You don't need to use China for the superlative of bad work conditions when you're talking about bad working conditions in the US.
Overpopulation isn't defined by how much people there are, but by the total amount of sustainably produced goods and services divided by the total population. Fewer people producing unsustainably would also be overpopulation. We need to transition to sustainability regardless of amount of people, reducing population only leads to slower decline, not to a stop of it.
The only solution I see at this point is mass protest and starting to assassinate CEOs, shareholders, and boards of directors, in self defense
Historically, terrorism isn't really a good way towards the elimination of capitalism. The creation of strong unions linked to communist parties (not in the "liberal democracy" sense of party, but in the communist sense) is a historically more proven way to fight against capitalist power structures. Unionise, create local dual power structures and mutual aid, join a militant communist party.
Your logic: "We've identified the problem is capitalism. Stop pointing at it and start pointing at something else, that'll solve it!"
Now what?
Now we organise to abolish capitalism in historically achievable ways, such as unionisation of workers, creation of socialist and dual power structures, and the eventual revolution.
The problem isn't methodology. There are plenty of ways to predict, detect and measure pollution, its origins, and ways to prevent it. The problem is systemic: capitalism simply doesn't account for pollution, and the ruling class which it generates actually fights against regulations. The result is what we see. To solve climate change, we need systemic change
They have a point. Bernie was supporting Kamala until election day, and using language such as "the conflict in Israel and Gaza" in order to try and placate more progressive voters and get them to hold their nose strong enough to vote for Kamala. Now that the strategy failed, instead of owning it and apologising, now that Bernie is opposition again instead of belonging to the establishment through the party in government, he can appeal to progressives
"Working class" refers to people whose main source of income is a salary earned on exchange for labour, in a free contract between them and an employer.
"Capitalist class" refers to the ones purchasing the labour power of others in order to have them work capital that the former own.
You're confusing "working class" with "lower class". The concepts of low, middle and upper class are quite diffuse, mostly based on income, and used to draw artificial barriers between workers who at the end of the day have more common interests than different ones.
unlike Americans they're not inoculated against these ideas
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha did you watch the election results in the US mate? The US has a system with a far right party and a slightly less far right party
I (hate and) understand that the reason is geopolitics and CENTCOM military power projection in the region, but it’s still bad politics to not commit to a pretense of trying.
Essentially, you're saying that the genocide is settled and that american elections are exclusively performative (at the very least when it comes to international policy). You must then agree with me that the US is not a democracy, and that the US as we know it is a force for evil in the world?
Saying that Israel has a right to defend itself from Oct 7th is completely equivalent to saying that Nazi Germany had the right to defend itself from Polish resistance attacks under occupation. Please learn about the Naqba before spewing IDF propaganda about the right of Israel to defend itself.
the pflp caused Trump to win
ROFL
Israel has a right to defend itself. So does every country
Why would you even say those words when it's not the case? Israel isn't defending itself, it's committing genocide.
So: start organising to fight fascism immediately. We've been saying this for years: you don't fight fascism at the urns. Unionize, make collective grassroots power, read leftist theory (the only ones who managed to stop fascism in the last century).
The only one who openly supported their genocide was Trump
Funding Israel while talking of "the right of Israel to defend itself" seems pretty supportive of the genocide in my book.
Again, I'm sure you know better as a likely white American what to do about it than the literal PFLP.
If only we had any historical examples from, say, the past century, showing that the way to stop fascism is NOT by voting the socialdemocrats/liberals into power...
May do? More like continually does
Poland has made some of my favourite music of all time
As the title says, Poland has birthed some of my favourite songs (as a Spaniard). The band Riverside is just incredible, and in particular the song "Deprived (irretrievably lost imagination)" has to be the most fucking beautiful song ever written. Additionally, Coma's "zaprzepaszczone siły wielkiej armii świętych znaków" haunts my everyday too, so immensely good.
Can you guys recommend any similar polish music to this? Because this is EXACTLY my jam. If not, anyway, thanks to your country for birthing these absolutely immaculate masterpieces.
MLK and his vision on moderates in politics
Martin Luther King was a well-known activist for Black peoples' and worker's rights. After many years of fighting racism and oppression from the establishment, he shared insights on some of his findings of the unjust opposition to rightful change, which may surprise a few of us who are still learning about his figure:
"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
We've recently seen widespread liberal rejection of grassroots progressive movements such as Black Lives Matter, the protests against western collaborationism in the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and many so-called "progressives" dedicating more time to finding the mistakes committed by non-western regimes than those of their own nations, and calling "Tankies" to those who are a bit further to the left than us. Let us consider if we ourselves are the moderates that Dr. Luther King was talking about, and let's push for the change we actually want rather than bickering about who's "too far to the left"