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Preston Maness ☭

@pepperz

I agree overall, but:

>We have to stop letting our distractions that categories whether it be race, religion, gender, sexuality, and even political affiliation.
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>Together we are strong and the #oligarchs need us more that we need them. The real fight is the #classwar

Oppression is a weed that comes in many flavors. Class is but one. If we only tug on class, the garden is still riddled with weeds and will struggle to bear fruit. We've gotta tug on all of them, in unison, to be effective.

#socialism#communism#marxism
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𓊈Pepperz 🦴𓊉

They are going to fuck up #socialsecurity by rewriting the software to make it less functional. To then try to pull the wool over the #workingclass as a means to place social security on the bargaining table.

Remember this is the last Bastion for anyone making under $300k a year to get a lick of their labor given to the #federalgovernment

If it comes to the bargaining table they will push to disband it, and what will happen to all those trillions of dollars? It won't be in your wallet, or any of your loved ones, or even neighbors.

That money will be used to make the #onepercent richer.

We have to stop letting our distractions that categories whether it be race, religion, gender, sexuality, and even political affiliation.

Together we are strong and the #oligarchs need us more that we need them. The real fight is the #classwar

#uspol #uspolitics #programming #lgbt #leftist #REPUB #republicans #communism #socialism #anarchism #econimics #boycottMusk

wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s

WIRED · DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseBy Makena Kelly
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☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭

The class struggle is not going to be fought by itself or by lone individuals. It can only be effectively fought and won by collective groups of people. Get organized! Join the struggle. There are plenty of labor unions, community unions, tenet unions, political parties (NOT THE DEMOCRATS), etc, that you can get involved in. The fastest way of building class consciousness among workers is by participating in class struggle. GO OUT NOW!

#socialism#classstruggle#classwar
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Preston Maness

"It is important that we not collapse these differences even while recognizing a set of shared structural forces and logics. This is especially important as non-profits themselves are vulnerable to these structural forces. For example, non-profit organizations continue to feel impacts of the recession in both the increased demands for basic social services as well as the shrinking of government and foundation funding and individual donations. Many small organizations made up of poor and working-class members have dissolved or folded into larger non-profits. A lack of funding has led such groups to give up vital infrastructure and compensated staff positions, but the work continues through volunteer labor, in members' homes or donated space."

— Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, pp. xviii-xix

If non-profits are to serve as a tool for liberation and reconstruction, then they need their own productive forces to call upon for fueling their efforts. Subjugation to capital, be it directly through philanthropic foundations, indirectly through (capitalist) government funding, or even tortuously through individual donors --themselves dependent upon exchanging their labor to capital for the money they donate-- necessarily clips the non-profit's wings. It is always contorting itself upon the whims of capital. Perhaps a partnership between non-profits and co-ops, both worker owned and operated, could serve to foster such a development of productive forces beyond --or at least less hindered by-- the antagonistic ruling capitalist class's reach. In this model, non-profits could serve as a stabilizing foundation upon which less certain co-operative proletarian endeavors could build.

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded (Paperback, 2017, Duke University Press)
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@fallbackerik @dielinke

You don't know a single thing about Marxism if you don't know that Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the many, many other Marxist writers and theoreticians didn't write about, let alone consider, subjects such as democracy, diversity, social value, dignity, and mental health. I'd recommend starting here: marxists.org/archive/marx/work

www.marxists.orgMarx & Engels Selected Works
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@JustUs4Pali

Stop trying to make justifications for capitalism by calling it something else (commerce). Capitalism is characterized by the private ownership of the means of production where workers have to sell their labor to capitalists to earn wages. What you're calling "commerce" is still capitalism and still contains the same exploitative nature. It still pays workers less than the value of their labor, with capitalists stealing most of it.

#capitalism#socialism#marxism
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