Everytime I hear or see an American talk about “how much is that going to cost us?”, I straight up feel like strangling the life out of them. Everything’s value, especially life, can only be measured in money. We live among barbarians.
I’d make coffee for my comrades, my fellow, caring compatriots and their kin, just as I do for my family. Hell, I’d make about a hundred dozen pupusas with some salsa and curtido for my comrades if I could (I really wish I could).
These people see working these barista jobs as unfathomable since they and the exploitative class have dragged the reputation of the service worker through the mud as much as they’ve done their wages.
But I’d wager that some folks would love to open a restaurant or cafe or lounge with good friends, build an inviting place of rest for their community if they weren’t at the whims of the capitalist looking to extract every last cent out of patrons and every last hour of labor from the workers, all without factoring socialization, and extending decency and kindness unto others into their practice.
They have such a twisted perception of this type of labor but because of the reality they’re subjected to under the ruling dictatorship of capital, they can’t separate work from the value it produces in terms of money. It’s always about money for these people, but that isn’t a mistake. The idea of seeing use-value instead of profit-value in things is such a foreign thing to those living with the corruption of bourgeois education. Take a car, for example. How many times you’ll hear “you’re better off just buying a new one; replacing xy and z plus the labor to put it all together would be unreasonably expensive. Just send that thing to the junkyard!”. What if I have sentimental attachment to that car? But how we feel is never important. The human part of us must always be stripped away from these decisions. But sadly, we really are in a bind and we must make the most reasonable choice given our circumstances. Even as a kid, this type of thinking always made me sick, and at this young point in my life, I was decades from ever having read any Marxist theory.
Coffee, pastries, or any sort of good that would bring us so much enjoyment are always given so little value through the lens of the twisted, capitalist worldview. Even the labor to create these things. To think of the centuries of human development, experimentation, experience, and culture that have contributed to the existence of these simple pleasures only for them to have someone say “who the hell wants to do THAT job!? Not me!” leaves me with a deep sadness.
I want there to be coffee brewers, pastry chefs, cooks, and all those laborers who create these simple marvels that undeniably bring us so much joy. And I want them to be liberated from the backwardness, selfishness, and ingratitude that capitalism foments among people.
I despise every last one of these military contracting corporations and ghouls that are its foundation and lifeline and create the tools that engulf the world in terror. Every last one of them deserves a cruel, miserable end.
Oh, but if only someone had warned the world about the perils it would be subjected to when capitalism finds itself imploding in on itself!
I always think of the amount of times revolutionaries were exiled to Siberia or otherwise imprisoned for revolutionary agitation. These people ain’t about any of that. I guess calling my bourgeois senator will do the trick, though. That sure worked wonders the last time they directed everybody to do that!
These typical, Western “leftists” and their servility to the imperialists getting caught up on slinging their leftist buzzwords and doing their useless “purity” checks instead of doing actual, material analysis and real, on-the-ground work to improve people’s lives. “Pragmatic socialist” this, “center-left blah blah blah” that, like, holy shit, these fools need to shut the hell up and go learn some dialectics and learn to do some actual, real-world work. That is, if they’re not too busy being on the CIA’s payroll. A bunch of useless, revisionist, counter-revolutionaries is what they are.
Critical support for the cancer in struggle against the Netanyahu plague of cells!
It’s one of those words that I’ve learned to disassociate from as I’ve abandoned liberalism and all “ultra”, uncritical or otherwise reactionary politics. I use the term Marxist-Leninist and I don’t see how any terms like “leftist” or “right-wing” apply to it, since those words are incredibly dogmatic and pigeonholing. One chooses those labels and adopts all that those labels stand for without much thought. It makes it easy to “shut the brain off” and strictly delegate all choice and action to what rules are detailed under any of these politics.
The foundations of Leninism take concern with capitalism in its imperialist, global form, and, coupled with the dialectical materialist grounding of Marxism, tackles it and gives people the tools necessary to gain an understanding of their realities under its hegemony and rule, so that they learn to think and resolve challenges in overthrowing its many fetters and contradictions.
Ultras love disparaging all existing socialist experiments almost as much as the imperialists and their reactionaries instead of understanding that they share a great, common enemy. They’re more concerned with whether a country is following Marxism as a doctrine or “holy scripture” to a tee; if they’re not, they throw their hands up and say “they’re not worth it, they’re revisionists”. They’re perfectly content abandoning these countries and their people in their struggle against the forces of imperialism and all of the terrors that we know it’s capable of.
They don’t “think” in a dialectically materialist way, and this has allowed them to be deposed and stuck in their tracks time and time again by agents working on behalf of the bourgeois order. They demonstrate that they’re not willing to struggle against, at the very least, the contradictions within their very own organizations and cadres or address issues in a good faith, selfless manner. They’re not willing to learn or advance beyond their book reading, which is a critical error. For fear of “betraying” the label of “leftism” and all of the static tenets of whatever flavor of leftism they ascribe to, they abandon reason, prudence, selflessness, science, and the international struggle, at large.
When one becomes more familiar with the dialectical materialist process of scrutinizing, analyzing, understanding the world and its phenomena, these terms like “leftism” become nothing more than set backs and impediments to the necessary development of the individual and their class into revolutionaries capable of challenging the bourgeois order, its many systems and proponents, and destroying them to make way for the dictatorship of the proletarian.
In short, leftism has such rigid, dogmatic “rules”. It focuses more on preserving the label and membership in these factions that it serves as nothing more than a set back for people in developing the dialectical materialist Marxist worldview necessary to face struggles, adapt to challenges, learn from losses, and ultimately, achieve wins.
Ask them to elaborate. What’s their proof of hedonism being the culprit for it?
Sometimes, I wish the US would undergo some “liberation” á la Carpet Bombing just so that these fucks could get a real-life taste of what millions have been subjected to abroad and are now forced to live with the memory of massacred family members and friends.
Oh, I hope they pump those numbers up!
B-But who would sit in traffic for two hours commuting to and from an office that nobody wanted to work in in the first place??? We can’t destroy such a beautiful, cultural work environment like this!
They’re really that far gone, then, aren’t they? Reactionary and psychologically twisted to their core such that they are okay with committing genocide and mass displacement of other people. Zionists deserve no quarter.
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Chinese people got tired of watching people die on American streets, so they had to step in and do some humanitarian work.
There are only so many Shit-on-a Shingles a sailor can shit out and have eventually back up the whole plumbing and flood the barracks lol
This is batshit, unmasked villainy. It would all be absurdly hilarious if they weren’t actively perpetuating genocides in Palestine & Lebanon along with the killing of Iranian civilians.
They were the first socialist experiment and they beat the ever living shit out of the West’s Nazi child. The subsequent EU could NEVER get over that shit.
The United States has become the dangerous revisionist power it long warned us that China would be.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE, A BUNCH OF ASIANS!?!?
Holy shit, liberals sure are something else! (read the rest of the article lol)
She’s clearly a proponent of American imperialism and chauvinism, which isn’t out of character for Social Democrats, who are known capitalist sympathizers and reformists. What does this mean for the PSL? What is the word among the actual members of the party? Specifically, the revolutionary Marxist hardliners? The Party is comprised of *leftists" and Marxists, and clearly, even those who retain capitalist sympathies if they go as far as platforming someone who supports American aggression against global South nations, especially AES countries. Is this enough to abandon the party in its entirety or would it be a wake-up call for leadership to come to terms with this glaring vulnerability and address a clear danger to the Marxist, revolutionary elements of the party?
Either way, critical support for all revolutionary efforts, especially in the West, were unmistakable proponents of the bourgeois order seem to always slither their way into Marxist circles. This is the danger of working closely with leftists. If they do not have a solid, unwavering, Marxist and dialectical materialist foundation, they cannot be held above suspicion of sympathizing with the enemy of the working people.