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Is there any point? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 18 hours ago by Shurikash@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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There's no organizing potential in the USA at all. Everyone only thinks social democrats are the most radical option. Reddit third-worldists call me evil for being born here. I'm scum for being born in this country. I know it at this point, I'm evil for benefitting from imperialism, we're all labor aristocrats, so why bother? I don't even feel the strength to get out of bed anymore. I just want to lay here until I die or until I get evicted and die on the streets. I'm to scared to kill myself, so may as well. I'm just so tired of everything, of seeing the rights of my closest friends being peeled away and there being no viable way to stop it because, again, everyone here only thinks voting is the way out.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The US has internal colonization too, it doesn't just imperialize the rest of the world and then redistribute the superprofits equally to its labor aristocracy. A worker that owns no land, has no investments, and can't save for retirement is certainly no aristocrat.

But you'll notice once someone gets a house, starts investing, and starts bringing in high enough wages to save for retirement their revolutionary potential withers. They become invested in property values, market performance, and in their firm's success.