I guess he chose personal profit over communism. Sad to think people would do it, especially after they’ve learnt so much.

Also:

I seriously read through most of Marx, Lenin, Nietzsche, Camus, Popper, Hegel, Kant, McLuhan, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Baudrialluad, Butler, Foucault, Shelley, etc

Holy motherfucking shit.

How’s he reactionary? I’m serious. I don’t know shit about him other than the memes but this is like suddenly hearing Chomsky or Parenti are reactionary anti-commies.

:rat-salute-2:

Edit: Were prisoners in gulags paid for their labor?

Humanity fucking killed their own planet you fuckhead. What the fuck is this chud on about.

There are thousands of sci-fi stories about humans killing each other (and other aliens) in space. Every time humans are the “good guys” and the military etc bs gets valorised. This is the one franchise where humans are unquestionably evil and we side with the native people.

Took me a while to figure out they’re for middle class libs who think watching the right movies makes you a good person.

…right in the heart.

Made me cry.

Thanks for your comment. These thread so quickly go out of hand, so I don’t fault you for not reading every comment.

I’m 100% for criticising AOC and other progressive politicians. But it has to be measured and appropriate.

It cannot be done in such a way that boosts the countless politicians who are so much worse. And the criticism has to be aimed at improving the situation, whether by pushing progressive politicians to the left, or by creating/boosting left orgs and platforms etc.

The moderate and right wings of capitalism want to take down the left flank (progressive politicians) and we have to be wary of that and prevent that.

Accelerationism, that is, letting fascism run wild in the hopes of that building up a socialist alternative, is a ludicrous ideology that will only lead to millions of deaths.

AOC is doing what the unions wanted her to do.

https://hexbear.net/post/236928/comment/3033122

It’s important. It proves I was right.

AOC is doing what the unions wanted her to do.

https://hexbear.net/post/236928/comment/3033122

that’s just accelerationism.

I mean, the analogy breaks down, so maybe I shouldn’t have carried on with it.

I meant organising unions and co-ops and parties is easier under social democracy than under fascism.

I mean, yeah, social democracy is not socialism. It’s capitalism. It will not directly lead to socialism. But opposing carrots is objectively easier than sticks.

I am a communist. I am an anarchist. I am a Marxist. I am a socialist. My disagreements are based purely on those terms.

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Please read what I’m writing and trying to say rather than just memeing and dunking. This is important.

The entire post is about how expecting elected officials to enact socialism is pointless. That happens outside of congress. But a social democratic congress is much better and conducive to socialism than one that’s not.

That’s just wrong and and this kind of rhetoric only hurts the most marginalised amongst us. The Democrats are not the ones passing anti-trans and anti-abortion bills.

There is a different between Democrats and Republicans and the only people who benefit from hiding that fact are the Republicans.

What?

No, AOC is not going to bring about socialism. That’s my point. Expecting that of her, and being disappointed when she doesn’t deliver, is ludicrous. She’s not going to just go in and break things. She’ll get booted next term and be replaced by a neoliberal who’ll just make things worse. Her job is to do as much good for as many people as possible by working within the system.