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A comrade was telling me how they felt cozy and warm whenever in a library setting and I thought maybe it's because libraries allow you to experience what a socialist society could look like in the midst of all the capitalist madness. They are like a vision from a better future.

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Yeah legally speaking you're right but laws are also a veneer created to protect those who are really responsible. The lawmakers and enforcers are also controlled by them.

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even for an individual company, the shareholders are responsible for its inhumane profit-driven policies. The CEO just executes them. The shareholders are the real force behind the evil was my original point.

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No there is. The major shareholders of all the corporations are no more than a few thousand people, if not less, in the whole world. They conceal their identity using institutional ownership but they are still people owning that vast wealth nevertheless. The capitalist ruling class is real.

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Gentle reminder: CEOs answer to their bosses (the board of directors) who in turn answer to their bosses (major shareholders) many of whom remain anonymous. While there's significant overlap among these groups, contrary to popular belief, CEOs aren't the ultimate boss lol

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By turning inwards, imperialism also brings the 🔻 home.

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And try not to have a pre-existing allergy to tiny flying objects

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Today might be a good day to share this absolute gem of a website: theyrule.net

The image is from the theyrule.net website where it depicts a network map of interconnected nodes and lines representing relationships among corporate boards, organizations, and individuals. Each node corresponds to either a corporation or an individual, while the lines illustrate their connections, such as shared memberships or associations. The layout visually demonstrates the interconnectivity and influence within big corporations.

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[Right wingers, in their right wing country, supported by the right wing empire, doing something right wingy.] Political "scientist": what are they? A bunch of left wingers?!

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Are you saying communism is not left-wing or that the DPRK is not communist? Both statements are wrong.

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Thanks for the links! I had tried searching on spotify but didn't find any results.

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north korea is very good actually. Go play with your imperialist propaganda somewhere else shoo

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One of my favorite shows! Wish it had a podcast form as well

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you're thinking of the united states

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Chairman Kim, please fire when ready.

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[Right wingers, in their right wing country, supported by the right wing empire, doing something right wingy.] Political "scientist": what are they? A bunch of left wingers?!

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oh for sure, but they reformed it and made it much better. Max sentence was 10 years, prisoners got paid normal wages just like workers outside (unlike the slave system in the US), their families could choose to stay with them, etc. I'm looking for a single source that has all this info in one place

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Another one: that gulags were somehow the most horrifying places imaginable not just a normal prison system and 100000x more humane than the current prison system in the US.

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I'm gonna post this once again and ask the spirit of Lenin to help make years happen in weeks

Star Trek "the Irish Unification of 2024" meme but for Korea

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Calling them misunderstandings is very charitable lol As for my contribution: the human nature arguments

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"Humans are the problem" is literally eco-fascism.

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"Humans are the problem" is literally eco-fascism.

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The Gaza health ministry reported that Isr*el is testing new bombs with terrifying sounds that vaporize anyone within 200-300 meters range and reduce entire residential blocks into small fragments. If we don't do anything about this, it will come for each and every one of us no matter where we live.

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I get the sentiment. But my point was that the whole premise of "YOU brought in more than YOUR expenses" needs to be questioned as the OP's framing does. Most people just ignore the core part of that definition which is the ownership. Once that clicks for you, you join in the group hug lol

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"the mighty U.S. Dollar" Earth-rattling cataclysmic fart sounds.

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Since the commonly understood definition of profit is the individual appropriation of surplus value by the owner, I think the framing is ok.

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The whole point is the surplus value that was created socially (all the workers working together which includes the workers who participated in creating the entirety of the supply chain), call it profit or not, is currently getting appropriated individually. The creation part will stay intact.

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"Creating value" will continue to exist post-capitalism. Labor + natural resources creates surplus value no matter whether the "owner" of such an apparatus is an individual or society as a whole. Society can and will still create leisure activities when the means of production are commonly owned.

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sure, he's a bernoid liberal but still an imperialist and not our ally. They might make good points sometimes but these people, knowingly or not, are what the natsec state calls the "compatible left" whose mission is to sheepdog baby leftists back into the establishment's tent (dem/green party etc.)

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Biden is committing genocide but woke. #wokenocide

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