawn over your endless failures as great achievements is an all time grifter gig.

'Left' democrats want the US to privatise China's state owned enterprises to stave off the collapse of US capitalist-imperialism

Here two of my favorite western Communist economists, Reese and Roberts, who are still sane and objective, discuss China's economic structure and settle the debate on the PRC's system as, at least, highly differentiated from the global dollar zone. I go much further obviously but here we get a very sobering and unbiased analysis. piped.video/ARtKT45JseQ?is=7pmB…

Only time Xi smiled and had any life in his eyes was when he saw the constitution. Same look when he saw the Golden Gate Bridge.

Crazy that we are at a point of universal entertainment with AI now. Shit comes out and is mildly funny for 3 minutes and then its replicated 80 billion times ad nauseum. Most likely cost a daily output of a nuclear reactor to produce.

Too narrow. This is a bog standard "Marxist" and "Communist" idea in the west. In fact its basically all they can think about and their only argument.

Men and women are competitors. One of the issues no one EVER talks about is how the modern economy pits the sexes against each other to live. This is why Feminists and Imperialists leapt at the idea of sending women to work. They knew it would create the same tensions in men and women as it does between immigrants and racial groups. The West sees 85 to 90% female employment in the service sector. If Thorstien Veblen is correct. The service sector creates workers whose cultural values and material interests align with the elite bourgeoisie class. The Gender War is masking a real class war where females are going to be used in the present day as a bulwark for anti-communism. Their interests, due to their jobs, align with Imperialism. It is not in the interest of American service workers to see America reindustrialize. They will lose wages and benefits because the cost of an American worker will always be greater than the cost of a global south worker. This leaves the male population open to two forces. Communists and Fascists. Problem for the Communists. Most, if not all, Communists are culturally liberal; this is going to be the biggest hill the Communists must confront, because once the US hits a revolutionary moment, the first thing that happens is the demand for the destruction of the old decadent culture that caused the population to slide into its hedonistic phase. American Fascists will have the easier argument because they will attack the cultural pillars that modern Imperialism rests on and give dissaffected males a much easier scapegoat. This is a historical fact. A political or economic overthrow is impossible without a simultaneous, violent destruction of the ruling elite's decadent culture. The best modern communists can give you is the culture of "don't ask, don't tell." @Logo_Daedalus @CDMorlock

Netanyahu directly mentions Hasan Piker. World leaders now inhabit the same reality as online shitposters. Baudrillard is greatly vindicated.

Троцкисты первые, кто начал очернять Сталина. Ложь о переписи 1937 года

Monthly food rations in rentier capitalist America, 2020s.

Xi don't Flinch.

It does need pointing out that none of this shit has anything to do with communism. A lot of people just smuggle their personality disorders underneath the cover of politics, and too many other people are just afraid to tell them to go piss up a rope.

A secret recording of Hitler speaking privately where he admits: - The USSR was far better prepared than the Nazis had ever imagined (because they thought "Communism doesn't work") - The Soviets ALWAYS played hardball in non-aggression pact negotiations

Also directed by Werner Herzog.

No you see this is all petty bourgeois consciousness this “temporarily embarrassed billionaire” is just the goal of being petty bourgeois & having a 401k& assets (small holdings). The billionaire & the “middle class” & union pensions etc are all invested in the same places.