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  • This isn't in the context of utility value vs exchange value. This is separating value creation from the mode of production. Work as in workplace not work as in physical process

  • Labor is when you do a thing that has value to society.

    Work is like, a job, where you do labor (or not) and that pays you so that you can spend money to sustain your existence. If you get disabled you can be fired and not have money long term to continue existing.

    People, ironically enough, are more efficient laborers when they aren't doing it in the trappings of work, so there isn't any reason for work to exist.

  • Sex work is work, and work (tying your capacity for labor to your continued survival) is bad. Sex workers should be supported like any member of the proletariat

    Sex labor on the other hand? Sure as long as you have removed the exploitive element that comes with work.

  • to advocate for cooperatives and elect officials that will help support them? With the right state sponsored incentives, cooperatives can be a great stepping stone for a peaceful transition of power giving workers ownership to the means of production. I struggle to understand how someone can argue against this idea.

    So basically the state exists in order to defend capitalism from internal and external threats, and a cooperative movement growing too big is a threat that it is going to respond to violently. Hell, union struggles led to literal battles and aerial bombings, and they only wanted better conditions working for the capitalists.

  • There’s already a lot of us in support of socialist ideas where one of the biggest criticisms is for a planned economy

    Planned economies are good actually, there is a reason semi-feudal russia was able to go to space in 40 years after the revolution, while beating off imperial superpowers like Germany and Britain.

    Was Lenin aware of cooperatives when he wrote the state and revolution? Its not a theoretical idea.

    Yes lol: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/kropotkin-peter/1917/a-meeting.html

    There can be no such thing as peaceful revolution, if your political movement is getting anywhere the bourgeoisie will send their dogs to destroy it, and it will be violent. You must only look to history to see how easily the mask of civility slips away and the inhuman, bloodthirsty face of capital is revealed.

  • If someone mugs me and then hands me a dollar, that is charity.

  • Why would they be incentivized by the state that exists to uphold capitalism? Read state and revolution.

  • If you want to say you like how I look compliment one of the grooming, fashion, or accessory choices, and I'll get the hint.

    Hell, compliment my muscles. Literally just compliment anything I have agency over.

  • I feel like even within the straight paradigm women do a lot to express interest and can still feel "shot down" when those signals aren't reciprocated, outside of also asking guys out

  • Be proud you stepped up and took your shot and accept the reality that it did not work out. If your a male this is just a fact of life in general

    ??? This isn't a gender thing?

  • Looks at downvotes

    sees number of called out liberals

  • I dont know what you're trying to say.

  • Why would I pretend China is a democracy when it empirically is according to any useful measure?

    High government approval

    Bottom up representation

    Policies benefit the masses

    Wide range of public opinion represented in government

  • That's literally socialism with Chinese characteristics

  • Well, China, a participatory democracy with a 95 percent approval rating according to a Harvard study, is in the meme building high speed rail, and you're claiming you have to be an authoritarian dictatorship to build high speed rail?

  • I'm confused by this, because it looks like China is proving you wrong right now?

  • I find this quite disingenuous. No one said that they are only thinking about the presidency? I sure as hell am not. I do everything I can in my local area to have socialist and leftist candidates representing me.

    Expand your political imagination, this isn't enough if you want to fight fascism.

  • Lol worker's parties don't need bourgeois elections to win power. See, China, ussr, Cuba