ChicagoCommunist

Stagism is an introductory model and thus reductive. It's not a very precise descriptor/predictor for the real world.

The real world is an infinitely complex network of spectrums and intensities and flows. The categories we invent are useful to understand and discuss aspects of it, but they don't exist in and of themselves.

That being said (and I'm pretty sure other comments have probably already explained this better but I can't see other comments on my app while commenting myself) Marx's categories and stages were never intended to be strictly delineated and distinct from each other. Dialectics as a science is all about constant change, the shifting of tensions, and a dialectical understanding of history will see social change as a continuous process rather than an instantaneous and spontaneous rupture into a new epoch.

"Early stage socialism" might be a useful category to describe these AES states that are majoritively run for proletarian interests rather than bourgeois ones, but still contain many of the internal contradictions of capitalism (and are forced to exist within the largest contradiction of global imperialism). These contradictions don't blip out of existence when a revolution happens, there's no communism button that the workers parties are simply too corrupt or stupid to push. They have to be guided and developed towards a larger socialist goal.

If you have good Internet then GeForce Now or maybe another game streaming service may be adequate for outlier games. I play a bunch of older games decently on my T450 with no graphics card, but if a modern game pops up I can still stream it. That way I don't have to spend another few hundred bucks on a better laptop just for the occasional game.

Lol isn't there good evidence now that diphenhydramine is linked to dementia?

Construction workers: I consent

Regular people wanting to not be homeless: I consent

Banks, landlords, real estate agents, investors, governments: isn't there somebody you forgot to ask???

Human civilization is a lot longer than history and a lot more complex than specific normative behaviors blipping into existence at some defined point in time. Check out The Dawn of Everything for a recent anthropological perspective.

Various cultures approach gender and sex (and thus sexuality) differently. Homophobia as we understand it can't exist universally because sexuality as a static individual trait isn't a universal conception. Though that doesn't mean there aren't other norms and deviations and whatnot.

Caliban and the Witch is adjacent to this topic and discusses how sex and gender norms developed out of middle age Europe.