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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

gentrification is bad?? um excuse me did you not see this graph has a line going up??

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

capitalism is a permanent war against the working class

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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels @kmfe.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

"The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist." Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (1847)

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute consuming power of society constituted their limit." - Capital Volume III

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

liberals understand how to blame structures for mass murder when it comes to blaming socialism for hundreds of millions of deaths but act utterly perplexed when they look in a mirror. to them their beloved capitalism is natural and the churn of blood that sustains it just a necessary evil

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

guess thats what happens when you believe your political theory fights fascism and creates freedom but reality shows it doesnt do that. that it actually creates the conditions to birth fascism and only serves to cut off genuine attempts at liberation

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.”

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

i demand you engage my bad faith argument in good faith

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

for the rich its better because of capitalism. for the rest its better in spite of it

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same.. has no occasion to exert his understanding... [He] generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." - Adam Smith, describing posting

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"the...bourgeoisie was compelled by its class position to annihilate, on the one hand, the vital conditions of all parliamentary power, and therefore, likewise, of its own, and to render irresistible, on the other hand, the executive power hostile to it." - Marx, 18th Brumaire

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"...in order to save its purse it must forfeit the crown, and the sword that is to safeguard it must at the same time be hung over its own head as a sword of Damocles." "The bourgeoisie apotheosized the sword; the sword rules it." - Marx, 18th Brumaire

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"the democrat comes out of the most disgraceful defeat just as immaculate as he was innocent when he went into it, with the newly won conviction that he is bound to win, not that he himself and his party have to give up the old standpoint, but... that conditions have to ripen to suit him" - Marx

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

audiences collaborate in producing meaning sure. but under capitalism 'belong' also has a material meaning. in this case it means jk rowling owns and makes billions of dollars because harry potter belongs to her and she uses her fortune to support the oppression of trans people

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

theres actually quite a bit of precedent for a ruling class pursuing its material interests even at the cost of the broader society

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 17/02/2026

Capitalists, Fascists and their agents and enablers have captured the US political sphere and there is no easy solution, no solution without class struggle that gets us out of this mess

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16/02/2026

Become socialist and join a socialist or communist organization.

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

regulations cant fix capitalisms contradictions. capital needs to be abolished entirely

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

if anybody is looking for an idea for a youtube video that will require 100s of hours of research and nobody will watch, something drawing the parallel between AI and suburbanization as socially destructive investments made to serve capital's need to expand and profit would be really boring

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

one of the most useful and important marxist concepts is cultural hegemony. even if that term isnt directly from marx. understanding that there are structural mechanisms to ensure the dominant ideology in a society is the ruling class ideology is really vital to a marxist understanding of the world

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake 'public opinion' for the benefit of the bourgeoisie." - Lenin

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

i dunno i feel like one of the most common lib posts is 'this isnt capitalism anymore its something new and THIS is the real bad thing' when really its just capitalism functioning normally

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

yup marx is absolutely right here. did you understand what i said? capital pursuit of state power is in service of the pursuit of accumulation. it doesnt contradict anything marx said in that passage or in any other that im aware of.

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

marxism fails instantly when you realize people sometimes put worms on hooks to catch fish instead of takin a big ol bite out of that delicious juicy worm theyve already got

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

this is just a false dichotomy. the seeking of state power serves profit seeking. marx understood very well that capital accumulates through political structures which youd know if you read marx instead of asking ai to find you a quote marx made that sounds like it supports your point

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

'math', as you say, is a modern tool to extract surplus value but it isnt the foundation. capital accumulation is and always has been built on exploitation. obscuring that exploitation is good for capital

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

capital somehow managed to take over and dominate the world well before the bureau of labor statistics published their first jobs report. some sectors may rely on that data but the long term goal of the bourgeoisie is maintaining their control

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

there isn't really a contradiction between maintaining white supremacy and serving capital interests. white supremacy is constitutive of racial capitalism (read Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson)

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

i think you got confused somehow? capital depends on obscuring exploitation. in this sense the trump white house is serving capital very well by undermining faith in economic data. there's no contradiction there

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

"capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty and proven the most effective economic system for the betterment of living conditions" weird how it didnt do that for the first 300 years of its existence, waiting instead for the existence of the ussr and rise of the ccp to get started on that

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

i think the emphasis has to be on the profit part. the work of millions of artists is vacuumed up to create tools that replace them in order to generate private profit. millions of artists own works are weaponized against them.

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

jamesons description of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism is so devastatingly accurate

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

this is literally one of the first things marx and engels explain in the communist manifesto lmao. "Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms."

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

this is an overly rigid interpretation. social existence is broader than that. gramsci's explanation of cultural hegemony shows how social relationships like your church your union and your family shape how class position is lived and how this generates false consciousness

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

it is incoherent to treat ones social relationships as divorced from material position yeah. but if its grounded materially in the way i explained then i think it works as a paraphrase of marx. man's social existence determines his consciousness

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

this is all correct and totally consistent with marxist analysis. but note that social relations have a material basis and that cultural hegemony operates through material institutions i think you mightve stumbled into the marxist position by arguing against a strawman of marxism

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

that doesnt answer the question. what determines which ideologies 'dominate that space'?

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

what determines which ideologies proliferate in a society? why isnt the idea that its natural for a lord to dominate their serfs very prevalent anymore? do you think the fall of feudalism and change of economic base might be relevant?

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

im sure the bourgeoisie will be persuaded to cease existing as a class if enough people ask really nicely

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

is it possible for high gdp to coexist with extreme exploitation, alienation, and inequality? if high gdp is the result of capitalist imperialist core states relying on actively extracting wealth and resources from the global south, does that prove capitalism works or just exports its problems?

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

is it really necessary that i use less academic language when im discussing theory with a fellow leftist? there cant be more than a handful of people reading this if that

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

yeah what you describe there is a mechanism of cultural hegemony. capital structurally reinforces ideas which naturalize its domination and accumulation. if you recognize that this is a structural problem, why do you think the solution is just that communists should be nicer?

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

most leftists would talk about cultural hegemony, deliberate ideological warfare, historical distortions, and media complicity. you know, materialist analysis maybe you are legitimately committed to anticapitalism but your framework remains trapped in liberal subjectivity

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

i didnt say you were secretly anything. i said i was skeptical you were a leftist. even if your explanation about why communism is widely misunderstood here is accurate (to be clear its not) your analysis here is steeped in liberal idealism

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

you can read my post again, its still there and i explained why im skeptical of you. most leftists would probably not say the reason theres confusion about communism is because of posts on bluesky

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DialecticalWaves @dialecticalwaves.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

as a biden-trump voter let me give you advice about how to get the word out about communism

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