BlackLotus

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[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (26 children)

Source on him using his supposed "dictatorial powers" to suppress and censor this meme?

Source on it being compulsory education?

Incredulous claims require sources to be taken seriously.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Probably because calling Xi Jinping a tyrant is entirely un-Marxist. And I assume this is at least a Anarchocommunist community that agrees in some part with marxism and not some bourgeois ancap subreddit.

You're obviously allowed to critique anyone you want, but calling him a tyrant is just laughably dogmatic. For all its flaws, the CPC's leadership over the State does not operate that way.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Depends on who we're talking to. For Anarchists, On Authority by Friedrich Engels since it provides a useful argument in favor of less decentralization. The principles of decentralization and anarchism are good, but I'd argue that dogmatically pursuing only decentralization isn't necessarily productive. State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin is another good one in this case.

For propagandized Western anti-communists, Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels is useful since it shatters many of the myths and more generally describes communism.

For baby leftists: State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin, What is to be Done by Vladimir Lenin, etc.

For burgeoning leftists, Capital by Karl Marx, "Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State," by Friedrich Engels etc.

Edit: Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti is excellent for all leftists and Anarchists as well since it does such a good job of setting the historical and materialist context to previous and current attempts at socialism.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Haha some desktop background I saw on here.

It's Kim Jong Un on a cool looking industrial platform mounted to a hydraulic extender inspecting a reanimated Lenin with a reanimated Karl Marx in the background. The reference is to Juche necromancy, which is used as an internet meme for all the people in the DPRK who are claimed to have been murdered but then they turn up fine. The joke is that they're being reanimated by juche necromancy.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, always. Shoplifting from anything but a good worker-owned enterprise is entirely supportable assuming it's not just like a mom and pop with zero employees other than the mom and pop.

The entire existence of capitalism is tightly coupled with mass worker exploitation through the theft of the surplus value generated by workers.

Edit: I don't even care if they aren't in poverty, I still support them, especially from trash like Target.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Damn, you beat me to it.

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

Slavery is a systemic problem and there aren't individualistic solutions to these types of problems. You either seek to overthrow capitalism and build socialism, or you're complicit in modern slavery. No one is complicit in modern slavery for buying the things they need, bargain or otherwise, to survive and have a pleasant existence.

The system which enables people to directly exploit others in order to extract surplus value, whether by slavery or wage labor, is the problem, not the individuals compelled to participate.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

No one with a brain thinks that anarchists are ops, but rather that the hyper-online anarchists who overwhelmingly spend their time criticizing AES are benefiting imperialists by both undermining existing attempts and failing to build their own. For any anarchists reading this, if you are one of the people out there building organizations, you are not in the center of the venn diagram of people who subscribe to anarchism and people who are exclusively contributing criticism against AES.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

When I'm not doing it to liberate workers from the toil of redundant automation without undermining their acquisition of the means of subsistence. So always.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Yes and that's good.

[–] BlackLotus@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Abolish capitalism.

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