Hey dude I just wanted to let you know that everyone at the reading group thought your observations were trite and reflected a surface level understanding of the material + you’re very annoying
Thinking about that part in Capital Vol. 1 where marx is talking about how the teenage laborers in London were so uneducated they didn’t even know how old they were or what country they were in
I don’t want to sound like a dengist but is there a better way to handle someone wielding a knife in public than what they do in this video? They would have blown her head off is this was in the US and everyone knows it.
Just remembered the “Decolonial Marxist” reading group I was part of that disappeared off the face of the earth like a day after October 7th bcus one of the head honcho guys turned out to be a Zionist lol
this might be a hot take BUT...
if you consider yourself "nonbinary" yet you present cisgender, navigate the world as a cisgendered person & don't even support your trans siblings... you're cisgender luv
“Leftists need to get armed” okay to do what? Where are our support bases? Our movement infrastructure? Our supply lines? Our communications networks? Hell, where’s our party? You’re just advocating individualist NRA “defend yourself” shit but with a red coat of paint
Apparently I’m flunking a class that I thought I was doing really good in bcus I neglected to buy the 200 dollar ebook (pirated it) which apparently counts for 25% of my grade???
Yes you read that right *buying the book* is 25% of the grade
Listening to the Blowback season on Afghanistan and getting the vibe that it would basically be like if a bunch of us twitter communists with no real experience suddenly won out of nowhere
If ur main critique of capitalism is that you, as a middle class white person, can’t have the exact same class position and affluence of your parents & grandparents generations you are a FASCIST.
Unironically, reading and understanding Marx will give u a better grasp on “political science” (not a real thing) than taking 4 years of classes taught by cryptofash and imperialism apologist professors
The “left” in this country is, soaking wet, maybe a million people give or take. and we disagree on about 2 million things on account of us not having a party or a coherent mass base, in large part due to the diffuse geographical spread of the truly advanced elements.
I once dated a communist. He was a joyless person who felt profound guilt in anything that wasn't liberating the working class. He refused to get a job because it meant he'd be taking a job from an immigrant, which meant I was working 15 hours a day to try to keep us off the
@eigenrobot
Yeah I guess that’s pretty cool little man anyway me and your mom have some grown-up stuff to discuss so can you go play on your Nintendo for a bit
Sick of seeing “leftists” do the whole “we need to retreat into the woods and create a hippy commune to survive fascism” shit you are not beating the Jeffersonian allegations
Imagine a 16 year old on her debut writing a song criticizing the luxurious materialistic lifestyle imposed by capitalism and embracing a simpler life lorde is literally the modern karl marx
The Kamala Harris campaign is up on TV with multiple new ads this a.m. --
This spot is focused on border security
Male voiceover:
"As president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is tough. So is
I’m not entertaining discourse on this, but if you can use your wages to hire a maid you’re 100% a labor aristocrat and there’s a compelling argument to be made that relying upon your wife/mom/gf to do your domestic labor can give you a kind of labor aristocratic consciousness.
@SAMOYEDWAVE
Yknow what’s funny is I just watched this episode and the plot is that the robber needs surgery and is a fentanyl addicted Nazi (???) and they have a scene where a black surgeon gives a “I’m not like other black people I’m a professional” speech. Worst show ever?
BREAKING NEWS out of Amerika: authoritarian regime-aligned university forces freedom-loving students to write self-criticisms for failing to uphold Joe Biden Thought
NYU Administrators are imposing “Orwellian” penalties on arrested students, requiring them to write “Reflection Papers” and “Integrity” modules, according to
@NYUFJPalestine
Some of y’all are tweeting some really dangerous stuff and while I 100% understand and feel similar to you, I want to tell you from personal experience you can and will be arrested for that shit.
People *really* don’t want to think about how much home ownership affects your class position/opportunities for upward mobility bcus that would vindicate Maoism-Thirdworldism a little
Idk if anyone has done this but I’m certain if you really had a good grasp on this book and had expendable Capital it would make you an incredible businessman
@AstuteCFO
If this is sincere and not like a layered joke, its important to recognize exactly whose lives are improving and to what degree, because usually it’s whites in consumer-societies and not the immigrant farm laborers who feed them. I know this is beyond cliche but read Settlers.
@Yeah0419
I don’t remember too much from this tbh (was literally just a discord) but Palestine definitely came up many times which made this reveal all the more surprising
Think abt the people who have worked in retail, fast food, service, or agriculture in bumfuck nowhere for *decades* who have the most accurate assessments of on-the-ground political consciousness. Who is helping them raise that consciousness? Who is writing down those lessons?
Been thinking abt how Marx, Lenin, etc. used to talk a lot about “developing” the proletariat in terms of actually training them for political rule and making them competent as a fighting force, and you don’t really hear that talk at all today.
in my ethnic conflict management class last term an important debate came up about how liberally we should apply the term genocide. How it should be incredibly stringent and rare to maintain its impact and truly catastrophic nature.
You are genuinely undermining victims here.
I rly need to surround myself with other Marxists (or just smart ppl generally) bcus im so sick of always playing defense when discussing politics and getting treated like im insane for even considering that ppl in the third world exist and are real people
I am not sitting here telling you not to buy a gun but I will say that’s a deeply personal decision with a lot of things to consider and it shouldn’t be taken lightly!!
the "immigrants took my job" brigade are so funny because if someone fresh off the boat is competing with you for employment maybe you don't have have any skills and shouldn't have been in a job in the first place
“Stop blowing smoke on my baby” first of all it’s not smoke it’s some delta 8 oil mixed with a bunch of other shit and the government doesn’t even know what it does yet
I’ve come to the point that I don’t think the word Fascism is even particularly useful bcus whatever the hell Amerika is it’s already the enemy bro get real
I get that most people either didn’t participate in 2020 or don’t remember it or just don’t care but you left-libs should be ashamed for memory-holing organizers getting disappeared in unmarked vans and protestors getting shot in the head with rubber bullets
@dr9lse
@JoshuaPotash
Wtf? arresting people for voting is not “de-escalating.” god Americans see a police interaction where someone doesn’t get murdered and thinks that’s the gold standard
U can be a lot more forgiving of people’s reactionary & ignorant attitudes when u remember how deeply class infiltrates the human psyche and affects the way one interacts with society
@malcxlmflex
You get credit for marking “complete” on readings and you can only mark them complete through getting access to the book thru the publishers website, which costs 200 dollars to access. Cool right?
Just finished, this is absolutely a must read. If you’ve been slacking on ur theory this will get u back into the swing, it’s a combination of cutting-edge geopolitical analysis of Amerika and Cormac McCarthy-Esque polemics and tangents.
So you won’t read, you won’t learn practical skills, you won’t partake in community organizing, you won’t address your consumption behaviors, you won’t even donate to crowdfunds, why the fuck do you call yourself a “leftist!”
I don’t understand why curable blindness is a thing. Why don’t governments step in and help? Even if you’re thinking purely from a financial standpoint it’s hard to see how they don’t roi on taxes from people being able to work again.
So has everyone on Marxist twitter just casually admitted that they’re petit-bourgeois now.. I thought u guys were still gung-ho about pretending to be proletarian
you have to understand Amerikans see themselves as the only real people in the world, so when you bring up things happening outside their little highway exit podunk their liquefied brains struggle to comprehend it
@AstuteCFO
Secondly: of course there’s no “revolutionary proletariat” in America, Americans are given the bread and circus routine their entire lives and most aren’t even proletarian to begin with! Do you honestly think capitalism improves the lives of Indonesian sweatshop textile workers.
The idea of jury trials are so funny to me. “We want the wisdom of the common folk to prevail in justice, but not if you have any particularly strong opinions or deviate from these specific instructions”
The Community Guidelines at the George Washington University encampment are very much like what Hamas would want for them, especially “no sexual relationships” part.