Highly privileged American teenagers: “The material conditions under capitalism contribute greatly to my anxiety on a daily basis! Communism is the way to go!!!”
People that have actually lived–or are currently living–under Communism (or Marxist leaders):
Cuba–
Poland–
China–
Zimbabwe–
What a load of reactionary misinformation. Rush Limbaugh would be proud.
Those are Cubans, but they are Cuban Americans living in Florida for several generations. Most of them are descended from members of Cuba’s elites and henchmen of Batista and his American masters.
The Pols, that’s a bit more understandable, but it also reflects centuries of Ethnocentric Nationalism and Ethnic conflict between the Pols and the Russians. So much so that they reacted against communism with its polar opposite: Ultra Right-Wing Nationalism tinged with racist and anti-immigrant sentiment.
That is in Hong Kong. Hong Kong should consider itself lucky to have the level of autonomy it has under the One State-Two Systems policy of the PRC. Since being handed over to China by the British, Hong Kong still has millionaires and billionaires, maybe more now that trade restrictions with the mainland have virtually disappeared.
Finally, Mugabe is not a socialist or a communist. He is a sell out that betrayed the people or Zimbabwe for his own ends. And his concepts of “Black Supremacy” and racism are antithetical to any Marxist, communist or socialist precepts. Calling him a socialist is like calling Adolf Hitler a semitophile.
Its disgusting that you are considered “privileged” for despising a system as one-sided, unfair and unsustainable as capitalism. And one, who is not a member of the power elite, can’t help but have anxiety when the next time you get sick you have a choice between suffering and possibly dying or going completely broke. Knowing that in order to better yourself with an education you have to take on crippling debt. Or the crushing despair that no matter how hard you work, you get nowhere because wages are stagnant and the cost of living keeps rising.
Yet not bothering to consider that some of the most authoritarian regimes that have ever existed embraced and protected capitalism with a passion.
You had a choice between coke and pepsi under Francisco Franco but that was about it.
In short, fuck capitalism. You are privileged if you benefit from it and hold those who dare question it’s might and wisdom. For the rest of us, it does not work.
“What would Cuba be like today if the Cuban Revolution hadn’t happened? Sweden of the Caribbean? Hardly. It would be no different from Haiti, one suspects. An American plantation with an exiled ring of death-squad mercenaries ready to discipline the population as and when required. Constant US interventions, the repeated crushing of popular dreams, virtual slave labor, life expectancy and poverty worse than that found in parts of the southeastern United States, hardly any public sector. A ruling class of… bumpkin billionaire oligarchs, and gangster capitalists.” – Richard Seymour
I own firearms. I’m a leftist. Not a #feelthebern leftist. Bernie is
too far to the right for me. Because of my politics, men have come to my
home to kill me. This has happened more than once. When it did happen
the only things that saved my life, and the lives of my roommates, were
training and the physical possession of effective tools.
I’ll tell one story that will put the current clamor for more control
on everyone and everything in perspective. I was actively organizing
against the KKK and other white supremacists. So were my roommates and
my entire social circle. The FBI attempted to contact me but claimed
they could not find me. They got a call from a payphone via an
intermediary. The agent, tired and wishing he didnt have to do this said
“I am required by statute to inform you that we have credible threats
against your life from white power groups.” He got my lawyer’s phone
number. I was not going to talk to him.
It was really clear that the FBI would rather bungle the
investigation of my death than prevent it. We detected the surveillance
attempts by the white supremacists. We allowed their surveillance to see
that we were well armed. They went away. The FBI did not have us under
surveillance. There was a police precinct house three blocks away. The
police were never on our block. We were being set up to die.
The FBI knew what these guys were up to. The FBI knew where we were
because these nazis did. Planning to murder someone in conjunction with
another person and then putting your target under surveillance is a
felony. It is conspiracy to commit murder. The FBI could have arrested
and prosecuted these guys at any time. The FBI did not do so. The police
were actively not present. The FBI did what was the barest minimum. We
saved our own lives and we only could do so because we were armed.
This was not the only time in my life this happened.
This blog is mostly so I can vent my feelings and share my interests. Other than that, I am nothing special.
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