Forward, comrade!
“The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.”
Only question is whether the west will actually manage to incentivize the creation or movement of means of production to replace this tariffed production from China.
They won’t, unless they abandon the neoliberal model and allow the rate of profits to substantially decrease
Is she old? Old people are very stubborn and we shouldn’t expect to change their minds (expect is the keyword here, you can only find out trying)
By the description of your aunt, she is indeed very difficult to work with, and she does look like she needs professional help to deal with her emotional issues. Her odd political views is a second issue, the first one is her personality, attitude and behavior.
However, if she does not want to change, does not see how difficult she makes coexistence, then it’s no use. Save yourself, as best you can, and your siblings. Stick together and try your best to leave that place and leave that woman alone.
I sing and I play guitar. Used to play French horn too, a long time ago
I usually play classical music on the acoustic guitar, but I’m still learning a few pieces
It was originally coined by a racist schizophrenic (Terry Davis), and adopted by a racist community (4chan), but the meaning itself is not racist.
You can democratically elect a party that will impose a 99% corporate profit tax rate.
Please, enlighten us and show where that was done. If it was never done, then no, you can’t.
I can just invest in shares&crypto and make my usual 5% per year
Can you really? Is it really a safe investment?
The main reason why some children are bullies has to do with the prevalence of abusive parents, usually. So to fight against this trend is to implement collective day care which would have professionals taking care of children for the large part of their early life instead of parents who are not trained to do so.
If they began to occupy land from white people in US, I wouldn’t complain 😂
No one here can predict the future, but I honestly find that highly unlikely. Not a single nuclear bomb was thrown in an opposing country since 1945
It really depends on where you live. Certain commodities are cheaper depending on their availability and ease of access in relation to the world market or national market.
For instance, in Europe, the price of rice tends to vary between 2€ and 4€, while in Brazil, a large producer of rice tends to vary between R$4 (0.72€) to R$10 (1.79€) at most, because we are a massive producer of it.
politics cannot be brought up at all when I meet them
What was the reasoning given for this?
This is my analysis of it, and I call myself Marxist. I’ve never seen a Marxist author delve into this subject specifically.
Antinatalism, as I understand, is an ethical imperative with an argument that goes like, “capitalism is a monstrous system, and I wouldn’t want to bring another human to this planet to suffer”. I will assume this is antinatalism in the context you brought.
First, suffering cannot be avoided. All humans, hell, all beings suffer. For one reason or another. Suffering is a part of living. But it’s not the only part. I feel antinatalists are nihilists out of touch with the beauty of life. Even in the most extreme circumstances humans face, there is still something to live for. Slaves can love one another, have admiration, respect, companionship or friendships with their fellow enslaved, shared hope for liberty, etc. Even under extreme examples of suffering, you can find something in life that is a valuable experience.
Second, having more kids, having less kids, having no kids, it makes no difference in the outcome of things. While a single antinatalist proclaims moral superiority because they don’t have children, millions of people are constantly having children daily anyways. Our social system will continue reproducing the capitalist mode of production irrespective of your choice of having children.
Honestly, if you are
then you should have children in my opinion. Or adopt children, if that’s not possible. I’m the opposite of antinatalist. Because your children will have a much better education with parents who study Marxism and are sensible to exploitation, to the struggles of the working class and the contradictions of the capitalist system. It’s quite obvious, if communists have more children, they will tend to have a larger generation of people educated as communists. The trouble is trying to handle being a worker/small owner, a mother and a party militant, unless all those aspects of your life were a single thing. Like Black Panther Party militant mothers.
In some instances, like in the cases of an ethnically persecuted population, having more children is actually a reasonable form of resistance.
I guess that the bourgeois China was better than socialist China? Not sure either
Luntz acknowledges Israel’s mounting PR problems in a slide identifying the most powerful tactics employed by Palestine solidarity activists. “Israelis attacking Israel is the second most potent weapon against Israel,” the visual display reads beside a photo of a protest by Jewish Voices for Peace, a US-based Jewish organization dedicated to ending Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
“The most potent” tactic in mobilizing opposition to Israel’s assault on Gaza, according to Luntz, “is the visual destruction of Gaza and the human toll.” The slide inadvertently acknowledges the cruelty of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, displaying a bombed out apartment building with clearly anguished women and children fleeing in the foreground.
Hmm. Good to know.
It almost sounds like satire that the guy accused of sexual harassment is called “Woodcock”
Excellent, I’ve relayed this to the editors, we’ll see if there’s anything worth adding into
I agree with others about not labeling oneself in if you’re introducing yourself. Labels are useful exactly for the reason you stated:
identifying oneself to new folks that let you “skip intro” and get into the results-focused conversations
The problem is, you have no way to guarantee that when you say “leftist”, “progressive”, “Marxist”, “Communist”, or similar, they actually understand what you mean. If they have no idea what Marxism, Communism is, they will probably bring to mind the preconceived notions of bourgeois ideology, and they will either ask more useless and tiring questions or will completely shut off contact with you
Also, smoking a pack a day had become part of my identity
Not many people realize this, but this is a part why many smokers have trouble quitting. Close friends of them smoke, or everyone associates them with smoking, so they also smoke to claim their own identity, or that of their group.
To stop smoking for your own sake, and for your own health is already a noble enough cause. You’re more useful to the revolution if you’re alive
I guess getting shitfaced beforehand is your better option, then, for whatever reason you want to be drunk during the play
It’s impressive how every imperialist accusation is almost certainly a lie based on their own actions