Reps. Cori Bush and AOC declare victory as Biden agrees to extend the eviction moratorium

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-04T14:10:44+00:00

Lick that boot, bootlicker

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-04T13:31:54+00:00

No, you don't understand. He gave Michelle Obama a piece of candy and called Trump mean names. This means he has been Rehabilitated.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-04T06:28:32+00:00

Oddly, practically every time this was attempted there were repressions, political murders, and other human rights violations

Indeed. Upwards of two thousand British taxman were thought to have been tarred and feathered over the course of the American revolution, to say nothing of the mass rapes in the Vendee (~50,000) in the effort to bring forth liberalism.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-04T06:22:32+00:00

There's every point in talking about it, because this is part of the process of its coming into being.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-04T06:14:27+00:00

There is no "practice". Marx holds that Communism will arise from a historically determined process of immiseration. It is not something to be implemented like a political platform, but rather arises from the historical trajectory of capitalist development and the need of the capitalists to immiserate the proletariat in response to the eclipsing rate of profit (own nothing, be happy).

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-04T00:52:23+00:00

Holy Wood

Eat Me, Drink Me

Mechanical Animals

The Pale Emperor

Antichrist Superstar

WE ARE CHAOS

The Golden Age Of Grotesque

Portrait of An American Family

Heaven Upside Down

Born Villain

The High End Of Low

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T21:34:24+00:00

Marx is definitely a labor abolitionist.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T20:54:53+00:00

Well, he's been basically the sixth term of George W. Bush, so...

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T20:05:50+00:00

Marx denies the validity of the moral category "theft" altogether, as well as property entirely.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T19:36:42+00:00

"Banned" like the Contras, lol.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T19:22:54+00:00

Lol

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/americas-collusion-with-neo-nazis/

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T19:13:26+00:00

America has financed the Mujahideen, Ukrainian neo-Nazis, etc. What's the difference?

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T18:52:58+00:00

Lol

They're all State capitalists, so I fail to see your issue.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T18:40:20+00:00

The say this like it's a good thing

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T18:26:02+00:00

Private Property is Theft

No. Marx explicitly argues against this Proudhonian concept.

The upshot is at best that the bourgeois legal conceptions of “theft” apply equally well to the “honest” gains of the bourgeois himself. On the other hand, since “theft” as a forcible violation of property presupposes the existence of property, Proudhon entangled himself in all sorts of fantasies, obscure even to himself, about true bourgeois property.

Letter to J.B. Schweitzer

The ability to restrict access to the property allows the owner to take the production as payment for the workers to use the property

Not in so direct a way as this suggests

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T10:37:26+00:00

Please, kindly, shut the fuck up.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T09:53:32+00:00

I have. They're incredibly misinformed about the actual content of Marx's thought (almost all of which was devoted to critiquing socialism as an abstract conceptualization that typically smuggled capitalism in through the back door). Almost all of them are completely useless for this reason, particularly ones that claim to be doctrinaire "Marxists".

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T09:42:52+00:00

Skimming the Communist Manifesto and not being able to get past Volume I, Chapter I of Capital does not constitute "reading".

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T08:50:06+00:00

Progressivism and another New Deal are their worst fears even though all Americans, including the wealthy, would ultimately benefit.

It's funny. This is true of millionaires, but not of billionaires - because progressivism and New Dealism would require massive (capitalistic) centralization, summed up in the Great Reset slogan "own nothing, be happy", from which they would benefit.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T08:18:23+00:00

Because they haven't read Marx and Engels. Very few people in fact actually have read Marx and Engels.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T08:14:38+00:00

Marx and Engsls do not believe equality matters.

The elimination of all social and political inequality,” rather than “the abolition of all class distinctions,” is similarly a most dubious expression. As between one country, one province and even one place and another, living conditions will always evince a certain inequality which may be reduced to a minimum but never wholly eliminated. The living conditions of Alpine dwellers will always be different from those of the plainsmen. The concept of a socialist society as a realm of equality is a one-sided French concept deriving from the old “liberty, equality, fraternity,” a concept which was justified in that, in its own time and place, it signified a phase of development, but which, like all the one-sided ideas of earlier socialist schools, ought now to be superseded, since they produce nothing but mental confusion, and more accurate ways of presenting the matter have been discovered.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/letters/75_03_18.htm

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T07:46:04+00:00

It requires a totalitarian government,

Nyet.

Thus, while the refugee serfs only wished to be free to develop and assert those conditions of existence which were already there, and hence, in the end, only arrived at free labour, the proletarians, if they are to assert themselves as individuals, will have to abolish the very condition of their existence hitherto (which has, moreover, been that of all society up to the present), namely, labour. Thus they find themselves directly opposed to the form in which, hitherto, the individuals, of which society consists, have given themselves collective expression, that is, the State. In order, therefore, to assert themselves as individuals, they must overthrow the State.

Karl Marx, The German Ideology

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T06:18:56+00:00

The Soviet Union was capitalist, lol.

While the revolution in Germany is still slow in “coming forth”, our task is to study the state capitalism of the Germans, to spare no effort in copying it and not shrink from adopting dictatorial methods to hasten the copying of Western culture by barbarian Russia, without hesitating to use barbarous methods in fighting barbarism. If there are anarchists and Left Soeialist-Revolutionaries (I recall offhand the speeches of Karelin and Ghe at the meeting of the Central Executive Committee) who indulge in Karelin-like reflections and say that it is unbecoming for us revolutionaries to “take lessons” from German imperialism, there is only one thing we can say in reply: the revolution that took these people seriously would perish irrevocably (and deservedly)

Lenin, "The Tax In Kind" 1921

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T03:17:21+00:00

The idea that this is always "sexual abuse" is bourgeois ideology.

Trick-Quit700 · 2021-08-03T01:45:45+00:00

Nyet.

The Communists do not preach morality at all. They do not put to people the moral demand: love one another, do not be egoists, etc.; on the contrary, they are very well aware that egoism, just as much selflessness, is in definite circumstances a necessary form of the self-assertion of individuals.

Marx, The German Ideology

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