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  • Which all go back to the white army losing.

    Yes, I mean the Tsarist army. But you are right, my knowledge of history is limited.

    Workers are consumers, they get their means to live through being paid wages.

    That's not what I mean with consumers. Consumers spend their money against their interest, to fulfill emotional needs that were highlighted by advertising. I don't think that I have mentioned advertising before, but I actually think that this type of advertising won't happen in a socialist country.

    When I say your point on TikTok is Idealist, I mean it in the philosophical way, in opposition to Materialism. Idealism is wrong, it’s the concept of thoughts and ideas being the primary mover, not material reality.

    I think that's also how I understood it.

    My point is that the mindset of people have changed and thoughts have become the primary movers.

    The reason I say yours is idealist is because you’ve invented a problem that doesn’t exist, tik tok does not change the material base, being workers who spend their wages on goods.

    Workers are not workers who rationally spend their money on products that have the most benefit to them. Those people are now consumers. They spend their money on stuff that is supposed to make them happy which induces the need to accept the current system. A revolution becomes a threat.

    The answers of the “bros” like government supplied girlfriends are not worth considering.

    But the motivations are. What do those people want and why do they prefer it over the offer from the left.

    but that screams that you haven’t ever engaged with Leftist theory. Knowing leftist theory leads to action, not inaction.

    Action means nothing if it doesn't reach people. As I said, truth becomes a trap if it leads to ineffective action.

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  • Congratulations that you acknowledge that rising minimum wage is a dead end.

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  • Overall I agree with two exceptions.

    The Russian civil war was fought with 1% or 2% of the population. It's not the majority that fights to own things.

    Owning means to constantly think for the company and constantly try to optimize it. There is no time off. It's a job on its own that is more than just skimming the profits.

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  • Jobs can always be created by lowering interest rates. It's just not in the hand of the workers to change, neither is minimum wage.

    You don't have to trust anything I said. I am telling you about market mechanisms that you can verify on your own.

    You are right that I want to abandon minimum wage, or rather the need for minimum wage. I want the demand for work to rise to the point that workers earn livable wages that are secured by the demand for their work.

    You can try to rise minimum wages however much you want. My point is that your time is better spent on rising demand for workers. Marx is telling you how that works. You definitely don't have to trust me on that.

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  • Homophobe Denkfabriken zu finanzieren ist natürlich auch Manipulation.

    Persönlich bin ich für eine äußerst liberale Gesellschaft. Mich interessiert hier nur, was passieren wird.

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  • Would you pay for an insurance to help you weather the storm?

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  • I would argue that people in general don't want ownership or we would have many more cooperatives.

  • Please remember this!

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  • What if they also bring immigrants so that there are immigrants to blame?

    Should we remember that, too?

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  • I don't have that disregard. My point is that the supply of jobs has to be increased instead of setting a lower bound on wages.

    Taking them as a whole, the general movements of wages are exclusively regulated by the expansion and contraction of the industrial reserve army

    Focussing on minimum wages makes workers ignore how they are controlled and how they can increase their wages without having to rely on benevolence. To me, that's disregardful.

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  • The White Army was specific to Russia, not all Socialist states like China, Cuba, Vietnam, etc.

    If I remember correctly, Mao was supported by Stalin. I assume something similar for any other revolution. Outside support is needed.

    Look at Syria. Assad was in control and it took massive outside support to let the opposition win. Who is going to support a socialist revolution today?

    Workers were always consumers.

    Not like today, where brains are addicted to TikTok and shopping. Workers could work less but they shop more. That's not considered in the original theory.

    As Capitalism decays, proletarianization increases even in the Imperialist countries, and thus reception to Socialism increases.

    Will it reach critical mass?

    There is no “mental problem that cannot be solved,” this is quite literally inventing a problem that exists purely in your head. Idealism to a T.

    Exactly. Consumers are trapped there. The left cannot handle this because it absolutely contradicts their mindset. This alone will prevent any further progress towards socialism.

    Broism is a reaction to proletarianization, combined with patriarchial culture. It ignores analysis and goes for vibes-based solutions, which is why all bro-culture is incoherent and contradictory.

    Correct. 'Ignoring the material ones' means ignoring analysis while vibe-based solution corresponds with 'mental issues'. My point is that Broism looks at aspects of the current situation to which the left analysis is blind. Calling it a reaction already frames it as not worth considering.

    The left analysis in itself is correct. That doesn't change anything if the consumers are not listening. Knowing the truth is a mental trap if it leads to ineffective action.

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  • Ok, that's clearer and more to the functional point than unity.

    My perspective is that people are driven by emotions. Is ownership something in itself that people want? I would say that it is just a tool.

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  • Please read the article. It's one of the most important things to know.

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  • Please don't ignore my second paragraph.

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  • I haven't found a good article that explains the early AfD position so I try to explain what I can remember.

    The core should be that one currency for an inhomogenuous political entity is not a good idea. Usually, countries with weak industries can devalue their currency to offer their goods at competitive prices on the global market. This effectively means taking value from whomever owns money or receives wages that don't adjust immediately.

    If there is only one currency, and if that currency should remain stable, somebody else has to pay to adjust the prices. This can be seen in Germany after the unification when there were additional taxes in the west to finance the east.

    Now the promise to the Germans was that the euro would be stable but also that they wouldn't have to pay for it.

    Economically, this doesn't make sense, as scientists had pointed out, but they were ignored. (Thus the original AfD, to have an alternative to the established parties.)

    Now the euro is quite stable. So who paid?

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  • It's the wrong side to tackle the problem.

    Wages can be risen with an increased demand for workers. How? That is the relevant question that leads to the right answers. Minimum wage is a distraction.

  • AfD laut Verfassungsschutz gesichert rechtsextremistisch

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  • Bitte nicht vergessen, dass die NSDAP nie eine absolute Mehrheit hatte sondern durch Entscheidungen der Oberschicht an die Macht gekommen ist.

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  • Thank you.

    I wrote mental capacity because stress, irregular schedules, two jobs and all the other stuff drain energy and trap even clever people. Intelligence is only part of the problem.

    My point is that they are not stupid but helpless. Usually I argue that there shouldn't be minimum wage and that people have to organize to earn more, but I can see that it makes sense for that group.

    Still, as we can see, relying on others is not sustainable. Minimum wage workers have to find a way to rise their wages on their own.

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  • None. I rather change myself than wasting time on changing something that won't last forever anyway.