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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, more along the lines of "capitalism has developed a centralized and educated labor force out of serfs, which means we now have the tools to live a lot more comfortably if we stopped being exploited by the capitalists, and the easy communication from centralization and education means we have the tools to communicate and develop class consciousness"

Or "under capitalism, we have a lot more logistical ability to have doctors and have them see patients do to the transportation needs for profit extraction, but the profit motive reduces the amount of Healthcare people can receive, if we got rid of the middlemen we'd have the resources to teach more people to be doctors, everyone would have better Healthcare and doctors would have less stressful jobs"

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

It’s not just one nation vs another, it’s also civilians vs the political elite

Breaking it down further: it is the proletariat vs the dictatorship of capital (the mechanisms by which the capitalist class collectively rules) representing the interests of the capitalist class.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

All this is itself a thought terminating cul-de-sac. Things do not start at the end. You don’t start with a viable alternative before you criticize what you currently have and point out what is bad about it.

Thats utopian socialism. Idealizing something you want and then trying to bring it about. Scientific socialism is noticing the adjacent to good things that capitalism has caused and liberating them from the contradictions of capitalism that prevent them from being good. See: universal education, systematized Healthcare, public transportation, a centralized, dynamic labor force.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago

What cultural hegemony does to someone

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, people need to stop condemning plaestinians for resisting genocide.

Oh this is about voting lol.

You know, this shit is frustrating. Imagine every day everyone has to vote whether 10 people in lets say a group of 30 will be hit with a bat 4 times or 5 times, and everyone else gets hit once.

And you talk to the other people, and say "we have to stop these people hitting us with bats or we're all going to die" and they respond with "but you're going to vote for those people to be hit four times, right? Getting hit 5 times is much worse! We have to devote all our time and effort to making sure the 4 times option wins!" And of course they're one of the people who only gets hit once either way.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

They provide the materials, the tools and machinery, the designs that are being made (assuming some sort of manufacturing company for this example).

Other workers made the materials, the tools, the machinery, and the designs. If the owner did they occupy a class position as a worker and owner.

They also carry the risk (unless of course they are a corporation, the ridiculous entity created to reap the advantages of personhood while avoiding all its responsibilities and drawbacks).

The risk that they might be a worker if their venture fails.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

You've misread the meme. It is claiming that

the majority of your labor value is stolen by the same company paying you the crumbs

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago

I mean no, that is the solve rate for rape that police are willing to investigate, which is basically "the victim is a pure innocent white woman and there is a lot of actual physical evidence unlike 99 percent of rapes"

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago

You just can’t reconcile the fact people don’t vote how you want, therefore the system must be broken.

You just can't reconcile that your high school civics textbook lied about how the US operates.

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