#communism

[rebuilding-hope]

Okay yeah. I think a lot of people have no idea how any of this works. You can't boycott a necessity.

It would be like saying "let's boycott big agriculture by just not eating."

To successfully boycott something you absolutely must have a backup system. You cannot just pull a backup medical system out of your ass.

Yes, you can implement a rudimentary first aid and build a natural apothecary but none of that will ever ever even touch the amount of technology and modern medicine needed to maintain, let alone treat or cure many illnesses.

Seizing the means of production includes the medical industry too. I want the ability to schedule an MRI when I want, even if for being able to say "I had a scary procedure done now, when I'm not already in a scary medical situation."

With my medicaid, before Covid ruined my local medical scene, I was able to get an MRI. I didn't need one as an emergency, but I had gone to a neurologist with my mental issues to rule out any physical causes. The test came back as normal, and I don't know how true that is, but I have some sort of baseline to look back on if it's ever needed. And now I know that MRIs aren't scary, they're actually pretty cool. They make lots of cool noises.

And I think it's the lack of education about how our healthcare system works, how the doctors learn and work, how the equipment works, why it works.

That shows fear, keeping people from seeking healthcare when they do have access to it.

This is not normal or healthy. We all know this. Boycotting the healthcare industry is what they want. Don't give it to them. Keep putting pressure on them. Show them your health matters.

Your health matters.

Deny, defend, depose.

CNN suggested that Luigi Mangione stage a boycott instead of what he did. a boycott of the health care industry. exercising my right to protest by fucking dying.

edit: it was ABC. tomato, tomato.

[eye-in-hand]

Something more pseudo-communists on this site need to start understanding is that while the theory may go on and on about killing the rich and creating a classless society, that has never been the case in practice and it never will be.

The revolution in Russia targeted the Tsar, targeted the upper class, killed (though often just put them under house arrest) the rich - sure. But then what happened? It was justified to kill anyone who didn't support the revolution as degeneracy. The Jews are ruining our utopia because they're behind capitalism. The Queers are ruining our utopia because they're destroying the family unit. The ex-serfs are ruining our utopia because they're stuck in the Russian Empire in belief.

When a movement begins with violence, it will always continue in violence. The violence will always be justified, and will always find a new target - because the intention is violence.

Cambodia targeted the Khmer who were 'too western'. Russia targeted the marginalized. China targets religious minority ethnic groups. Among others, just examples.

When Russia's revolution began killing the rich the rich just moved to France and returned later, after millions of poor people died from starvation, militant governmental policies and war. Rich people can afford to survive your rEvOLuTiOn. Poor people can not and will not by the millions.

The real target is NEVER the "Rich" and ALWAYS the people "in the way", who more often than not, are marginalized.

You can NOT be for marginalized communities and continue evangelizing communism. The economy is built on exploitation, whether it's run by the working party (Which lmfao it usually actually isn't, in reality), or the upper class.

[rokonrrc2]

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The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

23rd December 2020: Monument for Stalin's Holodomor genocide of 1932-33. Dnipro, Ukraine.

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

The Adjustment is perhaps the single greatest holiday gift I have "received" in years. To know that we are so much closer to mass class consciousness than I ever thought possible at this point gives me hope for the future.

Like I said before, it's punk rock time. Time to go to work.

[famousbasementwizard]

Cuba’s healthcare system is so good even American media reported on how they sent doctors all over the world during the pandemic.

Thread from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez on her experience in a hospital in Cuba

[guerrillatech]

Imagine society as a big tree. The base is like the trunk and roots—our economic system and the way work is organized. The superstructure is everything that branches out—our culture, politics, and beliefs. While those branches can influence the trunk, Marx believed the real driver of how the tree stands and grows lies in its roots and trunk, that is, the economic base.

[beachedbaconsalad]

Ohh yeahh...

// erm what if che had a fursona yeah he would love this 💖💖😼

[moishe-pipick]

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas is the end of Capitalism.

[last-tarrasque]

U$$ labor aristocracy go brrrrrr

actually made this before the election tho seems slightly more relevant after watching CA vote no on things like rent control and, like, Prohibiting Slavery

[viktor-the-leshen]

[guiltyidealist]

new favorite YouTube comment just dropped

[ilona-mushroom]

Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.

[psilo-vibin]

One ceo is clearly more important than a school full of children based on how the pigs act.

The #AllLivesMatter degenerates love the two-tier style of justice and complete disregard for children.

[lilithism1848]