"The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,”its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity."
the opening lines to Capital. we cannot understate the place that the organisation of production has over the mere class stratification of proletarian to bourgeoisie on an obvious aesthetic existing liberal level. things run deeper than just the worker and the boss.
Mao was an opportunist. the PRC could never be a negotiation of the negation, it could never be a proletarian dictatorship and it could never be an end to capital.
Marx lays out how the proletariat are 'the revolutionary subject' of capitalism. this means that they are the underclass who will rise up to negate the previous order for a new one, and in the case of the proletariat they will complete the dialectic and negate the negation via an abolition of class
hey kids, wanna learn about fascism 👀 ?
Fascism is something we all know of here. we see it grow, we see it's hate turned against many of us, we see the destruction it has brought. but what *is* fascism and what is it's cause?
Fascism doesn't arise from the ether like some monster, fascism is an idea and a product of the times in which it was created.
fascism in it's first most basic form was essentially democratic socialism, and in this we see the core of what fascism truly is. fascism is class struggle.
Ok, this thread is going to be long, BUT I have written it in such a way that anybody can read it and understand the points. The thread is about the failures of the Russian revolution, why didn't it produce communism? Some may find the takes 'hot' but, know I don't want to attack people, merely provide my take and perspective. I am a Leninist myself, rare breed around the free territory of mastodon I know, but more specifically I am a Bordigist. Bordigism is a strand of Left Communism, Left Communism is something that came out of critique of the USSR in the third internationale from a lefter wing perspective of Soviet capitalism.
The Haitian revolution is a disgustingly under covered event. It was such a huge deal that it shook to world and kept a hemisphere in the grip of terror. And do you know why? Because the whites were TERRIFIED, terrified slaves were men with the capacity for freedom and the capacity to organise, to understand and to fight back. Today, I shall be covering the depths if the layed chaos of the Haitian revolution as the slaves rise up, the coloured mixed black people demand equality and the whites... well they go all over the place as the chaos and idealism swipes them all over the place
@CornishRepublicanArmy lucy you are literally the perfect girl
Mao was an opportunist. the PRC could never be a negotiation of the negation, it could never be a proletarian dictatorship and it could never be an end to capital.
Marx lays out how the proletariat are 'the revolutionary subject' of capitalism. this means that they are the underclass who will rise up to negate the previous order for a new one, and in the case of the proletariat they will complete the dialectic and negate the negation via an abolition of class
these series of exchanges exist without capitalists. a co-op still buys the labour power of workers and still produces goods that are made to be sold and have those profits go back into the engine that feeds off this M-C-M cycle, the Soviet Union, Peoples Republic of China, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Yugoslavia ect all the fucking way down the list ALL had this, none of them have abolished this CORE of capitalist relations and none of them have been free from capital because of it.
"The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,”its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity."
the opening lines to Capital. we cannot understate the place that the organisation of production has over the mere class stratification of proletarian to bourgeoisie on an obvious aesthetic existing liberal level. things run deeper than just the worker and the boss.
@lynnesbian Lynne is my girlfriend
@CornishRepublicanArmy @anna at some point in the last three months you've become so gay that you either
1. forgot how to count
2. experience time at a rate of 1 second per gf, such that since you have two gfs, you experienced 6 months while plebians such as I experienced only 3
@Carmillareturns the funny thing is that i did end up leaving this fuckhead and my life has been infinitely better since
Unabashedly communist, overtly gay, proudly trans.
she/her
I have not learned shit, and I'm dumb as shit, and I don't give a shit
-Rhi