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They don't know any of that shit. It's pure domination and petty cruelty. They don't "blame" the workers, they bully them like any other shitty bully.

That's why we should dunk on them and call them stupid of course! Elite controlling society, what an insane idea, am I right?

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They do it out of pure spite, not to compete with the bourgeoisie. Most of these type of people are too stupid to even be familiar with the concept. It's very basic "I'm the Big Man" type shit, which is why they all love Trump and hate "the Liberal Elite" - which is where they put all their frustrations about competing with global Capital onto yelling at teachers and college students.

1984 gets thrown around as the "harsh, totalitarian nightmare state", but I'd actually argue it's not. Only the Party members, basically the PMCs and above, live under totalitarian rule. The way that the life of the "proles" is described in 1984 is more like how people talk about BNW - endless trite distractions and petty bullshit, with the occasional random attacks to keep people confused.

You lost?

"Only savages and Communists get rich by force - that is by looting the property of others"

But if a small-time creator makes an indie show/film, then they can be as critical as they want, which makes it better than a complete ban (which is censorship).

Arguably our system is far worse. Direct censorship is a crude tool that rarely works. The USSR had a huge underground network of banned media. Banning something makes it titillating and people seek it out.

In Capitalist society, sure the indie film gets made, but how do you distribute it? How do you advertise it? Propaganda is not that effective if you're just preaching to the choir. Sure, go ahead and make your awesome indie flick that's anti-Capitalist and totally revolutionary. Good luck convincing anyone to see it, or handling media hit jobs to dismiss it.

Fyi, this is pretty much the MO of modern US government, ramped up to extreme. Why would the neoliberal state ban you and look bad, when they could just ignore you and make you look like a fringe weirdo?

But but but Guys, culture is not a ~material issue~. What media people consume is not ~doing politics~. Art is not praxis, unless it involves donating money to my/my friend's charity project!

And if you didn't follow the guidelines, your movie just didnt get approved and/or you got purged from society at a show trial performed by the regime.

Revolution? Yikes dog, what a bad take!

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Money has been associated with Bad Things (shit, piss, dirt, evil, guilt, shame) basically since the concept of exchange was invented. Money actually used to be something separate from the process of exchanging useful goods. Early societies basically used "money" objects as a way to swing their dick around. If you have away a lot of money, it meant you were a Big Deal and the person who took it took all the guilt away.

This is an important lesson today because NGOs and charity - which the Left is obsessed with - is that exact same impulse.

Marcel Mauss's The Gift covers this in more detail if you want a read.

Bull Shit

This is what POWER looks like! When you win, this is how you strength is demonstrated. You wait until you have the prize, unlike the Berniecrats celebrating after Nevada.

Thats why she's coming out with the COPE statement in the OP!

Why? Capitalism works the way that Capitalism works. That's the beauty of Marxism-Leninism - the broad strokes still describe how Capitalism and the State work, even over a century later in a new environment. Yeah, the details change, but that's always been the case. There's no reason to re-invent the wheel unless you're some wrecker who just wants to "fuck shit up" or have delusions of grandeur.

The idea that the new movement will "not necessarily resemble Trotskyism or Marxist-Leninism or Anarchism or anything else" is complete bullshit, built on a lack of understanding of history and general narcissism.

If you want to build an international labor movement you need workers to be able to follow the flows of international capital.

Why? Isn't it easier to build solidarity if workers aren't literally at each other's throats?

Bumble is the exact opposite in my experience, basically zero lefties, just for anyone reading through this.

Lmao, you're a Bush era evangelical

Emotional fragility is a real issue on "the Left", and it's frequently used to our detriment.