Everytime I see this image I think of the magnus archives

Its not that having that mucb money makes you fucked up its that in order to get that much money you have to do fucked up things.

I’ve heard very mixed opinions about this one

If it is possible for a stateless society to exist long term then there is likely no longer a need for militaries.

They involve killing people and you gotta make sure you aren’t the one being killed which is easier to do if your enemy doesn’t knows your plans

Honestly, democracy is incomplete without economic democracy. You could have a million political parties but it wouldn’t matter because all of them would still support the supremacy of the bourgeosie. Those with actual power, the business owners who control all of our material resources, would not allow them to exist otherwise. We never had democracy but this is only just now becoming apparent to the general populace because the fascists have made themselves obvious and the liberals have only enabled them.

Because political systems are not purely ideological. They are derived from a material (economic) basis and must satisfy existing relations to production or change them. In our case the two primary relations to production are those who own the means of production and those who produce. Under the economic base of capitalist production there are multitudes of political superstructures but you will be most familiar with the liberal democracy. This form of political structure provides some extra freedoms and luxury to its domestic working class but is only able to do so while maintaining the infinitely expanding profits demanded by capitalist production by exploiting a foreign working class for cheap labor. When the cyclical crises of capitalism eventually places an insurmountable strain on the liberal democratic political superstructure which can no longer hide or balance the class contradictions at its base you get one of two things. Communism or fascism. In the case of fascism it is essentially the owning class going all in, exploiting a foreign working class stops being enough so their imperialism turns inward on their own working class. Since they cannot increase oppression on every worker without inciting revolution they pit one section of the working class against another often along ethnic lines but who is pit against who is arbitrary. An out-group is intentionally created and alienated so that the owning class can maintain economic power. In the case of communism/socialism it is basically the workers taking full control of the economy and political superstructure because the capitalist class failed to maintain it. There is also anarchism but I am not well read enough to speak on it too much.

In short, western liberal democracies have essentially only two classes and the economic contradictions that the state exists to mitigate originate from a conflict of interest between these classes. If we are to be frank there is only the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the dictatorship of the proletariet, and classless society.

I hope this isn’t too much of a ramble lol, my partner was watching tiktok so I was a tad distracted.

Yeah I’m trying to have a breakdance breakdown actually. Would not be the first

Weed is lowkey my sleep meds. I’m highly conflicted about it

Yeah, then turn it into mead

Yes, he will only get more anti-China with time I imagine. The ideological opponent to fascism is always communism. On a more material basis China is stepping on United States profits. The main target will be the prevention of BRICS membership in Latin America imo

I don’t genuinely think anyone here can honestly answer that question. Geopolitical futures are very uncertain right now

Rugged individualism and American exceptionalism are the likely culprits

Pagers and ham radio baby lfg

Not a single one of these countries were axis powers?

When they say tech censorship they mean people should be allowed to say bigoted shit

Lemmy was made by communists, you’re gonna find communists lol. As far as I know there isn’t anything else particularly comparable. What made you leave reddit?

The people with the means to inact change have spent so long benefitting from the status quo that they had no desire to do so. Now that the fascist have taken power while they sat idly by they are incapable of preventing it. Now the people with power intend on changing things to benefit them more instead of just enjoying their comfortable position. You cannot vote fascism out of power and public officials aren’t going to help us fight them, the ones who might will be purged. We cannot look to traditional authority for guidence here, we need mass actions specifically on class lines. This means joining or organizing a union and participating in mutual aid. This means developing connections in your community so resources can be managed when they get tight and learning skills that are materially useful. Later it may also mean sheltering and assisting those who are persecuted. Personally I am partial to PSL and would recommend them but work with whatever is available to you. We are weakest alone so do not let them divide us

Postmarket OS it is then

I see it as a guideline for how society could be structured after the elimination of class.