If you claim Marxism and stan for the working class, yet refuse to recognize and take the settler-colonial condition seriously, your Proletarianism is merely Settler-National chauvinism and you should be viewed as incredibly sus by serious Settler and Indigenous communists alike.
looking at this and remembering that the GDR had a policy where drinks at a bar should cost only nominally more than buying them at the shop because they didn’t want you to drink alone at home they wanted you to get out there and party
@WabKinew This is an attempted act of assimilation on colonized lands.
Indigenous nations aren't Canadian settlers. It isn't racist to make that statement. To state otherwise greatly obfuscates the on-going settler-colonial reality.
Wab is a comprador
@stdiogrn@Solidarity_Star How many of those people are people who fled to Russia when the war began and are now returning?
Americans are settler-colonists. Americans have also colonized Palestine as "Israelis".
“Communists should oppose immigration because capitalists use it to undermine workers.”
Marx confronted almost this exact argument over Irish workers in England but he drew the opposite political conclusion. His reasoning is worth examining. I figured it was worth a thread. 🧵
Wages are not a share of profit. They're a cost of production, deducted before profit exists. What's left over is surplus value - the part you produced but didn't get paid for. Calling your wage a "share" is the exact inversion the boss wants you to believe.
After ejecting from a fighter jet shot down over Iran, U.S. Air Force officer Bravo broke his back, arm and shoulder upon impact with the ground. Badly injured and stranded in a valley surrounded by cliffs, he mustered the strength to climb a 7,000-foot ridgeline in order to evade capture.
POV you're the resident commie temp at Paradox.
"Hey, you're kind of a leftie- right?"
"😶"
"We're looking for someone to take on a project"
"😶"
"to spend the next year and a half or so delving into Marxist theory and socialist history. Would you want to take that on?"
"Yes"
Salutation Victorians!
Dev Diary 188 has arrived! Victoria guides us through the various changes coming to socialism in Update 1.15! Including new laws, ideologies and narrative content!
Read here: https://t.co/4IYDpoo2yv