"One lesson from Texas history is that repression was so severe because resistance was so daunting-a lesson to keep in mind as this century unfolds"
ProbablyKaffe
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Every monarchy in the world today is a protectorate of the British or Americans.
I'm not kidding.
No it's not. Wages in the Imperialist countries are buffed by super-exploitation of the global South.
The amount of resources Americans use means that they are condensing into a "middle class" above the 3rd world nations workers and below the Imperial Bourgeoisie.
Spending most if not all of your paycheck does not mean you aren't "middle class" (petty bourg or labor aristocrat). You were never meant to be able to accumulate wealth, the bourgs want you to consume it and for them to get it in their balance sheets at the end of the day because you bought goods and services from their property. If you are accumulating significant wealth that can't be wiped out due to crises (ex: getting very ill, medical costs), you are certainly not exploited. If you are consuming more labor than you put out, but break even on paper, you're still not exploited (Imperialist wages).
This is why Economism (and accompanying social democracy) is dead end politics that is incapable of handling national contradictions that Imperialism feeds on.
As well, the top 80% of income brackets have been getting increased wealth and income, since the end of WW2.
this is similarly the current SK government's stance on getting called out for their sexism: "we can't be sexist, look at Afghanistan, that's sexism"
The only segment of the US working class that is difficult to describe as a labor aristocracy (in NAFTA states) is being shredded to pieces.
This segment of the working class should be the focus of organization in the core. The rest should only be organized secondarily, as their interests align with Imperialism too much.
“UM ACKCHYUALLY capitalism isnt capitalism, and it has always existed capitalism is actually just markets.”
where was this said
if u wanna be that guy and call things other than what they are, feel free, but i personally try not to engage with such people, yeah spirituality is a thing i dont care about it, i care about religion i was talking about religion not merely myths or spirituality but religion if u want to call those things religion i cant stop u and i dont really have anything to say to u.
They are definitely religions, you're perpetuating the Colonial concept that religion has to look like the Abrahamic ones to be considered legitimate. The religions of Indigenous American communities were outlawed and then brought back under Freedom of Religion. American hysteria against the Ghost Dance religion culminated in multiple massacres, most infamous the Wounded Knee Massacre. So the Colonizers consider them religions (now, after trying to prohibit them), the followers of these religions consider them as such.
Uhh nah, religions likely existed before the sexual division of labor aka proto-Patriarchy into slave-economies aka Patriarchy.
Religions since time-immemorial are built around myths to explain relationships to food production and healthcare. An example of this would be the First Foods and Longhouse religions of the PNW that explain a calendar, how to recognize ecological disturbances, and how to manage salmon runs.
More exists in the world than Eurasia.
no they aren't, religions just exist under class society, like any mass movement there is a struggle to be had
"Paganism" isn't a thing in itself, it means not Abrahamic. The Norse peoples worshiped the Norse Religion. Modern "Paganism" inherently identifies itself in anti-Christianity (and anti-Judaism, anti-Islam) terms instead of as the tribal religions they are cosplaying as things in themselves. It's a form of "noble s*vage" anti-Modernity, which is why it fits so well into Nazism. They don't understand what non-Christian Germanic society was like or how it worked because they only understand it through the narrative of White Supremacy/Christian Modernity that paints the Vikings as violence obsessed primitives (sound familiar?) that were the type that sacked Rome and gave Christian/Roman kingdoms trouble.
Studying historical societies scientifically is a totally different thing that these people aren't doing.
Because wages are high and the more high wage workers the higher rents will generally be
Capitalist class wants to break even with the labor aristocracy. "Luxury" or "good neighborhood" rents, which drive up rents in proximity (and across the metro eventually), are used to get as much out of that big paycheck as possible.
If your city is attracting a lot of 6 figure jobs your housing costs are gonna jump, why? Because that was the purpose of the city "attracting" such jobs through, first "slum clearance" (oppressed removal) -- then subsidies for things like hospitals and tech (or university expansion) to bring in workers that don't mind paying thousands in rent so that the propertied classes can make a lot of money.
Even a new Amazon facility because, while the jobs aren't 6 figures, they are usually much better paying than minimum wage and will also raise rents in the lower sector as the community now has more money flowing through it so the petty bourgs and capitalists want to get those dollars at the end of the month and raise the cost of living to reap all that new cash.
There's more to be said about how these high wages are funded and the clue is in the number of workers in the periphery with impoverished conditions making clothes and gadgets for 1/10th to 1/100th of US minimum wage and where post-Soviet resource wealth is going.
tell them specifically what they did wrong and why they shouldn't do it, explain how their behavior could backfire on them
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We have a fundraiser to secure a trailer to house folks working on habitat restoration on the Pine Ridge Reservation. It's part of our food sovereignty program.
That being said this:
Is not true. In the same way the dictatorship of the proletariat necessarily oppresses class enemies (bourgeois, petties, labor aristocrats, kulaks), the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Oppressed Nations (JDPON) will oppress class enemies including settlers and their sympathetizers. Settlers will be oppressed in that their settler wealth and privileges will be destroyed. You are correct in that settler ideas of "reverse genocide" are reactionary drivel. We need not kill them, but that doesn't mean the forts won't burn...