• Pastaguini [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Like Hitler’s Mein Kampf, readers are presented with a pure, undiluted vision of the author’s ideology (dark as it may be).

    You know who else published their thoughts? Hitler!!!

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Nearly all of these are instances of Marx saying capital makes the thing impossible or that communists want a different version of it. The writer of this article either can't read or he's deliberately misrepresenting Marx in the worst way possible, because the quotes he gives directly contradict what he's saying.

    Like here, he says Marx wants to abolish individuality: “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality,” he wrote. “And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.”

    Marx is clearly saying that capitalism already destroyed individuality and that destroying that condition is falsely called "abolition of individuality" by the bourgeoisie. This is the most :wonder-who-thats-for: thing I've ever read

  • culpritus [any]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    fee.org

    not understanding political economy is gonna cost you

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yes. Okay. Good.

    :gigachad:

    Does Cuba's new family law count as progress towards abolishing the family? It seems like a pretty radical step in dismantling the bourgeois nuclear family.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Again, abolition of the bourgeois family structure is just state funded childcare and feminism.

      The mythological nuclear family is disappearing under capitalism anyways, the socialist solution is just to create alternative social structures that democratically share the burden of child rearing and domestic labor across society instead of demanding children work and women perform both domestic and labor duties.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I would also add that it also includes children no longer being viewed as the personal property of their parents until age 18.

  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    this is proof i've dramatically evolved ideologically since 2016, because then i would have agreed with this, whereas now i struggle to see what the problem is

  • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That's it. It should be an important goal of the left to remind lolberts and fash that they have ideologies too. For too long, the right has been considered the lack of ideology. Now it results in bullshit like this being treated as a given.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    marx is both the Borg and the cauchy horizon inside a rotating Kerr black hole

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Was this meant to sound scary? Because every one of those things sucks and abolishing them would be incredibly based.

  • robinn [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Intro to the site: https://fee.org/articles/an-introduction-to-politics-for-the-politically-clueless/