Obviously not enough money to make global communism a reality, but what steps do you take in that direction?

  • Flinch [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Okay check this out

    first I buy a factory

    Then I hire a bunch of workers, with competitive wages

    then those workers produce commodities, that I then sell on the market for a higher price than it cost me to produce

    I use that extra money to buy a factory and hire workers to produce more commodities.

    ...what were we talking about again?

  • BolsheWitch [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago
    1. boob job

    2. pretend to be a typical uber-wealthy influencer and even more of a bimbo than I already am so the CIA ignores me

    3. anonymously donate to existing worker co-ops and mutual aid orgs. donate in gradual amounts over time so they can scale up organically and don't implode

    4. build out a leftist propaganda network and pay existing creators to do it full time. maybe give means tv a bunch of cash?

    5. take over the local and state governments of a couple states. would probably be pretty easy to do that for smaller ones. fund it through dsa or another org because the infrastructure is already there and I don't want to bother with electoralism. candidates wouldn't need to be perfect, just disruptive to the two bourgeoisie political parties. any Kshama Sawants that showed up would be a bonus.

    6. brazilian butt lift

    7. hire multiple fixers to do character assassinations of ideological enemies.

    8. fund guerilla fighter sleeper cells that do eco-maoist, uhh, "pranks" against oil executives and bigots.

    9. get railed in a sundress

  • NotARobot [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    unless someone has a 5d chess idea that involves like manipulating geopolitical events or something I don't see any better application then something simple like funds for strike supports and organizing like that.

  • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Stuxnet but it deletes all trace of Facebook and Twitter

    Stuxnet but it gives nukes to socialist countries

    • bloop [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      What about a massive advertising/astroturfing campaign on those platforms?

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        OK how about instead of just deleting them, their domains also redirect to a trove of escalating propaganda

    • bloop [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Move away from the US and either try to remain anonymous or achieve notoriety. Maybe seek protection from an AES? What else could you do?

  • RION [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Bankroll a range of worker co-ops in a subregion to which I have close ties

    Invest in mutual aid networks between the host communities to bolster self-reliance and build a sense of unity and belonging

    Begin to exert pressure on local politics through collective worker power and militancy, wresting successive benefits and concessions from the ruling class

    Accumulate enough influence to have significant control over state/province politics. Fund cool propaganda to at least partially mitigate negative press from the opposition

    Engage and network with like-minded people in neighboring states/provinces to hopefully repeat the above process

    Push the communism button

    Get [REDACTED] by the feds at any stage of this process

    Piddle the money away in repeated failed attempts

    Stumble into an ideological split and watch the organization adopt National Buddhist Posadist Thought

    It's basically a sure thing!

  • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Start youth centers or something across the country that are incredibly low cost or free, with places for exercise / sports / large kitchen / computer lab, all with nice equipment and staffed with leftists who help with homework / learning life skills like cooking / financial literacy. Maybe no explicit leftist ideology taught there but all those working there could help understanding of current events and local life from a leftist perspective. Open from when school starts to after work gets out to offer childcare for working parents, and free food for kids and dinner if parents want. Not sure how many you could make or how long you could run them completely free for because a billion dollars is an inconceivable amount of money to me.

    Could be a larger scale style food not bombs where people are given what they need and are more willing to listen to the people helping them out. It seems like the only way to ever counter the neverending onslaught of propaganda against leftists is to have a large scale example of what we want to do for everyone.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      Maybe no explicit leftist ideology taught there

      Def think that it should be

      • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Ideally, but who knows if that's what gets all of them shot up by crazy chuds or attracts the ire of some political entity. Maybe just some theory reading groups or "history" discussions

  • mazdak
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    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

  • comi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Find industry that uses high exploitation and yet low constant capital and institute bunch of coops. Either they fuck up, only learn horizontal management and bankrupt, or they outcompete porkies by benefits/democracy in workplace.

    Or just give it to zapatistas

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    find 999 hexbear users IRL who can do programming and other real-world shit and give them a million dollars each to propagandize, radicalize, and (((((craft in the mine)))))

    take the last million and move to China so I can shitpost my thoughts from the safety of the CPC

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Bankroll an openly communist media conglomerate. News, entertainment, music, publishing, meme websites, the whole deal.

  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    gonna buy & smuggle SAMs & RPGs to communist guerillas. also buy a company to front the operation & provide further funding

    basically KGB shenanigans without state backing