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p.s.

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

• Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

but no again tell me about how the level of political freedom you have differs meaningfully between western societies and China

china gets shit on because they don’t have political freedom; there’s no stuff like “you can speak your mind as long as you’re respectful”. it’s just one committee making all the decisions and you can go to jail for disagreeing.

what if actually it’s more like you need to know what the fuck you’re talking about in order to Be Political (which involves joining the party and by its nature excludes capitalist roaders and compradors attempting to bring back capitalist systems) and then democracy happens within that party

instead of like a big nameless Committee made up of a hivemind AI like intelligence that just Dictates

maybe that’d be better than having two bourgeois parties (or dozens of bourgeois parties in Europe/etc) owned by bourgeois interests effectively negating the existence of democracy by ensuring that all “democratic” institutions, by consequence of bourgeois influence over parties, operate at their pleasure

3 June 1989 I’m China

on, tinyman square, lol

it’s funny how the image of tanks crushing people is more solidified in the minds of westerners than what happened, which there is video proof of, which is none of that and also the tanks leaving

issues with the Chinese government

name one

Pro tip but billionaires don’t need to own things

I wish there was a way to litigate bans made by corporate media because I just got a twitter account banned for being fucking fake or some shit and i appealed it and they were like, lol, no. No further appeals. Literally not a thing i can do. And it’s kinda galling when i get DMs from obvious bots 10000x a day and they do NOTHING against those, despite them being so very obviously fake. And here I am being told IM the fake one and I don’t even deserve to look at thirsty shit and jerk off because of it??

Oh yeah im sure all the poor landlords are struggling so hard

Mfw south Korea was the one punishing people for the wrong haircut during the u.s. supported police dictatorship

“The banks” ah yes seize all the worthless money instead of learning from iran and occupying vital infrastructure

Oh the first time i saw this posted i definitely thought that was a ferret

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they aren’t saying the modern worker has it just as bad as other slaves, they’re talking about institutionalized forced labor.

I’d also like to mention that anarchists and socialists have, for a long time, criticized wage labor under capitalism as being more exploitative than literal serfdom i.e. kropotkin’s “shame on the feudal baron” quote. Serfs giving up a quarter of their crop was seen as barbarous, but wage laborers give up the entire value of their labor and are paid only a pittance for it

dawg, wage labor under capitalism is literally slavery with more steps. If your ability to survive is predicated on your ability to sell your body for a wage, you are a slave, and anyone arguing otherwise (you, in this case) is wrong. If you refuse to work and your refusal is met with homelessness and starvation, that is no less coerced labor than if I held a fucking gun to your head.

Also your initial statement of “workers have rights, slaves have none” is just so fucked and wrong from multiple perspectives. Slaves have historically had rights, not every form of slavery is “north american chattel slavery” where they’re treated like livestock. And, again, what difference is there from a “right” won through violence by a union and rights won by slave revolts? There isn’t any

Okay, when people had to literally arm themselves, fight and die for the right to a union, and then to rights those unions fought for i.e. the 8 hour workday, do you not see the similarity between those literal armed struggles and slave rebellions

Subtitles are wrong halfway through saying “we must respect the work of sewer unseen” when they CLEARLY say “respect the workers who are unseen” ()

DPRK is a monarchy

these guys send unhinged tweets to Elmo in the same way that I do to sitting U.S. senators and they think THEY’RE the peak of masculinity

One of my favorite variations is

Some opinions are just so bad and so rooted in fantasy and fascist brain worms that the deepest an argument against them SHOULD BE is a picture of a pig shitting on its own balls