When you’re intentionally rude, you’re breaking the rules. Pretty clear cut. The point about having a life is that I couldn’t possibly be in an echo chamber even if I wanted to be. As for your bit on “being an authoritarian,” it’s again just your persecution fetish flaring up. I’m okay with revolution and violent resistance to fascists and capitalists, sure, but there’s a huge difference between that and the idea that communists just want to kill everyone that disagrees. History proves that false. As for China, no, living there doesn’t make ine a communist, but the system is supported by over 90% of the population. The public supports the government.

Again, you’re so off-base that you’re like a caricature of a conservative uncle.

This is ridiculous, lol. You did break the rules, the modlog is public. I don’t know what your persecution fetish is for, but I work for a living, organize, and have a life. I have no idea why temp banning people for breaking community rules means communists want to kill people we “don’t like,” it’s ridiculous. As for there being billions of communists, the PRC alone has 1 and a half billion people alone, and is far from the only socialist country.

Really, your insults are so weak it’s kinda pitiful.

I explicitly said, over and over again, that AI can never take the place of art. OP clearly did not like the idea of hand-drawing agitprop, and so used a tool to shortcut to the final product. I don’t see art as a burden to be alleviated, and made the case that AI can exist alongside art without replacing it, just as photography didn’t replace hand-drawn portraits.

If you’re going to deliberately ignore what others are saying to you and instead make up brand new strawmen to attack, do you actually care about human expression or is this just a trend of emotional reaction?

As I said, OP could have grabbed a stock image and wordart and made the exact same image. Is it still intrinsically bad? We interact with machines and use tools all the time to shortcut processes that used to be artisinal. Taking photos of people instead of drawing them by hand did not erase the desire for portraits, but it added the ability to shortcut photography for times where applicable.

As for where you’re getting the idea that OP’s image isn’t well-recieved from, I have no idea. Your top comment is 50% upvoted and 50% downvoted, and everyone else is talking about the content of the image. Saying we are “cooked and so over” without further elaboration isn’t a point either.

I’m not dismissing my fellow man, especially because I am fighting for the right of tool usage that alleviates artisinal labor from areas it doesn’t need to be.

What is the actual difference in output in the use-case here? What changes about the message if this meme was artisinally created, especially if you couldn’t tell? This is why it’s important to discard idealism and to embrace materialism, idealism adds confusing baggage that clouds our judgement.

Further, it is working. Every other top-level comment is a discussion of the content of the post, not the fact that it was generated.

No.

My point is that technology that eliminates labor is useful, and correctly analyzing where it’s useful and where it isn’t is important. It is better to save time where we can, such is the purpose of technology that amplifies what labor creates.

Any leftist of any sort should be dedicated to improving technology and production so that we can fulfill the needs of as many people as possible with as little labor necessary. AI can’t replace art, but it can certainly help in cases like this, small disposable agitprop memes for sparking discussion (like we are having now).

This is why it’s important to have a dialectical materialist outlook and not an idealist one. Metaphysics isn’t helpful.

You got temp banned because you broke the rules, not for replying to me. I’ve had plenty of conversations here.

Secondly, I do comment outside of Lemmy.ml, and I work and live my life outside of Lemmy. I couldn’t possibly be in a true echo chamber even if I wanted to.

Unfortunately for you, though, there are billions of communists around the world, and more are created every day. We aren’t a tiny fraction. Communists are absolutely better than MAGA, where MAGA fights against marginalized people and the global working classes to perpetuate imperialism and profits for a tiny subsection of society, communists fight for the working classes against genocidal imperialists.

Again, you don’t actually seem to be capable of making a point. You just spout insults and accusations without backing anything up, it’s really very boring and none of your insults actually land.

Your only complaints are:

1. “It’s icky”
2. “ai sucks”
3. The image itself is generated, rather than artisinally created

The first 2 are non-points to begin with, and the latter is an incomplete point. Again, there is absolutely no reason why this image needs to be artisinally created. Had OP used wordart and grabbed a stock image online for the background, it would have had the same amount of human input but no AI, yet you wouldn’t be calling it into question.

Nobody present is trying to tell you that AI can replace artists making art. You’re making the same mistakes the Luddites did in blaming machinery for the ills of capitalism, rather than capitalism itself. The same argument was had when digital art became mainstream over hand-drawn art, and when cameras came into being. Neither digital art nor cameras have replaced traditional art, nor can they, but that doesn’t mean digital art and cameras don’t have legitimate use cases.

AI has limitations that AI fanatics lie about. AI also has use-cases that people try their hardest to deny. Marxism helps us understand that AI can never replace traditonal art, but can absolutely be used for things like agitprop or stock images.

Requiring that communists spend hours on artisinally producing what is ultimately a disposable image meant to agitate and spark conversation just for you to acknowledge the message is wrong. From a human perspective, requiring this artisinal agitprop in order to acknowledge the point being drivin is deeply anti-human and instead individualist.

Great on you for owning up! If you want to learn more about Stalin specifically, Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend is one of the best contextualizations of Stalin to date. Losurdo doesn’t make him out to be a saint nor an exceptional Hitler-like demon, but instead correctly places him in his historical context using western sources. Though, of course, it’s a disservice to the millions of soviets to reduce the achievements of the soviet union purely to Stalin.

What are you getting out of these comments? You add nothing to the conversation, and nobody is saying you can’t comment, just that you don’t have any points.

Adding this to my Parenti collection! Goes hard.

The point is that analysis of authority without analysis of class is meaningless. The USSR was brutal and totalitarian to the capitalist class, the landlords, the Tsarists, and the fascists. The working classes, via control of the state, made no excuses for the terror they inflicted on their domestic ruling classes, and this terrified global porkie. The KGB, police, millitary, Warsaw Pact, and other use of working class authority was the real manifestation of the dedication of the working classes to preserving the incredible gains they made against domestic infiltration and international aggression and encirclement.

Marxists have learned from the collapse of the Paris Commune that we can’t just take the state, we have to smash it and replace it with a proletarian one dedicated to preserving socialism. Dr. Michael Parenti on socialists defending against imperialists and sabateurs. Applies perfectly to Venezuela today.

There’s absolutely no reason why this short, simplistic agitprop needs to be made in artisinal fashion from a Marxist perspective. Labor hours saved is valuable, and nobody is enjoying this agitprop from the perspective of artistic analysis. AI cannot replace art, but the insistence that every graphic regardless of use-case be made in artisinal fashion is reactionary.

Marxism-Leninism has been used by billions of people around the world for the purpose of liberating the working classes. I think you should do more research before saying such things.

You’re on a site where the majority of users are Marxists right now, we’re pretty big fans of the soviet union. It wasn’t some utopia, but it was incredibly progressive for its time. Life expectancy doubled, literacy rates tripled, healthcare and education were free and high quality, housing was free or low cost, wages increased and working hours lowered, and society was democratized. Anti-capitalism isn’t restricted to Marxism-Leninism nor to the USSR specifically, but over here we uphold actually existing socialism.

Consider giving Blackshirts and Reds and This Soviet World a read, or check out the intro ML reading list I made.

Yep! No shame at all to Lenin, the highest of respects in fact, but he did not live to see the US Empire come to become an even higher stage of empire than what was going on in his day.

It’s not that it’s dated into being no longer accurate, it’s that conditions have changed since it was current. Marx didn’t live to see the same heights of imperialism Lenin saw. Lenin did not live to see the consolidation of all competing imperialist powers into one hegemon and several vassals. Lenin is critical and relevant to this day, but we also need to look at how imperialism has advanced.

Liberalism and fascism are rooted in the same base characteristics, after all.

Yep, Marxist-Leninists have been advancing our theory beyond Lenin. What Lenin laid out is still foundational for analyzing the imperialism of today, but we are no longer in the age of competing empires, but a dying mega-empire and the rise of the global south.

Why not?