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It's because he kept dressing in red.
anticapitalist views of society in general are eldritch brain horrors that peel back the veil of reality and reveal the utter putrescence of capitalist society in such a way that its horrors are forever unseeable and, for some, almost unbearable, as every single moment which passes bears witness to uncountable instances of preventable suffering through not just exploitation but incredibly callous disregard for the value of human lives, and for communists it's that x10
i like the quote, where is it from?
source of that quote is i wrote it before bed
In a sort of similar vein to the above comrade's comment, you may enjoy these quotes:
From Disco Elysium:
The Deserter - "The mask of humanity fall from capital.Β It has to take it off to kill everyone -- everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed."
"And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world." He's silent for a second "You see the fear and power in its eyes.Β Then you know."
YOU - "What?"
The Deserter - "That the bourgeois are not human."
From Carlo Cafiero's summary of Capital:
So the daydreaming worker arrived at home; and there, dined, went to bed, and slept deeply, dreaming of the disappearance of bosses and the creation of government workshops.
Sleep, poor friend, sleep in peace, while hope still rests within you. Sleep in peace, for the disappointing day will soon come. Soon you will learn how your boss can sell their goods for profit, without defrauding anyone. He will make you see how one becomes a capitalist, and a large capitalist, while remaining perfectly honest.
Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which youβll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.
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It's such an apt metaphor. A horrifying tentacled mass called "capitalism" is puppeteering every society on the planet. Read a bit of leftist thought and you'll start seeing it everywhere - read a bit more and you'll perceive precisely how its tentacles are manipulating you. Try not to go mad as your perception broadens with every theory you imbibe.
A few societies are aware of the being. They know its tentacles are upon them, and they've declared their intentions to throw off the beast and finally slay it. But whether their plots and schemes for defeating the monster will bear fruit or not, for the time being they can only overcome its influence in fits and starts.
The car full of hammer and sickles in the background though ππ that's metaphorical gold
How'd you get a picture of me? π§
Oh hey this is how i inform people about juche
This is basically me. I'm pretty quiet when socialising because I know if I start talking I'll very soon start trying to set the world to rights.
Food and beer are probably the only safe topics for me.
Food is not even a safe topic for me since I am vegan. There are no safe topics for me π
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He's just like me fr
the mouth really makes it
Fun Fact: Communism is actually an attainable goal within our lifetimes, but people would actually have to be open to confronting their biases against it (including hate for all its supporters)
Actually disagree, at least not higher-stage Communism. Higher stage communism requires pretty much all living generations on Earth to have never known Capitalism, and be so used to living within Socialism that the statist apparatus makes itself redundant and whithers away. This becomes self-perpetuating and stable.
Lower stage communism? Absolutely.
It isn't simply a matter of "confronting internal biases," just like you would not place a random modern worker into feudalism and expect them to be capable of tending the fields, producing for subsistence plus surplus to their local feudal lord, and producing all manner of household goods such as clothing, fences, and food, so too can you not thrust the modern proletariat into a higher stage of production without working through the transitional status of Socialism.
If there are communists who think communism can be attained in our lifetimes, I donβt know them. Weβre not going to sell people a fantasy, some overnight utopia. Some places are now socialist, and more may become so in our lifetimes. But, as socialist states themselves will tell you, communism has not yet been attained anywhere.
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This is my comic! It was made for me!
Has anyone in the communism community ever actually lived under a communist regime? I have and that shit was not good. No matter how nice communism sounds on paper it depends on humans sharing and not being selfish and power hungry, which is a fantasy. Even in a communist society, you'll have those who will get more than others and will be more "equal"
it depends on humans sharing and not being selfish and power hungry, which is a fantasy.
What about Communism depends on this, structurally? How, in any way, does Capitalism do better?
Even in a communist society, you'll have those who will get more than others and will be more "equal"
Where does Marx say that Communism is about equality?
It's funny because I'm pretty sure you haven't lived in a communist country either. So you're arguing that lack of personal experience invalidates all arguments in favour of communism, but your lack of personal experience living in a communist country somehow doesn't invalidate your arguments against communism. Yup, perfectly consistent.
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"The younger the eastern European, the more they suffered under communism"
A revolution from the top was always going to be bad. I think people in this forum are hoping for a revolution from the bottom.
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