Hurricane Scandy confirms that no one in Washington knows how to do their jobs.
So… the IRS is basically privatized and hates when other government organizations know what they’re doing. This is what we call ‘state capitalism.’
Office Space is a great movie about working-class insurrection
This is one of my favorite books and it’s probably what turned me into a socialist in the first place
Are there any stats on how many workers have gone on strike for May Day over the years?
Sometimes I wish I could redo high school, but using the brain I have now, just to get better grades. Because in retrospect, high school seems so easy.
But maybe college is just as easy as high school, as far as the work goes. Maybe it just seems harder now because of the economic issues that students face. Or maybe it’s that, statistically, your early 20’s are like prime time for developing mental disorders. Personally I believe there is a direct link.
It’s not natural to face this amount of mental stress over something so arbitrary like the value of capital, and something so violent like the fact that the value of capital hinges on widespread poverty and a false sense of scarcity.
Capitalism is literally fucking up our brains, guys.
Dog’s right about the individualism+communism thing, though
If you work in a place and you’re the only person profiting from your own labour, that’s total individual freedom. Capitalist profit is literally a form of taxation and I don’t understand how right-wingers can deny something so fucking simple like that
I want this on a shirt.
It kills me when capitalists say socialists are lazy.
I don’t want to be forced to work. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to work at all. I love work. It feels good. I like accomplishing things, I like helping my community. And I’m lucky to have a job that doesn’t completely suck. I just don’t want to be confined to working for someone who’s going to reap the benefits of my labour and only give me back a tiny fraction of what I actually deserve. (see: my boss) (see also: capitalism is therefore a form of taxation, but capitalist libertarians ignore this or make an exception for private companies for some stupid reason).
The ruling capitalist class are the most sedentary pieces of shit on this planet. Yeah, maybe some of them “worked hard to get where they are now” but “now” they just exploit the rest of us and keep us from getting there. You make us work, while you sit on your asses, and then you call us lazy. You hoard the world’s resources, milk us for everything we’re worth, and then you call us parasites when we demand fair compensation because you claimed the fruits of our labour as your own.
so yeah
fuck you if you think we’re socialists just because we’re lazy
also fuck you if you conflate socialism with taxes. Capitalism already taxes the fuck out of us.
AnonymousI’m from the United States. I have a lot of mixed feelings about it. It’s hard to take a solid stance because the issue itself is so politically and economically complex, certainly beyond the confines of American constitutional law.
I consider myself a bit of a socialist and a bit of an anarchist. I think everyone should be allowed to own and use weapons, but I think the mass production of weapons isn’t necessary unless the people decide that we need weapons. And when I say “the people,” I’m not talking about the liberal democracy that we live in. I’m talking about the real people. I’m talking about socialism [the purest form of democracy], in which the working people get what they truly deserve in direct exchange for their labor. If the workers decide amongst themselves that we don’t need giant metal killing machines, then those workers won’t build those weapons. And since there would be no war profiteers under true socialism, economic growth would be organic and spontaneous. It wouldn’t be a global priority. The people need weapons so they can defend themselves from the imperial capitalist power structures that exist today. But since the power structures are the ones building the weapons, that makes it okay, right?
My point is that, if the state and the people are one, then the state shouldn’t be allowed to have anything that the people can’t have, or anything that the people didn’t want to build. Either legalize the possession of nuclear weapons for every person in the world, or demilitarize the world’s governments. But either way, the working people deserve to hold the weapons they built.
