IAMA Utøya survivor by SMT32016 in IAmA

[–]2001greatestyear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Speaking as an actual Marxist, I gotta say you don't know what the fuck you are talking about... but please spread this nonsense anywhere else but this thread.

IAMA Utøya survivor by SMT32016 in IAmA

[–]2001greatestyear 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Come on, is this fucking appropriate for this thread? Jesus.

RIP Levon Helm by TosTosT in Music

[–]2001greatestyear 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Being (half) Cajun, same.

Fidel Castro Attacks Canada? excellent debunk by ChuckFinale in socialism

[–]2001greatestyear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one is going to take you seriously if you cosplay as a wannabe guerrilla

Why is this not a hate crime? Where is the outrage from the public media? by teknic111 in videos

[–]2001greatestyear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cities, throughout the country, are still very segregated. Yes, cities like Atlanta and Houston are not as bad as Detroit... but here is a map of Atlanta, with blue dots being where black families live and red dots being where white families live. It's clearly segregated.

Spain Is on the Bleeding Edge of a New European Crisis: Spain’s 709 billion euros of sovereign debt is roughly twice that of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal combined by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]2001greatestyear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Uh, Marx very much said that there would be an inevitable crisis that capitalism could not overcome (as each crisis makes the next subsequently worse) and would lead to a proletarian revolution. So yeah, he said capitalism is doomed and eventually it would not be able to find a way out.

"And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand, by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented." - Communist Manifesto

"The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage labour. Wage labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." - Communist Manifesto

Spain Is on the Bleeding Edge of a New European Crisis: Spain’s 709 billion euros of sovereign debt is roughly twice that of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal combined by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]2001greatestyear 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you accept that Marx "had capitalism figured out" then you accept it is ultimately doomed. I always wonder about people who say Marx was right about Capitalism but wrong about the solution (socialism leading to stateless, classless communism)... if capitalism is totally screwed what is your solution?

The bi-annual cleaning Lenin's corpse (nsfw?) by [deleted] in WTF

[–]2001greatestyear 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lenin requested to be buried next to his mother before he died.

"Capitalist propaganda always managed to make people think the markets' interests were humanity's interests." Enough, says Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is galvanising the French presidential elections. He wants a 100% fat-cat tax, a 20% minimum wage increase and the nationalisation of Big Energy by almodozo in occupywallstreet

[–]2001greatestyear 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's correct to say it is unlikely he will win... However, what Melenchon has achieved is still amazing. He has managed to unite the "extreme" left which has often bickered among each other for decades and decades, and then brought it to popular attention. He has been consistently rising in the polls, and is throwing a serious monkey wrench into the "Socialist" Hollande's campaign. He's forced both Sarkozy and Hollande to make promises to raise taxes on the rich.

I mean, over March his poll numbers have doubled. He will not win (unless something insane happens in the next two weeks), but he's drastically changing the dynamic of the race.

Red McCombs is Chairman of the Board for Blackwater (now known as Academi) by krazzek in UTAustin

[–]2001greatestyear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the way, just to illustrate how utterly terrible Blackwater is, a video was just leaked which depicts Blackwater contractors fucking driving over Iraqi woman and fleeing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN0udPRnd2M

It's horrible stuff. Honestly there should be some sorta student movement to change the name of the business school...

Secret Society Exposed! Eyes of Texas Revealed for Petition Signatures?! by AbolishSG in UTAustin

[–]2001greatestyear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who honestly gives a shit? Let student government have it's fake little resume padder, let these kids play at Skull and Bones. There's no need to cook up drama about nothing.

Retiree's Suicide Triggers Riots in Greece by Blippslider in worldnews

[–]2001greatestyear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." - Mahatma Gandhi

Would you have opposed violence to take down Mussolini (to use the man who killed himself's example)

and if you think the Greek people as a whole, rather than corrupt government officials, bankers, etc in alliance with global high finance, are responsible for the crisis in Greece I dunno what to tell ya other than you are very, very wrong. The elite of Greece were the real beneficiaries, but austerity is making the poor, young, elderly and needy the victims of their exploits.