Marx observed this dynamic in France circa 1848.

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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Zionism was invented after the flush toilet.

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

This is the kind of shit that socialists and communists need to be connecting to the bigger picture. We need to explain that this shit is happening for a reason (capitalism) and theres only one way to stop it, proletarian revolution.

Some Lenin for today, on the role of socialists in a pre-revolutionary environment. Our role is to support and guide the actions of the masses, the proletariat. Without this, revolutionary situations fizzle out and accomplish nothing, as we have seen with mass protest movements in the past decades.

the point is to learn and put into practice what you learn in a community of people who are also learning and putting it into practice. you don't just make shit up, you build and theorize and put into practice and repeat.

The point is that we need to build on the work of the people who came before us instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. Its like you're saying "What if I read Einstein and Hawking and I don't agree with them?". Well if you don't agree with them you (cont.)

I will always tell leftists to read the Jakarta method and killing hope and really process what we will be up against and what that means for the movements we build

This confirms what I have been thinking about for some time. I am petty bourgeoisie (I work as a mechanical engineer). Most communists and socialists in the US (in my experience) are petty bourgeoisie. Text from "CURRICULUM OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM"

Ho Chi Minh on how he became a Marxist-Leninist. If you stand with the oppressed people of the world, if you want freedom for the oppressed people of the world, you MUST study Marx and Lenin and all the other revolutionaries who have tried to put their theories into action.

Los liberales son agotadores. Qué sería de la democracia sin ultraneoliberales, extremistas religiosos, supremacistas blancos, imperialistas y militaristas? 😭

*loud incorrect buzzer noise* wrong, we only need one party, a communist party. fascists and reactionaries should be thrown into the wood chipper.

its wild to see a report of manufacturing consent in action. the way it happens is so manipulative too. editors completely changing the message of a piece without even telling the author, then basically gaslighting them and wasting their time.

If you are doing a-political mutual aid or community work without any kind of communist foundation to it, without any kind of underlying class consciousness raising or ideological work the thing you are actually doing is capitalist social reproduction for free.

why didn't anyone tell me that socialism utopian and scientific sums up all marxist theory in like 50 pages. i should've read this years ago.

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

If we are to ensure that Mamdani does what he promised, if we are to replicate his success elsewhere, if we are to defeat the fascist GOP and the do-nothing Democrats, we must do one thing. And here is the most crucial point of this massive thread: We must build a mass working-class movement.

If you’re happy about this imagine how happy you would be if workers became the whole ruling class and next morning rent was abolished and all surplus went back into society instead of being appropriated by capitalists

THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION, PELOSI AND SCHUMER LITERALLY OFFERED TRUMP $25 BILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD HIS DUMBASS BORDER WALL IN 2018, THEY DO NOT DISAGREE WITH HIM!!!

Zohran’s victory speech is just gonna be, “Time to stop dickin around. Rent is free now and we’ll pay for it with the fresh blood of rich men.”

ok now i understand why people keep pushing these morons even after they reveal themselves to be completely clueless. because sometimes we get juicy shit like this hahahahahahha

... the suppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, of millions of working people by handfuls of the rich, must be replaced by a “special coercive force” for the suppression of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat (the dictatorship of the proletariat).

👁 In a democratic republic, Engels continues, “wealth exercises its power indirectly, but all the more surely”, first, by means of the “direct corruption of officials” (America); secondly, by means of an “alliance of the government and the Stock Exchange” (France and America).

According to Marx, the state is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another; it is the creation of “order”, which legalizes and perpetuates this oppression by moderating the conflict between classes.

people supporting Zohran's "socialism" don't even know what socialism is. he's not advocating for the formation of a working class party that can seize state power. he just wants to make life better for people under capitalism, when he fails people will hopefully realize we have to go further.

my name's karl marx and i'm here to say, i'm a spectre haunting europe in a major way

the real world exists outside of us and we can know things about it. the truth is real and its important. you have yo base your actions on what is real. denying this is how you get vaccine denial, bigotry, liberalism, and other deadly harmful beliefs.

the capitalist class needs us, but we don't need them. no matter what they do to us we will still be here. when the working class takes power we will use the exact tactics they have used to oppress us turned back on to them. the difference is we don't need them and we CAN eliminate them.

these motherfuckers still see themselves in the exact same way. there has never been an "honest and wise" person in the white house. fuck all these slavers and warmongers and white supremacists. death to america, for the freedom of all oppressed peoples in the world.

1,100 rabbis say Mamdani makes Jews unsafe while ignoring the GOP's public embrace of Adolf Hitler

That goes hard. #BethBourne #TheTerfGetsTricked #Trantifa #Transtifa #QueersBashBack #AntiTransphobeAction #Davis #DavisCA #TERF #fuckTERFS

Do we really need to spend $100 billion a year feeding our citizens when we could instead spend that money committing war crimes around the world?

when are we gonna do this proletarian revolution guys i'm so sick of this whole capitalism thing

the millionaires and billionaires give us tiny candy bars and tell us they’re fun! meanwhile they’re dining on bars sized for kings!

Landlords hate him: man discovers LIFE HACK to ensure his rent is paid FOR LIFE:

i don't care if you're here legally and i do not care what you buy with SNAP. you could not pay me to care!!!

Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriations.

without changing anything in the real world, you could literally tell maga chuds that immigration had been “fixed”, stop talking about it, and they would never know better. remember their “convoy” to eagle’s pass, tx last year where they all showed up and were stunned that the border wasn’t “open”?

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

every time a liberal talks about "horseshoe theory" you can guarantee that what has actually happened is they've looked at two right wing figures and mistaken one of them for a leftist. 'look at all the ways tucker carlson's beliefs overlap with glenn greenwald! horseshoe theory strikes again!!'

ngl if this ever happened to me i would be so embarrassed and i would get extremely depressed. i have done misogynistic shit in the past and i hate myself for it and try to do better. what is it with bigots and misogynists that they're just incapable of realizing how awful and embarrassing they are.

i think of Marxism, dialectical materialism, the same way i think about physics. almost the same parts of my brain are activated reading Hawking or Einstein as when i read Marx or Lenin. What Marxists are trying to do is figure out how the world works, its current state, and what drives changes.

i'd honestly rather have the entire economy propped up by tulips or beanie babies than AI. at least beanie babies are cute and bring joy to the world.

The very first Nazi concentration camp was Dachau, where around 40,000 victims were mercilessly murdered over 12 years. Israel has killed nearly double that number of Palestinians (at least) over the last two years... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

watching people argue on the internet: I don't think either of you are looking at this objectively because you both want to be right my own arguments on the internet: shut the fuck up and face the wall you weird little nazi fuckboy

yeah it feels like maybe some people don't have that neverending nagging voice inside them going "what if you're wrong? how are you justifying your beliefs? what if your assumptions are wrong?". not saying thats the healthiest thing but at least that gives me some immunity to sycophancy.