It is pretty funny that Marx and Engels do offer an explicit numerical definition of how much more money than average a worker has to make to start taking on the social aspects of a capitalist. It's 8.
"We had a good life in our own country, but we decided to do an armed invasion of someone else's, because we are religious supremacists. Why are you mad at us?"
Fuck yeah we love repressive Western and Israeli backed monarchies that only existed for the sake of ensuring that the oil industry could plunder a nation unimpeded
In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.
This is bad. Fuck the feds
Eight people were arrested Wednesday morning in connection with pro-Palestine advocacy at University of Michigan, according to FBI leadership.
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I often think of this passage from Lenin’s text on Tolstoy and the labor movement: "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle."
We rarely see the other parts of that paragraph. "Despair is typical of the classes which are perishing,” Lenin writes. "The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes."
Lenin was writing about the labor movement, and the objective historical process that saw it rise and replace the peasantry as the dominant force in Russia. The peasantry was gripped by despair because its class no longer had a future. The proletariat, by contrast, was growing in strength and number.
Today, Lenin’s insight also holds true of the streets of Iran, where people mobilize by the millions under bombardment. It is true of the communes in Venezuela, whose militants continue the task of building socialism and are prepared to take up arms to defend it. It is true of the people of Cuba, who remain defiant under a crushing blockade that has turned their cities dark.
Those who despair now — as a new world is being born — are really just mourning the death of liberalism. They are mourning the death of a world that never existed: a world of supposed lawfulness and “rules-based” governance. Anyone who has ever earnestly tried to bring a new world into being quickly learned that these were fictions created to secure impunity for the colonizer and oppressor.
That is why we find that people on the vanguard of the systemic transition underway — as with the labor movement in Lenin’s time — “have plenty to protest against but nothing to despair about.”
There is nothing surprising about this. As imperialist hegemony weakens and its ability to sabotage sovereign development diminishes, the inherent superiority of socialism as a development model will become increasingly clear to all. This is one symptom of the emerging polycentric world — and part of the long systemic transition from capitalism to socialism.
Make no mistake: The US government will socialize the immense costs of subprime AI. They will force us all to eat the losses, while the perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history abscond to private islands. Be ready, because a deliberate rug-pull is the plan.
Meanwhile on Chinese TV: "I visited California in the 80s. They were promising high-speed rail. China didn't even have highways."
40 years later, they have built zero. China: biggest high speed rail network.
"The superiority of socialism is clear."
New York officially has become the first US state to mandate disclosures for AI-generated people in commercial advertisements, effective June 9, per ABC