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Revolutionary anti-natalism makes sense. Having kids is just throwing them into the grinder to reproduce capitalist relations and suffer in some neoliberal shithole country. We know it's only going to get worse, so why would you submit your offspring to it?
#No kids until socialism desu

>>10629173
>that feeling when the Left is so inert that you have to vote for crazy ethnonationalists to promote worker's rights and the abandonment of neoliberalism
New Communist International when?

>>10546231
These kind of debates are exactly why I became a historical materialist instead of engaging in abstract ethical puzzles that lead to nowhere. Nice work anon.

>>10205537
Well you are right in that the conflict expresses itself on multiple fronts, including the cultural one which still reflects the underlying social relations in production. I just don't see any kind of cultural force that could be galvanised for a worker movement right now though. Living in an ex-socialist country feeds my general pessimism.
>>10205556
2008 was barely a chance, the Left was utterly inert by the time of the crisis, deadened by decades of neoliberalism. The crisis has opened up a space to question the economic deadlock, however, and get some kind of process going. There does seem to be a lessening of the taboo on socialism, and a somewhat improved perspective on 20th century communism in the mainstream. I remain skeptical of it reaching beyond keynesian socdem reforms, particularly in major countries.

What will be the cultural effects of the decline of US supremacy over the coming decades?

Individualist egoism is for bourgeois intellectuals, look up historical materialism. The real spooks are those that advance the material interests of a particular class. Unless you are a wealthy property owner, it's in your interest to aid in the fight against capital.