Yes, we’ve learned that defense from Nazis and reactionary agitators is key to the success of any left-wing movement. That’s why the Socialist Gun Club and John Brown Gun Society are gaining members.
It’s sad that we have to protect ourselves, but as the poem goes;
First they came for the communists…
Because that’s how it always goes. The favorite targets of the right wing reactionary; communists, LGBT+, the marginalized, and anyone else who doesn’t quite fit into their capitalist hierarchies.
The capitalist must use violence to enforce those hierarchies, or else people will ignore them, because money is just something we all made up. It’s not real.
Actual wealth is much deeper than money, it’s time, it’s effort, it’s people’s lives, and people don’t want to slave away to make some other asshole richer, they want to live together in open communities where they can just live for themselves and raise a family.
Capitalists robbed us all of this, and communism is the push to get it back.
And again you show that you have no fucking clue what capitalism is.
We covered this already, here let me just quote myself from yesterday;
Okay, you’ve now told me that you don’t understand communism, or capitalism.
First is the lie that capitalism is some sort of ancient invention. This is a lie because it ignores what capitalism actually is. Capitalism is not just “trading things for money”. That’s a child’s understanding, and like more explanations for children, it’s fundamentally wrong while still having elements of the truth.
Capitalism requires the private investment, and re-investment, in production of goods in order to make more wealth. Most trade prior to the late middle ages was simply moving goods from a cheap market to an expensive market. Buying from one lord and selling to another.
An important point is that the lords used the power of the State, i.e. their military, to extract wealth from their lands. This was called feudalism, and was not capitalism.
In the wake of the Norman Conquest, the English state was unusually centralised. This gave aristocrats relatively limited powers to extract wealth directly from their feudal underlings through political means (not least the threat of violence). England’s centralisation also meant that an unusual number of English farmers were not peasants (with their own land and thus direct access to subsistence) but tenants (renting their land). These circumstances produced a market in leases. Landlords, lacking other ways to extract wealth, were motivated to rent to tenants who could pay the most, while tenants, lacking security of tenure, were motivated to farm as productively as possible to win leases in a competitive market. This led to a cascade of effects whereby successful tenant farmers became agrarian capitalists; unsuccessful ones became wage-labourers, required to sell their labour in order to live; and landlords promoted the privatisation and renting out of common land, not least through the enclosures.
Enclosure or inclosure[a] is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of “waste”[b] or “common land”[c] enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their rights of access and privilege. Agreements to enclose land could be either through a formal or informal process.[3] The process could normally be accomplished in three ways. First there was the creation of “closes”,[d] taken out of larger common fields by their owners.[e] Secondly, there was enclosure by proprietors, owners who acted together, usually small farmers or squires, leading to the enclosure of whole parishes. Finally there were enclosures by Acts of Parliament.[5]
Did you know that prior to the Norman conquest, people in England just grew food wherever they wanted? Just so long as they gave most of it to their lord, they could do what they wanted with the land.
Anyway, capitalism then kicked into high gear after the bubonic plague. Suddenly you had a lot of land free, and mass migration to cities in the wake of the plague.
Then things really kicked off with what I like to call the official start, the formation of the Dutch East Indies Company. See, this was the first time that a company was formed without a built-in expiration date. Before this, you could make a company and sell shares, but at the end of the trade caravan or whatnot, the company was dissolved and everyone was paid out of the profit. The Dutch East Indies Company sold shares that paid dividends, with no expectation of the company dissolving. They actually had to get laws changed to make it possible.
And they were the most brutal, and violent organization to ever exist. They committed several genocides to seize islands from locals so that they could sell shit to Europeans. Particularly for nutmeg.
Now, another commenter pointed out that the system in place in the lead up to the formation of the Dutch East Indies Company was actually mercantilism. Which was sort of a State run proto-capitalism.
Which is why you still have no clue what anything you advocate for actually means.
You’re just parroting words you heard from some right-wing dipshit somewhere.
They won’t ever tell you what any of the words actually mean, just their own twisted interpretations thereof. They say communism is bad, and then point to an authoritarian dictatorship led by a man who was so insecure in his power that he forced all of his top generals to binge-drink with him every single night for the last 15 years of his life. And after everyone was drunk and smeared with tomato (a bit of drunken humor that Stalin loved) then they would watch American movies that he had smuggled into the country.
It’s just sad that if people like you finally opened a book or used a web browser to look at anything other than more stupid right-wing bullshit, you’d be horrified at what you’ve been supporting.
I’ve brought up the Nazis a lot in these comments, because they too rose to power in the same sort of environment that spawned the Bolsheviks.
And it’s the environment that created people like Nestor Makhno. The dude was based as fuck. He invented the Tachanka, a machine gun in the back of a cart, these days it’s referred to as a technical and is usually a machine gun mounted to the back of a Nissan pickup.
See, these are the sorts of little tidbits of fun history that you should be learning. Instead, you seem to just be spoon-fed more right-wing talking points.
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Yes, we’ve learned that defense from Nazis and reactionary agitators is key to the success of any left-wing movement. That’s why the Socialist Gun Club and John Brown Gun Society are gaining members.
It’s sad that we have to protect ourselves, but as the poem goes;
Because that’s how it always goes. The favorite targets of the right wing reactionary; communists, LGBT+, the marginalized, and anyone else who doesn’t quite fit into their capitalist hierarchies.
The capitalist must use violence to enforce those hierarchies, or else people will ignore them, because money is just something we all made up. It’s not real.
Actual wealth is much deeper than money, it’s time, it’s effort, it’s people’s lives, and people don’t want to slave away to make some other asshole richer, they want to live together in open communities where they can just live for themselves and raise a family.
Capitalists robbed us all of this, and communism is the push to get it back.
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And again you show that you have no fucking clue what capitalism is.
We covered this already, here let me just quote myself from yesterday;
Now, another commenter pointed out that the system in place in the lead up to the formation of the Dutch East Indies Company was actually mercantilism. Which was sort of a State run proto-capitalism.
It’s kind of a gray area.
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Which is why you still have no clue what anything you advocate for actually means.
You’re just parroting words you heard from some right-wing dipshit somewhere.
They won’t ever tell you what any of the words actually mean, just their own twisted interpretations thereof. They say communism is bad, and then point to an authoritarian dictatorship led by a man who was so insecure in his power that he forced all of his top generals to binge-drink with him every single night for the last 15 years of his life. And after everyone was drunk and smeared with tomato (a bit of drunken humor that Stalin loved) then they would watch American movies that he had smuggled into the country.
It’s just sad that if people like you finally opened a book or used a web browser to look at anything other than more stupid right-wing bullshit, you’d be horrified at what you’ve been supporting.
I’ve brought up the Nazis a lot in these comments, because they too rose to power in the same sort of environment that spawned the Bolsheviks.
And it’s the environment that created people like Nestor Makhno. The dude was based as fuck. He invented the Tachanka, a machine gun in the back of a cart, these days it’s referred to as a technical and is usually a machine gun mounted to the back of a Nissan pickup.
See, these are the sorts of little tidbits of fun history that you should be learning. Instead, you seem to just be spoon-fed more right-wing talking points.