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@gesamtarbeiter

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"It has always been the impossible that has created humanity’s new realities." Gustav Landauer

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finish him

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What kind of elder do you think you’ll be??

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getting anthro-pilled

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RIP Alfredo M. Bonanno. An important anarchist thinker and exponent of insurrectionism.

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How does Bastani feel that queen of capital Grimes just explained his book in 50 seconds?

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lmao please what the fuck is grimes talking about

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You're a scab fucking rat piece of shit. Fuck you.

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we think that fascism was defeated but it just got sublated right?

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Anarchists don't read and yet this is my table stand... 🫠

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"Anarchists don't read" are you from another planet? We're drowning in bookfairs! I cant get these dorks to put down unstapled zines of modern theory, bewildering critiques and history books. Wheres the communist bookfairs? Do they split into 20 different bookfairs before day-of?

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Marx on the State and party politics.

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The most banal sentence in existence. It tells you nothing. It means absolutely nothing.

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@FoxyMarxist

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anarchism is a bourgeois trend of thought since it is also individualism

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While we can blame @Arbeit_Fish for starting the discourse, I think the real blame needs to be laid at the feet of the British social democrats who pushed the luxury communism narrative and is why people really can't accept how exploitative current luxuries actually are.

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Boris denouncing the violent protest in Bristol, live from BAE systems. You couldn't make it up.

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The Bristol police now admit to lying about officers having broken bones LOL fucking hell

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@geraldstratfor3 @piersmorgan get him Gerald

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Maybe a wild idea here but I think a socialist critique of capitalism needs to be qualitive and not quantitative and the idea of reformism is completely demolished under a qualitative exposition. It is also this qualitative aspect that sets the horizon for socialist activity.

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Marx on the State in 1844 and 1871.

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Imagine being a lecturer and writing a book on the political right and finding this astonishing? Wild shit. Political science is clearly bogus

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This was astonishing. 63 per cent of Nazi militants said their main enemy were communists/socialists.

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Cooked food for the Durham Uni encampment today. Apparently it was very good.

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the capitalists are then praised for their ingenuity and generosity 😑

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oh who'd have fucking thought!!!!

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have any of the 'pragmatic' Marxists, actually existing socialists and social democrats ever offered anything other than an extractivist capitalist state?

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@RichieBrave

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Venezuela wants to “annex” 70% of Guyana’s land via a 200 year old land dispute. Venezuela’s population is 28.5 million and Guyana’s is 743 thousand. Venezuela’s military is over 15 times larger than Guyana’s and heavily funded. A deeply concerning time.

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I've never met an anarchist who thinks Bakunin is always right against Marx but the overwhelming majority of Marxists think he was always right against Bakunin.

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right-libertarians loving liberty, and expanding the localities of freedom by *checks notes* calling in the armed forces against interpersonal combination, arresting dissenters and outlawing civil organisations, and stealing children from families 💛💛💛

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me, an anarchist: yes... ha ha ha yes!

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i used to not understand why people just wouldn’t vote but now i wholeheartedly get it, every party is just trash they’re all the same… is there even a point anymore

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One thing to be reminded is that while the whole thing against the Poll Tax was good. We still ended up with council tax. If the Policing Bill gets scrapped people need to be more mindful about what actually comes in it's place.

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CLR James' three things that Marxists must understand:- "i) The national state must be destroyed and the only way in which that can be done is the break-up of all bourgeois institutions and their replacement by socialist institutions."

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@Fuoco136 @annoying_reply @IGN Profiting by creating a game where you play as 'the team' that commits war crimes is inherently political. They can claim all they want but it is still political.

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The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978

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Bakunin on Marx's Capital.

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some of you may shit on us who try to learn value-theory with the help of twitter but for some of us its actually our classroom, as sad as that sounds, and its good to sound off ideas with others

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we think that fascism was defeated but it just got sublated right?

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my boy Malatesta 🥲

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Marx on post-capitalist wealth. I love it being described as the 'absolute unfolding of man's creative abilities' and that man 'does not seek to remain something he has already become but is in the absolute movement of becoming.' 😊

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Couldn't sum up the difference between MLs and anarchists anymore than this. From revolutionary Spain.

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proletarianised agricultural workers aren't the same as peasants fyi

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Got a bunch of them books you put up @problemicist cheers

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"'Proletarian' must be understood to mean, economically speaking, nothing other than 'wage-laborer,' the man who produces and valorizes 'capital,' and is thrown onto the street as soon as he becomes superfluous to the need for valorization." Marx

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@Logo_Daedalus

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The definition of proletarian matters because it distinguishes reactionary unions of bourgeois service work from proletarian labor which is unionized. The amazon union is proletarian. The starbucks union is not. If you don’t understand this, you never will.

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@daniel_dsj2110 words what do they mean

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How do Marxists square the whole base superstructure thing with Stalin just coopting the Bolsheviks and creating something that apparently wasn't what Lenin had planned? Surely the seeds of Stalinism was in the economic base that Lenin had built?

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I'm clear 🥹

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Another day another cancer article. Another bus stop poster. Ready for my procedure tomorrow. Great fun all round. Feeling assaulted by the incessant noise of cancer.

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Yes because that's what the wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails presents itself as.

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does everything a have to be a commodity

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when the time comes some buildings, some monuments, will just simply be knocked down, not repurposed, not turned into artifacts, not be rehabilitated

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New Amazon office in 🇳🇱 is an old prison 😂🤩

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people read too much actual conspiratorialism into things and not enough into the abject irrationality and absurdism of capitalism

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antiwork reddit does appear to have pierced the bourgeois veil in a way traditional socialist movements haven't for a long time

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workers, in order to live: WE DEMAND $15 AN HOUR people: these people just don't understand economics, it can't be done, impossible bosses, to save their failing business: HERE IS $15 AN HOUR people: genius, next Steve Jobs, fantastic idea, he'll go far

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"Italian Lenin" seems like an insult to Malatesta lol

Repeater Books

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@saditious takes a deep dive into the work of Errico Malatesta, the "Italian Lenin" with Davide Turcato.

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Engels 1891 postscript to The Civil War In France is really illuminating regarding Marxism and the State. He praises the Communes push for a free federative structure of Commune, and union of councils and calls it 'a dictatorship of the proletariat' while denouncing the State.

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You're not a journalist, you're a paid police informant. A rat. Grass. Snitch. I.e. a piece of fucking shit and a danger to everyone

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The treatment by many on the Left of our trans comrades is very reminiscent of how Guerin was treated by the left when he came out as bi in 1965 and who abandoned him and censored his work.

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its actually the middle class

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I'm this guy

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man here thinks he's fucking Godard for writing Borat 2

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@BootsRiley Oscar nominated writer here. You seem cretinous & stupid & it’s clear you’ll never make any art that transcends the most bovine of aspirations. You’re an anti-intellectual, encouraging people to ignore primary evidence that’d facilitate fact-based understanding. And you’re a twat

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@ThoBishop very libertarian of you

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Bakunin calls the lumpen the flower of the proletariat so...

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100 years on since Krondstadt. And still, forever, fuck the Bolsheviks.

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"Thoughts of Revolution" by Peter Kropotkin, translated into Yiddish for the jewish Leeds Anarchist Group. Lidzer Anarkhistishe grupe appears from 1899-1903.

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If anyone still doubts that Zionism is fascism then.... My thesis on fascism being sublated rather than defeated and how its intimately bound up with Fordist industrial society is just becoming more correct, particularly when even the Jews are praising its efficiency.

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I completely understand why ordinary Germans thought the Nazis were great, because they were efficient, and they promised to build a great work force and economy. They were selling something.

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Happy May Day to all anarchists, communists, and all workers of the world! To all fighting for a free and just world! One day it will all be ours.

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Knew it.

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He probably thinks it's great let's face it.

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@ThirteenXTwelve 14 years jesus fucking christ, you get less for so much more

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Aye so part of communism is like altering this problem forever. It could be so much more. Joy in cooking, sharing food and spending time with others. 🙏

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Cooking a meal for like an hour just to eat it in five minutes, wash up and leave the kitchen is soooooooo depressing omg. Surely this is not all there is to life

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me when people are arguing over the differences between anarcho syndicalism and anarcho communism

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@DunsanyJack @JasperParks007 @RichardDawkins @TitaniaMcGrath good satire Jacob

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amazing scenes of solidarity in Glasgow this morning. Imagine being a pig and thinking you're doing good by ripping people from their lives. I still can't quite believe people choose to be cops.

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based anarchist Marx

William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸

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I’m just going to leave this here

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Does Saito really advocate 'starting from scratch'?

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Kohei Saito’s degrowth rewrite of Marxist theory is not only incorrect — if taken seriously, it would lead to political disaster for both the socialist left and the environmental movement.

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@LukasMukasPukas

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@Cominsitu heard mutterings of Bellingcat using AI to find them...

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Venkataramana Reddy

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I have worked with Brits in the past. They are by far the laziest bunch (and I have worked with Greeks too). You cannot catch them after lunch on Friday. Forget getting hold of anyone after the 21st of December. They are a fairly miserable purposeless bunch just getting through

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I still need to read his notes on Hegel, which I am very much looking forward to. Best known I suspect for his banned tract, Armed Joy which is still influential within the anarchist movement.

Armed Joy

Alfredo M. Bonanno Armed Joy 1977 Translated by Jean Weir. Original title “La gioia armata” 1977 Edizioni Anarchismo, Catania. 1998 Elephant Editions,...

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yo this is one reason why the value debates are important imo cause this is fucking dog shit

Keyboard Commie 🚩☭

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If you think Marx didn't envision markets in Socialism then you really don't understand Marxism. Capitalism and having markets in Socialism is not the same thing. Many, if not all, US politicians fail to understand this. I suggest re-reading Marx if you don't understand this.

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got some great news guys, I've been offered a position at Verso

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"...the Left, if it takes itself seriously, has to be a destructive Left and that is, a Left that stands firmly on the side of human emancipation. Such emancipation entails that the Left abandons its illusions about the state as a means of liberation."

Destruction as the Determination of the Scholar in Miserable Times - Johannes Agnoli

Johannes Agnoli was a Italian Marxist political scientist, though he rejected the label Marxist, preferring instead - somewhat ironically - to call himself an Agnolist. Werner Bonefeld, a founder of...

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iii) The revolution in everyday life. "We do not make the revolution to achieve the socialist society. The socialist society makes the revolution. "

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@as_a_worker Tony P: “The answer to the question of the purpose of the theory of value is quite different for the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie asks about the prices of commodities, the proletariat about the organisation of society.”

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Mark Fisher is overrated sorry lads

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in what world are modern European farmers peasants, absolutely wild

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'Today the peasants, not the workers, are the only class that is internationalist in practice, precisely because they are chauvinist in ideology.' Marco D'Eramo on the farmers' protests and 'l'Europe profonde':

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He probably thinks it's great let's face it.

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interesting to see abstractions, such as law, rights, ratings become completely unraveled in the Western mind. They hold no power in themselves, only by the real violence that enforces them.

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"ii) The first concrete enemy is the bourgeois national state. It is absolutely impossible for a national state of any kind at this stage of the twentieth century to develop and even to maintain itself even under the most revolutionary and proletarian of governments."

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Fassbinder x Bakunin

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You wanted 10000 more cops.

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I will be voting against the Police Crime and Sentencing Bill in Parliament. The last thing the Police need is more powers at this time.

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sorry to get in on this shit too but well...

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Funny that people talk about anarchist 'disorganisation' when the vast majority of anarchist theorisation and practice is working through the organisational question. Anarchism is an active movement of reconfiguring society for increased autonomy.

small-C communist 🏴

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seeing a lot of American leftists imply that students (correctly and effectively) refusing to speak to bad-faith media weirdos is some kind of victory over "anarchist" disorganisation exercising self-control and electing spokespeople is perfectly compatible with anarchism lol

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Mike Lynch calling Truss & Co libertarian anarchists has got me all het up this morning. This your savior?

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Regarding immigrant detention, "in 1993 the UK had the capacity to detain 250 people; by the end of the 00s, it was detaining about 25,000 people each year."

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The Roman Empire? I spend all my time thinking about the crushing of the Paris Commune, as any sane and decent person should

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ngl still think we should be deplatforming fascists, not interviewing them

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I can't deal with social democrats man, they want Palestinians to vote Israel off their land or what? Just shut the fuck up, it's so embarrassing. Delete it and go to bed, have a nap.

Meagan Day

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Organized democratic mass politics isn’t easy, but it’s got a great track record and doesn’t involve mowing down elderly women with machine guns. Many on the Palestinian left, which is not a monolith dominated by Hamas, actually prefer it to terrorist attacks on civilians

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Marx said, in 1880, that The Poverty Of Philosophy (1847), 'might just serve as an introduction to the study of Capital.' And yet no one really says to start there? I started with Marx's Wage Labour and Capital which is a manuscript associated with it. I thought that made sense.

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You are making the case for neo-Luddism even stronger. God bless you.

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@jacobin

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Protests against exploitative firms should involve the workforce itself — not sabotage their operations in a way that alienates the workers we should be fighting alongside.

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Capitalism and ecology: from the decline of capital to the decline of the world - Paul Mattick via @libcomorg

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Sure, Labour, you brought up broadband for all, nice one, but like, this applies to virtually everything. Our needs must met. The pandemic has shown how important access to food, housing, healthcare etc is and which consequently shows that the communists are right.

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"A positive critique of economics, Capital is also, one might say, a negative theory of socialism, clarifying the social relations that need to be abolished for a fundamental break with capitalism to be accomplished." Mattick

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Setting rigidly to prescriptions of communism and its forms of organisation is to fundamentally take away what will make communism communism. This doesn't mean we can't theorise and conceive of organisational structures. There has to be a dialectic between spontaneity and plan.

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Marx on communism and the immediate abolition of money.

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left wing podcasters, academics, politicians: we just need to manage the economy better! left wing delivery drivers, call centre workers, factory operatives: we must abolish value, communise!

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What does it take for people to take seriously the anarchist and ultra-left critique of parliamentarianism, electoral politics and representative democracy? The whole thing, again, is going the way it always does and yet...

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