From time to time across the web you can hear that the developed countries of the West are already in a certain "post-industrial" stage of development. At the same time, it is completely forgotten (denied) that capitalism is the same throughout the world and is at the same stage. Developed countries are not in a post-industrial world, but enjoy the position of metropolises.

They do not need practically any kind of production, because they are metropolises and can brazenly and shamelessly obtain everything they need for their existence by means of colonial plunder. The only things they have to produce in order to maintain their colonial omnipotence are high-tech weapons and glass beads. Weapons are needed to intimidate the natives, and "glass beads" are needed to bribe their leaders ("sticks and gingerbread"). It is this structure of production that is commonly called "postindustrial".

From the point of view of the economy in general and colonial countries in particular, such countries are purely parasitic. These countries are robbers who live at someone else's expense. Moreover, they can no longer live at their own expense in principle, because most branches of production are completely destroyed and they do not have even a single technological chain with a closed cycle.

Post-industrialism is the final stage in the development of an economic parasite, when all the organs in it have already atrophied, except for those that are necessary for parasitism with impunity. All that remains are the robbery and violence mechanisms needed to keep their victims submissive and force them to provide an uninterrupted supply to parasite.

Once upon a time, over 100 years ago, the struggle for women's rights was the most progressive trend in the left movement.

Why? Because it was a struggle primarily for political equality, for equal political rights for women, and this automatically meant a struggle for the rights of the entire working class. Which, by the way, put many wonderful feminist women of that time at the forefront of the class struggle.

After the Great October Revolution and 70 years of the existence of the USSR, as well as the tireless struggle of the working class around the world, made equal political rights of men and women a civilized norm, any struggle for any special rights of women is no longer turning into a progressive struggle for common the interests of the proletariat as a single class, which can only be a political struggle, but in a struggle to obtain preferences at the expense of fellow class members. Which cannot but be warmly welcomed by the bourgeoisie, and welcomed, as we can observe it everywhere.

Therefore, modern feminism, in the developed countries of the world, is an extremely reactionary movement, akin to racism or nationalism, and most likely even worse, since mankind has learned to fight against racial, national and religious discord for a long time. But sexual strife is a fresh way of dividing the masses into their own, taken by the bourgeoisie for armament, a method against which there is no sufficiently developed antidote.

Feminism is a product and continuation of individualistic bourgeois thinking. But just as there cannot be a spherical individual in a vacuum, neither a spherical man in a vacuum nor a woman spherical in a vacuum can exist. Not even just purely female communities, not purely male ones.

Man and woman, in Marxism, are two inseparable sides of a single whole - Man (aka Human). Indissoluble, inseparable, it's the same thing from two sides that cannot exist one without the other ...

There is no and there cannot be any separate solutions for any of these sides, they can only be general, and exclusively for the Man, and not any one of his singled out sides. Therefore, no truly equal rights for either man or woman can be achieved separately. They can be achieved only as equal rights for a Man of any race, any gender, any age, any religion ...

Miners are buying hard drives and solid-state drives to mine Chia, a cryptocurrency that will begin trading in early May. The situation has not yet reached a global deficit, but fresh reports from two other Asian publications have confirmed that prices for hard drives have already skyrocketed in some regions, and Seagate has confirmed in its financial report that it is facing a surge in demand associated with cryptocurrencies.

This concerns large HDDs and large size SSDs.

Until we will see open and hard repressions this scams won't stop.