Notices by ☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭ (radical_egocom@mastodon.social), page 5

#enviornmentalism #fishing #activism #ecoactivism

https://youtu.be/G7AnKcMVEio

@zzzyro @contrasocial

Misogynistic violence, racially motivated violence, violence against trans people, and the exploitation of the working class are all black-and-white issues. They're all wrong, period, unless you want to enlighten me with your "superior centrist wisdom" and explain to me how any of those issues can be good in any way.

@contrasocial I just want to enjoy my movies, games and books without getting caught in the crossfire of a culture war. If that makes me insufferable, I'll take it. 🙂

@zzzyro @contrasocial

Dumbass Centrist: "I just want to enjoy my movies, games and books without having to focus on black people being murdered in racially motivated violence, women being raped, trans people being dehumanized and having their rights taken from them, workers being exploited and not having enough money to survive, and all that uncomfortable yucky stuff. If that makes me insufferable, I'll take it. 🙂

Karl Marx was right?

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2018/05/karl-marx-was-right.html

#Socialism #Democracy

@Nigel_Purchase

I disagree with the text in the image on the website you linked. Marx wasn't wrong about capitalism. He never denied that entrepreneurs amass fortunes by dreaming up new products and new ways of organising production. He criticized the exploitative nature of the new forms of organization that these entrepreneurs create. Whoever wrote that passage doesn't appear to be well-versed on Marxism.

#communism #socialism #capitalism #marxism

@EntropySloth

If by "evidence" you mean "a story in the Bible (minus any extra biblical evidence), then yes, very sketchy, especially when geology alone shows that the story of Noah's Ark is highly improbable with sedimentary layers, fossil records, and glacial cycles.

#atheism #antitheism #science #geology

@EntropySloth

Unlike the story of Noah's Ark.

@sacrilegious_discourse

It's not like we needed this as proof that Noah's Ark didn't happen since there's so much evidence that proves that it didn't happen.

@Kahte

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@n_dimension

Also, when it comes to a system where industry is socially owned but small retailers and trades are private, that also isn't socialism, but a mixed economy model akin to Social Democracy, which is capitalism. 2/2

@n_dimension

While there are various different kinds of socialism, the USA does not have any version of socialism, if socialism is to be defined as "The collective ownership and control of the means of production by society either through the state or directly." The USA has social services that any state is required by necessity to have (road systems, for example), but those aren't examples of socialism. Those are examples of government social services, which isn't socialism. 1/2

@wall0159 @n_dimension

...Social Democracy still maintains the exploitation inherent in capitalism. Socialism (collective ownership of the means of production) is the only thing that will eliminate this exploitation. 4/4

@wall0159 @n_dimension

...the state to be high jacked by reactionaries or revisionists who don't believe in socialism, the revolution, or workers' power and become a new ruling class, but it is not a guarantee. If all goes to plan, the state would be managed by the people through representative democracy through the Party that will directly manage and run the state. As for your last point about Social Democracy, I already explained this in my last comment, but... 3/4

@wall0159 @n_dimension

...required to manage every kind of state. It's impossibility to have a state that isn't based on violence since a state is a tool for one class to impose their will onto another (in this case, it would be the proletarian class, the majority of society, imposing their will onto the bourgeois class). So far, these have just been, not problems, but basic aspects of a socialist state. 3. This would create a ruling class in a different way. This is possible, for... 2/

@wall0159 @n_dimension

Those aren't "problems" with socialism. Those are just key aspects (and misrepresentations) of socialism. 1. The Party administers the means of production. The state, led by the Party, would indeed administer redistribution of the means of production. That's just how state socialism works. No problem so far. 2. Their authority becomes based on violence. Yes, violence will be required in managing this kind of state. Violence of some kind is... 1/

@n_dimension I'd argue for "Social Democracy" (eg. 1950s USA) instead of "Socialism" (eg. 1950s USSR).
I think two important things are:
1. redistributionist economics that provide a robust welfare state while not disincentivising private effort, and
2. individual liberty, including movement, ideas, assembly, and money (as long as the needs of point 1 are met)

@wall0159 @n_dimension

Social Democracy still maintains capitalist exploitation through the extraction of surplus value from the workers' labor due to private ownership of the means of production still existing. Collective ownership of the means of production (i.e., Socialism) is the only thing that will eliminate this exploitation.

#capitalism #socialism #communism

@johnbrowntypebeats

I think this is a bad take on the relationship between revolutionary theory and the masses. Sure, most people don't understand political theory, but it's imperative that the masses be educated on political theory to guide their revolutionary actions. The solution to most people not understanding political theory isn't to bring yourself down to their level of knowledge and understanding. It's to elevate the masses' level of knowledge and understanding through education.

@kaliagainstallodds

Yes, "tankie" is a derogatory term, specifically against Marxist-Leninists. If you weren't referring to Marxist-Leninists, then it doesn't make much sense to use the term. Why do I call myself a Marxist-Leninist (I assume that's what you were asking)? Because that's what I am. I believe in the political theories of Marx, Engels, and Lenin (and Stalin), making me a Marxist-Leninist.