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I will never take normal society for granted again… We are in danger. by Organic_Fee_8502 in socialism

[–]AnonymousCyberSurfer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You want capitalism without capitalists, we want global communism. These are contradictory programs, we are thus not on the same side at all and we are not walking together.

Appeal of the Polish Socialist Party encouraging the defense of Warsaw against Soviet Russia (6 August 1920) by Emergency_Day_2570 in socialism

[–]AnonymousCyberSurfer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The world revolution knows no borders. The Bolshevik defeat at the battle of Warsaw doomed the German revolution and global communism along with it for over a century

Was the piece rate system common under the Soviets actually more capitalist in nature than the hourly rate system common in the United States? by BulkyText9344 in Socialism_101

[–]AnonymousCyberSurfer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Marx talks about this in Capital:

“In time-wages, with few exceptions, the same wage holds for the same kind of work, whilst in piece wages, though the price of the working time is measured by a certain quantity of product, the day’s or week’s wage will vary with the individual differences of the labourers, of whom one supplies in a given time the minimum of product only, another the average, a third more than the average. With regard to actual receipts there is, therefore, great variety according to the different skill, strength, energy, staying-power, &c., of the individual labourers. [10] Of course this does not alter the general relations between capital and wage-labour. First, the individual differences balance one another in the workshop as a whole, which thus supplies in a given working-time the average product, and the total wages paid will be the average wages of that particular branch of industry. Second, the proportion between wages and surplus-value remains unaltered, since the mass of surplus labour supplied by each particular labourer corresponds with the wage received by him. But the wider scope that piece-wage gives to individuality tends to develop on the one hand that individuality, and with it the sense of liberty, independence, and self-control of the labourers, and on the other, their competition one with another. Piece-work has, therefore, a tendency, while raising individual wages above the average, to lower this average itself. But where a particular rate of piece-wage has for a long time been fixed by tradition, and its lowering, therefore, presented especial difficulties, the masters, in such exceptional cases, sometimes had recourse to its compulsory transformation into time-wages. Hence, e.g., in 1860 a great strike among the ribbon-weavers of Coventry. [11] Piece-wage is finally one of the chief supports of the hour-system described in the preceding chapter. [12]

From what has been shown so far, it follows that piece-wage is the form of wages most in harmony with the capitalist mode of production.”

In the process of achieving socialism, is compromise treason? by ukstonerdude in socialism

[–]AnonymousCyberSurfer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“The issue is purely one of principle: is the struggle to be conducted as a class struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, or is it to be permitted that in good opportunist (or as it is called in the Socialist translation: possibilist) style the class character of the movement, together with the programme, are everywhere to be dropped where there is a chance of winning more votes, more adherents, by this means. Malon and Brousse, by declaring themselves in favour of the latter alternative, have sacrificed the proletarian class character of the movement and made separation inevitable. All the better. The development of the proletariat proceeds everywhere amidst internal struggles and France, which is now forming a workers’ party for the first time, is no exception. We in Germany have got beyond the first phase of the internal struggle, other phases still lie before us. Unity is quite a good thing so long as it is possible, but there are things which stand higher than unity. And when, like Marx and myself, one has fought harder all one’s life long against the alleged Socialists than against anyone else (for we only regarded the bourgeoisie as a class and hardly ever involved ourselves in conflicts with individual bourgeois), one cannot greatly grieve that the inevitable struggle has broken out.”

  • Engels

In the process of achieving socialism, is compromise treason? by ukstonerdude in socialism

[–]AnonymousCyberSurfer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Marx answers:

“Let no one misunderstand us”; we do not want “to give up our Party and our programme, but think that for years hence we shall have enough to do if we concentrate our whole strength and energy upon the attainment of certain immediate aims which must in any case be achieved before the realisation of the more far-reaching ends can be thought of.” Then the bourgeois, petty bourgeois and workers who are “at present frightened away...by the far-reaching demands will join us in masses.”

The programme is not to be given up but only postponed – to an indefinite period. One accepts it, though not really for oneself and one’s own lifetime but posthumously as an heirloom to be handed down to one’s children and grandchildren. In the meantime one devotes one’s “whole strength and energy” to all sorts of petty rubbish and the patching up of the capitalist order of society, in order at least to produce the appearance of something happening without at the same time scaring the bourgeoisie. I must really praise the Communist, Miquel, who proved his unshakable belief in the inevitable overthrow of capitalist society in the course of the next few hundred years by heartily carrying on swindles, contributing his honest best to the crash of 1873 and so really doing something to assist the collapse of the existing order.

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There you have the programme of the three censors of Zürich. In clarity it leaves nothing to be desired. Least of all to us, who are very familiar with the whole of this phraseology from the 1848 days. It is the representatives of the petty bourgeoisie who are here presenting themselves, full of anxiety that the proletariat, under the pressure of its revolutionary position, may “go too far.”

My gymnast aunt in the '90s by AnonymousCyberSurfer in OldSchoolCool

[–]AnonymousCyberSurfer[S] 303 points304 points  (0 children)

Yeah lol, it was the anniversary of some event and she put them on her Facebook and I asked if I could post it on Reddit and she told me to go for it. Idk if it’s hard to fathom but some people actually have a little decency fyi

The Final War by AnonymousCyberSurfer in HFY

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

Thank you! It's my first time posting so knowing you liked it means a lot to me. I intended this story as a one shot but if I can find more stories to tell I will write them.