#marxism

[sir-k-lime]

If they execute Luigi, they will 100% cause class conscious to bloom tenfold than it is already he will put on the pedestal of martyrdom for the working class, though he's somewhat already there.

They will sabotage him as much as possible, try and pull him off the pedestal and subdue class conscious and the growth of it, before they decide his fate whether it be death penalty or imprisonment.

They’re scared because they know that the public is with Luigi.

They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.

Keep talking about Luigi.

[dn-838]

You know, I was actually quite conservative a couple years ago, I held some fairly liberal views due to a progressive family, sure, however I was the sort of person who claimed to be a “unbiased centrist” and openly tried to treat certain very problematic viewpoints as a reasonable perspective. I openly refused to apply a Gender to Trans people in discussions to “avoid opposing either side”, willingly associated myself with certain Reactionary accounts (mainly Transphobes and Theocrats), was very Aphobic (ironically), and I very openly opposed many Trans healthcare policies (mainly I supported Cass as well as being on that “what if they regret it later” bandwagon, got blocked by quite a few LGBT+ rights accounts in that period).

It wasn’t until near the end of 2023 to early 2024 where I eventually started talking frequently with a Trans Woman and later learned some of my other friends are Trans that a lot of my Transphobia slowly eroded, and I pretty much completely abandoned my idea around trying to be “neutral”. I was wrong, very wrong, and I needed to make amends for the decisions I made in the past, so I decided I would try to be as supportive as I could for those I cared for and officially became a DemSoc. From there I realised I was Asexual myself and eventually went on to be radicalised into a revolutionary communist.

I’ve changed a lot, the rights of working people, of LGBT+ people, of women, POC, disabled, immigrants, they are now all something I’m deeply passionate about making sure are equal, it’s those values that put me in the radical position I’m in now, but… it’s sure took a lot to get here.

[queercodedangel]

Trump is just speedrunning the decline and fall of the global US empire at this point lmao

[ashcloud-on-venus]

I hate in-fighting as much as anyone else, but I refuse to accept that a so-called ‘left wing’ man can be so loosely tied to their beliefs and convictions to pivot that hard and betray their supposed world view.

Someone said mean words to you online who happened to be left wing and an asshole and now you’ve pivoted to the side supporting the violent, forced removal of families, stripping away social safety nets, stripping green card and student visa status away from people who protest an ongoing genocide and slamming ur fist down on the the table saying “send $10bn to Israel right now”!!

If your fundamental values can not only be shaken, but flipped on its head for the sake of validation - you either have a weak character IN GENERAL, or never held those beliefs firmly.

Do you know how much shit I’ve copped over the years from liberals online and only become increasingly further left despite their stupidity? I’ve had people threaten to find me and kill me ‘one less commie makes the world a better place’. These people are still the other horn of the capitalist bull, and their rhetoric will reflect the same hatred seen on the right in the face of progress and dismantling of the system, and other radical approaches to achieving change that benefits the majority of people, not the 1%.

Ignorance cradles you, and if you’re susceptible to abandoning your commitment to championing social issues for the sake of acceptance or validation, it’s worth analysing.

[thespectrehauntingfodlan]

A cartoon from 1914 that could have been written today

[stillnaomi]

no matter how you examine a bar of chocolate, there's no indication of the exploitation that went into creating it — not an atom that screams "I came into being through slavery!" and yet, the social relations of slavery and unequal exchange are facts of its existence. in the capitalist world, we're presented with an endless series of commodities, while the social relationships behind their production and distribution are hidden from us. when people understand the misery that others are forced into in order to shave $0.5 off the production costs of every t-shirt, sofa, or TV they purchase, they often feel rage at the capitalist system. that's why we must continually expose such things. don't let them be hidden from view

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

"Nowhere is the power of capital, the power of a handful of billionaires over the whole of society, so crude and as openly corrupt as in America. Once capital exists, it dominates the whole of society, & no...form of franchise (voting) can alter the essence of the matter.”

— V.I. Lenin (1919)

[nitratestar]

China is very unique. They are basically a proletarian state with a state capitalist economy. This idea was born out of the post-cultural revolution era and the degeneration of the USSR in the late 70s. They decided to come back to the Soviet NEP period. The Soviets abandoned state capitalism completely after 1933, because of well, you know. The CPC decided that they were in a position to successfully apply this plan. They decided to risk it with state capitalism because Chinese Marxists believe the reason for the degeneration of the USSR and European socialism is because of rushing ahead to developed socialism before having the necessary means.

So far, it seems to be working. We see its contradictions daily, but the CPC is still in control.

also the prc is not communist and there are still bourgeois in it. surprisingly, with no precedent at all, sometimes these bourgeois act against the socialist state and break laws. stunning stuff

[whereserpentswalk]

I fucking hate this "capitalism is when you make money, the more money you make, the more capitalism it is" mindset people have gotten. No, an artist selling their own work is not them engaging in capitalism, it's literally a worker owning their own means of production.

Remember capitalism is someone profiting off of someone else's labor though owning capital. It is not simply the act of profiting at all.

[memingursa]

Rabid Joe Biden about to bomb the Vatican

[bolshevikitherat]

from the Lavender and Red Union, a group of communists who wrote this in 1975.

"GAY LIBERATION IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT SOCIALIST REVOLUTION. SOCIALISM IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT GAY LIBERATION."

[dn-838]

Can someone tell me who these three are?

[juegosintiperojuegocontigo]

[nuadaargetlamh]

One is a convicted criminal that wants to:

Institute a dictatorship “on day one only” (with majority support from his party!)

Give a greenlight to Project 2025

Use a weakened Schedule F to install THOUSANDS of cronies

Institute military tribunals for his political enemies (and allies!)

Gun down “enemies from within”

Support Russia in wiping Ukraine off the map

Use the combo of the removal of the Chevron deference/the Supreme Court allowing people to openly bribe them/Schedule F to extend the far-right’s reach into every government agency and deregulate everything to the benefit of his rich capitalist buddies

Has gotten total immunity for “official acts” (what counts as “official”? Whatever his Schedule F appointed judges choose of course.)

Already took away so many freedoms from racial minorities/queer people/women/anyone-that-isn’t-a-rich-white-man that it would take ages to list them all in this post

and so so so so SO MUCH MORE.

The other is a typical neoliberal politician.

Remember also, you’re not just choosing a president, you’re choosing their cabinet, potential Supreme Court justices, federal employees as well. With the above listed ALONE, Trump would do so much more damage than just what he can do himself. That’s not including everything else his Federalist Society Supreme Court would and have given him on a silver platter. Supreme Court Justices are for LIFE, and we’ve already seen the potentially irreparable damage this far-right activist court has done to the fabric of democracy.

Project 2025 really deserves a part to itself just to list some of what it includes: complete abortion/contraceptive ban (no exceptions), destroying worker’s unions and protections, remove Social Security/Medicare/Affordable Care Act, end civil rights protections in government, ban teaching the history of slavery, remove climate protections while gutting the EPA, end equal marriage and enforce the “traditional family ideal”, use the military to gun down protests, mass deportation of legal immigrants (especially Muslims), ending birthright citizenship, pack the lower courts, and plenty more. The far-right wasn’t able to take full advantage of Trump’s presidency the first time since it was so unexpected. They’re preparing so that they won’t make the same mistake again. THERE ARE OVER 900 PAGES OF POLICIES AND PLANS THAT THEY ABSOLUTELY WILL IMPLEMENT IF THEY WIN. READ IT. Anyone that says they won’t is either a liar or already drank the Kool-Aid. Isn’t it interesting that every politician that supports it, including his vice president, wants Trump to win?

Not to mention, if you care about Palestine (like I do, a lot), Trump would be MUCH WORSE for Palestine than the other candidate, supporting Bibi going “from the river to the sea” and already cut off millions in aid to Palestine in 2018 (which Dems reversed!). If you support a free Palestine and don’t vote blue, you have categorically hurt them more than if you did. Even Palestinians themselves want the Democrat candidate over Trump. There is no quick and bloodless peace deal that both Palestine and Israel would ever agree to. The road to an end of the Palestine-Israel conflict is going to be long and difficult, probably decades of dedicated de-radicalization in both states, and will involve far more than one person’s decisions in the end. Unless Trump takes power, and avoids all that by sending enough bombs to turn the Gaza Strip into dust.

There are a few reasons you would choose to vote third party in a FPTP system (support ranked choice voting btw) or not vote “in protest” while ignoring all the state and local elections that affect your area more than the president. Either you’re privileged enough to not be affected by what Trump would bring, you’re ignorant of the consequences, or you care more about doing nothing perfectly rather than doing something, anything that isn’t 100% ideologically “pure” to fight against the far-right fascist movement.

Am I a democratic socialist? Yes. Am I a realist? Also yes. In every single down-ballot race, and through my activism, I will fight for the rights of the oppressed and working-class. But the Presidency isn’t fucking winnable right now, and probably won’t be for decades. Pro-corporatist/anti-worker sentiment is baked into the fucking bones of this country and its people. A majority of eligible voters wouldn’t vote for Bernie, and he’s barely center-left. Voting for anything other than one of the two big parties is a useless feel-good gesture at the moment. Or you’re a dumbass accelerationist, and if you are, honestly go fuck yourself.

Let’s say you want a socialist revolution, full-tilt government takeover. I want that too, in my wildest dreams! We’re on the same page there. So how are you going to do it. How? HOW? What pro-worker activist groups are you working with? Are you encouraging your workplace to form a union? Volunteering for/donating to your local farmers’ co-op? Canvassing for pro-worker legislation? Hell, even something as small as distributing free copies of high-school/college textbooks, so that those of poorer means have a better chance at affording advanced education? Are you doing anything to help? Any praxis at all, rather than typing wishful thoughts of revolution alongside insults to people who aren’t as “correct” as you on the internet?

Every voter that still supports Trump is energized by every cruelty he enacts, while millions of Democrats and third-partyists care more about purity tests and manifesting socialist revolution tulpas than avoiding a fascist dictatorship.

Have a brain, touch grass, and vote blue all the way down that fucking ballot.

[jingerpi]

i know it sounds made up but studying Marxism will save you. like, understanding how and why society works the way it does and being able to have the knowledge that it wasn't always like this and one day this too will be surpassed will do wonders for your mental health. not to mention the tools for analysis and understanding can give you insight into yourself, because it does also do that, it's just that the knowledge and understanding that comes from studying socioeconomics derived from class struggle (rather than bourgeois intellectualism) recontextualizes so many of our issues and struggles that things no longer feel like they're explicitly you're fault nor do they stretch beyond our imagination infinitely into the past and beyond our futures. If you feel hopeless or confused, reading theory can genuinely help. it will solidify your understanding of the world and how to move forward, rather than simply pointing out all the problems (as many social media posts tend to) the answers are in theory.

the crazy thing is it's not just beneficial to our mental health but to our external, physical health too. learning these things can uplift the Proletariat as a class and start to bring us closer to those futures you'll become able to see. theory is a map to a better future, not only is it relieving to see there is one out there, we can actually follow it, and that's the best part.