Commiunism

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[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I saw that before writing the comment, and it doesn't really change anything. If you want a blahaj of your own and got the sewing skills (from the looks of it you do need to be quite skilled), then sure but if you want to commercialize it and start sewing for others, you're now a small business and my comment above elaborates on what usually happens with small businesses.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's literally impossible under capitalism. Blahaj is a commodity like any other, you can't attribute ownership to a certain group of people based on their qualities (welcome back racial segregation), and trans people aren't automatically more virtuous because of their struggles, so a trans small business owner selling Blahaj plushies for a living isn't immune from going full Hitler and abusing their workers, PR to get as much profit as possible.

One of the worst job application decisions you can make is working for a small business owner, given their legal exemptions in discriminatory laws, them always being on the edge of going bust causing them to take psychotic measures to increase profits, and very little infrastructure in place at the job location due to their lack of money causing safety/medical issues.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They kinda are necessary, given how they're the byproduct of capitalism's private property model and its commodification.

You could technically remove them by having the state manage all the housing, but that's overly idealistic given how that'd go against the ruling class interests which would cause heavy lobbying by big landowners. It would also make the state a monopoly landowner which would have its own implications.

In other words, they're necessary not because they're useful, but because of how dogshit the system is.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Male

Female

Consumer of our commodity

The 3 genders

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love how NK is being directly compared to a literal monarchy here, accidental self-aware moment

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Best they can do is keep talking about it endlessly without doing anything to give an impression that something might be happening

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

true socialist commodity

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What's that? You don't want to throw yourselves into a meatgrinder to protect the private property rights of your fellow rich nationals?

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

I get that it's a slight against enlightened centrists huffing on their "civilized debate" fumes they just breathed out, but how much does it really matter?

It's not like if everyone magically acknowledged that Israel is committing a genocide, we're all going to organize just for that and overthrow our bourgeoisie states just for funding them. Having a couple more activists doing adventurism or protests won't do anything either as history shows time and time again (in fact, the former tends to make things worse).

Both workers and influencers are powerless in this regard, unless the state of current things changes.

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It's all fun and games until you get fined for neglecting your property

[–] Commiunism@beehaw.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

Critical support for proletarianization of r34 furry artists

 

Alt Text: Flowchart depicting the life cycle of social democracy (or "democratic socialism"). SocDems rise to power! (Revolution or reform) > Can't escape capitalist crisis, conditions worsen > Lose election > Standard capitalism is back! But it's unpleasant, people want something new... > Repeat or SocDems rise to power! > Turn to nationalism to pacify proletariat > Get owned > Standard capitalism is back! > Repeat.

 

Alt text: Sam Hyde talking about how he's Hitler's top guy, and how Hitler needs him to lead the revolution with the caption "Average small business owner when the rate of profit falls by 1%"

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