also the capitalist in this 'equal' way is still driving the whole damn thing and taking it wherever they want to go
Lets look at the picture a bit. We have in the last one a tandem-bicycle, on it you see two persons, the one in the front labeled capital, the one in the back labeled labour. Both grab the handlebar in front of them. For labour it is a fixed one, for capital it is a freely moving one which controls the angle of the front wheel (which is labeled labour) and as such controls the direction of the whole enterprise, but isn't able to use brakes (as there are none). The labour-labeled front wheel doesn't have a chain, making it free rolling and not adding any power or velocity to the apparatus. It does stabilize the bike though and guided by the capital-person rolls the whole thing into the given direction. Both persons have their feet in the pedals, between those there is a chain guard to the capital-labeled back wheel hiding any chain connecting them. This means that the capital-wheel is powering the whole bike, powered by the chain which might be driven by either of the two persons.
What does this picture then illuminate about the views liberals (who arguable created this picture) hold?
It exposes that they think that capital is needed to drive labour, enterprises and as such people, that it is capital's role to drive and plan and that they are the thinkers - those who own capital - and that the others are absolutely able to just be a pair of legs.
I think that is a fair assessment about how "liberalists" view people and themselves. It is a view that is inherently one of "masters and slaves" Nietzsche/Hegel/Marx. However as socialists we know:
"Weil ein Prolet ein Prolet ist,
drum hat er Stiefel im Gesicht nicht gern,
er will unter sich keinen Sklaven sehen und
über sich keinen Herrn!""Cause a proletarian is a proletarian,
he doesn't want a boot in his neck,
he doesn't want a slave below him,
nor a master above!"(not gendered texts, but a recording of it )
It is labeled because the original is a black and white etching. r/neoliberal has colorized it by using the fill tool on the hat, flag and bicycle but stopped short of colorizing anything that would take a modicum of effort.
I'll be a galaxy brained centrist and say that I like the minimalist coloring. It gives color to the original black and white style without overshadowing it.
Daily reminder that the original is from the 1920s and was a poster for the Liberal Party in the UK. They proceeded to eat shit in that election and weren't electoral force for 50 years until they merged with the SDP in the late 70s to form the Lib Dems.
And Libdems go exclusively after urban Labour voters, the only thing of note they've ever done is been the sub in a masochistic relationship with the Tories.
The only Libdems I've ever known are utter idiots who think they're intellectually superior non-conformists but know dick all about anything, or smug closeted Tories.
Socialism is when backwards bicycle, no I will not answer your questions.
Imagine being a neoliberal and thinking you have the best interests of labor at heart
Or that your ideology is even remotely similar to Progressive class-collaborationism
Its really telling that the vast majority of people there are delusional, smug West Wing Brain Obama/Clinton libs who think being neoliberal is being a woke capitalist, while the minority who actually understand and adhere to their ideology are the most obviously cruel and psychotic posters on the sub.
Observe
Capital and labor cooperating when their class interests are diametrically opposed is sort of cringe ngl
not if you save for retirement
??? how is that relevant
because then you are an owner of capital
:galaxy-brain:
liberalism: steered by capital, propelled by labour, though capital claims the title of back wheel.
Ah, a good specimen. Here we observe the common Spineless Liberal. Note its distinctive posting style that belittles the forces of labour. Its memetic plumage is, like the rest of them, derivative of old, outdated ideas. While common across the world, they're expected to become less prolific as the modern neoliberal economy begins to collapse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/jad4pq/liberalism_the_right_way_poster_2020_colourised/
