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If you don't believe that the struggle between social classes defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will inevitably lead to revolutionary communism, then you're telling me that you don't quite understand Marx as much as you say you do.
If you don't believe that the struggle between social classes defines economic relations in a capitalist economy and will inevitably lead to revolutionary communism, then you're telling me that you don't quite understand Marx as much as you say you do.
If I meet a "historian" or "history fan", and they don't believe that opposition between those who work and those who benefit from that work is the defining force of conflict in history, then they're telling me that they don't believe in class struggle.
If you don't think that there's a disconnect between how humans ought to work and the way that humans do "work" in a capitalist society, then I can't consider you someone I can call comrade.
If you don't believe that society consists of two parts, the base and the superstructure, then you can never say that you believe in Marxist ideas.
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If you don't distinguish social classes on the basis of ownership of the means of production and control over the labor power of others, then you can't say that you have a Marxist understanding of class.
If you don't believe in historical materialism or that capitalism can only thrive on the exploitation of the working class, then in my opinion you can never really be called a Marxist.
Any form of solidarity that doesn't include agreement of feeling or mutual support within a group, especially among individuals with a common interest, isn't true solidarity.
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The worst members of the bourgeoisie are the ones who own most of society’s wealth and means of production.
The worst members of the bourgeoisie are the ones who own most of society's wealth and means of production.
After the revolution, anyone who advocates or engages in activities that seek to oppose or reverse its results ought to be considered little better than counter-revolutionaries.
One of these days I'm going to write some really good megathreads
The worst kind of labor alienation is when you feel foreign to the products of your own labor.
The only lumpen we should be concerned about are the unorganized and unpolitical ones who are not interested in revolutionary advancement.
A purely proletarian revolution consists of workers and working-class people.
A Hideo Kojima reboot of any given David Cage property would result in improvements to everything except the depiction of women, which would be just as bad but in different ways.