This is fucking sick 🤟

Trump is taking all your rights away, but hey look at China and how this is actually their fault!!1!

Stalin’s gigantic spoon reaching out from the book to eat your noodles and make you starve

Imperialism outside being copied by fascism inwards

I can’t wait until one of these places just happens to mysteriously go boom

This brings Bullshit Jobs to mind.

I don’t think there’s any way for workers to sabotage the middle management and capitalist relations though, because as the book also mentions, middle management is not only there to help capitalists with their metrics and optimization of labour. It’s also there to legitimize and make the owners look good, to act as a protective buffer against the workers by playing a kind of “good cop / on your side” role, and to create enough labour aristocracy so the organizing workers don’t reach a critical mass.

Modern office jobs, unlike the factories, give you a much closer person above you, with a much smaller class difference, sometimes even doing work themselves, that is responsible to not only keep you in line and performant, but to also “help” you improve every evaluation period. Workers are much more likely to lick the boot when they feel like a manager will notice them and appreciate them, and when they have a certain list of improvement areas to constantly improve on hoping to get that annual raise.

I think that as long as they can still be profitable enough to keep middle managers happy and complacent, they are never going to break that relationship.

I would challenge this claim, in Marx’s time Congolese workers would have their hands cut off for missing quotas, or worse.

I was thinking more about things like insane price gouging, monopolies the likes of Nestle, meta-capitalists like Blackrock, making workers self evaluate themselves and push themselves without any command, extreme competition to find work, and others.

Of course the actual working conditions back then were much worse, working extremely long hours doing mostly manual labour and also actual violence like you mentioned.

The existence of the internet and eradication of real communities is probably why

All those MAGA respectable folk I sent to the camps just happened to look hispanic it was not intentional mein Fuhrer

I think that the people are never going to get past their anticommunism unless they face it head on. It’s not bad to simply name a party “Communist Party of <Country>”, people need to start hearing the C word without losing their shit again.

That’s assuming that the party is going or claiming to go in that direction of course, I have the feeling that this is more of a “left unity front” kind of party.

I wish the ones responsible for these policies would find out the hard way about the consequences, but the rich probably already have the cures hidden away for their own use while the poor pay fortunes to blast themselves with radiation

They said I would continue to be free when they put the shackles on me and waved a carrot for me to follow, but after a few years have passed I’m starting to think I might not be that free after all

US economists huffing their own propaganda slowly coming to the realization that all value comes from human labour and resources and all the stock market fantasy land they’re seeing is completely artificial

This aged like fucking milk left open at room temperature

Very wholesome smol bean country

These kinds of struggle sessions always go too far. It’s almost always leftists who share mostly the same ideals, but as soon as a difference pops out, people start calling names, throwing accusations, generalizing one bad take to the whole character of the other person etc. We can surely be more understanding, unity is what gives as the most strength, not being as purist as we can possibly be.

I feel like he’s going to be a significantly better Bernie type figure, I hope I’ll be proven wrong and he actually stays true to real socialist ideas

The first application under capitalism would probably be ubercops beating protesters to a pulp with their exoskeleton

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How nice and convenient, living in Vienna while orchestrating a mass genocide all the way to Palestine