Socialism

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1735517

You can read this masterpiece here.

People swear by this work by Liu Shaoqi and I have yet to read it myself, but plan to start soon.

Midwestern Marx YouTube interview: Gabriel Rockhill | Why Slavoj Žižek is Capitalism's Court Jester

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Someone reads from "Socialist Reconstruction," a book published by PSL.

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Thoughts on this?

Video is 13 minutes long.

It seems that there is a lot of government bloat (I know, I know) but it also meshes with non-profits and other businesses involved, which culminates in the state (in the truly Marxian sense of the word) having a lot of bureaucracy to it ("you stay in your role and I stay in mine").

Marx and Engels mention a class "below" the proletariat called the lumpenproletariat, which i understand as meaning a class that has no class consciousness, and is therefore susceptible to the influence of the bourgeoisie. but i don't see the difference between that and the proletariat proper. don't the proletariat receive propaganda to suppress their own class consciousness, and don't they have to be woken up? i don't get why the lumpenproletariat supposedly can't be woken up in the same way. besides, some examples of the lumpenproletariat given are people in organized crime, sex workers, and the unemployed. i find it hypocritical to condemn a class of people based on what they do to survive in a capitalist society (or in the case of the unemployed, the fact that the bourgeoisie won't give them a job). but more than anything, i'm just thoroughly confused by this concept. i feel like i'm missing something major.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6182063

The focus of this article is on anarchist movements, but it contains some timely reflections on the dynamics of revolutionary movements and the tension between "Leninist" organizational strategies and "horizontalist", anarchist-informed approaches.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11206898

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Mr. Stalin said people of “Hindi-speaking States underwent untold miseries” during the pandemic as they could not get “transport facilities to return to their hometowns.” “We had shed tears for them. They walked hundreds of kilometres. Some of them were even crushed by trains. If something is more dangerous than the Corona (virus), it is the BJP government. Now the government is trying to divert people’s attention by consecrating the Ram temple,” he said.

Recalling a viral video in which a Hindi-speaking boy demanded “education over temple”, the Chief Minister said the BJP government was particular that “people should not gain awareness”. “The people of north India are no longer ready to believe the politics of the BJP. It cannot win in northern States in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls,” Mr. Stalin said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10556306

Took me 4 runs to succeed, let me know what was your strategy and if the game is realistic

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To all full-grown hexbears, NO DUNKING IN MY THREAD...ONLY TEACH, criminal scum who violate my Soviet will be banned three days and called a doo doo head...you have been warned

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Socialism in Today’s World: the 4 Kinds

• 3 Kinds of State Role in Economy

• 1 Kind of Workplace Revolution

• Saving Capitalism from Itself

• Socialism, Fascism and Capitalism’s Decline

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Text: man on balcony with meme text: I bring a sort of “let’s unionize” vibe to the office meeting that the shareholders don’t really like

The bourgeoisie in my country have pushed the euphemism of "working capital" as something that needs protection from wealth tax. By inseparably connecting capital with jobs, they push the narrative that you cannot tax wealth without removing jobs and consequently hurting the working class. They paid for research groups to prove this connection, but what their research actually showed was that wealth tax creates jobs due to incentivizing keeping profits within the companies they own. The audacity to think owning the means of production is a privilege they should enjoy special treatment to keep is beyond me, but even so, this type of rhetoric keeps gaining ground.

What is the propaganda they are pushing on you, and how can socialist policies prevail if reason loses to made up words changing the narrative?