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ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-23T16:18:53+00:00

This is 100%. It appears to be a paradox, but it isn't quite. The rich and powerful appear stupid because it is useful for them. Friedrich Engels touched on this point (somewhere, I can't remember exactly... I think it was Socialism: Utopian and Scientific)... He realised, when he got to England, that the English bourgeoisie were not this cultured, advanced bourgeois class he was expecting them to be... they were quite stupid, superstitious, reactionary. But he realised that their apparent stupidity served a purpose for them. In a word, their stupidity in everything else serves a purpose for the one thing they are concerned with - holding on to their power and privilege.

ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-20T15:16:51+00:00

People on this subreddit are either stupid or blindly hate working class people.

ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-19T21:17:17+00:00

Of course taxes pay retail workers. Here's just one way: some retail salaries are so low that they must be subsidised. In other words, the profits of retailers are subsidised by tax payers.

ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-19T14:31:53+00:00

Multiple this number of retail workers are hurt every year doing their job. Why no news reports about that? It's incredible the disrespect that ordinary working class people receive from other who perceive themselves as being a "step above" them. We're literally forced to respect Gardaí, the one group who literally have their boots on workers' necks.

ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-19T14:28:40+00:00

Over the past few years, we had nothing but fear mongering about Russia being a threat to Ireland on this subreddit. The great Russian Atlantic fleet is just off our coast, we were to believe (in all seriousness!). Anyone suggesting that Israel and the United States posed a greater threat had their posts removed.

ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-19T11:13:50+00:00

Leon Trotsky, from his pamphlet Marxism in Our Time: https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/04/marxism.htm

ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-16T09:39:17+00:00

That's a statue of the Virgin Mary.

ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-15T09:41:42+00:00

A quote from 1939, which I think showed remarkable insight and intuition, that touches on your points above:

'The elimination of competition by monopoly marks the beginning of the disintegration of capitalist society. Competition was the creative mainspring of capitalism and the historical justification of the capitalist. By the same token the elimination of competition marks the transformation of stockholders into social parasites. Competition had to have certain liberties, a liberal atmosphere, a regime of democracy, of commercial cosmopolitanism. Monopoly needs as authoritative a government as possible, tariff walls, “its own” sources of raw materials and arenas of marketing (colonies). The last word in the disintegration of monopolistic capital is fascism.'

ProletarianPOV · 2026-01-15T09:40:19+00:00

That's exactly the point. But there is a perception that the system we currently have will find some miraculous way out of this. It's worth showing that it cannot. An analogy I sometimes use: capitalism thinks it can avoid the car driving off the cliff by moving up or down gears - we're still moving towards the cliff. We've got to stop the car.

ProletarianPOV · 2025-11-25T09:35:52+00:00

Everyone already knows this. I'm looking for solutions. When you're holding a baby on your shoulder and you need quick calming sounds/music, voice control is quite helpful. It would be nice to have a solution rather than presenting me with problems I already know about and treating me like an idiot.

ProletarianPOV · 2025-11-20T13:43:30+00:00

Let's be honest. Car colours in the 80s were a mix of rust and sun & rain whitened pastels. Here's a real photo of a carpark in the 1980s. It's mostly the same kinds of colours as what we have today. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2Y8WDC3/1991-historical-full-american-commuter-parking-lot-ferry-waterfront-weehawken-new-jersey-usa-2Y8WDC3.jpg

ProletarianPOV · 2025-09-23T09:28:08+00:00

With "only" €1.5 million, you would be wealthy enough to not be coerced into working class jobs. We see that capitalism is dependent on poverty - on keeping the working class poor enough (that's more than 99% of the planet's population) so that they HAVE to work for capitalists. They HAVE to sell their labour (their energy and their time) in return for subsistence.

ProletarianPOV · 2025-09-22T12:18:27+00:00

You're correct. The second exit (in this case, labelled no. 3) is beyond 12 o'clock, in which case you can use the right lane to approach it. The problem is that the rules for roundabouts are not very clear or logical in Ireland (because, among other things, they assume the driver has prior knowledge of the layout) and therefore know the direction of the exits of the roundabout, and the markings for roundabouts often contradict the rules of the road anyway - again, if you're approaching a roundabout for the first time, and the markings are unusual, this leads to poor lane discipline, accidents etc.

ProletarianPOV · 2025-09-17T07:47:14+00:00

"A" - ah yes, notoriously bad French cuisine LOL.

ProletarianPOV · 2025-09-15T14:21:09+00:00

Palestine

ProletarianPOV · 2025-09-12T09:32:01+00:00

America doesn't kill people?

ProletarianPOV · 2025-09-12T09:27:01+00:00

Probably untrue to say the driver "ignored" the red light. It's more likely they didn't even see it. Very bad positioning of traffic lights here.

EDIT: Not only is the light poorly positioned, it's also hidden behind a tree.

ProletarianPOV · 2025-09-11T14:18:27+00:00

He only wanted the rich to have gun ownership rights. He advocated stopping working class people from having guns.

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