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now im an anarchist, but you can't deny that che guevara's last words were inspirational as fuck.
essentially, he had travelled to bolivia to fight alongside revolutionaries there, but was captured by US backed forces after an informant revealed his location to them.
just before he was murdered, he said to his executioner:
"i know you've come to kill me. shoot, coward! you are only going to kill a man".
to put it simply, he was saying that even though he may be dead, the ideas of revolution would live on long after his death, and this could not be more true, as his legacy has inspired many revolutionaries across the world to rise up against their oppressors.
hasta siempre comandante che guevara.
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whereserpentswalk · 4 months
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Made this political cartoon. Feel free to share it around just don't remove the watermark.
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gett-merkedd · 1 year
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A person born into capitalism, a system in which virtually all resources are privately owned, must receive permission from property owners in order to access those resources to survive.
Each person must therefore pay a property owner or labor directly for the property owner to survive. Each person is *coerced* into wage labor and market transactions by virtue of *systemic privatization.*
Any property owner could voluntarily allow the propertyless access to resources free of charge. But each owner is *also* obligated into market exchanges to acquire resources not found on their property to survive, coercing *them* into exploiting the propertyless to survive.
I have said it before: capitalism incentivizes psychopathic behavior. If people must engage in competitive profit seeking to survive, they are disciplined by the threat of market failure, immiseration, and starvation into horrific behavior *whether they want to or not.*
Capitalist ideologues will insist the absence of coercion in any given exchange exonerates the entire system. But I have never once been threatened by a cop over taxes, and yet I am still aware that I face imprisonment and violence if I fail to pay on time. The propertyless are well aware of the violence that will face them if they try to use property without permission—without payment, without laboring—even if they’ve never personally been evicted by a sheriff’s deputy.
Capitalist ideologues will insist on treating the system as nothing more than a sequence of discrete interactions with no connection to each other, because no one wants to think *they* would willingly participate in, and perpetuate, a system of exploitation and coercion.
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scouse1g · 2 months
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Germany's inability to condemn ethnic cleansing and genocide is proof that they were never truly denazified.
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flesh-is-the-fever · 7 months
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Thinking about all the reactionary stereotypes of socialism that I just unwittingly reinforced for them when I was younger.
Like no, actually, I don't want to "eat the rich" I want to take back the value that the actually productive class of society creates from the parasites that steal it from us.
When I say proletariat I don't mean "the poor" I mean the class that built the modern world. The class that keeps everything running. The class without whom society would collapse. The class without whom the grocery stores would be empty, the hospitals would shudder, the ambulances would break down, and the crops would fail.
When I say bourgeois I don't mean "the rich" I mean the parasitic, extractive class that will make any excuse for the needless suffering and death of millions; who will devour millions of lives and make any excuse for it but their addiction to stuffing their coffers.
I will not allow the reactionary narratives of socialists being resentful, jealous good-for-nothings to define my socialism. I will not define my socialism in bourgeois terms. Anyway I've clearly drank way too much coffee this morning byeeee ~<3
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la-tache-rouge · 1 year
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Approximately 17 people per 10,000 experience homelessness each day.
The number of homeless in the US is estimated at 552,830 (0,2%)
Every year, roughly 13,000 homeless people die in the US.
20% of homeless individuals are, in fact, kids.
40% of all homeless men are veterans.
How about we don't leave housing to the free market and use those 801 billion U.S. dollars spent on the military to build some apartments for these people?
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blackcat-brazil · 1 month
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Marxism is like:
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hornykissinger · 7 months
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Debate me like its 2009
I'm finding myself extremely nostalgic for the tumblr/reddit discourse culture that was so common in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
It's possible, maybe even likely, that were better off as a whole having left it behind. Social media is worse than its ever been, and the left doesn't feel nearly as intellectual, but it does seem a lot more grounded and focused on pragmatic action. (unionization, spontaneous protest)
That being said, it was just so damn fun, and it gave me the drive to read a lot more political theory than I've been reading lately. So if you like making long effort posts about Rosa Luxembourg, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, György Lukács, Paul Bremer, or some other activist-intellectual/repugnant demon and you want more engagement, follow me and I'll follow you back!
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fluidsberlin · 1 year
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non-disruptive protest doesn't work.
aside from the fact that the point of a protest is to cause enough disruption that the government is forced to concede, there's also another element to this that i personally feel is more prevalent, especially these days with governments across the world cracking down on protest rights.
the way i see it, as do many others on the left, is that if protest is meant to force the hand of the state via disruption, but the state is the one to define what "acceptable" protest is, then there would never be a protest that works, as the state will inevitably only define protests that don't threaten the status quo as acceptable, thus preventing any real change from happening.
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whereserpentswalk · 6 months
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Don't trust any "leftism" that treats working as moral and not working as immoral. Definitely don't trust "leftism" that wants to give extra rights or privileges to people who work "more"/"harder"/"at all". It's based in very Christan and very capitalist ideas that will be used to take away people's rights, it is not real leftism, it is trying to use leftist structures to create a more efficient version of capitalist ideals of 'work or starve' wage slavery. It will also always arbitrarily divide work into "real work", or "fake work" based on arbitrary and often very conservative standards.
Actual leftism must be based on the idea that you have a right to exist without having to prove you provide something for society. If you don't have a right to be a complete burden on society then you don't have rights at all.
Also, it's just a known fact that people will work without anything forcing them to.
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ancient-healer · 1 year
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When capitalism has been deadlier in one country than the entire global history of communism.
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solarpunksocialism · 1 year
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"But, we should not forget that capitalist power to a great expense is spiritual power, power over the minds of the workers. The ideas of the ruling class eliminates society and permeate the minds of the exploited classes. They are fixed there fundamentally, by their inner strength and necessity of the system of production, they are actually implanted there by education and propaganda, by the influence of school, church, press, literature, broadcasting and film.
As long as this holds, the working class, unconsciousness of its own class position, aqueousing in exploitation as the normal condition of life, does not think of revolts and cannot fight. Minds submissive to the doctrines of the Masters cannot help to win freedom.
They must overcome the spiritual sway of capitalism over their minds before they can throw off its yoke. Capitalism must be beaten theoretically before it can be beaten materially. Because then only the absolute certainty of the truth of their opinions as well as of their justice of their aims can give such confidence to the workers as is needed for victory. Because then only hesitation and misgivings will lame the forces of the foe. Because then only the wavering middle groups instead of fighting for capitalism, made to a certain degree conceived the necessity of social transformation and the benefit of the new order."
- Anton Pannekoek
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scouse1g · 6 months
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Stand with the Palestinian people against Israeli apartheid.
Hamas doesn't speak for all Palestinians, and not all Palestinians are Hamas. Atrocities committed by one side do not justify the ongoing atrocities committed by the other. The Palestinian people have known such injustices for decades. We are witnessing them lashing out in one of the only ways they can. This is not to justify these crimes, but to help us to understand them.
Workers and oppressed peoples of all nations, unite!
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