Tachanka

scram imperialist

It's another episode of Socialism is when the government does stuff

It's another episode of confusing social democratic with democratic socialist

It's another episode of Americans doing Great Man Theory of history harder than any "authoritarian tankie" ever could

Let me not spend an hour writing an effort posts on all the other critiques I could make of this image, such as the failure to understand that anti-trust just fetishizes competition between small producers and intends to reintroduce an earlier stage of capitalism rather than simply nationalizing the monopolies, or how FDR used social democracy to save Capitalism from collapsing and postpone revolutionary conditions by decades, or how Dwight Eisenhower felt about Cuba and DPRK, or how Lyndon "Forgorn Leghorn" Johnson said this or how Bernie bent the knee to Genocide Joe... I'm barely scratching the surface here.

Social Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. And I don't care if Stalin retracted that quote. He was being polite.

The past week I uploaded a video of me hitting baseballs in my yard onto IG and literally got 3 women who slid into my DMs within a day

jacked guy humblebrag thread

stoner shower thought: everyone is conjoined twins, it's just that most of us are perfectly joined at the middle so we look like one person

Quoting the great Eugene Debs:

The trade union, itself the product of industrial evolution, is subject to the laws of change, and the union that may have served some purpose a quarter of a century ago is now as completely out of date as the tools of industry that were then in use.

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The old trade union is organized on the basis of the identity of interests of capitalists and wage workers, and spends its time and devotes its energies to harmonizing these two classes; and it is a vain and hopeless task. When these interests can be even temporarily harmonized it is always in the interest of the capitalist class, and at the expense of the working class.

Most capitalists heartily approve the old form of trade unionism and encourage and liberally support it, for the very reason that this outgrown unionism does not truly represent and cannot actually express the economic interests of the working class.

The simple fact is that industrial conditions have undergone such a complete change that now the trade union, instead of uniting the workers, divides them, incites craft jealousy, breeds dissension and promotes strife—the very things capitalists desire; for so long as the working class is divided, the capitalists will be secure in their dominion of the earth and the seas, and the millions of toilers will remain in subjection.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1905/classunionism.htm

State your proposed alternative to direct action.

are strikes even effective anymore

Yes, workers organizing, forming unions, going on strikes, and making demands are effective. They're not enough by themselves, but they are effective.

I haven't seen one that succeeded in the way that the ones described in the 30s did.

Taft Hartley did a number on union activity

one's condition tends to be satisfied after busting

me + the squad disregarding you request:

i always knew it was fake because homeboy literally wrote an entire book replying to kautsky once. it's like marx vs. stirner levels of reply guy

he was simon de bolivar's lover