letranger

from: https://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=1

alt text two soldiers in gas masks (full face respirators) rest in a bombed out city, with poisonous air from a nuclear war surrounding them they wear gas masks.

soldier 1: do you know the meaning of this war?

soldier 2: hmm?

soldier 1: i mean... what's the point it can't be for the land because everything is burned, bombed or polluted. it can't be for the money because there is anything left to spend it on. so what is it? religion? why do we fight?

soldier 2: to win the war.

soldier 1: meh... works for me.

The collapse of the Soviet Union: explained. from https://existentialcomics.com/comic/383

alt="Description: a supermarket called "Communism Store: fetish free commodities"

Marx: "Hi! Welcome to the Communism Store, what do you need?" Rich customer in a top hat: "How much do oranges cost?"

Marx: "How much do they cost?"

Marx: "They cost the labor of the workers who planted the seeds and harvested the fruit!"

Marx: "They cost the time and energy of those who drove the trucks and stocked the shelves!"

Marx: "Here at the communism store we do not fetishize our commodities by imbuing them with the mystical property of price, which masks the human relations in the exchange of labor."

Marx: "In a true marketplace, commodities are exchanged by human beings for their use by other human beings, labor for labor. But Capitalism has distorted this market, and produces commodities purely for profit."

"Marx: "The true labor relations are obscured and commodities are taken to only having value in exchange, rather than their real use."

Customer: "Right...but how much does it actually...cost?" Marx: "Well, this is a communism store, so everything is free."

Customer: "Really....everything?" Marx: "Yep."

Marx: "In that case I'll take everything, including the store itself." Marx: "Uh...well..."

Customer: "Now get off my property before i call the cops!"

Description: Marx gets roughly kicked out, they repaint the sign to say: "Capitalism store: fetishized commodities"

Marx: "Hey, stop that! Stop doing capitalism!" Marx: "Damn you, bourgeoisie!""

edit - originally made a year ago during the beginning of the invasion for r/noncredibledefence i can see how this can be misinterpreted, as a result of pedantics, i have added an russian defence corp to clarify the meme

edit 2 - reuploaded the image since it's was deleted by recent instance woes, didn't save edit 1 so this is the original - i'm not remaking edit 1

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2 girls are fighting, flags are placed on them ukraine and russia respectively, while a group of bystanders in a backdrop watch and record

a bystander is explicitly amused, and enjoying himself; dabbing a pipe, defense corporation logos are posted him, Raytheon technologies and Lockheed martin

"Here's a bit of free career advice: whenever your boss tries to extract your surplus value, instead of giving it to him punch him in the throat."

from https://existentialcomics.com/comic/320

alt="Career Councilor: "We are just going to do a little exercise to figure out what the best career would be for you." Student: "Okay."

Career Councilor: "Okay, I want you to imagine a world where you no longer had to work to provide for the basic necessities of life."

Student: "What do you mean?" Career Councilor: "Well, imagine you didn't have to have a job to pay the rent, for food, etc."

Career Councilor: "This helps people find their real passion in life. So what would you do if you didn't have to work?" Student: "Well, I guess I would travel. See the world. I also love photography."

Student: "Hmm, so i guess that means i should be a travel photographer, huh? Thanks!"

Career Councilor, who turns out to be Karl Marx: "What? No! You should become a communist revolutionary so you can free all workers from the necessity of laboring for the bourgeoisie in order to live." Student: "Wait...Karl Marx? You are my career counselor?"

Karl Marx: "Did you seriously think you could be happy by commodifying your life's passion within the framework of capitalism?" Student: "I mean..." Karl Marx: "So you really thought i was going to advise workers to find a more enjoyable way to serve the rich? HahahaHa."

What? You never read Karl Marx's famous work: Communism is When You Steal Back Office Supplies From the Bourgeoisie

from: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/240

Racism cannot be separated from capitalist & colonialist systems. The ruling class has wielded racism at every turn to enable hyper-exploitation & economic expansion while pitting the people against each other. There will be no end to racism until there is an end to capitalism. Racism was both the cause and the ideological justification for the enslaving and colonizing of free peoples. The enslaved and the colonized created the wealth hoarded by capitalists and Western powers. Racism justified the genocide of indigenous Americans for the sake of territorial and economic expansion. The wealth and will of the capitalist class are inseparable from these actions. In addition to justifying the oppression, exploitation, and mass-murder of racialized people, racism and state-sanctioned racist violence have been used consistently to prevent the masses from unifying. When black slaves and white indentured servants came together in 1675 for Bacon's Rebellion, the ruling class recognized this threat and used the law to further separate the two groups. When the Black Panthers called for proletarian unity against capitalism, the FBI killed Fred Hampton and destroyed the Panthers. Today, when workers in the first world are screwed over by neoliberal austerity and trade deals orchestrated exclusively for the benefit of the international corporations, they are told to hate workers in and from the global south. Racism and Capitalism have co-evolved to the point of inseparability. When the thirteenth amendment liberated slaves, the prison-industrial complex rose to the occasion. When free blacks wanted to partake in the "American dream" of home & business ownership, racist redlining held them back. None of this absolves individual acts of racism, but it explains that racism is not in any way an individual problem. We need anti-racism, and we need marginalized people in positions of power, but these alone will never fix a system that is rotten to its core. A system in which a tiny class owns the wealth, the state, and the means of production will NEVER create justice for the people of the world.

Expanding on this, I had recently read an article on wang yi's recent comments, seeing the reddit forums, these forums and it's interesting that most have not done much in way of more deeper analysis, while my theory is rather lacking, and obvious i am biased -

While I have no doubt that those that oppose that west can also have their own incarnations of prejudice/ social sectarianism on the basis of ethnic linage (cypto-racism or racism depending on your interpretation on racism). I try to think of what the modus operandi of these states are and how that would begin to influence their people, or if these nations even have the potential to begin to address these issues.

The west, being an inherent capitalist state at the foundation, i think (of course my bias as baby ml) will never have the potential to fully solve the ethnic social sectarianism, as the populace is not formed with ideas of solidarity of the people, but seems to be inherently opposed to such ideas - since such solidarity of the people would pose a direct threat to the capitalist class. (Brothers and sisters in hunger are calling, Shall we be silent to their sorrow and woe?)

because of this, the capitalist will cant or pay lip service to such ideas of solidarity of the people, but never meaningfully do anything substantial to develop this in the material world/ideology.

I think that the best that the west can do with the ethnic social sectarianism would be apathy/indifference with a strong spearhead of escapism (so much elephants and circuses that people just don’t bother to care) but i can’t imagine the bourgeoise would be willing to part with the capital to make such a form of escapism without a direct threat to them + would our humanity be willing accept that level of escapism without completely destroying itself?

Where the capitalist seeks to maximize the profits, this results in reductions of the pitiful compensation to the worker for their labour. We find our fellow countrymen reducing themselves to more intimate layers of exploitation of their bodies in the need for coin.

Victims of capitalistic system that was forced onto us by birth.

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/326 Caption: "Yes, under communism, you won't have to degrade yourself to the rich to beg for a job. You will, however, have to still get along with the other workers, so it will be no paradise."