@Greynxgga69 Pope, every once in a while: "unemployment is like almost as bad as abortion man"
Marxists for some reason: "WOAW I didn't know we were dealing with pope BASED over here!!!"
If you find yourself resonating with the Popes social commentary, you’re either easily impressed or you lack the foresight of a marxist.
The technology is not going anywhere, and neither are its most destructive effects as long as private property and the state remains.
@nukedwest Much better take in Angela Davis’s autobiography. Bourgeois leftists wanting us to be stupefied by class society’s ready-made slogans and concepts.
I'm sorry but socialist politics isn't populism. Populism is a vague sentiment against the ruling elites, but lacks theoretical outlook to understand the real source of its frustration and suffering. Being popular without providing theoretical clarity & organization is tailism.
When you’re a beginner socialist, you think that socialism is simply the extension of liberalism.
Then you learn it’s actually a rejection of liberalism.
But then you grow wiser and realize that socialism *is* the extension of liberalism.
Norsk politikk er ganske likt som i DDR, masse fake tullepartier for å skape en illusjon av at vi ikke er en ett(Arbeider)partistat. Dette er Norge og vi er alle sønner og døtre av Gerhardsen. Jonas må bygge en antifascistisk beskyttelsmur mot Sverige
You’re not a communist if you’re a conspiracy theorist. Communists ground their analysis in material reality, not conspiratorial, idealist explanations of history
online weirdos who treat ideology as a costume say outlandish shit like this
they were men, not gods. Men who served the masses so dutifully they manage to guide millions towards liberation and constructing a new society.
the masses made history, not these individuals
And this is why I co-wrote a pamphlet against populism. One of the funny things about this kind of "workerism" in addition to being circular ("we need the worker's movement to vote us into power so we can empower the workers' movement to make reforms...ignoring that if they can do the former, we could have already done the latter"), it treats worker's movement as mostly policy proposals based on a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of the New Deal and on what makes "social democracy" work.
It actually treats the workers as a somewhat static force.
It treats workers' politics as policy for non-worker's to enact in the name of workers.
Yeah, that is just warmed-over Fordism, and we see where that led.
One of the most shocking things I recently found out was that Mao was a Western Marxist. I could tell when late in his life he kept spewing anti-state propaganda about how China is "revisionist" and that they are trying to "restore" capitalism blah blah.