Marx certainly didn't invent socialism or 19th century socialism or even communism; he was a critical scientific examiner of capitalism and a communist, who was able to criticize other socialist positions for being weak and insufficient in actually changing capitalism, and then went beyond others before in specifics critiquing political economy.
Relevant citations needed https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-133-the-art-of-fake-ending-wars
Religious comrades are fine. Still,
"The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or conclusion, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower"
"The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself. It is, therefore, the task of history, once the other-world of truth has vanished, to establish the truth of this world"
Communism does not prioritize the destruction of religion, but religion is certainly illusory. The main task of communists should be to break the chains of commodity, wage labor, value, and property rather than prioritizing ending religion, but religious positions are at odds with a materialist analysis of the word, and is not very compatible in the end. We need to replace the illusions with the real solution to the suffering.
Oh dang I didn't realize there was this going on. I should do a reread with you guys.
This creates mass campaigns that aren’t based on real relationships. Workers involved in organizing campaigns around ethics issues at multiple major tech companies have told me that they hoped their coworkers would be “agitated” when they read new stories about other workers being fired unjustly for being outspoken on these issues. This kind of agitation, though it may get workers upset, isn’t the same as agitation that comes out of their own story about their own experiences at work.
Simple narratives of collective action are essential to any worker-centered campaign but these are fundamentally different from sensationalist exposés or human-interest stories. No amount of “earned media” will help workers build power.
In an interview in The American Prospect, an organizer in the Amazon campaign explained that they were not house-calling, because of the Covid pandemic. But in a hard-to-win campaign, you should put on a mask, ring the doorbell, have your sanitizer dangling from your chest or in your hands so it’s obvious, and step back and engage the worker, socially distanced but securely.
One possible exception to the plant gate rule would have been if large numbers of actual Bessemer Amazon workers were the people standing at shift change at the plant gate. But that wasn’t the case. Instead, what workers saw was the paid staff of the union and outside supporters.
Yea, forced by the organized proletariat acting in a real movement to abolish the present state of things, not by any nation but as part of an international movement of workers. That was always going to be the case, and that doesn't change with this vote. Generally good to look for opportunities that could organize workers.
Yep, instead keeping the invocation of the 70+ year old rule, title 42, which continues to partially persist now in biden era and is keeping the family separation going, but in Mexico before people enter.
Weird post, but i think it overall leans towards Maoist/ML aware of leftcoms but critiquing them.
Not that unusual of a statement. Marxist Leninists, Maoists, and the like sometimes use it for socdems, and leftcoms use it for all leftists, that aren't just "communist" and are petty bourgeois.
There are some really funny lines if you convince the egghead guy in the tent to become a moralist/centrist. You don't need to commit to a full centrist playthrough to do this though IIRC. "Wooo moderationnnnn" type yells.
It's going to be kinda cringe, but fair enough.
This isn't really a dramatic twist, you're just running with one of the biggest trends and issues of isekai, wish fulfillment, and the individualistic approach to revolution to try and attempts a communism or whatnot.
The not hiring local workers does sound in line with what I've heard in terms of reasonable criticism or even defenders within the region as well.
The Preacher and the Slave dynamic critique I recall being very present in black communist sharecropper and industrial union organizing in the south in the first half of the 1900s, especially 1930s-1940s, where black workers would hold religious views but had strong criticism of the role middle class preachers had on the communities they worked in. Agreed on aspects of its morality still show up today in people's position, whether it's the moralized work ethic, martyrdom, or a moralist approach to what is best analyzed through the lens of class struggle.
Nice prayer for the second video.
Yes, but before the opioid epidemic, it wasn't like opium was a cure or medicine-it could only dull or distract from the pain with illusions.
No, it won't solve the problems, and is not medicinal. It can only reduce the pain. Look at the next two lines, and the last line most of all-criticism of religion is only the start.
I think i've seen a trend recently towards the other end, of people going "opium wasn't bad in those times it was for coping and handling life", and in the sense that Marx isn't insulting the believer, sure.
But the quote is followed by,
"The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
He still considers religion an inverted consciousness, obviously not the fault of the believer, but its abolition is still part of the demand for genuine happiness, to give up on illusions and reexamine the conditions that gave rise to those illusions, to the world itself.
-IC: Can you talk a little bit about the effect of Marx on your thinking and how you came to start reading him?
-TP: Marx?
-IC: Yeah.
-TP: I never managed really to read it. I mean I don’t know if you’ve tried to read it. Have you tried?
-IC: Some of his essays, but not the economics work.
-TP: The Communist Manifesto of 1848 is a short and strong piece. Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read and for me it was not very influential.
-IC: Because your book, obviously with the title, it seemed like you were tipping your hat to him in some ways.
-TP: No not at all, not at all! The big difference is that my book is a book about the history of capital. In the books of Marx there’s no data.
Doesn't read beyond the manifesto, pretends to have read Capital, claims Marx uses no data. Truly, bourgeois economist.
Immigrants love being illegal, they love to have limited access to social services, they love having basically zero bargaining power, getting threatened with ICE calls if they ever complain about stuff like wage theft.
It's why neolibs like Friedman will outright say it's better when immigrants are illegal. Had to go recheck to make sure, and the first post is a medium article going, "no you xenophobes, you see listen to Milton Friedman's explanation, it's only good when it's illegal, because otherwise government intervention." Just saying the quiet part loud, you uhh love to see it.
There should be a labor or organizing comm, seriously. Tactics is kinda related and sometimes organizing and labor matters are posted there, but it seems like it would be suited to have its own portion.