"negative peace "

cringe and/or lame

who were they doing it for, an-crap?

antiwork no longer means the abolition of the oppressive relationship with the capital owning class in which we sell our labor as a commodity.

it's been completely co-opted as a place for milquetoast reform (capitalism will work if we put the right people in charge and call it socialism), and low-effort outrage-porn.

cringe

imagine a society not dependent on individual charity (with wealth expropriated from the working class) for improving material wellbeing.

does a 'nice' king justify monarchy?

no. power centralized in the beaurocratic state apparatus is also oppressive. electoral politics are a sham, and democracy is impotent when the capital owning class can simply buy influence.

if 9 people vote to kill the 10th, is that just?

itt: those in the priveledged position to rely on the state for defense of self and community would rob others of the ability to enforce their bodily autonomy and community defense.

'only the [fascist] cops should be armed' brain worms,

enforcing the capital owning class' monopoly of violence (against ourselves),

a negative peace at the expense of justice.

you know-- bootlickers.

your position presupposes that capitalism can serve to improve our collective wellbeing, when it is fundamentally an oppressive heirarchy enforced through violence.

news flash: if you do not own capital, capitalism's essential function is not to improve your material condition, but that of the capital owning class.

edit: civility

argument through analogy is a logical fallacy, I'm not going to engage that.

you've yet to convince me that further entrenching capitalism (which requires scarcity to the extent that it will create it where there need be none, and demands endless quarterly growth within a limited system) is a solution to the environmental destruction to which it contributes.

it seems to me as though you would like to eat your cake and have it too.

private ownership of capital is a race to the bottom, leading inevitably to unsustainable extraction of natural resources. The latter won't be halted or reversed without abolishing the former.

we need power to be distributed horizontally, not continue to be concentrated in fewer and fewer actors.

the non profit industrial complex serves to launder the reputations of the ownership class without meaningfully addressing oppressive systems or threatening the status quo.

it's actually from Hungary, but I'm not going to defend auth apologists lol

landlords ought not exist

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism

the practice you are claiming as essential to communism is just the result of authoritarians and self-proclaimed vanguardists placing party above people in a self-perpetuating class-based heirarchy antithetical to communism (see: Marxist/leninism under Stalin)

"...frustrated at Britain’s attempts to help Ireland during the Irish famine..."

lol. was this written by an English aristocrat?

what is generational wealth?

not enough imo

I'm an anarchist.

Lenin coined the term state capitalism, replacing private ownership of the means with a new class heirarchy in the form of an inequitable and unjust beaurocratic state apparatus.

No state has ever liberated the working class.

you're not entirely wrong, I'm just not interested in performing the emotional labor of handholding.

incredibly simplistic perspective, and intellectually dishonest; we traded monarchy for a dictatorship of the capital owning class.

muh glorious people's boot

reactionary recuperation of revolutionary aesthetic-- shallow, reductive simulacrum of class analysis, stripped of systemic critique, intersectionality, and radical solidarity.

conservative pandering. lame af.

scrub the influencer brainworms from your gray matter for one moment and produce a critical thought--

engagement with what, exactly?

the signal which carries no message is white noise.

meaningless engagement is distraction, wasted bandwidth.

an emoji is not a meaningful improvement to the material condition of the working class, or a threat to the status quo. It's not even relevant to the abolition of work.

thank goodness internet tough guys exist to defend limp-dick slacktivism.

hashtag resist

like and subscribe 👍

petitioning for a fucking emoji epitomizes the criticism that social media is a vehicle for diverting action into impotent dialogue.

since we're on the subject

retributive violence against individual actors is not the same as dismantling oppressive systems, and should not eclipse the important work of creating resilient communities and networks of mutual aid to replace those heirarchies.

hot garbage

the neck cares not the color of the boot

reminder:

left-unity means authoritarian entryism

tolerance must function as a social contract, or not at all.

reject auth apologists.

tolerance is a social contract, not a principle.

this is news?

we don't need to acknowledge or address the efforts of those acting in bad-faith to delegitmize egalitarian leftist philosophy.

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. Jean-Paul Sartre"

but have you considered putting the right smart guy in charge?

"victims of ideologies"

big enlightened centrist energy

is an ideology just defined as any set of beliefs besides your own? lol

I hope you get to experience the growth in empathy to look back and feel ashamed of this interaction.

good luck. 👍

textbook.

are you capable of engaging beyond trying to insult me?

ps: you're working for the ownership class when you attack the working class. you are literally a tool, upholding oppressive heirarchies which weaken our capacity to wield collective power and achieve liberation from the rich you claim to be so concerned with

"And the obese milkin' welfare"

"...if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge round"

as if fat people and social welfare programs are the problem.

your head is so full of neoliberal brain- worms that you cannot recognize a leftist criticism. you're literally defending bigotry/ reactionary entryism.

You had a chance to describe all things wrong about this song to every one.

I have, with very specific language. you've simultaneously accused me of not explaining myself, and of using 'big words,' which by your own admission you do not understand. maybe you should focus on understanding my argument before trying to refute my position. attacking me personally, accusing me of anger/ irrationality, is not an effective argument.

you're projecting a lot of your own discomfort and lack of understanding/ context onto me.