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I think it's pretty easy to see how serfs might have been better off than early wage workers and indentured servants You could definitely argue that it's still true today, at least for people making minimum wage I mean, you're basically a slave, but at least you have property and there's something of a Hobbes style social contract thing happening. There's no true incentive for the factory owner to be good to the worker other than maybe labor competition or legal requirements
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Maybe I sound like a regressionist or a Luddite or something but I gotta say having 50 acres or so of my own is a life long dream Doesn't even need a house or utilities. I'll Make Do
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Agean90 posted:so how dumb is this thread when you have to preemptively apologize for thinking that having some land in the middle of nowhere would be nice I don't know any socialists IRL so when I try to explain things like 'actually producing something of value sounds more fulfilling to me than working in a data center' gets me blank stares
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I hate anti-moderates because it spreads the idea that compromise is impossible and not worth bothering with, which isn't true in most cases
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Here's my hot take: it's weird to be biased against people based on melanin content, or, well, anything, actually
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Dreddout posted:Unfortunately, it's really not weird at all. Most humans have deeply ingrained biases based on tribal remnants. Actually it is weird to hate other people
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Just because some people are prejudiced, doesn't mean it's good. It's bad actually
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Also let's not pretend like anyone here actually cares deeply about African tribal conflict or whatever. That stuff is bad but there's nothing I can do about it and it doesn't affect me. But stuff happening in the West does and I can affect it
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Also, it's weird to assume everyone is secretly hateful when I can assume everyone is nice and deal with the hateful people as the outlier instead of whatever online depressive poo poo your talking about
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I guess what I'm saying is it's starting to bother me how apparently the only Marxists I've ever met online or in real life who don't immediately treat everyone else as The Enemy (unless they're a minimum wage worker or a union member) is old commune hippies. And those guys are weirdos
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Why did t edit the post I posted 5 minutes ago when I clicked new post
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This phone app sucks!!!
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Dreddout posted:Android apps are bourgeois We should unironically get rid of smart phones Luckily I grew up poor and rural so I actually know how to get around without a GPS
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Mane it's because I haven't been and still haven't really gotten deep into the marxist community but based on the people I know it wouldn't be hard to convince a lot of people that American capitalism doesn't work and we need to try something new
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And, furthermore, acting like everyone you meet is some kind of tribal racist or wants to be is counter productive
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This is the funniest tweet I have seen all week
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That's a good name
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I guess it's changing in the way sand and old sea shells change into sedimentary rock
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i know this is hard to think of in a post cold war world, but, regional power is what nations are before they become super powers. regional superpower doesnt even make sense. either you can project influence or force across the world at will, or you can't.
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My laymans interpretation of the USSR, is that it's the same thing that always happens with revolutions. They're bloody and don't always resemble the movement that started the fire Anyway it was pretty much a fascist state in all but name during Stalins regime
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In what way is a dictator with unlimited power performing purges of those who don't agree with or rival him not resemble a fascist state.
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God willing, the revolution will start in Free Kurdistan and spread
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jarofpiss posted:why can't that guy work or go to meetings? i don't follow left twitter He's the kind of leftist that wants to ride a NPO ticket to the middle class instead of doing something
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Baloogan posted:oh hey where are the heros? I'm a retail worker who believes in global revolution precisely because I am suffering in minimum wage hell. Although I recently got a job as a security guard at 12$ an hour so maybe it's time to embrace the republican party
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I listened to Chapo with my main man the Twitter YPG clown and now I'm going to buy a pair of yellow tint shades and a ticket to Baghdad
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Atrocious Joe posted:PSL newspapers double as posters so that's cool I'm starting to think these guys don't actually do anything in California besides get weird looks at protests and hand out flyers
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The only PSL email I've gotten since registering on election day is one asking me to buy their feminist magazine. I'm starting to think these guys consist 100% of Berkeley students and they don't want to talk with me because I'm probably a deranged NorCal redneck (they're right) but jeez louise. I guess I could just show up to meetings like a normal person but like, I'm not the typical trust fund California leftist so, you know. I actually have to work. Least they could do is ask me to help set up chairs or something.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:how north are we talking because if you're in jim wood's assembly district (west side of the state, northern border down to part of santa rosa) theres a guaranteed healthcare bill thing that would appreciate your help if you're free on friday afternoon/evening times McClintock
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To clarify fit those not on the up and up about California red neck politics: everyone, literally everyone in this part of the county is either a straight up communist, a libertarian, a Mormon theocrat or a nihilist who gave up voting 40 years ago
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Lmao I can't believe redneck revolt is a real thing but that's literally my political thought; capitalism has failed anyone who isn't a coastal elite and must be destroyed
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Although it's funny because apparently the closest existing chapter is in L.A. and I wish those people would die of thirst already
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I've lived in "flyover country" all my life, so nothing appeals to me more than a Redneck revolt.
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One day there will be a leftist political movement that isn't for and by college students
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Prav posted:bonus anime This is why the myth of communism being impossible persists
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jarofpiss posted:i wish mike rowe wasnt so lovely He's a garbage person but im glad he made logging and agriculture and stuff look better and more attractive than it really is
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Hah, americans are such retards. *posts a prison planet article*
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Odobenidae posted:....................../´¯/)
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