On a relatively left wing sub

  • CopsDyingIsGood [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The oppression inherent in capitalism makes working people stupider, louder, and more aggressive. This disproves socialism. I am very intelligent.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Multiple generations of capitalist oppression creates cultural trenches deeper than any single subsequent generation can easily emerge from.

      Marx - and many of his contemporaries - were convinced Communism could only emerge in a modern industrialized state, because these states needed domestic surplus sufficient to satiate the public in the transition to subsequently more-pure forms of communal social order.

      But two generations later, the largest and most successful revolutions emerged in the most backwater corners of the globe. Communists revolted at the fringes of Empire and industrialized around new economic models. They did not revolt in the imperial core and reform by leveraging surplus. Imperialists simply opted for fascist self-incineration when faced with a break down in the surplus supply chain.

      A country like Britain, which is heavily invested in foreign rental income, foreign labor, and imported consumer goods, is not well positioned to adopt socializing the means of production they outsourced ages ago. They are, more likely, positioned to reverting to their Elizabethan roots as state-sponsored mercenaries and pirates.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      3 years ago

      but I hate them along race lines, not class lines. From the queen to the lowest beggar, I measure them all the same.

  • apparitionist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    actually, British/French unionists invited Marx to their meeting.

    Karl Marx, the International and the British Trade Union Movement

    pdf: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40400876

    Despite his lack of contact with the British workers, however, Marx sensed at once, as he told Engels, that "this time real 'powers' were involved both on the London and Paris sides." For that reason alone he was ready to waive his "usual standing rule to decline any such invitations

    W O R L D H I S T O R I C

  • hahafuck [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Football laddism, which is not even totally bad in itself, is really not exclusive to the British working class. Maybe not so prominent at the very upper end but you def get rich football lads

      • hahafuck [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The character is probably different country-to-country so I didn't want to speak where I didn't know, but the rule does hold true elsewhere as far as I have seen.

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    Gee, I wonder what happens to all the poorly spoken, poorly tempered, or unintelligent immigrants. I'm sure they get horses or something.

  • BigAssBlueBug [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    On one hand, horrible steaming shit take, on the other hand, making fun of whitey is funny