The first three parts of Capital are hard, after that it’s just hundreds of pages of examples packed with dialectical materialist theory and is generally a lot easier to read. I’m thinking now that I’ll finish Capital and then start reading it from the beginning again. I also use VoiceDreamReader to read it to me.
I am white (half-Jewish…) but I think white people are generally hopeless when it comes to abandoning capitalism and amerikkka.
I’ve spent years thinking about this. My conclusion is that the only people who want to destroy capitalism are the ones getting fucked by it. If you’re part of the roughly 1-10% of humanity that benefits from capitalism, it’s unlikely that you’re going to question it. You’ll always be able to excuse it.
I converted because I did everything right. I’m a white able-bodied cis male. I come from a wealthy family. I have a college degree. I still couldn’t get ahead. I couldn’t get a decent white collar job. I also saw people who, in my opinion, were of lesser ability, basically beating me in the rat race. I ran in elections as a progressive democrat, put everything I had into them, and still lost. And then when I won, I found myself sitting at the fabled bargaining table, surrounded by nazis. It infuriated me so much that I started asking questions that I had never asked before. “Are the democrats really on my side?” Radicalization from r/chapotraphouse and hexbear helped immensely. Once you seriously read Marxist texts, there’s no going back.
I thought I saw that the PCF was part of their coalition…?
I was happy about this, then I saw that they want to keep sending weapons to Ukraine and back a two-state solution in Palestine. Still better than the demokkkrats but that’s a low bar. The French left still hasn’t learned how they lost everything after 1945 because of their appalling foreign policy, especially with regard to Algeria and Vietnam.
Last time I checked, not voting for someone = not supporting them. I also live in a swing state dude, just as a reminder that the USA was designed by slaveowners and has never been a democracy.
Trump doesn’t get a pass dude. None of us are voting for either nazi in this election.
How much success did Lincoln enjoy during his second term after he got shot?
How has voting for the democrats pushed them left? They’re a far-right party by international standards.
Creampie or bust.
Mister Trump, now listen to me, godfather. The judge, he find-a Mister Trump-a guilty at the trial on-a all-a counts! But then—they suspend-a the sentence! And Mister Trump, he smile at me!
IT’S HAPPENING!!!1!1!1
Finally, an American political compass that makes sense
But what are the insults and can you use them in sentences please if you feel like it…?
Where’s my money bernie???
I rescue spiders I find in the shower. Please clap.
Are you suggesting that a state built on ongoing genocide and imperialism like Canada, or a backward, semi-colonial, semi-feudal country like India, are models that anyone in their right mind should follow?
None of what you advocate can happen without revolution, and as a certain philosopher and activist said, “a revolution is not a dinner party.” It will be violent, and many people will die.
You can either have that, or you can have the Democrats/Republicans pretending to be the party of civility while they commit genocide. No ruling class in history has ever given up power peacefully.
We read Ishmael in high school too. Lib me was frustrated that the book doesn’t advocate for any solutions?