What?

What is stopping it?

In a delightful change of pace, the Nazis are putting themselves in the oven.

Ever since the executive branch started to get more powerful

The Jefferson Administration was a mistake.

• People surrender enormous amounts of personal autonomy to their bosses, their landlords, and their political leadership

• Bosses, landlords, and political leaders pool all their power under a Unitary Executive position with entirely unchecked authority

• Chief executive abuses the office

• New chief executive abuses the office

• Even newer chief executive abuses the office

• The latest chief executive abuses the office

Some dummy with a sign “It’s not supposed to be like this!”

God damn, read a fucking book. For every moment you’ve been alive it has been like this.

Yeah because of how mega capitalist it was

Capital accumulation is a predicate for the surpluses needed to build a socialist economy.

Worker ownership of means of production, usually.

Public pensions and union shops lay claim to the surplus profits of capital. The UK’s union membership peaked in the 1970s, as did its wages/pensions. After Thatcher, that share declined rapidly, as did the supply of council housing, the access to public health care and education, and the various other amenities common to socialist economies.

Let’s say Eastern Block, China, you get the picture.

The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

• Michael Parenti

Don’t get much more “worker ownership of means of production” than that.

If you’re organizing a new political group, you’re going to be setting up a lot from scratch.

Pointing your core of supporters to Reddit instead of a more private and independent space means setting them up to be exposed to the freaks and the bots.

Finally going to settle the question of whether or not the Pope is Catholic.

If you read a bit further it even says how it originated in industrial revolution Britain and happened all over the world.

Industrial Britian had an enormous activist labor movement. A slew of left wing thinkers and agitators emerged from the British academic scene, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Ghandi.

I’m not asking about socialist or social democratic or labour movement policies in capitalist countries

How are you defining “Capitalist Country” if you ignore all the socialist policies a country has implemented?

Hell, how do you define Socialist Country, if you exclude every one that’s undergone Capitalist accumulation?

8-hour work week is a socialist policy, espoused by socialist parties and implemented in governments with socialist majorities. Same with pensions and other public retirement funds.

The more socialists you have setting policy, the shorter your work week and the earlier your retirement.

democracy didn’t immediately solve all problems so we should ban or murder all political opposition

The democratically elected government murdered hundreds of Russians - people who originally supported the government - because they protested the state’s continued disastrous warmongering.

The liberals were doing the murdering. The Bolsheviks responded in self defense, often by cajoling infantry into not killing protesting civilians.

This is what brought down the “Democratic” pre-Lenin government. Liberals couldn’t order their soldiers to massacre the Bolshevik civilians, so the democratic government fell apart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day_movement

The eight-hour day movement (also known as the 40-hour week movement or the short-time movement) was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses of working time.

Just for starters.

The modern concept of “Retirement” is also tied to socialist policy and politics. One of the first major reforms states implement after a socialist election or Marxist revolution is the implementation of retirement age. And those countries with the strongest socialist histories tend to have the lowest retirement ages and most generous pensions. Fully socialist states like Vietnam and China and South Africa have retirement in the 55-62 range. More socialist-leaning European/East Asian states like France, Denmark, Korea, and Japan have a retirement age in the 63-67 range. And fully captured capitalist systems like Uganda or Bangladesh or the undocumented worker pools of the Americas have no retirement for private workers whatsoever, working people to death.

Yes.

Efficiency and low-cost comes with baggage too

Automation under capitalism: Tons of unemployment and poverty while a few insiders get lots of treats

Automation under socialism: Shorter work weeks, more vacation, and the standard of living for everyone goes up

One of the appeals of Bluesky (for now) is the Followimg feed that presents comments exclusively from people I follow, in chronological order.

Crazy that Facebook can’t deliver this anymore

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What do you think? Should I do it folks? Nah. Nah. But maybe…

Are you complaining about the efficient supply chains and low cost-per-unit of production?

Or are you complaining about the high degree of profit-taking and the denial of public benefits to the working class?

Soviets removed the “proletariat” from the dictatorship very quickly.

That’s the western liberal line, certainly. The victory of the Leninists and Maoists transformed oppressed into oppressor by virtue of no longer having an aristocracy capable of oppressing them.

About the same time when Lenin decided he didn’t like losing elections

The elections failed to deliver the promised reform. Their biggest promise on taking office was to exit the war and withdraw the troops. And the first thing the Mensheviks did was double-down on defeat. Milyukov’s refusal to exit the Eastern Front kicked off a protest half-a-million men large, right in the heart of the Russian government.

The next three months saw the elected government ordering police into the streets to slaughter hundreds of the people who voted for them. They topped it off by bombing the Bolshevik offices and chasing Lenin back underground for the unconscionable crime of leading peace marches. Bolshevism surged in popularity the following month, to the point that General Lavr Kornilov threatened to bring troops into the city to conduct a full pogrom. Only mass defection within the lower ranks of the military spared Petrograd from an outright holocaust.

This is the democracy you’re defending? Christ. No wonder so many liberals seem perfectly content to see the modern wave of college students being disappeared by ICE.

“Authoritarian communism” is an oxymoron.

The definition of “Authoritarianism” seems to be bound up in the libertarian view of free markets versus unfree governments.

There’s a book I like called The People’s Republic of Walmart. It describes how much of the Command Economy practiced in the 60s and 70s by “authoritarian” socialist states was picked up and integrated into the corporate model in an effort to improve efficiency of supply chains and reduce the cost of industrial manufacturing. Walmart’s vertical integration follows a model that any Socialist government would laud. It just hordes the surplus for shareholders, at the expense of its employment base.

When the Socialists were making cars in Yugoslavia with a highly efficient regional distribution of manufacturing and assembly, it was horrifying infringement on the rights of the business community. When Ford and Nissian picked up on these practices and imported them to the US and Japan, it was The Miracle of Free Market Innovation that delivered huge returns to investors.

Liberals love to cringe and wring their hands when they hear about Lenin’s “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. After all, how can we be free if worker’s council get to dictate our housing stock or our employment opportunities or our transit corridors or our retail inventory? But they’re utterly blaise about living under an economy whose function is dictated by a handful of corporate boards and banking executives making all the same decisions because… freedom?

What Is Gibberlink Mode, AI’s Secret Language?

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How about you stop with the whataboutism

How about you stop trying to defend genocide, eh? You’re standing on a hill of corpses and you think you’ve got the moral high ground?

Get fucked. Trump’s peeled the mask off your rotten empire. Nobody is falling for this shit anymore.