I don’t know if this is hollow, corny cheerleading, but I think it’s important to remind myself and others. Sometimes a shitty future seems inevitable; it’s easy to imagine capitalism and oppression consuming more and more of our planet and our humanity. The momentum of these forces is so great that they can seem unsurmountable, but we must always remember the truth: there is no power greater than the people.
from: fuckcapitalism2020
“It reminds us of John Dewey's claim that, "As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance."
In the US, the two-party political system has proven extremely effective in this regard. Aside from differences on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as socioeconomic issues like unemployment insurance and public assistance, both parties ultimately embrace capitalist/corporatist interests in that they both serve as facilitators for the dominant classes: The Republican Party in its role as forerunner, pushing the limits of the capitalist model to the brink of fascism; and the Democratic Party in its role as governor, providing intermittent degrees of slack and pull against this inevitable move towards a "corporate-fascistic state of being." — “Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era: Equilibrium, Superstructure, and the Pull Towards a Corporate-Fascistic Model” Colin Jenkins
from fuckcapitalism2020
hey, i guess it could be a "dog whistle" for tankies but it's just a play on words since tan - key sounds alot like tankie
good idea for a patch i guess
it's funny because it's true
alt text: beginning of the chess game, however the pawns have now been swapped all to one side of the board - unified against those who have previously out classed them
A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE REVOLUTION FROM FUCKCAPITALISM2020
image desc: woman holds whip as chaotic battle of a slave revolt occurs behind her
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all tiktokers all make content regarding ML or anti-empire
nah i would bump that from a "i think" to high confidence - he made a scene where he was blatantly zooming into a spine of a book that said "black marxism" while talking about how hints to people's political beliefs are often present right infront of you or something like that.
i've also heard foreign man in a foreign land apparently has used alot of language aligned with marxism though he also, does not make ml content.
commiebot ftw.
i wish you good fortune in such endeavours
o7
hah yeah, i was trying to talk to another ML about this - explicitly having a gpt4 bot or something like chatbot but with communist leaning and sources to multiple points like books and etc
o7 @Awoo@lemmygrad.ml
letters can be found here: https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/9371/soviet-time-capsules-comrades-1967-2017-russian-revolution-centenery
alt text: woman says "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me!" a person off screen says "letters from soviet time capsules." the woman in the panel retches over, darkness and despair engulfs the backdrop as she comes to be reminded of the letters from past times imagining utopian socialist republics from the now dissolved Union of Socialist Council Republics [USSR].
credit to sarah andersen
"debt is a form of social control."
alt text: bunny says "question: what motivates people? is it a sense of purpose? a desire to improve yourself? a desire to improve the word? a woman smiles plainly, the next panel shows her to continue to smile under duress as she answers "fear. it's definitely fear." A knife is held at her throat by an individual who captioned as hunger, debt, evicition.
credit to sarah andersen for comic.
warning: dark humour
image description: soldier seen protecting sleeping child from falling knives and missiles.
alt text: missiles and knifes are described as "nazis" soldier is described as "Soviet actions through the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact" 1,750,000 polish jews described as sleeping child
