Once again it's time for another bloomer thread. Post good news, something nice that happened to you, or just some words of courage. Lord knows we need it.

If anyone asks, my contribution is this dope ass rat

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    Communism will win :communism-will-win:

    Over the weekend, I was talking with an EMT who wasn't sure about "defund the police" or "ACAB", and expressed empathy for cops (as fellow emergency responders) but agreed that there are bad cops, issues of systemic racism, etc in the force and didn't flinch when I said I'm a communist.

    We spoke for awhile about how ACAB doesn't mean there are no cops who aren't nice/amicable off the clock, but rather the duties of their job mean that anyone who does that job is a bastard, and about class relations and how those factor into policing and how they factor in to the ineffectiveness of legislative reform, and how all this all connects back to the capitalist class fucking over the proletariat. They picked up on some examples I'd given to support "if you're a cop then doing your job makes you a bastard", specifically around how cops are always fucking over unhoused people in every way they can.

    When I pointed out that if you're the capitalist class, the threat of homelessness is enough to keep workers in line even when their material conditions are getting worse, it was like a light turned on for them. It was so fucking cool to see. They talked about how they interact with a lot of homeless people because of their job, and they are constantly getting fucked with by the cops, who never ever try to help them instead. And how it makes sense that since the threat of homelessness keeps people working for shit pay, making more money for the rich. And how the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles, basically — like, I could hear it all click into place for them. I gave them a recommendation for intro-level baby's-first-theory (basically marxism 101 with modern language and examples, and suggested graeber's bullshit jobs if they weren't clicking with my first rec) and am gonna check in on them in a couple weeks to see how it's going ans send them the Das Kapital manga and/or Blackshirts and Reds.

    I'm really not even good at talking to people or explaining my points IRL without getting sidetracked, and it was still easy enough to get someone from "I'm not sure about this whole defund the police thing" to "ACAB means all cops. The capitalist mode of production must be overthrown and the workers must take back the value of their surplus labor. We have nothing to lose but our chains" in like... a matter of hours.

    • machiabelly [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Capitalist power today is essentially built upon the bribes made possible by the post war boom, and the amount of time they have been in power. Every day these become less and less effective at keeping the proletariat in line. Eventually the people will know where they stand, and then there will be nothing that can stop us.

      And above all else what keeps me going is that they have to win every single time, we only have to win once. Every cointelpro, every counter-revolutionary action, they all have to win. As soon as the imperial core falls there will be no way to piece it back together. Once the USA and France, among others, finally eat shit there will never again be the conditions nessecary to recreate western imperialism. I don't know if I will live to see it, but communism will win, whether by me, our grandchildren, or their children, the pigs will finally fucking lose.

      :Care-Comrade:

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        3 years ago

        As soon as the imperial core falls there will be no way to piece it back together.

        :bloomer:

        I hadn't considered any of this before but you're so right. And the writing is on the wall for the collapse of the imperial core in the USA, and cannot be postponed forever in France — capitalism is a snake eating its own tail, and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall makes it inevitable that it will collapse under the weight of its own contradictions.

        • machiabelly [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          the tendency for the rate of profit to go down is basically my religion at this point. :anglo-burn: :gasoline: :sicko-wholesome:

          • crime [she/her, any]
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            3 years ago

            Right there with you sister, even my most pessimistic moments it's soothing to remind myself that the last day of capitalism may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, it may not even be in my lifetime - but it will be someday

            :comfy: :cool-zone: