All the subjugating other peoples had nothing to do with the high standard of living. Korea, vietnam, and so forth to all of latin america. None of that helped working people, imperialist wars never help working people’s situation. Unions, and good leaders got those gains. They put 90% taxes on the rich at obscene levels to discourage the rich taking more than their share, etc.
And that is what is missing now, organization, we need unions, but not just around where we work, we need to be organized otherwise, I think innumerable groups federated together on general forums, to cooperate on what they agree on, like not getting fucked by the super rich without consent. From that forum, where we can organize around issues, cooperate on what we agree on, both privately and publicly, we could find and groom real leaders to take government from these parasites that now control it. We are stronger than they are, we just need to unite.
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this class-collaborationist third-positionism will be the death of us. that and the liberal imperialists who count as the "labor movement" in the west.
if it were up to me i'd keep it. it doesn't have as much baggage as any of the other famous monuments, and liberty can mean pretty much anything anyway. plus can you imagine how bad it would look to destroy "liberty"? at least any time during my natural lifetime. plus i've always kinda liked it. at the very least it would make a rocking flag, way less ugly and way less colonial than the current one.
Yeah, I’m not buying the “gee, guys, I used to believe the AmeriKKKa propaganda, but this really makes me think” act. It must work better on the morons in the tankie communities.
i love when they try to turn our own observations on us. seems like they don't know or care why "why i left the left" is fundamentally different from the realizations every westerner comes to if they choose to research the things they're raised to believe
what are the economics behind this? is it a lot of labor or is it a monopoly/cartel thing or is it something the hexbear capital group hasn't gotten to yet?
i would think the way the communists handled emperor puyi is a great example of what you're looking for. it's not always feasible to do that, as with tzar nicholas. at the end of the day i think the difference between justice and revenge is that justice centers the best interests of the oppressed, and revenge centers punishment of the oppressor. that's why i would consider both the treatment of puyi and nicholas "just". whatever was done, it was done to further the interests of the proletariat and the peasantry, not to enact some secular-calvinist notion of karmic retribution.
minor nitpick but why doesn't he call necessary labor variable labor instead, as an analogy to surplus labor? is there some etymological reason outside the context that can be gleaned from the book? i ask because of the footnote on the definitions. it seems like an easy terminological problem to solve, easier than most.
most food is marked up on delivery services so this is an easy 2-3 meals for two people. even one person if you want dessert and a side with every meal.
i noticed that the chapters are different in the aveling translation than in the reitter translation. that is, either reitter or marx in 1867 combines all of part 2 into a single chapter, and so aveling's chapter 7 becomes reitter's chapter 5. chapter 9 in aveling is chapter 7 in reitter.
all i'm saying is if the left wants an electoral strategy, this is it. i'm not saying we should have an electoral strategy. i'm just saying if you're gonna vote anyway, vote third party
well so long as you're gonna vote, you ought to vote third-party. so long as you're gonna run, you ought to run third-party. otherwise you're not doing anything electorally to stop hitler's rise to power. and in that case, why not just stay home on erection day and masturbate?
it's okay to be a smug asshole if you're right. full support to comrade lenin, who could lift me over his head with his left pinky.