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This sub is a collaborative socialist 'zine that welcomes news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge the narratives presented by the ruling classes.

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This subreddit has its roots in broad-based anti-capitalist thought, with an underlying Marxist tendency that is steeped in intersectionalist Critical Theory.

When it comes to proposed alternatives to Capitalism, it is the general consensus of this subreddit that the contradiction between Capital and Labour must be eliminated; the working class should own and control the means of production. We call this socialism.


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The Current State of Wealth Inequality…

Wealth-inequality.GitHub.io

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2024/12/01
12:03 UTC

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Documentary films about criticism of capitalism – The Corporation (2003) – Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) – Inside Job (2010) – Laboratory Greece (2019)

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2024/12/01
08:07 UTC

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So answer the question Austrians? Or how many years (decades? Centuries?) should slaves have waited for a market solution to emancipation? Seems AE is more worried about the profits of a slaver. Not having a slave was also legal, why didn't the market reward that?

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2024/11/30
21:30 UTC

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The Happiness Machine, Digital Illustration by me thought y’all might appreciate it

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2024/11/30
10:22 UTC

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Found this band's video on instagram and their satire on capitalism with the video and lyrics is great

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2024/11/28
14:00 UTC

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This 2022 theory proven correct. The Ukraine War was an excuse to test-run decoupling, prior to decoupling from CHINA. Confirmed after Trump revealed his plan to partially decouple from CHINA, via high tariffs, AND end the Ukraine proxy war.

10 Comments
2024/11/27
18:10 UTC

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Being Woke Ain't Broke

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2024/11/20
18:10 UTC

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Revolution: What We Get Wrong? ft. @Andrewism & @Anark

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2024/11/18
16:55 UTC

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Class War ✊🏻

"In the clash between capitalist development and the interest of the dominant class, the State takes a position alongside of the latter. Its policy, like that of the bourgeoisie, comes into conflict with social development. It thus loses more and more of its character as a representative of the whole of society and is transformed, at the same rate into a pure class state.

Or, to speak more exactly, these two qualities distinguish themselves more from each other and find themselves in a contradictory relation in the very nature of the State. This contradiction becomes progressively sharper. For on one hand, we have the growth of the functions of a general interest on the part of the State, its intervention in social life, its 'control' over society.

But on the other hand, its class character obliges the State to move the pivot of its activity and its means of coercion more and more into domains which are useful only to the class character of the bourgeoisie and have for society as a whole only a negative importance, as in the case of militarism and tariff and colonial policies.

Moreover, the 'social control' exercised by this State is at the same time penetrated with and dominated by its class character (see how labour legislation is applied in all countries)."

  • Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution?
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2024/11/07
21:10 UTC

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Thousands of volunteers claim back Valencia from the mud waters because the State isn't capable

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2024/11/07
18:07 UTC

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Does the state/government enforce private property?

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2024/11/06
17:55 UTC

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An Anti-Capitalist Discussion Regarding Election 2024

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2024/11/05
15:34 UTC

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Retired Jewish professor Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors and founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine, was arrested under a UK anti-terrorism law after speaking at a recent pro-Palestinian protest in London

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2024/11/04
20:47 UTC

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In a peaceful protest, hundreds of Greek firefighters hold a sitting demonstration until riot police show up

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2024/11/03
18:57 UTC

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For Land | Shorts #1: Hunting and clearances

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2024/11/02
23:20 UTC

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Saving the Environment: A Young Marxist Speaks!

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2024/11/01
12:43 UTC

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Neocolonialism

"In many poor countries over half the manufacturing assets are owned or controlled by foreign companies. Even in instances when the multinationals have only a minority interest, they often retain a veto control. Even when the host nation owns the enterprise in its entirety, the multinationals will enjoy benefits through their near-monopoly of technology and international marketing. Such is the case with oil, an industry in which the giant companies own only about 38 percent of the world's crude petroleum production but control almost all the refining capacity and distribution.

Given these disadvantageous trade and investment relations, Third World nations have found it expedient to borrow heavily from Western banks and from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is controlled by the United States and other Western member-nations. By the 1990s, the Third World debt was approaching $2 trillion, and unpayable sum. The greater a nation's debt, the greater the pressure to borrow still more to meet deficits – often at still higher interest rates and on tighter payment terms.

An increasingly large portion of the earnings of indebted nations goes to servicing the debt, leaving still less for domestic consumption. The debts of some nations have grown so enormous that the interest accumulates faster than payments can be met. The debt develops a self-feeding momentum of its own, consuming more and more of the debtor nation's wealth."

  • Michael Parenti, Against Empire
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2024/10/30
22:35 UTC

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Join Lemmygrad.

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2024/10/28
13:57 UTC

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"the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.” - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

1 Comment
2024/10/27
20:06 UTC

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No more Cool Ranch for me i guess...

2 Comments
2024/10/23
23:34 UTC

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Einstein was a socialist

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society." - Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

4 Comments
2024/10/22
17:30 UTC

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The I”D”F has attacked UN peacekeepers yet again

3 Comments
2024/10/20
19:21 UTC

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