If they want to walk the revolutionary road, then they better prepare some backup characters. The forces that built the world are never keen on allowing some scrappy rat-cachers to poke and prod at its foundations.

Gross.

Lol fantastic

Yeah how has there been no videos? That would do numbers wouldn’t it?

Who left the door open!

Italy’s “Years of Led” seems to rhyme with our current moment. When you consider all the domestic terror of the 90s, the political assassinations (or attempts there of) of the 60s to the 80s, and every school shooting since Columbine, it’s hard not to see. The reason it rhymes is that thus far, there hasn’t really be genuine leftwing terror. Maybe that’s because of how effective the state is at squashing true left wing thought, or maybe it’s because of that history, left wing people in the country know it’s a death sentence.

@Cowbee@hexbear.net catching strays again…

At present, British Communists very often find it hard even to approach the masses, and even to get a hearing from them. If I come out as a Communist and call upon them to vote for Henderson and against Lloyd George, they will certainly give me a hearing. And I shall be able to explain in a popular manner, not only why the Soviets are better than a parliament and why the dictatorship of the proletariat is better than the dictatorship of Churchill (disguised with the signboard of bourgeois “democracy”), but also that, with my vote, I want to support Henderson in the same way as the rope supports a hanged man—that the impending establishment of a government of the Hendersons will prove that I am right, will bring the masses over to my side, and will hasten the political death of the Hendersons and the Snowdens just as was the case with their kindred spirits in Russia and Germany.

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/leninPR70.html

Incredable stuff.

I am deeply curious about what you got cooking over there.

Isn’t that what Comm subscriptions are for, and the subscriptions view?

If they downvote you enough, you get an automatic tag next to your username, indicating you’re a troublemaker.

What did the side of the truck say?

Then came along Tommy Tutone and fucked a whole host of phones for a good part of 30+ years.

When we’d first get calls at 2 or 3 in the morning, my husband would answer the phone. He can’t hear too well. They’d ask for Jenny, and he’d say “Jimmy doesn’t live here any more.” … Tommy Tutone was the one who had the record. I’d like to get hold of his neck and choke him. — Lorene Burns, an Alabama householder formerly at +1-205-867-5309; she changed her number in 1982

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny#Popularity_and_litigation

God I love this website

Because Spaz is a greedy worm and it’s full of tankies!

That one got me

That’s it, I’m going to airdrop copies of the manifesto across America after I CTRL-F & Replace “Proletariat” with “Consumer Class”.

I wouldn’t say it’s an excuse. I think that formulation is exactly what Marx had when he was writing about the Proletariat. The formation of the proletariat can’t be disconnected from enclosure. Peasants and surfs stripped of their lands and corralled into city centers to work shoulder to shoulder. Sharing their experiences together. In some sectors of the labor force that’s still true, but as we more and more embody a service and information economy, the days of working in tightly packed spaces have faded. No one has idle conversation via work email. You might not even talk to people outside your department in the same company. Capitalism wants nothing more than to atomize all of us, into little work cubes, alone for hours at a time, with no time to stick our head out of the hole and see whose around us, and if they’re ok.

We should all be reminded of what happens when you do not have a collectivist altitude towards this topic: https://apnews.com/article/utah-no-kings-protest-shot-killed-75c777eeedd59c80c85695c45385c507

You can not divorce the Black Panther’s open carrying weapons from their politics. Educate yourself politically, through joining a party, educate yourself practically by getting yourself trained in the use of a firearm. Then you’ll be prepared for when the time comes to synthesize these two discipline together.