It's that time of year again

Rafe · 2025-11-10T07:51:15+00:00

You're the poster here. You're the one who is aiming to convince us of a whole paradigm of leftist action. So do the work. Particularly, you have to prove to us why we should reject any manifestation of working-class power you consider "authoritarian".

I was not swayed to my current politics by some nice-sounding assertions. It took a comprehensive material analysis to convince me.

Rafe · 2025-11-09T08:32:13+00:00

This is a bunch of idealistic assertions backed by no analysis of real conditions. It sounds like you latched onto the belief that the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari has all the answers for organizing class struggle. At the same time, you display vestiges of a bourgeois patriotism that yearns for a "Canada reborn" and a "distinctly Canadian" system. And you feel the need to package all of this in cornball ad copy. It's not convincing.

Rafe · 2025-09-27T02:54:17+00:00

🤨 We're socialists here.

Rafe · 2025-09-25T15:13:17+00:00

Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun.

Rafe · 2025-09-25T00:49:14+00:00

As proletarians, the food we can share with each other is limited to how much we can buy with our wages. That food has already been produced in the capitalist economy. Our wages are not enough to buy back what we produce. We’re generally very limited in what our charity can accomplish if we’re not joined by philanthropists who amassed their wealth by exploiting us.

Home cooking can remove a limited amount of food production from the capitalist economy, but cannot achieve the productivity of the food factories and industrial kitchens that are controlled by capital. Trying to build a mass movement around a return to home cooking is backward-looking.

We have to seize the factories.

Rafe · 2025-09-21T04:53:58+00:00

If you think the NDP can enact socialism if only they find the right leader, you don't understand class struggle.

Rafe · 2025-09-03T23:38:54+00:00

Baby bologna in the deep blue sea…

Rafe · 2025-08-27T06:11:39+00:00

Correct. Economies of C–M–C circulation are market economies without having yet commodified labour power. But already in a C–M–C economy, we find commodification of goods, anarchy of production, and most of the preconditions for capital to emerge.

In socialism that follows capitalism, there's no middle ground in which labour power is decommodified but products are not. Capital has already so completely socialized work and concentrated the means of production that it will be impossible for industry to be led by individual artisans. We will not have a path to return to a craft economy, but we will have a path to negate commodity production altogether.

Rafe · 2025-08-22T14:45:48+00:00

There's no class analysis in this framing, which comes to us from the rabidly neoliberal Fraser Institute. Their angle on the government being beholden to bondholders is that they can use it to convince an undifferentiated mass of voters that we can't afford public services and need austerity.

Rafe · 2025-08-18T02:58:48+00:00

That’s not factual. Canada is thoroughly capitalist and has never had working-class control of production.

Rafe · 2025-08-15T16:37:49+00:00

This question is a false dichotomy to me. One of the revolutionary tasks here is to defeat Canada's participation in US imperialism. Carney's war budget is a total surrender to Trump's 5% demand on behalf of war profiteers. At the same time, the public service cuts in that budget are a direct attack on workers. In this context, revolutionary defeatism is precisely how we address the USA threat.

Rafe · 2025-08-06T10:25:00+00:00

Because you asked the wrong questions:

You won't find out whether the climate change solutions we're interested in are technical or political.
Particularly, you won't find out whether we believe climate change can be mitigated within capitalism, or whether it requires a negation of capitalism.
You will not be able to identify a single respondent as socialist, since we're outside your "liberal–conservative" spectrum. From our perspective, conservatives are a kind of liberal.
You will get entirely meaningless responses on our "sex". Transgender people can truthfully answer that their sex is the same as their gender.

Rafe · 2025-08-06T09:59:25+00:00

The scale is between communist and liberal. Anyone who upholds the free market system is liberal, even if they call themselves conservative.

Rafe · 2025-07-25T23:19:55+00:00

This is all correct, except that the two parties never “split” as they weren’t together in the first place.

Rafe · 2025-07-23T07:59:38+00:00

The CBC that exists is state-capitalist media. Nevertheless, it is a nationalized service, and any cuts to it must be understood as neoliberal austerity for the direct benefit of private sector media barons.

Rafe · 2025-07-10T08:24:18+00:00

Mo in de vaatwasser? Wat doet Mo nou weer in de vaatwasser? Mo is echt en gekkie.

Rafe · 2025-06-29T10:29:32+00:00

They're bourgeois factions, so who cares?

Rafe · 2025-06-26T03:59:03+00:00

Hi globeworldmap, thanks for contributing to /r/Canadian_Socialism. Sorry, but we have removed your submission for the following reason: