Ownership class traitors do exist and even if they are rare they can be super helpful to the cause. Looking at Engels here. Treatlerism is when people ignore the suffering of others in pursuit of treats. It is not just when people enjoy life.

Ideological purity is not helpful. Communism won’t get any closer if enough of us think the right things. Communism requires action and money is a way of pushing actions. We shouldn’t care or even think about peoples intentions or motives if they are doing things that help communism come sooner.

Instead of berating people for their wealth and questioning their dedication encourage them to show their commitment to communism with actions. Show them a cause that needs funding. Even if they are just faking their leftist cred to assuage their conscience you can still milk them for cash to help the cause.

“Erdoğan is an equal opportunity opportunist” -Graham Fuller

Ok there Kautsky.

That sign is fucking awesome.

Can Chinese people not do anything without crakkkers pissing themselves? China hasn’t started a war in centuries but the nation that has started dozens of wars and done a several genocides during that time are convinced everything China does increases their “lethality.” Fucking hell.

Rockhill is fucking based. I should see if any of his books are a good size for book club.

the first time the working class is taking a step towards its independence from the capitalist party system in the UK in a long time

This is exactly what people said about labor a hundred and 25 years ago.

Looking for a hero in the Bourgeois political system so you can vote your way to socialism is not just delusional its lazy.

I remember thinking it was kinda mid when I watched it but that was a long time ago.

Thats good.

They aren’t questioning the war they are questioning the methods. They have known for almost 2 years that the idf was killing innocent people with bombs. In fact they reveled in images of children covered in blood, missing limbs and burnt out buildings. Now they have to see images of starvation and that reminds them of their trips to the holocaust museums. They still want all the Palestinians to go away or die they just don’t like seeing them look like the Jews starved in concentration camps.

Luigi is a patsy. The real ceo killer has been hiding in an underground tunnel network in Central park organizing a guerilla force to fight capitalism one billionaire at a time.

We aren’t talking about american companies. We are talking about European Capital. The owners of which can surely see that being friends with usa is hurting their profits. Only a fool would doubt that there are some of european capitalists who can see what is right in front of their face and are working to change the situation in their benefit.

Capitalists are not a monolith. Some of them like the donald and crypto bros don’t have materialist perspectives on wealth but they are not industrial capitalists. They are finance capitalists and they only deal in theoretical economics never in the physical reality. That is why every move made under this administration has made their situation worse.

There are a good number of capitalists who deal in real things like agriculture and manufacturing and they have no choice but to have a materialist understanding of wealth because they deal with materialist conditions every day. Just because you don’t see these people pushing back against financialization doesn’t mean they aren’t aware of the repercussions and aren’t preparing to use the inevitable collapse to their advantage.

It is a big battle and we will probably never see the revolution but if we in the west don’t do our part to agitate against the empire we are just delaying the inevitable outcome.

If capitalists divest themselves of european based Capital they will become poorer because money alone does not generate commodities. They might get more dollars but those dollars are becoming worthless.

The value of us dollars is based only on confidence. Trumps trade wars have forced people to see the difference between industrial power and financial power and it is destroying confidence in the dollar. We are getting near the point where you cant buy rare earth minerals with dollars and you will have to pay for them with other currency and kind words to the CPC.

The capitalists in europe will not get richer unless they make a break with american imperial policy. This “trade agreement” is making that obvious to everyone. It is a direct attack on european capital and while many will turn the other cheek, some are surely plotting their resistance.

Again money, stocks, and bonds are not capital. Capital is name for things that capitalists have invested in in order to make and sell commodities for profit.

Financial Capital is not capital. It is not even paper. Its speculation and rent.

Saudi Arabia sells oil to america but the Saudis can’t buy whatever they want. Their money has to stay in america. They only get to buy enough american military equipment to keep their neighbors from invading and their people from revolting. The rest they have to spend on stocks (but never controlling interest.) They aren’t even allowed to buy gold bullion. Their finance “capital” is only able to produce more “capital” and nothing else. If they can’t use it for anything else it is worthless.

You can’t “just sell” stocks, there has to be someone to buy them (and they’ll get them cheap). Regardless of who owns the stocks or what they are valued at there is capital in europe and that capital has productive capacity. The owners will want that capital, whether it is factories or farmland or data centers, to work at capacity to generate maximum profit. Being subject to the whims of empire is the primary impediment to profits.

Sucking stock value from europe and injecting it into america will not make america produce more. The factories will stay in europe. All the process will accomplish is putting the economic leverage in the hands of european capitalists who are willing to stand up to the american empire.

Factories take years to relocate. You think VW can just pack up and move out of germany? Sure they can transfer money to another country but money is not capital.

They’ve been doing this quietly for decades already. I get the feeling the vassals are already plotting and this new brazen open extortion is just going to accelerate the opposisiton. It will be a rough decade for sure but then it might end sooner than that.

hes out now

Laith Marouf has been released from detention.