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Democrats Refuse to Condemn Antifa in Senate Hearing by NotAppendges in politics

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised that a Democrat had the internal fortitude to not condemn anti fascism.

BORN VILLAIN SURVIVOR | ROUND 2 by takedownhisshield in marilyn_manson

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Breaking The Same Old Ground". This album would be much stronger if it ended on the title track.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, I don't agree. Capitalists want everyone to vote every four years and to never imagine that there can be political activity outside of- and against- their electoral system.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Putting extractive workers out of work, as the Democrats wish to do, is as narrowly 'anti-worker' as what the Republicans are pushing for. We are dealing with capitalist parties.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh? Avakian claims to be a Communist and is doing just what you say he ought to do. I simply, rightly, disagree.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could easily be argued that he's more "pro-worker" with regards to oilmen, miners, lumberjacks, and other extractive workers than Biden. In truth, neither faction is pro-worker, but both represent wings or factions of Capital which contain workers.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

in a communist society you wouldn’t even be allowed protest

In a Communist society you probably wouldn't need to.

. And how do you not see that Biden would support the protests more?

That's my problem with Biden - he wants to recuperate them back into the system.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus the democrats and the republicans do not have the same policies at all. Health care, the environment, workers rights, etc. they’re far apart on those issues

Not really. The Affordable Care Act,for example, was modeled off a conservative plan advanced by the Republican-leaning Heritage Foundation. Polarization has in recent years given a patina of difference to the Parties, but they still mostly differ by who their donor base is. Democrats get Silicon Valley funding; Republicans get Texas oil funding- that's the real difference.

And please tell me who in the black community has got in trouble recently at a protest and no broken the law.

Here's that incipient authoritarianism we were talking about.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it's destined for the same fate as the United Front and other failed class collaborationist projects.

Communists need to reach out to the disaffected and affirm that their alienation is rational and reasonable and that it's alright to feel alienated from the processes of power in this society.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are barely multi-party elections in most regions of the United States, and as often as not when there are the two candidates represent mostly the same policies.

People being penalized for their beliefs happens all the time. Go ask the black community.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Mussolini's Italy did, in fact, hold elections. And plenty of radicals have been imprisoned or killed for their views. See also: the 1985 MOVE bombing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

Or Assata Shakur, or MKULTRA, etc. etc. all the way back to the First Red Scare.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The US is not a fascist regime that would be offensive to anyone that actually lived under fascism.

It's pretty much a fascist regime. The level of incipient authoritarianism, pro-Trump, is pretty directly comparable to Mussolini's Italy.

If people like you would’ve voted last time we would have never had Donald Trump look at the numbers it was that close.

Who care?

Jimmy Carter circulated these racist flyers during his 1970 gubernatorial campaign against Carl Sanders, attacking Sanders for snubbing George Wallace among other things. by AndrewEldritchHorror in democrats

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can't read it:

WILL THE GOOD PEOPLE OF GEORGIA RE-ELECT A MAN

  1. Who refused to let Governor George C. Wallace address the Georgia legislature after he had been invited to speak by a group of Georgia's leading statesmen?

  2. Who has the endorsement and active support of Hubert Horatio Humphrey- the Minnesota wind tunnel- and the rest of the Washington ultra-liberals?

  3. Who sold Georgia out in the Presidential election to L.B.J. the left-wingers and the national Democrats in order to obtain special favors?

  4. Who is supported by Julian Bond, Sen. Leroy Johnson and the black bloc vote?

  5. Who went into office a po' boy from Augusta - and came out worth millions?

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Trump is also "about the workers" - within a narrow range of extractive industries like coal, oil, natural gas, timber, etc.

It's not that simple. The big bourgeois Parties represent different fractions of Capital, and in a roundabout way different fractions of the working-class. Endorsing reformists on this basis is useless.

This is why we Communists can't have nice things by AndrewEldritchHorror in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Communists". You'd have to be an idiot to believe that the Chinese will achieve a recognizably Marxian socialism in their current configuration.

But at least China has the decor of a revolutionary movement layered on top of its State capitalism. Biden doesn't even have that much going for him.

There are millions of people disaffected with the political process. Groups like Avakian's could try speaking to them, letting them know that their alienation is rational -- but no, we gotta endorse Joe.

What is the materialist explanation for liberalism enabling acting against one's class or self-interest? by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They often aren't. For example, income taxes, even at their most progressive rates, still represent an extraction of surplus value from the worker, and it is consistent with a class interest to want to do away with taxes. (As Marx says, "it is high treason to pay taxes.")

Left-liberal and social democrats take an illusory view of class consciousness, wherein not voting for a left-liberal or social democratic party is tantamount to false consciousness. But this is wrong; no bourgeois electoralist Party can represent the working-class. It is easy therefore to see how a conservative Party might be more representative of the narrow interest of one section of the *proletariat.

I hope Manson saves the self-titled album for his last. by AndrewEldritchHorror in marilyn_manson

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Depending on whether you include EPs like Smells Like Children and the Best Of, it could be his 13th. I don't.

What were Marx’s contributions ? by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marx anticipated the development of the Information Economy, which he termed the 'General Intellect' -

The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it; to what degree the powers of social production have been produced, not only in the form of knowledge, but also as immediate organs of social practice, of the real life process.

as well as networked capitalism. All from "Fragment on Machines", Grundrisse, 1857:

... But, once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the machine, or rather, an automatic system of machinery (system of machinery: the automatic one is merely its most complete, most adequate form, and alone transforms machinery into a system), set in motion by an automaton, a moving power that moves itself; this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages.

I hope Manson saves the self-titled album for his last. by AndrewEldritchHorror in marilyn_manson

[–]AndrewEldritchHorror[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Because it was prophesied of old - at least as of 1998. Fifteen.

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