Karl

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[karl-says]

[karl-says]

Happy Labour Day, American comrades. Seize it! ♥️🤍💙

[karl-says]

Hello comrades! I just wanted to let you all know that I'll be on vacation for the next week, so I'll be a bit absent from posting. I apologize for my absences.

It's important to take breaks and recharge, yet many Americans don't take vacations due to time or budget constraints; which we also all know many countries offer mandatory days for such things. So let's remember the value of rest and advocate for policies that ensure everyone has the opportunity to take time off to relax and enjoy life. After all work shouldn't be your life.

See you all in a week! Stay strong and keep the conversation alive. In solidarity, Karl.

[radicalgraff]

"Shrimply United Against the 1%"

Poster spotted in Calgary, Alberta

[karl-says]

Shrimply United, comrades!

[karl-says]

One of my favorite things Marx discusses in his manifesto is how people who have been under subjugation or capitalism for so long can't even begin to think about or understand a different system. It's as if the chains of capitalism have become so deeply embedded in our consciousness that the very idea of an alternative feels inconceivable. This mental conditioning ensures that we view the capitalist system as the only viable reality, stifling our imagination and revolutionary potential. Breaking free from this mindset is the first step toward envisioning and creating a just and equitable society. Let’s challenge ourselves to imagine beyond the confines of capitalism and fight for a future where everyone can thrive.

[karl-says]

"The doctrinaire and necessarily fantastic anticipations of the programme of action for a revolution of the future only divert us from the struggle of the present."

-Karl Marx

February 22nd, 1881

[karl-says]

Capitalism and the Patriarchy

Through the breaking down of our puritan beliefs about gender and dismantling restrictive gender roles and stereotypes, we bind ourselves, we can take crucial steps toward true freedom. The patriarchy and capitalism so are deeply intertwined, each benefiting and reinforcing the other; the former, through these gender roles, perpetuates inequality an thrives on the hierarchical structures it creates. While capitalism, exploits these divisions to maximize profit and control. Only when they saw more profit and labor did they finally accept women into the workplace.

[karl-says]

Capitalism and its Hobbies

Have you ever noticed how capitalism has a tendency to corrupt and misconstrue, among many other things, hobbies? What starts as a source of fun and relaxation in our free time, becomes an investment in our own well-being. You're are forced to justify spending your hard-earned cash on what you love, and if it by some miracle it pays off, oh then you better watch out. It might just evolve into a side hustle, encroaching on any other personal time that you may have left. Soon, before you even know it, it's a second job, and eventually, our main source of income. Finally, back to square one, seeking a new hobby, a new investment, as our old one slowly consumes our life.

[karl-says]

"Lennon read a book on Marx"

One of my favorite lyrics from 'American Pie' goes, "Lenin read a book on Marx, the quartet practiced in the park." Whether or not McLean meant Lennon or Lenin, despite writing the latter and referencing the former, it highlights how revolutionary and cultural movements can intersect. Just as The Beatles sang about change, we too can push and be vocal for a better world.

[karl-says]

Free the Nipple Comrades

Titties are nuanced, comrades. While men's nipples go free and unnoticed, women’s are hyper-sexualized. It is time to free all nipples and to recognize that breasts, like all body parts, have more than one purpose. Let us challenge the status quo and push for equality in all its forms. As in order to free ourselves we must free all people, brother and sisters alike.

[karl-says]

"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!" ~Karl Marx

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We, the proletariat, cannot free ourselves without freeing all people.

[marxandmore]

Utopian dribble. The proletariat frees the proletariat, and no one else. We must make no pretenses about completely annihilating the bourgeoisie.

As Engels puts it best: "Then came the three great Utopians: Saint-Simon, to whom the middle-class movement, side by side with the proletarian, still had a certain significance; Fourier; and Owen, who in the country where capitalist production was most developed, and under the influence of the antagonisms begotten of this, worked out his proposals for the removal of class distinction systematically and in direct relation to French materialism.

One thing is common to all three. Not one of them appears as a representative of the interests of that proletariat which historical development had, in the meantime, produced. Like the French philosophers, they do not claim to emancipate a particular class to begin with, but all humanity at once. Like them, they wish to bring in the kingdom of reason and eternal justice, but this kingdom, as they see it, is as far as Heaven from Earth, from that of the French philosophers."

[karl-says]

I was paraphrasing Kautsky, and I believe the original quote is more along the lines of, "the proletariat cannot free itself without freeing all of humanity." Furthermore, in "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat" he says quite similarly, which I think clarifies my original quote, "the proletariat, being the undermost class, cannot free itself without abolishing all causes of exploitation and oppression." Thus allowing all people to be free.

[dykeulous]

actually, the reason why you should “raise your children gender neutrally” is not because they might turn out to be trans or non-binary. if they do, you will support & try to understand them through their journey of agonizing sex dysphoria, however, the reason you should raise them gender neutrally is because gender is a misogynistic & classist tool of waging war against female people & ultimately everyone.

so, no. don’t raise them gender neutrally because there’s a chance they could be trans. or because you want them to pick out the box that looks the most appealing to them. raise them gender neutrally to teach them that no such box should exist.

[karl-says]

I wonder what the patriarchy tastes like? We should eat it to find out.

[commieclimbercatgirl]

When people say "pure capitalism and pure communism are both bad, we need something in the middle", why is their "something in the middle" always capitalism with some progressive tax system and some social programs, rather than communism with a bit of inheritance (or whatever they think is so great about capitalism).

These people pretend to be some enlightened centrist can never seem to envision a world where the capitalist class doesn't rule over the working class.

[karl-says]

I think most people's reasons for thinking capitalism is great or for still grasping onto it is because of the, or at least perceived, option of amassing wealth and power; i.e. The American Dream.

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Thank you comrades and to everyone who got me to 50 likes!

In solidarity, Karl.

[karl-says]

We, the proletariat, cannot free ourselves without freeing all people.

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Lenin said, without a theory of revolution it is not possible to have a revolutionary movement. I say, theory and practice are one in the same comrades!