FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Paris, France 3 days ago:
Americans prioritize the flow of treats over any action that might hurt the oligarchy. Even if a warehouse was burned down by an organized revolutionary militia that was actively trying to bring about change, y’all would complain that you can’t get your 10-ply toilet paper.
- Comment on The bosses don't pay their workers. Workers pay their bosses. 2 weeks ago:
That was still only a relatively small portion of the working class and even then it was only possible because the US took over control of global imperialism and were subsiding domestic worker wages with wealth extracted from the rest of the world.
- Comment on The ineffective Democratic leadership ain't going away unless we make them. 2 weeks ago:
Traitors to whom? Their primary allegiance was always to the capitalists.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
Considering the complete lack of correlation between issues that voters care about and the policies that politicians actually enact, I don’t think that merely voting makes boomers blameworthy.
Studies have repeatedly shown that politicians in both parties do not act in accordance with what their voters want, so clearly voting does not affect policy.
- Comment on Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism 2 weeks ago:
Not only is Zionism a racist ideology against Arabs and other people endemic to the region, but it is also anti-Semitic, because it attempts to equate Judaism with the genocidal state and people of Israel.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
Sure, I guess by technical definition. But popularly, if you describe a role that has no power except to communicate decisions of the board and who is not paid excessively, most people are not going to think “CEO.”
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
I mean, we have the technology to make direct democracy work, but even with representative democracy, there’s no need for a single leader. There are many examples of functioning anarchic organizations. I’m not really imagining one ideal way to organize enterprises, there are many ways to do it. Hell, you could even do it with a single elected leader, but it wouldn’t be functionally the same as a CEO. In a socialist workplace, the leader wouldn’t have absolute authority nor be payed an outrageously unequal wage. The workers would elect them and be able to recall them.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
Why should it? If the workers themselves are on the board, then they know what the board decides. No need for a middleman CEO.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
For sure. Can’t have democracy without democracy in the workplace.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
CEOs exist to siphon surplus value to shareholders instead of letting the people who produce it retain it. It’s more that the CEO role is unnecessary in worker owned businesses than incompatible.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
lol what? Even setting aside worker-owned socialist societies, worker-owned businesses exist and prosper in the United States today. It is obviously feasible.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
If Caitlyn Johnstone was running for office as a Democrat, you’d vote for them, right? Blue no matter who?
If only libs applied the same level of purity testing to their politicians that they do to anonymous internet commenters, we might have a functioning electoral system.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 3 weeks ago:
CEOs shouldn’t exist. Workplaces should be managed by the workers.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
I guess I’m distinguishing between innately dumb and dumb-by-design. Poor reading comprehension is a result of the intentional dismantling of our education system. It’s not the people’s fault, it’s the capitalists.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
Americans are no dumber than any other demographic. They have, however, been subject to a century-long propaganda campaign to instill subservience to capitalist ideology while those same capitalists have been dismantling any educational system or media outlet that might break that subservience.
Beware of the “Americans dumb” rhetoric, because a false sense of superiority is the exact thing that led Americans to accept the propaganda. It can happen to your country, too (and probably is happening, to be real).
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 4 weeks ago:
Propagandized == Dumb. No one is immune to propaganda, but propaganda can be overcome.
- Comment on Ed Sheeran’s latest foot in the mouth moment… 4 weeks ago:
Did you miss the part where he’s already worth hundreds of millions of dollars? Ed Sheeran could play in pubs for the rest of his life and never have to worry about a thing. He’s just being greedy and self-serving.
- Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter 4 weeks ago:
Those laws are always temporary under capitalism, just look at the deregulation happening now in the US. Meanwhile China has gradually been improving its worker protections for almost a century, with almost no setbacks.
And speaking of China, if you are a senior party member of the CPC and you use it to enrich yourself, you get executed. As usual, accusations of communist misdeeds by capitalists are just confessions.
- Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter 4 weeks ago:
Do you think that if a government made a law criminalizing having brown skin that a jury has a moral imperative to find brown people guilty?
I think the point of a jury is to apply justice to the legal system, and in fact their moral imperative is to acquit people who face unjust applications of the law or are victims of government oppression.
- Comment on Jury unanimously acquits Churchill statue spray-painter 4 weeks ago:
Law in capitalist countries is not an effort towards justice, it is an effort towards protecting private property and the rights of capitalists.
- Comment on I may have trust issues 4 weeks ago:
Under Trump’s FDA, she could just make a “donation” and it would be approved. Don’t kid yourself that these institutions are— or ever were —sacrosanct.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 4 weeks ago:
I agree, the uber-wealthy should be excluded from the political process. We should have a government of the working class, by the working class, for the working class.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
The fact that you think there can be red fascists further proves your ignorance. Communism and Fascism are diametrically opposed ideologies.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
The ignorance is yours, my friend. And unfortunately you are proving OP was correct.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
I would have to know what exactly you are talking about to respond effectively, but largely yes, internal USSR records support the idea that anti-communist narratives are largely distorted or fabricated. Almost everything you think you know about the purges, the Moscow trials, the famines, the gulags, Soviet “authoritarianism,” and almost everything other talking point you can bring up falls into this category. And the things that aren’t distorted or fabricated are taken so far out of context as to make them unexplainable.
The USSR wasn’t perfect, it did some inexcusable things. But the common narrative is almost comically misrepresentative, especially considering the much much worse things that contemporary capitalist nations were doing.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
*the limited and distorted information that the West feeds you about the USSR and China have done a fantastic job of making you hate the words socialism and communism.
FTFY
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
Idealistic and naive, in my view. Anarchists have never explained how we get from here to the global classless, stateless, moneyless society that both communists and anarchists wish to achieve, given the context of capitalist power and reaction — at least no explanation that makes sense to me.
I would be happy to be proven wrong though, as I truly believe that both groups want the same outcome.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
Also, it hasn’t been used to oppress millions of people because it straight up hasn’t. The history of socialism that Americans and other Westerners have been taught is filled with lies, exaggerations, and missing context.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
The opinions shared about socialism in this thread prove you right, unfortunately.
- Comment on This is why Americans hate Socialism. 5 weeks ago:
The amount of people who are completely ignorant about socialism and communism in this thread is evidence that the first sentence of this tweet is true, and that it was super effective.