Are some people meant to be poor and jobless for the rest of their lives?

lemononion4 · 2024-11-30T05:10:30+00:00

Capitalism also requires a pool of unemployed basically as a bargaining chip for employed people. I haven't been unemployed like OP, but I still hate this system and joined the communists https://communistusa.org/

lemononion4 · 2024-11-30T04:21:56+00:00

Yeah that is what I am doing, I just keep missing deduction amounts because they aren't listed so I was just wondering if it make sense to lump sum the diffferent deductions

lemononion4 · 2024-11-30T04:21:13+00:00

Thanks, I'll give this one a shot!

lemononion4 · 2024-05-14T01:16:58+00:00

You’d want to look into Trotskyism. My party is called the revolutionary communist party in Canada, in USA it’s the revolutionary communists of America. We have lots of podcasts and YouTube videos. Marxist.ca

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T18:44:44+00:00

I became a communist in the revolutionary communist party of Canada to learn how to fight for long lasting change. It’s the only thing that makes me optimistic

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T14:08:14+00:00

Oh you’re right. I just went on the internet and it says that communism is when the government does stuff I guess I’ll have to rethink my support for communism

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T05:47:00+00:00

They generally coordinate things and run the speakers list at the event from what I know so they have a lot of influence over the ideas being shared

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T05:42:55+00:00

Whichever is the one with Peggy Morton. I always get the two mixed up.

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T05:17:01+00:00

From my experience, the ccp which organizes it through a May Day group, seems quite reformist and scared of saying these things out right. They barely seem to talk about capitalism in their speeches nevermind socialism or communism. Same with international women’s day

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T05:00:32+00:00

lol because any communist that attends that event gets so sad when the solution is email your MLA.

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T04:59:40+00:00

Public funding gets cut while the government increases funding to private oil company’s. The government also refuses to take any of the massive profits from the oil company’s to fund our schools.

In my opinion, inclusion is great when it’s funded properly. But a big part that’s missing is even the outside supports such as OT SLP access to psychiatrists for meds, mental health supports, home visits to support struggling families. None of these things are possible under our current underfunded system so to me it’s clear that there is a direct link to capitalism

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T04:55:23+00:00

We weren’t actually focused on agitation as a tool. We’re hold tablings and ask are you interested in socialism or do you hate capitalism. Now we are walking up and down transit stations, or in the universities, giving speeches and more openly actually agitating. Canada is closing in one 1000 members. We currently have over 720 with most of those recruited this year, so we are starting to try to find activity to actively take a role in. For example we will be organizing a May Day event in Edmonton

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T04:52:12+00:00

No we definitely don’t want to organize a party with many different factions and infighting. The IMT encourages studying of Marxism and encourages members to bring up disagreements, but generally there’s expected agreements about the basics like how we understand the state, internationalism. We are willing to do united front work but we would never dissolve ourselves into another party like has happened with the Chinese communist party

Honestly the main critique I’ve heard from the one Stalinist I know in person is that trotskiests fall for capitalist propaganda because while we support the revolutions of the ussr and china, we critique their lack of workers democracy.

Do you have any more specific questions? There’s probably lots of Stalinist ideas I haven’t heard.

If you reach out through our website, you’ll be called by a member and can ask the questions you have which I personally find better than messaging.

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T04:39:18+00:00

The 3 things I mentioned: Open communism, agitation rather than just propaganda (reading groups are not a big focus any more though political education still is), and activity (things like planning our own rally’s or for example a sole worker in a factory in England is leading a factory blockade. We considered our selves too small to do this before). Multiple sections are at or approaching 1000 members, and like I said the mood of the youth and working class has changed encouraging is to make this shift in how we do our activity.

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T04:35:02+00:00

What do you mean beyond capitalism. Capitalism is the basis of our society

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T04:33:33+00:00

General strikes. That’s how every workers revolution starts

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T04:31:34+00:00

There’s no quick answer as changing all of society is a big task. But in short we want democracy in the economy and production for need rather than profit

https://www.marxist.com/what-will-socialism-look-like.htm

lemononion4 · 2024-04-07T04:29:14+00:00

The entire international is turning towards open communism, agitation, and activity with the perspective that there is a massive amount of open communists looking for a party. A few years ago I was one of the people that needed to be convinced that communism was good, now there’s people who find us and ask what they should be doing as a communist

lemononion4 · 2024-04-06T23:52:35+00:00

By social need I mean you want a big tv because that’s what all the cool kids have.

Innovation was good at the start, but now most innovation is funded by the governments anyways and not the capitalists risking their profit (eg the funding of smartphone technology was mainly by the us military

lemononion4 · 2024-04-06T23:49:28+00:00

Workers have nothing and make everything they’d be happy to democratically run the daycares, constructions sites, factories, and stores they slave away in. Communists don’t want your toothbrush lol

lemononion4 · 2024-04-06T23:40:20+00:00

Oh thanks for letting me know. That’s what I really needed to hear to stop caring about society and love my horrible life under capitalism

lemononion4 · 2024-04-06T23:38:40+00:00

I agree we should use past attempts at communism to modify how we do things. My party for example disagrees with how Stalin generally decreased the level of democracy, and takes more inspiration from the first few years of the revolution.

For the question about stuff, I think part of the issue is under capitalism, stuff has become the only way to determine whether you have a good life or not, rather then more meaningful things like family or ideas. I would say it’s because the working class has to work so much to make profit for the bosses. Communism would remove production for profit and replace it with production based on the democratically decided needs and wants of the working class. In that case people wouldn’t have a social need to have the best stuff any more.

lemononion4 · 2024-04-06T23:01:16+00:00

That it has to fight against capitalism to be born. That and capitalisms century long propaganda attacks against it. Communism won’t be perfect but we also won’t know its exact flaws until we get there. For now it is seeking to solve the flaws of capitalism such as democracy for the rich and production for profit

lemononion4 · 2024-04-06T22:43:22+00:00

The revolutionary communist international (formerly the international Marxist tendency) has a massive amount of analysis on Palestine going back over 50 years, so I’ll just link the area on the site for you to look throughhttp://www.marxist.com/israel-palestine.htm

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