You can't demand systemic change, greater distribution of wealth and the liberation of workers from the ownership class if you have a house. If you have a house then those things are not possible. Having a house invalidates your participation in a society and any critiques of the economy.

The reason the soviets lost is because they had houses. Having a house is active participation in capitalism. Houses did not exist before and they will not exist after. So the only reasonable way to be a socialist is to sell your house. Then make a little house out of the money and sell that. All the way down until you have nothing left and then you will be halfway on your way to being a socialist but not until you sell your phone.. let me explain.

  • Zhoutaku [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    If you're not wearing a barrel with suspenders, you're participating too much in Capitalism to be a true leftist.

    • sailorfish [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Oh man the other day I saw a heated debate on Twitter end with the comment: "The fact you are alive is basically evidence you are nothing but a LARPer. Just shut the fuck up and overthrow the USA I'm waiting." If you're still alive you aren't a true leftist.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        they're trying to make themselves feel better about choosing to be selfish and greedy

        • sailorfish [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Oh, nah, the other person was being pretty extreme ("you're a coward if you aren't active enough to be on the CIA's hitlist, you are letting your tax dollars be used to murder people in the global south") lmao. I just thought it's a funny takedown.

        • sailorfish [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          I don't think either person in the argument was a lib haha. It was about whether it's ok for AOC to write about Black Panthers doing food drives (so white people start thinking about them more positively) without mentioning that they were radical communists in an instagram post. Even if her turning full radical means being ostracised and/or murdered by the CIA. Lbr the only people who have struggle sessions over instagram posts that end with someone saying "if u haven't been shot dead by the CIA already ur a lib" are commies lmao

    • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Suspenders are bourgeois decadence. True leftists are alotted exactly one stationary barrel which they may roll around through their own labour

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

      Barrels would not exist without capitalism. Milton Friedman told me so.

      Return To Monke or you are capitalism.

  • domhnall [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You’re not a true socialist until you’ve abandoned your corporeal body and exist in a state of pure energy with no distinct features or clear separation between you and your comrades.

    • HighestDifficulty [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      True story: When I was a laborer I never thought to use the straps to pull my workboots on, I just jammed my foot in using my finger as a makeshift shoehorn... until I heard the phrase about bootstraps and learned they were the tabs on the back of work boots. I dunno I though they were vestigial there for the sake of it . So I thought, thats a good idea, it'll save me the mild finger discomfort. So I tried to pull them on using the bootstraps for the first time ever, and they snapped clean off.

      Some sort of metaphor for capitalism or do I just have pudding hands? Could be either.

  • cilantrofellow [any]
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    4 years ago

    True Marxists squirm in the mud like little worms, in perfect equality. Sell your clothes, embrace sepsis.

  • SteveHasBunker [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is funny cuz socialist states often have the highest home ownership rates in the world

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is the dialectical materialist analysis I log on to see

  • Totalscrotalimplosio [he/him,any]
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    4 years ago

    Sounds like I should give up my guns, car, and let my Republican neighbors have sex with my wife while I'm at it.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      If you and your wife haven't taken a vocel pledge, you aren't really taking hexabearism with communist characteristics seriously

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You cannot be a socialist unless you move to a Native American reservation and displace a family. We claim to show solidarity with indigenous groups but how can you unless you are living in their neighbourhood and letting them use your possessions. We claim to hate cops but willingly live under them unless we move to reservations and cite Oliphant v. Suquamish every time tribal police try to arrest us for committing crimes against the tribe's private property. How can we claim to be environmentally sustainable unless we move to a reservation and live off their land's resources? Nobody can claim we're using iPhones to stan socialism if we move to areas with crushing poverty and work the few available jobs for wages too low to afford one.