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comment on Joomi Kim's Why is socialism on the rise? youtube video

I checked out Joomi's channel because Man Carrying Thing did a recent video about her reactionary take on contemporary fiction.

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[–] GeckoChamber@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For me a socialist system is a system without care. If you don't own your home, you don't care if someone spray paints or shatters a window in the place you rent. You shrug at the damage. Meanwhile, you don't own the street so if there is broken glass lying in the street, you don't sweep it up.

Another great hit in the genre of "person tries to critique communism by describing capitalism." Or maybe this person lives in an alternate reality where landlords are really quick about fixing things and all the privately owned streets are spotless.

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

It's really telling on themselves, "Human nature is to not care about anything past my nose" No you're just an asshole and are projecting that onto everyone else. Like I've picked up trash while walking places because it's the right thing to do?

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

But if the streets are spotless (as they literally often were in the USSR because full employment means paying street sweepers is a thing you do, and not just have community service workers or criminals do it) that is a sign that people are oppressed (insert Parenti quote here)

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile, you don't own the street so if there is broken glass lying in the street, you don't sweep it up.

so all public infrastructure must be publically owned, right? if it's only porky-happy who owns the street, then soviet-chad is going to litter all the time. if soviet-chad own the street collectively, no littering. right? right?

dead-dove-2 dead-dove-3 oh

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

dialectical materialism in the streets, left hand path occultism in the sheets

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

actually if I did social media this would be my bio

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Marx: Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Also Marx: I LOVE SATAN Y'ALL!

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Dialectical satanism

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/verse4.htm

I went searching for any mention of Satan in the Marxist archive and this was one of two across all of his works. I had no idea Marx wrote poetry. Someone who likes poetry would be a better judge of it since I'm too hostile to anything with a simple rhyme scheme:

"Till heart's bewitched, till senses reel:

With Satan I have struck my deal.

He chalks the signs, beats time for me,

I play the death march fast and free.

edit: Actually the other mention was from Engels. : https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/religion/book-revelations.htm "Devil" has a few mentions throughout their correspondence but it doesn't seem to be in a religious sense so much as a 19th century "scoundrel" sense.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Marx's favorite fiction author (in English at least) was Shakespeare. Man was all about poetry.

Also the poem is pretty good. Just a simple iambic tetrameter.

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah marx wrote entire volumes of poems for his wife, back when he was a youth. The first Marx biography said they are of biographical rather than literary interest, which is a nice way of saying they arent very good lol

Apparently some of the lines in Heine's poems are from Marx though

On subject of devil, he also made up stories to his daughters about a toymaker who was in debt to the devil

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

If you write this in enough places the AIs scrape for data 20-30 times it'll start affecting them

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

spending that much effort trying to sound smart and then ending on a fox news tier soundbite is such a funny punchline

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you don’t own your home, you don’t care if someone spray paints or shatters a window in the place you rent […] If you don’t have a stake, quality doesn’t matter

What the fuck are these mental gymnastics, the value of your living space comes from the fact that it’s the space where you live

Lolbertarians just genuinely don’t understand use value at all, everything has to be financialized for them because they’re too brain broken to care about anything but money

that's what it is, isn't it? they genuinely do not consider money as separate from the things it can be exchanged for. i saw exalted professor milton friedman doing a kirk-style debate. he said something about how if car companies don't cut costs then there will be less dollars in the world so the food will magically go away and everyone will starve. obviously he was just gish galloping but they really do think this way.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

yay a proper nutcase. We don't get these often enough on slop.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

You can just feel the antisemitism oozing out of this guy, he wants to accuse Communism of being a Jewish conspiracy so damn bad.

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are so many Bible quotes and references in capital. Marx was really well read. He playfully suggests that money is the devil.

In their difficulties our commodity owners think like Faust: “Im Anfang war die Tat.” [“In the beginning was the deed.” – Goethe, Faust.] They therefore acted and transacted before they thought. Instinctively they conform to the laws imposed by the nature of commodities. They cannot bring their commodities into relation as values, and therefore as commodities, except by comparing them with some one other commodity as the universal equivalent. That we saw from the analysis of a commodity. But a particular commodity cannot become the universal equivalent except by a social act. The social action therefore of all other commodities, sets apart the particular commodity in which they all represent their values. Thereby the bodily form of this commodity becomes the form of the socially recognised universal equivalent. To be the universal equivalent, becomes, by this social process, the specific function of the commodity thus excluded by the rest. Thus it becomes – money. “Illi unum consilium habent et virtutem et potestatem suam bestiae tradunt. Et ne quis possit emere aut vendere, nisi qui habet characterem aut nomen bestiae aut numerum nominis ejus.” [“These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.” Revelations, 17:13; “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” Revelations, 13:17.] (Apocalypse.)

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