Milei managed to improve on the deficit a lot! Turns out all you needed to do is to put 3/4 of your country in poverty and destroy 3.4% of GDP in a year! And you’ll solve inflation as well, prices can’t rise if people don’t have money to buy things!!
Deficit is a good thing for the most part. It literally means by definition the government is putting more money into the economy than it’s extracting, which increases the capacity of families and businesses to save and to spend. Surplus means, by definition, that it’s collecting more money from the economy than it’s reinvesting into it, which literally, by definition, makes people poorer.
The problem isn’t with deficit itself, public expenditure is cool, the problem is where it’s spent. We want fewer corporate bailouts and fewer corruption schemes, and more investment in education, healthcare and pensions.
their socialist/progressive third party that gets one vote every election will definitely overtake both Dems and Republicans
The idea isn’t overtaking both parties in an election, it’s showing the democrat administration that their votes are actually conditioned to doing the absolute bare minimum like, you know, not enabling actual genocide. By “voting blue no matter who” in the “most important elections in US history” (a pattern that starts to repeat itself too much, you can’t call every election the most important one), and by voting exclusively on damage mitigation, is how you get the slide to the right of the democrats (and republicans) over the past 5 decades. By not showing that your support to democrats is conditional to, you know, progressive policy, you’re giving them a license to enact whatever brutal murderous genocidal policy they desire, since they know it won’t have an electoral consequence.
That’s how you get the candidate for the democrats saying on a rally that israel has the right to defend itself (again, during the ongoing genocide of Gazans and soon Lebanese) and that the US should have the most LETHAL fighting force in the world. Not effective, not powerful, not even the besr funded. The MOST FUCKING LETHAL. And the crowd bursts into chants of “USA, USA, USA”. I don’t know how that looks to Americans, but as a European, saying that you want your military to be the most lethal, and the crowd chanting the name of the country, is something I would expect of, idk, Nazi Germany.
We need to actually appeal to people sometimes, actually talk about difficult subjects that affect people
One side wants to talk about housing, public pensions, public healthcare, public education, salaries, discrimination against women and minorities, and work/life balance.
The other side wants to talk about immigrants being bad and evil, and about how trans people in films are turning their children gay
The most voted party in the wide front coalition is LFI, earning more votes than Macron’s party. Macron is refusing so far to name a president from the LFI, for the first time in the history of the 5th republic of France.
Not really, and I say this being a communist myself. Capitalism just requires to extract the maximum profit from the capital investment, sometimes it leads to what you said, sometimes it leads to the opposite (e.g. no difference between i5 1st gen and i5 8th gen)
Funnily enough, I’m Spanish and the meme is somehow also accurate here?
Big quantitative differences turn into qualitative differences. But thank you for finally admitting you’re talking out of your ass
Dude, you’re deluded if you think capitalist exploitation is even close to corruption in communism. There was no Bezos and no Elon in the USSR. There were no yatchs and hookers. There were no homeless workers, or workers without access to healthcare. The inequality was extremely low compared to Capitalism, even comparing workers with your dreaded “bureaucracy”. The fact that you’d even compare the both just shows how stupidly uneducated you are in this.
Corruption isn’t systematic, it’s an isolated and illegal activity, unlike extraction of surplus value in capitalism which is legal and encouraged and systematic. The extent of corruption is orders of magnitude below capitalist exploitation.
But not the elimination of exploitation
There’s no surplus labour extraction, hence no exploitation
Marx’s point wasn’t the complete elimination of corruption, but the elimination of the exploitation of the working class by the owning class. This has historically happened in several countries and can (and will) happen again.
That’s just, like, your opinion, dude. Anarcho-syndicalism doesn’t logically eliminate corruption either, no system does
!LOL so no solution in fact
Not if you choose to ignore everything else I said after that. But that’s just you wanting to argue in bad faith
LOL it’s not because that’s how concepts work.
You can tell that to yourself, it’s the core of what you meant, regardless of whether you want to use the specific word “utopia” or just talk about “ideal societies that won’t take place”. I’m not here to argue semantics.
What revolution?
Whichever comes. Revolutions take place periodically in different countries. French revolution, October revolution, revolutionary struggles against colonialism… All of those were revolutions, i.e. events in history with rapid radical changes in the form of governance and organisation of a system, possibly with a change in the classes of society.
What’s the Marxist plan for preventing the people who take power from becoming the new exploiters? How do Marxists propose to overcome the fact that power corrupts?
The solution is being as democratic as possible. Establishing grassroots, dual power structures early and way before the revolutions. Strong unions, neighborhood associations, social rights movements like current feminist organizations… All of those linked and in collaboration with each other and with a vanguard party of Marxist intellectuals who guide these collectives and vice-versa.
Wow, this looks like an insanely good resource. Thank you, comrade!
“wouldn’t it be nice if” pie in the sky idea
How’s that not basically the definition of utopia?
that there is seemingly no proposal for how to make socialism come about
There pretty much is: create a vanguard party of Marxist intellectuals, create unions and give services to citizens in order to organise them, help them in their lives and their struggle, and educate them into class-consciousness. This makes a grassroots dual-power structure that makes workers class-conscious and politically involved as well as provides them with safety networks that they themselves maintain. When the material conditions for the revolution eventually come, the vanguard party and the grassroots organizations coalesce and take power from the bourgeoisie
My point is that there were already conservatives 200 years ago claiming that socialism was utopian, and people like Marx and Engels proved them wrong. Lenin and Fidel, and all the workers who followed and guided them, adhering to Marxism-Leninism, successfully organized revolutions that abolished capitalism and Tsarism and turned their countries into socialist ones.
So your comment that it seems “utopian” has already been answered by Engels 150+ years ago, and confirmed wrong by Lenin and Fidel.
I want to coin the term “Polandization” for the process in which decades of propaganda make countries in Eastern Europe invaded by Nazis and liberated by Soviets, hate communism and embrace fascism.
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