ComradeSharkfucker

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  • No I am not a capitalist, I am working class. Any member of the working class calling themselves a capitalist is delusional. I exist within a capitalist system and therefore I engage with it or starve. Should I starve for my ideals and nothing more?

    When I say all capitalist are right wingers I mean that because the economic structure is the basis of seperation in real politics. The left is socialist and the right is capitalist simple as. The only reason liberals believe they are on the left is because the US jailed and executed communist and anarchists while dismantling all of their party structures both in the US and outside of the US. You believe you are on the left because the ruling class succeeded in eliminating their only real opposition domestically. The Democratic party is left of the Republican party but it is still firmly on the right and always has been.

    I’m not some white kid calling you a nazi. I’m not stupid enough to believe that’s what you are. More than likely you are a person who sees all the problems in America and doesn’t fall for the reactionary minority scapegoating of Republicans but has never been given a material basis for understanding political economy. There has never been a party that gave you material reasons for why things are the way that they are and how they can be fixed in concrete terms. The best Democrats offer is vague statements about how things will get better but also how things are already totally great, scapegoating a foreign power, or pointing out how awful their opponent is.

    There are reasons for why America is in the state it is in, these reasons are known and understood. There are solutions that we know will work to fix these problems with our society that we have seen empirically proof for. You can learn the reasons for these problems, how we can solve them, and why the solutions work. It is not “too complex” you do not need a degree for it. You must only read.

    This is what got me started. You don’t need to watch it, but it changed my life and may help you understand my perspective. Yellow Parenti








  • I do apply that same logic to the US, all of the Americas really. I just don’t see it being as feasible as decolonizing Israel would be. Regardless yes, those people do exist in Israel. There are many people in Israel who were born there with no where to flee too. Should this group be doing everything they can to leave or prevent the genocide then I do not have any qualms with them. There are even some people who moved there without knowledge of its history and its always prevelant oppression but these people should have left once they saw it. And they did see it, you can’t not see it.

    These Israelis in the video were in europe, they could flee if they wanted to. They could abandon their genocidal country but they clearly haven’t. They celebrate it even. They do not belong to the previously mentioned groups.

    I’m sure there are plenty of Israelis who oppose the war but so far I’ve only seen 8-12 anarchists use their bodies as shields. This, so far, has been the only Israeli material resistance to the genocide that I have seen. It is safe by now to say that Israelis are fascist. Have you seen the news on Israel recently? They passed a bill that allows them to deport “family members of terrorists” to Gaza or wherever they see fit. They are going to start moving arabs from the west bank into the concentration camp. Atleast in Germany the good people mostly couldn’t leave, some did what they could to help the jewish victims. Palestinians won’t have this luxury to the extent that the Jews did.

    Would you have been as hesitant to judge a German in 1938 as you would be to judge an Israeli now?

    Edit: futher context to the linked video

    These people were being very racist


  • Honestly it was a natural progression. I got into marxism which means I got into history. So I binged a lot of history youtube and found I really enjoyed pre-colonial American history, especially the Maya. For a time I scratched that itch with youtube videos, podcast episodes, and documentaries but eventually I came to a point where videos were repeating themselves and I wasn’t learning much new. Now, I am a physics major so I read a lot of textbooks and a lot of research papers so I am used to sites like JSTOR and have access to them through my school. So now I spend some of my free time reading about these cultures.

    Plenty of alternative sites if you don’t have access though ;)