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Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

gradenko_2000 posted:

big brain: loving lol at Sankara just being "Alright"

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf

page three, personal motives, paragraph (a)

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
capitalists: planned economies cause famines!

also capitalists:

https://twitter.com/BuildSoil/status/1133576822422102017

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

also capitalists

https://www.agweb.com/article/how-long-can-this-corn-rally-last/

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


gradenko_2000 posted:

big brain: loving lol at Sankara just being "Alright"

this was my first reaction

also who is the guy on the right in the top tier

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Mr. Lobe posted:

this was my first reaction

also who is the guy on the right in the top tier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errico_Malatesta

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
state capitalism > worker coops

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

state capitalism > worker coops

worker o'cops

freckle
Apr 6, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
state capitalism is just one big worker coop

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

in worker's coops, I would be forced to interact and make decisions with other people, which sounds like a nightmare

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
this is now the thomas sankara appreciation station







choo choo motherfuckers

Captain Billy Pissboy
Oct 25, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
College Slice

Lightning Knight posted:

this is now the thomas sankara appreciation station







choo choo motherfuckers

Hell yeah

quote:

His domestic policies were focused on preventing famine with agrarian self-sufficiency and land reform, prioritising education with a nationwide literacy campaign and promoting public health by vaccinating 2,500,000 children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles.

Other components of his national agenda included planting over 10,000,000 trees to combat the growing desertification of the Sahel, redistributing land from feudal landlords to peasants, suspending rural poll taxes and domestic rents and establishing a road and railway construction programme. On the local level, Sankara called on every village to build a medical dispensary, and had over 350 communities build schools with their own labour. Moreover, he outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy, as well as appointing women to high governmental positions and encouraging them to work outside the home and stay in school, even if pregnant.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


quote:

"So what that means is the price of corn is going to have to go higher to slow down and ration demand," says McCormick. "It's just a matter how fast it'll go."

Rationing!? IN A FREE MARKET!? :pwn:

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

it owns

Thomas sankara is communist bae

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/granturismofort/status/1133407387178504192?s=19

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Problematic Stalin Meme

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Cancelled Josef Stalin

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

Stalin Wife Problematic

Kobayashi
Aug 13, 2004

by Nyc_Tattoo
I'll know I'm a real leftist when I recognize more than a couple of these people and no knowing the names won't help

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016

https://twitter.com/CIAGoFundMe/status/1133867503497744385?s=19

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005


lol

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1131203262315663360

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Karl Barks posted:

in worker's coops, I would be forced to interact and make decisions with other people, which sounds like a nightmare

people shocked at the high percentage of folks who just vest their say into a labor representative so that they don't have to read and vote on a bunch of dumb poo poo

"hell yeah, we own it all now bitches! who wants to represent me at meetings so i can tune out of most of this bullshit and get more gaming time in?"

The Ultimate Doge
May 1, 2019

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1133435642325680130

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991


it's loving infuriating that we have to have these century-old arguments over and over lmao

The Question of Co-Operative Societies at the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen

quote:

Together with Guesde we moved two (main) amendments: firstly, to replace the words “(the co-operative societies) help the workers to prepare the democratisation and socialisation of production and distribution” by the words: “(the co-operative societies) help to a certain extent to prepare the functioning of production and distribution after the expropriation of the capitalist class.” This amendment, which stylistically is not very happily formulated, does not mean that the co-operative societies cannot help the workers at present, but that the future mode of production and distribution, which is being prepared now by the co-operative societies, can begin to function only after the expropriation of the capitalists. The second amendment concerned the point which speaks of the relation of co-operative societies to the Party. We proposed either to add the words “which (i. e., aid to the workers’ struggle) is in any case desirable from the standpoint of socialism”, or to replace the whole of this point by another expressly recommending socialists in the co-operative societies to advocate and insist upon direct support for the class struggle of the proletariat.

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

R. Guyovich posted:

it's loving infuriating that we have to have these century-old arguments over and over lmao

The Question of Co-Operative Societies at the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen

yep

https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/ch07.htm

quote:

The workers forming a co-operative in the field of production are thus faced with the contradictory necessity of governing themselves with the utmost absolutism. They are obliged to take toward themselves the role of capitalist entrepreneur – a contradiction that accounts for the usual failure of production co-operatives which either become pure capitalist enterprises or, if the workers’ interests continue to predominate, end by dissolving.

they're just huffing richard wolffs farts in between disparaging actual communists and tweeting at AOC asking for donations

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Worker cooperatives have an incentive to revert back to rentier capitalism vs read the OP

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Top City Homo posted:

Worker cooperatives have an incentive to revert back to rentier capitalism vs read the OP

I was listening to David Harvey's podcast the other day and I found out that "rentier" is supposed to rhyme with "frontier"

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


gradenko_2000 posted:

I was listening to David Harvey's podcast the other day and I found out that "rentier" is supposed to rhyme with "frontier"

what did you think it was, rent-ee-er? rent-ee-ay?

Flowers For Algeria
Dec 3, 2005

I humbly offer my services as forum inquisitor. There is absolutely no way I would abuse this power in any way.


Top City Homo posted:

Worker cooperatives have an incentive to revert back to rentier capitalism vs read the OP

only if you don’t extirpate the capitalist ideology from the workers minds

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Mr. Lobe posted:

what did you think it was, rent-ee-er?

yup! cuz like, it's "rent", and then you just add "-ier" to it

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

russian communists are doing the youtube thing better i think

this is good poo poo

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

state capitalism has the same incentive to revert to rentier capitalism imo

not that this really matters all that much, any sane socialist economy is going to be a mish mash of coops for smaller firms and labor-union/state controlled enterprises

Karl Barks fucked around with this message at 13:43 on May 30, 2019

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Flowers For Algeria posted:

only if you don’t extirpate the capitalist ideology from the workers minds

you can't "extirpate the capitalist ideology" under market conditions.

Karl Barks posted:

state capitalism has the same incentive to revert to rentier capitalism imo

There actually isn't any incentive for a state capitalist system to extract rents, because it's already accruing all surplus value from labor. Rent only makes sense because you're extracting it from people who don't work for yourself. That's why North Korea doesn't have income or "property" taxes. Rents are cost redundancies that make the system more inefficient.

Pener Kropoopkin fucked around with this message at 15:32 on May 30, 2019

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1134083189784403968?s=19

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
He's been in exile in the Netherlands for decades, so I suppose he's not got much else to do

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

Postoyevsky posted:

yep

https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/ch07.htm


they're just huffing richard wolffs farts in between disparaging actual communists and tweeting at AOC asking for donations

The reason Luxembourg gives for coops being untenable in a market filled with capitalists is that the workers would have to work themselves for intolerably hard the same way capitalist exploiters do. But that's not as relevant in the modern day when we have overtime laws and OSHA and stuff

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Jewel Repetition posted:

The reason Luxembourg gives for coops being untenable in a market filled with capitalists is that the workers would have to work themselves for intolerably hard the same way capitalist exploiters do. But that's not as relevant in the modern day when we have overtime laws and OSHA and stuff

It's still relevant because capitalists break labor regulations all the time. That doesn't mean that coops are ipso facto "untenable," but actually existing coops still have to accumulate surplus value to survive under market conditions. Co-op workers basically end up having to exploit themselves or others anyway, as is the case where Mondragon employs seasonal labor that doesn't have any stake in the company.

I'd still say there's an inherent value in owning your own workplace collectively, but it's not the panacea that Black Socialists implies it is.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

if OSHA and overtime laws are so great, why have socialism at all?

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Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's still relevant because capitalists break labor regulations all the time. That doesn't mean that coops are ipso facto "untenable," but actually existing coops still have to accumulate surplus value to survive under market conditions. Co-op workers basically end up having to exploit themselves or others anyway, as is the case where Mondragon employs seasonal labor that doesn't have any stake in the company.

I think this is true of any "socialist-ish" mode of production that exists inside a capitalist framework. a co-op is just a governance model/structure, it's in some ways ambivalent to the superstructure around it.

which is to say, co-ops alone are not socialism in the same way that SOEs are not socialism

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