“The question is not: who has the guns? But rather: what do the people
with the guns do? 10,000 or 100,000 proletarians armed to the teeth are
nothing if they place their trust in anything beside their own power to
change the world. Otherwise, the next day, the next month or the next
year, the power whose authority they recognise will take away the guns
which they failed to use against it.”
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.
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society. In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.
The lowest and the only necessary wage rate is that providing for the subsistence of the worker for the duration of his work and as much more as is necessary for him to support a family and for the race of labourers not to die out.
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Karl Marx | Wages of Labour (1844) (via dailymarx)
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