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In reply to the discussion: To End Racism and Police Brutality, End Capitalism! [View all]AOR
(692 posts)you think what you've offered up here in your two posts is something new ? These slogans you are using are right out of the McCarthy playbook and are used everywhere to try and silence the actual left. Standard issue red-baiting conjuring up scary images of Stalin on Red Square as the tanks roll by. Laughable.
The conversation is about Capitalism... not how some alternate choice on the "buffet table of choices" might stack up in one's imagination. Many are too busy bashing Marx to understand Marx. You apparently think that the foundations of Capitalism are not based on exploitation, the institutionalized theft of labor, and the increasing impoverishment of the workers ?
Marx is a critique of Capitalism and the oppressive relationship between Capital and Labor. Marx is a guide for the working class. Marx is a tool for the working class. Marx is clarification for the working class in understanding the continuous battle between Labor and Capital under the capitalist modes of production. Marx stands the test of time - in that regard - and scares the crap out of "Libertarian" propagandists, economists, and capitalist lapdogs who deny the existence of classes and class struggle and who also deny that profits and Capital set in motion are created by the exploitation of workers, the theft of labor, the theft of the commons, and the commodification of basic human needs and nearly all resources.
You don't have to be a Marxist scholar to understand that labor and the majority of the working class and the poor masses are getting their asses kicked by Capital and the priorities of the ruling class and their gatekeepers.