The Strait of Hormuz is closed? Gas is high? Most of the world survives without everybody owning a car. Car industry lobbyists and white people running off to the suburbs ratfucked everything and gutted public transportation, now most of our cities are parking lots. Don’t get mad at Iran, get mad at the warmongers and drunks in power that caused these problems. You do stupid shit, you get a punishment.
Homelessness should make you uncomfortable, not because someone you don’t know is making you uncomfortable on a train for 20 minutes, but because we exist in a society that is so willing to let people suffer without any support system day after day until they die.
Communists don’t want to “tax the rich”, we want to destroy them as a class and expropriate all they own. Communists seek power, total power, for the working class, and colonized people. Social democrats such as AOC, Zohran and Bernie traffic in half measures, they seek to maintain and manage and tweak capitalism. Their slavery to bourgeois legalism, essentially, relies on methods developed and owned by the enemy to attempt to provide relief, and allow the class enemy to co-opt struggles and render them “safe”.
They also betray friends abroad. Palestine must be free, but armed struggle is off the table, they must, in practice, go begging on their knees for scraps of their homeland until they are all dispersed or dead, a lost people. Zohran called Maduro a dictator, now the man is sitting in jail in the city he’s mayor of. This is why it’s essential to fully grasp and apply scientific socialism. Failure to do so leads to mistakes in line, mistakes in line lead to mistakes in practice. Tailism, right opportunism, and chauvinism are terminal diseases if left unchecked.
I don't think a single disco elysium clone understands a bit why disco elysium is as loved as it is, you know it's not just having a whacky cast of thoughts as characters
there’s never going to be a perfect candidate in bourgeois politics but what happened tonight definitely opened the window for more explicitly hard left candidates to contest these races and win. the window has shifted.
The issue with the “Israel has a right to exist with equal rights for all” response is that it maintains the colony’s solvency with a “fix” rooted in what amounts to human rights with (very likely) no push for land reform and broader economic redistribution and justice.
I don’t want to live in a world where we appreciate someone for doing backbreaking labor while being hyper exploited. I want to live in a world where they see the fruits of their labor and do not have to suffer for the sake of a few men’s profits - where they can live and thrive.