Mobility is a major tenet of both freedom and the liberation of the working class. This mobility is defined in two ways: occupational mobility and geographic mobility.
With occupational mobility, workers have the freedom to find a field of work that satisfies them. To have this
@HolliFeeley@ENERGY Then that would mean it is also a hold over from the first Trump term. This whole AC nonsense was never an issue until Mamdami reiterated common practice during a heatwave.
Reminder that both parties suck. The other half of the ruling class isnโt coming to save us. Corporations & billionaires usually donate to both parties bc they know theyโll be taken care of no matter who wins. Neither party stands for anything but shifting corporate interests.
People aren't fleeing the imperial core because it still provides a decent quality of life. It has to provide a decent QoL, to stave off the collapse of the system through revolution. However, we can see that QoL slipping away in real time as American neighborhoods, both rural and urban, continues to slip into decrepit slums, infrastructure deteriorating, and economic rage building in the the working class and quickly disappearing middle class.
Additionally, it's hard to go anywhere that isn't already affected by America's imperialism. Latin and South America have been Americas's playground for the past 150 years. This domination has prevented these countries from developing a government beyond a US puppet or an attempt at socialism that is then strangled in the crib. Immigrants from these countries aren't fleeing socialism, they're fleeing the affects of 150 years of imperialism (the highest stage of capitalism). The same thing is happening in the Middle East and Africa with immigrants fleeing to Europe after the nonstop military campaigns, especially from the past 30 years.
This isn't really a "simple" question if you're actually looking for a proper response.
People aren't fleeing the imperial core because it still provides a decent quality of life. It has to provide a decent QoL, to stave off the collapse of the system through revolution. However, we can see that QoL slipping away in real time as American neighborhoods, both rural and urban, continues to slip into decriptic slums, infrastructure deteriorating, and economic rage building in the the working class and quickly disappearing middle class.
Additionally, it's hard to go anywhere that isn't already affected by America's imperialism. Latin and South America have been Americas's playground for the past 150 years. This domination has prevented these countries from developing a government beyond a US puppet or an attempt at socialism that is then strangled in the crib. Immigrants from these countries aren't fleeing socialism, they're fleeing the affects of 150 years of imperialism (the highest stage of capitalism). The same thing is happening in the Middle East and Africa with immigrants fleeing to Europe after the nonstop military campaigns, especially from the past 30 years.
This isn't really a "simple" question if you're actually looking for a proper response.
@ConceptualJames Yes, please continue to conflate affordability, anti- corruption, and casting off belligerent states with Marxism, comrade. You're doing good work.
Peggy Baker is the daughter of Jim Mills and niece of Jon Mills, the two men who started Medline Inc. In 2021 a majority stake was sold to 3 private equity firms: Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman.
While NATO should've dissolved alongside the Warsaw Pact (or really, not even existed at all), it's absolutely hilarious that an American President is treating one of the main instruments of American global imperialist control over the past 70 years as a burden.
This signifies a couple of things we already know: the US is in a state of decline where it can no longer afford to prop up its imperialist organizations and the US relationship with Europe is deteriorating.
The US ruling class was always fine with the government bearing a chunk of NATO's expenses, because that meant it got to control what NATO did. Now that there's diminished returns on investment, instead of just formally dissolving NATO, which could be seen (rightfully) as a sign of weakness, the US is throwing a tantrum about Europe not paying its fair share and will exit as if it is Europe's fault for NATO's breakup, so that the US can pretend it wasn't because of its declining power.
While NATO should've dissolved alongside the Warsaw Pact (or really, not even existed at all), it's absolutely hilarious that an American President is treating one of the main instruments of American global imperialist control over the past 70 years as a burden.
This signifies a couple of things we already know: the US is in a state of decline where it can no longer afford to prop up its imperialist organizations and the US relationship with Europe is deteriorating.
The US ruling class was always fine with the government bearing the bulk of NATO's expenses, because that meant it got to control what NATO did. Now that there's diminished returns on investment, instead of just formally dissolving NATO, which could be seen (rightfully) as a sign of weakness, the US is throwing a tantrum about Europe not paying its fair share and will exit as if it is Europe's fault for NATO's breakup, so that the US can pretend it wasn't because of its declining power.
The climate issue is a prime example of what I mean by reformism being too slow, too minimal and too easy to retract. Addressing the climate rapidly required drastic changes in production globally. The ruling class said no. So now you get to roast alive.
@HouseGOP This is less Marxists calling themselves something new every decade (they don't) and more y'all just reactively calling everything that frightens you or threatens your power Marxist.
"Oh, you think communism is so great? Well I'm going to show you a picture of Cuba, a country that has been throttled and suppressed by the US for 60 years, to show you that communism just doesn't work!"
The past they pine for was an anomaly of history, not the norm. For the vast majority of history women have worked invisibly and with very little reward, if any.
For a very brief 20 year window after WWII, some women in the middle class and above (and largely white) were able to forgo any work as their husbands earned enough to support a household.
Gradually these middle class women had to return to the workforce as one income no longer became viable to running and maintaining a household.
Women have always worked. To think all they did was rear children and housekeeping ignores the insurmountable contribution they've given to humanity.
"Women hold up half the sky" - Mao Zedong
Women used to be 30 years old married with 3 children and a husband living in a house they owned, with a high enough standard of living that she didnโt even need to work and could stay home.
Now 30 year old women have slept with 30 guys, have no children, are not married, live in an apartment and have to go to work full time just to survive.
This isnโt progress, this is societal decline and a dramatically lower quality of life being sold to women as their liberation when in reality it is their enslavement.