Dispatches From The Class War

The Haves Vs. The Have-Nots

[la-laborista-republiko]

[antoine-roquentin]

JIM HENSON I think Ms. Rand and my character Oscar the Grouch would have a lot to talk about actually. I am laughing out loud at this idea. AYN RAND Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve. JIM HENSON He has achieved what I think is the ultimate goal of your way of thinking. JIM HENSON Isolation. Contempt for others. A hard heart. Yet even he can muster a bit of empathy every now and then. AYN RAND I am not isolated. I have no contempt for others. Millions of people read my books and find my thoughts inspirational. I hardly spend my time on the sidelines in a trash can grumping. JIM HENSON Not yet anyway.

Jim Henson and Ayn Rand, along with Yoko Ono and Sidney Nolan, converse on ARPANET, 1976 (via antoine-roquentin)

omg

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What has he achieved or is trying to achieve

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jim henson throwing shade on rand via the 70s equivalent of USENET is totes my jam

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[steviemcfly]

The idea that a grown adult would choose to work a more physically demanding job for less money than it takes to survive out of laziness rather than desperation is a capitalist myth.

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[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

LEET peasantry.

[no-corners-deactivated20160918]

Wage slavery does not exist. You aren't forced to get a job. You aren't forced to keep a job. And while, as you say, capitalism lets people die, it doesn't actively kill them. There's a difference between not giving somebody medicine, which happens under capitalism, and shooting them in the head, which happens under communism.

Allowing people to die of preventable or treatable disease is indistinguishable from murder. lmfao

Also capitalists shoot at workers literally ALL THE TIME. Heard of the Pinkertons?

[russianrepublican-deactivated20]

“…literally ALL THE TIME”

Ah, yes. Because that happens today. Employers kill their employees consistently in America. Totally.

[no-corners-deactivated20160918]

lmfao just you wait until there’s another general strike, guy 

[meckamecha]

Coal mines literally will skirt or ignore every single regulation on the books to save a buck, and that gets a lot of miners killed.

[no-corners-deactivated20160918]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mining_disasters_in_the_United_States

[this-machine-k1lls-fascists-dea]

Coca-Cola literally murdered union organizers in Mexico

[fed-detector-deactivated2018030]

I love how people are like “well okay there used to be child labor, and 14-hour shifts, and strikes were broken up by calling in the army to shoot at the workers, and deadly working conditions leading to easily preventable tragedies like the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, but that doesn’t happen anymore” because it ignores two major things. One is that all those things are still happening in the developing world, two is that the only reason those things have stopped happening or happen less often in the developed world is because of the constant pressure from anarchists, communists, and others in the workers’ movement demanding it. The bosses never had a change of heart and decided “okay, enough is enough, we’ll allow safety regulations and health inspections and stop using child labor”, the bosses kept fighting until the very last minute before those regulations became law. Only after decades of normalizing these regulations did it become unthinkable that we could do it any other way. 

[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

Or: only after decades of moving manufacturing to developing countries with draconian rulers and no labour standards.

[firedrill]

[neo-p0c]

😂😂😂😂😂

[bando--grand-scamyon]

[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

University of Toronto Boasts about Homeless Star Student

In what world is a top university student having to live in a homeless shelter treated like a success story? Welcome to Canada in 2015.

[fullpraxisnow]

[art-and-anarchism-deactivated20]

Rich man’s war,

Poor man’s blood.

[commune-or-nothing]

Cool poster in Sydney

[class-struggle-anarchism]

[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

We’ll endorse this event or product!

[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

Sometimes I Feel Like I'm The Only One Trying To Gentrify This Neighborhood

When I moved into this neighborhood, I fell in love right away. Not with the actual neighborhood, but with its potential: It's affordable, there...

From the gentrifier’s perspective.  Because we never get to here that perspective, amirite?

[hawcubite]

[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

But how does Nancy think she’s going to get them all in one house?

[theanti90smovement]

I can’t believe “people should be paid livable wages” is a controversial opinion

[class-struggle-anarchism]

[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

Brighton class war starts at the dinner table.

[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

[disptachesfromtheclasswar]

Capitalism’s death rattle, as described by Chris Hedges.

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The welfare state saved me. To need it isn’t a moral failure | Lola Okolosie

Society is buying the Tory message that poverty is all the fault of the individual. I know first-hand how vital state support can be