the Capitalists dont even want to give concessions to the Social Democrats (Sanders) who would let them keep their monopolies and their bourgeois state for the little price of some social programs, its almost like they want the actual socialists to gain infuence in the US
These people are so politically iliterate that they don't see a difference between Sanders and Lenin.
There's a debate on youtube between this whole foods dork and Richard Wolff, and the dork pulls out the "the nazis were socialists" line. Seriously.
You come at the king you best not miss. The professor is gonna win that debate hands down
them: bernie sanders is red fash!
me: yeah good okay, he should purge the democrats. :stalin-shining:
them: :no-fash:
The ruling class in the States is fundamentally Lumpen. They know less about politics and political ideologies than Jreg fans
A week ago I would have doubted you, but after seeing that snippet from Obama's book you may be right.
You can understand perfectly well how the capitalist game is played without knowing anything about political theory or history.
They get a bird's eye view on the situation and know that their continued existence is suffering for billions. They don't necessarily know what that entails. There are plenty of bourgeois dupes that just don't care about appeasing the masses with social democracy because they think they won the cold war. To them socialism is a dead movement when in reality it's never had stronger footing.
Its not like they wanted FDR in the first place. I mean the business plot was a thing. They just tolerated him and got to work dismantling the new deal which saved their ass.
"They talk about trickle-down wealth, but socialism is trickle-up poverty."
What fucking succdem/socialist refers to their own policy as "trickle down wealth"? This guy is a fucking clown :agony:
He’s parroting an old Michael savage phrase (“trickle up poverty”). Idk if this guy self identifies as a lib, but that phrasing is far right
The front line workers are part of the hive mind too. If you aren't a happy little snitch or stepford wife then they hold a vote to fire you at the end of your probationary period.
Charity literally saved whole foods. The original location in Austin was flooded really badly and the town raised money to rebuild. Maybe they should have ignored Whole Foods and gave more money to other people.
Proof once again that nothing good outside of the Butthole Surfers has come out of austin.
Him "We should be nicer"
Peter Thiel "Let's put forced bone marrow donations to upper management into the contract of anyone under 30."
I'm convinced they actually know all about what Marx et al actually wrote, they have surely read some leftist theory, else they wouldn't be so adept and consistently missing the point or being so laughably wrong all the time. They are deliberately misunderstanding the concepts in order to muddy the waters for the people that eat up liberal corporate news media.
Idk if you're up your own ass enough to be some c-suite executive your ideology isn't built off theory, it's literally just that you are successful because of how cool and good you are, and capitalism is the best at facilitating that. Basically I think you're giving too much credit to a bunch of cretins whose opinion on Marx is like "oh that Russian dictator who wants to take my toothbrush? No thanks"
I’m convinced they actually know all about what Marx et al actually wrote,
From my experience with capitalists, they know or at least immediately get most of it. The bourgeoisie are the only class in the Western world that still has a widespread class consciousness.
Problem here is that recognizing their class interests means steamrolling over our class interests.
they have surely read some leftist theory
Most haven't, or have just skimmed through a major work or two. Their insight into how capitalism works comes from a lifetime of having had a bird eye's view on the system. They're not deliberately misunderstanding these concepts, they're just viewing them from their side of the equation and are always willing to bullshit other people about how things actually work, because they intuitively realize they need our false consciousness for their gain.
"trickle-up poverty" lmaoooo
"Well, you see, we have more than enough food, shelter, clothing, medicine, etc for everyone in this country, but if we just GAVE it to them then it would suddenly disappear for some reason and then we would all be poor!"
"these poors, always losing their homes. if you just give them a home, theyll mismanage it so badly, youll have to give them another home the next week! and then what will you do once youve run out of homes to give, because the poors kept losing them all?"
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa stop stealing peoples homes you fucking ghouls
Gonna start leaving copies of the communist manifesto and instructions on how to unionize at every Whole Foods now
They'll never catch me I blend in to their clientele base too well
Here’s his talk https://youtu.be/zfjOh8SnfQ0
It’s an hour long and he says nothing intelligent
Trickle-up poverty?
So they're admitting Reaganism is trickle-down poverty?
