[–] 7 points 1 week ago (17 children)

The truth is not black and white.

The most effective lies contain a kernel of truth.

Conservatives are right in recognising the flaws of liberalism (which is conservative), especially when poor rural areas (dominated by conservatives more reactionary than liberals) bear the brunt of liberal/neoliberal capitalist economic policy.

The unfortunate nature of capitalism is that the proletariat have 2 paths that lay before them.

  1. Descend into reactionary ideology (liberalism, fascism, etc.)
  2. Attain class consciousness

"it lost on you that the meme rhymes or is parallel with memes from reactionary conservatives"

So no, of course it is not lost.

Because someone that is "reactionary" or "conservative" agreeing with you does not make you wrong, to think otherwise is dogmatic and reactionary in and of itself.

The better a grasp you have on dialectics, materialism, historical materialism and the greater your class consciousness the more the above becomes apparent.

"reactionary conservatives" are very often proletarian first and conservatives second. Unless of course they are petty-bourgeois or bourgeois "reactionary conservatives".

"To me it looks like when the news focused on the little damage during BLM in order to claim complete wreckage."

Completely different and completely irrelevant.

"Ignorant memeing ain’t praxis or revolution. "

No one said memeing was praxis or revolution. Communists aren't allowed to have fun?

wee woo wee woo fun police.

"Anarchism and communism (even from ML roots) aren’t incompatible."

Yes. They most certainly are.

Anarchism stems from petty-bourgeois individualism and liberalism.

The better you understand liberalism the more this becomes apparent.

Due to Anarchism's inherent foundation that rest upon liberal ideas such as:

  1. Freedom of association
  2. Individual freedoms/liberties being far more important than collective freedoms. (Which is ironic because true individual freedom is only obtained in the context of collective freedom through an individuals relationship with the collective)
  3. Decentralized competing communes (as opposed to a united collective whole).
  4. Liberal notions about individual/private ownership of the means of production as opposed to collective ownership

Need I say more?

Or will you actually read?

I recommend starting with Mao (as it's easy).

Then read Lenin, starting with State and Revolution.

Then Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder.

I wish you luck, but I'm certainly not holding my breath.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Bourgeois politics/elections is quite simply another battlefront on which we must fight. To say that you will not participate in it is to say that it is a battlefront you are willing to concede.

    HOWEVER! Participation does not mean participating within a Bourgeois party!

    It means creating your own political party, in which you do not at all expect to get elected and in which you treat the bourgeois parties as your enemies! Any reform that you push for or work to have enacted (perhaps even with the assistance of bourgeois parties) should be for the sole purpose of raising class consciousness and hastening the revolution!

    This is elaborated upon by Lenin in "What is to be Done?" and "Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder".

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    "would imply in a 20% increase in valuation for the working hour."

    I'm nit-picking but the increase would be 25% not 20%.

    For example:

    You work 50 hours per week for $100 at $2 per hour. A 40 hour work week at $100 would be $2.5 per hour.

    $2.5 is a 25% increase over $2.

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