Tag: commie tag

trans-mom:

On today’s edition of “wtf are you talking about:” someone just “respectfully disagreed” with me that water is a necessity of sustaining human life.

the-transfeminine-mystique:

the more that capitalists talk, the more obvious it is that their issue with communism isn’t that there would be hard labor or bread lines, because those things are part of their vision of capitalism too. it’s the horrifying thought of not being able to buy for themselves separation from those things which they already consign the vast majority of people to

comcastkills:

lesbianpearl:

lesbianpearl:

capitalism has, since at least the second world war, destroyed over two hundred millions lives (conservative estimate) and we’re still using unreliable discredited data to justify opposing a better, socialist future for workers worldwide

Want to know what’s really staggering? At least 92 million children died between 2000 and 2010 as direct consequence of capitalism. And while these numbers might be lower today, nothing really exists to challenge this other than revolutionary politics and opposing capitalism.

Also, world hunger is on the rise and worsens due to corporation driven climate change, and global poverty remains grim. 

Here’s a post I made documenting other deaths and their causes under capitalism, if anyone needs more sources.

Here’s another article talking about the misleading claims about socialism.

kaylapocalypse:

candidlyautistic:

tariqah:

Feudalism in the past and capitalism now have tinged our outlooks in life and are parts of literally each and every part of society, from social interactions to academia. The fact that we cannot imagine a “human nature” without cruelty and greed is because those that have power have fed us lies that we or someone else would have replicated their cruelty. Don’t fall for the lie.

For historical reference if you want the sociology 101 version of this… Capitalism was more or less constructed to maintain the power base of feudalism. It was the means by which dissent and rebellion was quelled by ceding the perception of power and control to the lower class. Capitalism is just feudalism with the promise that if you “work hard” you can become the ruling elite. When you look it whether or not that actually happens, though? Crossing class lines rarely happens. Statistically, it is never going to happen to you.

Capitalism, like feudalism, requires the presence of a social construct to create the class divide. In feudalism, it was blood line (nobility). In capitalism, it is wealth. It serves the same purpose. The overwhelming majority of wealth in a capitalist society passes along blood lines – it has to in order to maintain stagnation of class mobility.

This deliberate social construct, this class divide, this enforcement of inequity that literally kills people can be solved. It isn’t a wealth problem. It isn’t a resource problem. It is a how do we convince the nobility upper class to give up their wealth problem.

But instead we say these problems are human nature and can never be fixed. Thieves will always steal. Murderers will always kill. Dictators will always rule. But the number of actual pathological thieves, murderers, or dictators is really low. Most of these things that happen are out of perceived need. Most thieves don’t steal because they want to take something, they steal because they perceive that they need to – because they need to eat, or because it is seen as the easiest path to vertical movement in the class structure.

When we say that it is human nature to steal so we will always have this problem, it is a refusal to examine the systemic structure that created the problem in the first place. That is how an institution enacts violence. It creates a system where violence is required for survival, and then discourages examining the reason.

So what does this violence look like in practice? What is a concrete example of this systemic violence?

This is a long answer that has been studied, written about, and summarized by black scholars whose knowledge on the topic far exceeds mine. For one of those summaries read this link, which take you through the deliberate social construction of race in the mid 1600s in Virginia and the subsequent and equally deliberate social construction of whiteness as a means to marginalize others – both a violent act of capitalism that affects us today.

When OP says we are fed lies, this is what it looks like in practice.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/racecraft-racism-social-origins-reparations/

to read later

thisiseverydayracism:

chicksalloverme:

mrcrockervevo:

theconcealedweapon:

Billionaires have enough money to completely end hunger, homelessness, and medical debt, and still be wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. They literally have the power to choose who lives and who dies. And we’re supposed to consider them “charitable” whenever they let one person live.

It’s their money they can do what they want with it. They might want to give it to their kids so shut the fuck up and think for one second before you talk from your ass

is your little fucking worm brain like physically incapable of processing how much a BILLION is? you could not spend a billion let alone billions of dollars in a single human lifetime. you could buy everything in your wildest dreams and still be set for life. it is literally unethical that anyone is allowed to have that much wealth when there are so many people suffering and dying every single day because of poverty so maybe take your own advice, my good bitch 

Also, it’s often not “their money”. It’s everyone else’s money just moved up to the top through fucked up laws by bought and paid for politicians.