The “middle class” is a quite successful attempt by bourgeois propaganda to create a new socioeconomic analysis that is not rooted in the actual objective role we have in our economy, as in workers who produce vs capitalists who own the means of production, but in a subjective metamodernist perspective where everyone is the same in the economic system and seperated simply by the money they make. People who are quite rich by owning land can still be considered middle class, while someone who works a white collar job like software engineering is also considered middle class despite the huge difference in systemic role. The fact that the “middle class” landowner is rich through exploitation is neatly tucked away in a layer of capitalist utopia where everyone can also become a capitalist if they simply try very hard, and no harm will be done by you doing that.

One goal of this is to hide away and try to make Marxism forgotten and left in the past, because it is the only true socioeconomic analysis that truly explains our reality and highlights the clear class distinctions that are inherent to capitalism which it can’t exist without. Only Marxism really shows the contradictions in the root of capitalism, the constant clash between the proletariat which produces everything and keeps getting more and more able to do so collectively with a common goal, and the bourgeoisie who privately own the means of production and capital in general and force the proletariat to work for them by giving them a small part of the value they create. The latter keeps becoming a smaller and smaller class that is constantly getting more disconnected with the actual production process, at the same time that the former is becoming more collective than ever and has the potential to break away and self organize to produce with the goal of giving straight to the people according to their needs instead of the capitalist’s antagonistic goals.

Another goal is to perpetuate the delusion that lower working class people who don’t belong to the beloved middle class, can grit their teeth and work hard enough to get there, while the rest can enjoy their position within it and rightfully ignore the suffering of the lower class since they worked for and therefore deserve their privileges.

Antifa please do something funny

Should you be posting this?

Thanks for these long posts, it’s really important to see Soviet history from working class people who lived there instead of some rich history professor living in California

maybe an inverse/bloomer edition of the tanks wouldn’t be a bad idea for when we see people being cool I’m unexpected places

that would be really cool, we could use a lot of hopium when the world keeps looking darker every day, and seeing normies come to the realization that capitalism needs to end is something that keeps me sane

Damn, can’t you at least keep the act up for a full month after the “most important elections of our lifetime”?

Really unexpected top comments too, lemmy.world and the like have officially outfashed

Gossip just seems like a sucky name that isn’t exactly what we do in the tanks, but whatever. I’m glad this is finally settled and the mods have followed through with the community feedback, it’s finally time for our slop now

Marat should definitely be referenced too, hardline revolutionary until the very end.

Also Adam Smith when it comes to liberal economic theory

This guy has to be a troll account, reincarnated tiananmen victim ass, no way you can possibly be so dense without forming a black hole

The only “good guys” were the ones staying away from a filthy imperialist war, which was the Russian people turning against their own warmongering capitalist masters

fall guy

The “targets” don’t even know we’re talking about them. In the off chance that someone sees a post on the comm and decides to go dunk on some fascist, I’d say it’s deserved, we should not take any actions to protect fascists from having their feelings hurt.

Syria (maybe?), Russia (maybe?), and Iran (maybe?)

We might critically support these states as anti-imperialist forces, but that does not mean that we support the way they govern their own people and the class they represent. At best they would be just as democratic as the western “democracies”, a bourgeois democracy where the capitalists have the freedom to pursue the maximization of profits with as little resistance possible while using the state forces against the oppressed proletariat.

True 100% democracy can’t exist while classes also exist. Until they fade away into history the best implementation of democracy will be the dictatorship of the proletariat, a democracy by the working class for the working class. Capitalists have no place in it, unless they willfully sacrifice their privileges and join the working class without plotting to subvert this new reality. That’s what made the Soviet Union a democracy, everyone would participate through their unions and have equal rights to be elected to them and upwards. A former capitalist’s opinion on their factory being taken away on the other hand, would be instantly discarded.

First off about Carcosa stepping down, if this is not about your mental health, please don’t. This isn’t on you, if anything you have more than proved your capability of being a great admin by remaining civil and keeping a cool head despite the clusterfuck of a thread that was the last one.

I think everyone here can agree that the old comm had racist connotations once researching the name, I also had no idea until I looked it up. The real problem with the changes is that you’re essentially trying to force a culture change on the site. While I’m personally not at all opposed to having a community for doing more serious counterpropaganda work in an organized manner, this doesn’t cover the need most users here (including myself) have of simply taking a dump on stuff we see that pisses us off, without having to do serious Marxist analysis and refer to sources etc.

I believe we should keep the dredge tank just like it is, rename the dunk tank to one of the names proposed already in a recent post about it, and open up a new community for serious counterpropaganda work.

We can ban X AND get kicked out of NATO? This is the greatest deal in the history of deals

Who knows what the fuck will be going on in 4 years, shit is looking grim

Maoists really silent after this dropped