#COMMUNISTS

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1930s reporting on Stalin's Holodomor genocide in Ukraine. 1 2

[kingoftheu]

It is the mid-1800s. You are Karl Marx. You have risen to prominence aming leftist circles, with your scathing attacks in contemporary Capitalism and Imperialism. You hear a knock on your front door. Your front door is shattered.

A very large black dragon, a veteran of the British Millitary, apologizes for the damage. His name is Temeraire, and he is a Member of Parliament.

He has read your work and wishes to discuss it with you.

[simply-ivanka]

[americanmarketplace]

[sunder-the-gold]

Communist Labor Theory of Value makes Communist Utopia impossible

The Communist Utopia is a world in which humanity does not need a central government, because everyone will be equal to each other and everyone will be provided what they need.

Let us skip over the question of who has to do the hard work of providing, and what those laborers get in exchange for providing everything that everyone else needs.

Let us skip ahead to the notion that "everyone" has enough of what they need, and so the only exchange of value happens in regards to luxuries.

Subjective Value Theory

The free-market theory of Subjective Value declares that two individuals will never truly agree on the value of what each wants and what the other demands in exchange. They must either reach a compromise with each other, or else make no voluntary exchange. In necessary, one or both must leave each other to seek someone else willing to make a more subjectively acceptable compromise.

From beginning to end, such an exchange is completely voluntary. Coercion may occur at any point, but no point mandates coercion.

Labor Theory of Value; Objective Value Theory

Under Marxism, that which is not mandatory is forbidden.

Marxists demand that a central managerial authority exist to act as God, laying down verdicts about the objective value of everything.

No one is allowed to voluntarily make a subjective decision about what their time or property is worth to them. The state tells them what their time and property is worth.

No one is allowed to voluntarily decide who they give their time or property away to. The state tells them who they must trade with.

No one is allowed to voluntarily decide what they must trade for. The state tells them what they must purchase and who they must employ.

From beginning to end, all exchanges in a Marxist system are coerced.

Such a system CANNOT abolish the state. This practice MUST perpetuate the state, forever.

Therefore, Marxism or Communism does not work even in theory. That which cannot work even in theory certainly can never work in practice, no matter how many times you try.

But Marxists never want to achieve true communism. Marxism works just fine in theory and in practice for achieving a Marxist's true desires: Ruling over the working class as a professional freeloader.

[furiousdandelion]

There will be more soon~ ♥️

[newyorkthegoldenage]

May 1 is International Workers' Day in more than 80 countries. In the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s, socialist and Communist groups celebrated it, too. Here, women march in a column with upraised fists in a parade on May 1, 1935.

Photo: Murray Becker for the Associated Press

[lilithism1848]

[kick-a-long]

To the people defacing synagogues and Jewish centers, harassing Jews, doing violence, spouting hate, and organizing pro Hamas antisemitic protests and marches:

Have you tried finding out where your local chapters of white supremacy (proud boys, kkk, gun stores, 3 percenters, focus on the family, gay convention center, crisis pregnancy centers, crumbling housing projects that your city refuses to repair and make safe…etc) are? Have you tried improving anything in your immediate area?

If not, I don’t think you’re very punk or anarchic or leftist at all.

I kinda think you don’t give a shit, unless it’s popular and safe. I kind of think you just have a fixation on Jews and trending on socials.

Edit: honestly, at this point (may 2024) I just assume you’re racist and pretending it’s about something else. I wish you no harm other than a depressing life of shame for what you became. 🩵🩵🩵 get help.

[thereal-evanrosier]

There's no modern au where barty isn't a communist. It's just not possible. And when i say modern au I mean this:

born 1985

up to age 5-7 raised in the soviet union

spend his childhood/young teen years in an eastern europe/russia that wasnt really used to this new system yet

later, with 16-21 he fell in love with alternative styles e.g. goth makeup, emo clothes, punk hairstyles.

wore the morals and ethics of communism with pride, simply because it was all he knew all his life and everyone he talked to about it saw it as the best

he then got himself a job at a cheap coffee shop, and out on the streets he tattood everyone that just brought him enough money/services (also sex)

his dated hated his lifestyle, said his son was a disgrace and if he'd really have lived through and remembered the soviet union, he'd not support communism

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Ukrainian refugees in Sydney, Australia demonstrating to raise awareness about Stalin's crimes. 28th June 1953.

They were attacked by local communists, as reported in The Canberra Times.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Unemployment relief delivered by the government in minuscule amounts, The Worker. July 3, 1933.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Mara Kay - The Burning Candle - Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Inc. - 1968 (jacket design by Don Bolognese)

[silverfox66]

[sunder-the-gold]

A capitalist will dismiss a failing economy as “not true capitalism” on the basis of methods and means. Because the economy was not allowed to be capitalistic, it failed.

A communist will dismiss a failing economy as “not true communism” on the basis of results and ends. Because communism works perfectly in the imaginations of communists, its failure in practice cannot be their fault, it has to be everyone else’s fault.

Capitalists believe the ends are made of the means, and reality rewards them.

Communists believe the ends will justify the means, and so build a house with straw, and then throw a tantrum when they do not end up with a house made of stone.