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I can't cope with how the proletarian are such bootlickers (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by KalergiPlanner@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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"We need capitalists because they have all the money"

Where exactly do they get the money from? Their own work? Of course not!

"I can't get a job because of migrants!"

Employers are the ones who decide who gets a job or not. Blame them, not the immigrants they're exploiting.

"I don't want my tax money to go to bums/single mothers/immigrants/xyz group"

But you're fine with bourgeois parasites freely taking a portion of your labour to enrich themselves?

"Full employment/universal healthcare/eradication of homelessness/cheap transport/anything good is impossible!"

No they aren't.

"Capitalism isn't perfect, but gommunism is le hecking evil!"

No it isn't.

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[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Like all things in capitalism, it only works on the short. The "core workers" only benefit in the short term. If anyone actually had the ability to look at things from the long term, they would see that imperialism doesn't benefit anyone but the oligarchy. One of the biggest factors is the reduction of labor costs. Which is like eroding the sand beneath a city. The closer you are to the "core," the longer it takes to get to you, but it WILL get to you, and it will pull you down.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well. It worked for over half a century; from the end of WWII to the 2008 financial crisis if I had to give a timeline. There's a generation of white workers who have actually never known a world without access to imperial superprofits, and they're also reliably the most right-wing segment of the working class. The privileged segment of core workers even grew for the first few decades of that period, with more and more workers getting access to the superprofits of empire through various reforms and movements. Stagnation set in with the introduction of neoliberalism, but it wasn't until the financial crisis that it actually began its decline.