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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

From the communist manifesto:

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say, individuality vanishes.

You must, therefore, confess that by “individual” you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

This Pete Buttigieg in a nut shell. Let's hope people like AOC are the future instead of him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

AOC was never anything but a “progressive” liberal, and she completely sold out not long after getting into office. Have we already forgotten that she voted to crush a worker strike and voted against raising minimum wage? She’s a scab and a career politician working for the wealthy donor class.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, the rail worker strike would have been devastating. Inflation was already rough, supply chains were still fucked post COVID, railways shutting down for days would have fucked businesses, especially small and mom and pops, and restaurants, that were all struggling because of lockdowns.

And they still negotiated with the union and got them most of what the wanted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How to say you’re a scab without saying you’re a scab: Won’t somebody please think of the economy?! And what happened soon after Congress defanged workers’ safety concerns? The East Palestine derailment catastrophe.

Citations Needed podcast:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My restaurant never would have survived it. I went into debt to keep my workers paid during this time. I was in a group for small business owners in my city who were in the same boat as me. The economy would have been hurt, sure, but it wouldn’t screw over Walmart and Amazon. It would have screwed over us little guys just trying to get buy.

You can claim to be anti-oligarchy, but big business would have been fine. And a McDonald’s probably would have taken my spot and replaced my jobs with minimum wage drones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I don’t claim to be merely anti-oligarchy; I’m socialist. And I don’t mean progressive liberal like AOC was or Sanders is, I mean actually socialist.

Anyway, maybe the strike really would have forced you to shutter, or maybe you could have gotten the PPP loans to limp through it. Or maybe in response to the strike, Congress could or would have increased the PPP loans to employers and/or COVID relief funds to families. We’ll never really know.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What are you on about? Buttigieg is one of the most educated, and courageous individuals pushing back against the trump agenda. Along with AOC, Al, and Bernie.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Okay maybe. He's standing up to Trump. It just appeared to me he was like that meme during the 2020 primary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

Yeah, I suggest you take another look at Pete. I think he has a lot of potential.