#workers power

[oceanicmarxist]

1929 cover of Bezbozhnik u Stanka, the magazine of the League of Militant Atheists in the U.S.S.R. Cover depicts industrial workers tipping Jesus into a garbage disposal while another smashes a church bell with a big hammer.

[hellyeahanarchistposters]

"Workers make the world run. Workers should run the world"

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

'WE WON'T WORK WITHOUT PPE!' 

As states move to begin reopening, workers are being forced to choose between their health and their jobs. . At a bare minimum, workers must demand PPE from bosses. 😷 . In sectors where workers are better organized, they should consider the potential of the 'back to work' strike.

Via: blackrosefed.org

[yoursfortherevolution]

History is not going to make our revolution an easy matter like the bourgeois revolutions in which it sufficed to overthrow that official power at the center and to replace a dozen or so persons in authority. We have to work from beneath, and this corresponds to the mass character of our revolution which aims at the foundation and base of the social constitution; it corresponds to the character of the present proletarian revolution that the conquest of political power must come not from above but from below. The 9th of November was an attempt, a weak, half-hearted, half-conscious, and chaotic attempt to overthrow the existing public power and to put an end to class rule. What now must be done is that with full consciousness all the forces of the proletariat should be concentrated in an attack on the very foundations of capitalist society. There, at the base, where the individual employer confronts his wage slaves; at the base, where all the executive organs of political class rule confront the object of this rule, the masses; there, step by step, we must seize the means of power from the rulers and take them into our own hands.

Rosa Luxemburg (Our Program and the Political Situation, December 1918)

[red-flag-news]

socialism is about workers control -- healthcare workers should be in control of their conditions and able to organise the health response, production workers should be able to produce ventilators not jets, construction workers should be able to build hospitals not luxury apartments

find out more: socialism for the crisis - an anti-capitalist livestream on sunday april 19

[oceanicmarxist]

the luigi mangione thing has melted people's brains. this kind of nihilistic, individual terror isn't productive and it's what disillusioned liberals do when they feel as if they're the Main Character and that real politics (organising a mass movement) is beneath them.

mangione's assassination has no 'increased class consciousness' (as people are saying), it isn't class consciousness to think shooting ceos is okay/funny. this stuff undermines class consciousness by misleading people into thinking that the system can be destroyed by shooting all the 'bad guys'.

You should be trying to organise healthcare workers and agitating against the private healthcare system, not posting about how Luigi Mangione is a hunk or whatever dumb shit leftoids are doing these days.

Marxism long ago disclosed the underlying kinship between liberalism and anarcho-terrorism. Both liberalism and terrorism repudiate reliance upon the independent and revolutionary organisation and activity of the working masses which is the essence of Marxist politics. Liberalism looks to “progressive, peace-loving” politicians among the capitalist ruling circles to lead the way to the solution of the problems of society. Erstwhile liberals turned terrorist, though thoroughly disillusioned with the old methods, are nevertheless still contemptuous of the masses and rely upon conspiracy and dynamite to do the job. Terrorism is petty-bourgeois liberalism temporarily gone berserk. Both are equally injurious to the promotion of a genuinely proletarian revolutionary movement.

^ Ernest Mandel, 'Marxism or Neo-Anarchist Terrorism?'

[oceanicmarxist]

Soviet Cybernetics scientists. Viktor Glushkov first from the right. 1970s I think?