I just got through having a conversation with someone on REDnote about Marx's Labor Theory of Value, and they brought up how they learned about it in middle school and asked me if I learned it in school. I then had to explain to them that Americans don't learn about Marxism in school and about the Crucial Communism Teaching Act that will indoctrinate students into hating Marxism.

#rednote #communism #marxism #socialism

Soviet Union Pro-Palestinian stamp from 1983

#Palestine #socialism #communism #Gaza

"The Los Angeles fires are not merely a natural disaster; they are a devastating indictment of capitalism’s inability to address the needs of humanity. They underscore the urgent necessity of building a movement of the working class, independent of both the Democratic and Republican parties, to fight for socialism."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/11/xzeu-j11.html

#USPol #LosAngelesFires #LAFires #LosAngeles #California #USA #Wildfire #Capitalism #WorkingClass #Socialism

George Carlin explains why the US, despite having a war on everything, doesn’t have a war on homelessness in under a minute

https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/1879119336046260690

#health
#poverty
#socialism
#capitalism
#communism
#classwar
#democracy
#humanrights
#austerity
#socialwork
#slavery
#resistance
#housing
#homelessness

#health
#poverty
#socialism
#capitalism
#communism
#classwar
#democracy
#humanrights
#austerity
#socialwork
#slavery
#resistance

In post-war #Japan, “Moderate prosperity and lifetime employment was guaranteed if you could tolerate the strictures of #corporate life. But the men in charge put it all on black, went bust and made up their losses selling off what remained to foreign capital; Japanese #socialism - the command economy responsible for public housing, employment for life and fast trains - was dismantled. Japan became hopeless, and the promised renewal has never come to pass. And so, everyone is looking backward.”

Meanwhile, the images sold to tourists commodify fantasy for profit.

Sobering reflections from Dylan Levi King

Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/14/tokyo-drift-what-happens-when-a-city-stops-being-the-future?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Some celebrities have lost homes in the #lafires and I am finding it hard to feel bad. #EatTheRich #socialism #fuckthesystem

#Capitalism #Socialism #Explained

It's called The Red Planet for a reason.

#elonmusk #mars #communism #socialism

Should people have a choice to attempt living outside of capitalism?

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-7367-76a9-0d13-12b031354204

#neoliberalism #anarchism #socialism #marxism #IWW #theory #communism #libertarianism #libertarian #corporatism #wobblies #materialism #dialectic #communalism
@yogthos @heretical_i

## Horizontal vs Vertical social organization

Undemocratic and from above as always, this is managerial humor of 5th grade level.

The simplest problem for those having it, the simplest problem for those defining it, and those who have/gain the authority to solve it, are all different.

When managerial stuff meet to solve a problem they/themselves defined, their interests are not to solve the problem but to gain the authority (jurisdiction) among others on who is best fit to solve it, therefore competing by individual interests to convince those with authority to delegate such authority to them. So the simple may become infinitely complex when the rest are not backing off and letting the "winner" undertake the task, who in reality will delegate tasks to inferiors to actually solve it.

So this joke really is on hierarchical authoritarian structures and how removed they are from the actual/physical world and the problem solution process.

If a community would meet to solve their simple problem of plumbing, irrigation, sewage, electric power, the interests of those members is to best solve the problem (themselves solving their own problem), and it is them who will actually do work to solve it, so proposal means also commitment to do work. Then, more complex problems tend to become simpler by discussion, analysis, diagnosis, and mutual decision. Usually those with most skill and experience tend to be most convincing in the debate on how to solve it.

Credentials that a community knows about each other, and rational discussion on material matters. Not bureaucracies issuing and certifying authorities to decide by specialty.

For ministry representatives attacking the problem of social isolation, loneliness, and depression ... a perception can explode into definition of an epidemic, for which institutions, offices, stuff, budgets need to be formed abd allocated.

When all it would take is to hang the bosses high and dry! Simple really, and FUN!

@Yogthos @Heretical_i
#libertarian #communism #socialism #vanguardism
#one dimensional marxists
#communalism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/31/antisemitism-israel-gaza-war-right

Well worth a read.

2 observations:
1 Weaponisation of antisemitism endangers diaspora Jews. Perversely, nasty life threatening attacks on diaspora Jews further the cause of Zionism & Netanyahu's government.
2 - Remember 2016-2019, when weaponised antisemitism was used to remake the Labour party to Keir Starmer's liking with vicious lies & smears against Corbyn & the left.

If only this article had been published then!

#antisemitism
#Israel
#Labour
#Socialism