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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I gotta say, the English translator for that edition of the party manifesto keeps saying "In one word," instead of "In a sentence,"

Although perhaps, given how compound words work in German, I wouldn't be surprised if those sentences were just one word in the original copy.

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] ScoobyDope@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month 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

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month 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:

[–] ScoobyDope@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month 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.

[–] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You calling minimum wage workers “drones” says everything anyone ever needed to know about you.

[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Small business people are every bit as insufferable as big business people

[–] ScoobyDope@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you’ve obviously never worked at a McDonald’s. It’s literally a mindless job. It’s fucking awful, and you literally just drone through your day. You’re not even trusted with cooking eggs, it’s all automated on timers.

At my restaurant, people get to be creative. dishes on the menu, specials. They get paid above industry standard. When I couldn’t have all my staff on during lockdown, I laid people to not work.

I’m not rich. I live in a one bedroom apartment. I’m still paying off debt I actúes keeping salaries going on workers who weren’t even working. I’m not the enemy. But whatever.

[–] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

You are just proving my point. That you have no respect for people and prefer to call them drones. You lack basic the human sense of respect for your fellow man but this makes sense

[–] PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month 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.

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month 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.

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Viskio_Neta_Kafo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I will take a look at him, I just got a bad impression from him going to Stop Bernie meetings during the 2020 primary.

That said he's well spoken and a good ally to have during these trying times.