I used to live in central Louisiana. When I talked to the people I used to work with, it was very clear that they are in favor of what would be considered to be socialist. The MAGA folks really can be comrades if we just reach out to them like human beings and try to communicate to them on their level without being too condescending.
The hard part will be convincing them that people they don't like deserve basic human rights. The right wing religious propaganda has really taken hold of them in that regard.
Normally I don't have any time for stuff making fun of trump supporters. Vile as their views may be, most memes and comments I see in this vein make me feel uncomfortable - maybe it feels like punching down or making fun of the disabled, or maybe a lot feel classist? I dunno.
Anyway this I like. So thanks!
we laugh, but this is just incredibly sad. everyone is succeptible to propaganda (even you) and sadly the richest people have used that fact, plus a decent chunk of cash, to manipulate the most succeptible, least educated, and least likely to encounter counter-propaganda of those into believing their lie.
does that forgive their crimes? fuck no. but it speaks to the deeply corrupt power of capital and white supremacy, how it is used to keep down the very base that claims to support it.
I'm a simple man. I simply just hate my life and the difficulty to live it comfortably
Just remember, he's voting.
Reminds me of this:
I've heard that the idea for outsourcing labor came from observations American capitalists made of factories in the USSR, so maybe they're onto something /s
This meme is communist /s
This is the truest of memes.
Check out Marcuse's 1969 "Essay on Liberation":
"By virtue of its basic position in the production process, by virtue of its numerical weight and the weight of exploitation, the working class is still the historical agent of revolution; by virtue of its sharing the stabilizing needs of the system, it has become a conservative, even counterrevolutionary force. [...] In the advanced capitalist countries, the radicalization of the working classes is counteracted by a socially engineered arrest of consciousness, and by the development and satisfaction of needs which perpetuate the servitude of the exploited. A vested interest in the existing system is thus fostered in the instinctual structure of the exploited, and the rupture with the continuum of repression - a necessary precondition of liberation - does not occur."i like to think of the economic trifecta as a triangle.
People often tend to conflate communism and socialism down into one plane, but i don't think they're similar enough, socialism is more inverse to communism than anything. It's also more closely related to capitalism than communism (the modern western conceptualization of socialism at least)
to put it bluntly, communism is a subset of socialism.
Communism is when you get your work done, the output goes to the good of the group. It’s taken by the centralized power, then redistributed.
Capitalism is when you get your work done, you choose to sell or keep the output. Under capitalism, the scenario where someone else owns your work can only happen with your consent. It’s called “contracts”, and the consensual nature of contracts is why it’s called a “free market”.
So, to summarize:
- work, have product taken by boss = communism
- work, have product purchased by boss = capitalism
Any questions?
Unfortunately it seems like those words have largely lost all meaning regardless of the political leanings of the user. So many times I see someone blame environmental destruction or poverty or warfare or whatever on "capitalism" and I wonder if they've ever heard of 90% of the history of humanity. You don't need capitalism for any of that.
