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Creativity in capitalism and the profit motive

You are told time and time again throughout your life that the profit motive is the single greatest thing ever, and with it capitalism as presumptive monopoly on innovations. The idea that paying someone gives them better ideas is the greatest sell ever made by the capitalists, because why would you want a system that can’t produce good ideas. I must congratulate them for this great manipulation.

As much as everyone further right than far left may hope, this is not the case: a recent study showed that as soon as you introduce the most basic requirement for cognitive thought (more than basics mechanical skills a robot could display). Now this is just another feather in the plume of evidence that has been proven more and more over time for the case of revolution: it is yet another step for stoking malcontent into something greater. Automation feeds very much into this, as mentioned earlier the only way paying someone more increases their productivity is purely mechanical skills, hence why automation is such a threat, the issue this shows in capitalism is scary because the basic worker can be replaced with simple machines- flesh, blood and mind replaced with steel, electrics and 1 & 0’s (feeding into the dystopian fear). But for socialism this is a great boon as not only is the profit motive disproved for the case of innovation, but the one thing the profit motive does perpetuate can be replaced with basic machines, completely disproving the profit motive in the case of a socialist society. The final case the misfortunately mislead or hopeful wealthy defenders of capitalism may make is that you need to remove the worry of money in order for this counterintuitive look at the profit motive to make sense and put simply socialism itself is the answer to that, at its core removing the need of money and this fundamental way we respond to incentives is the last proof for this case.

One final note- this also refuted the argument of ‘human nature’ because natural or nurtured the argument falls in our favour!

-Comrade Zeldon.

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The most frustrating trend I have seen from American conservatives trying to co-opt Martin Luther King Jr. is their attempts to frame him entirely around Christianity and claim that he did everything by the power of Jesus, on the assumption that this would somehow upset the “secular,” “atheistic” left.

Martin Luther King Jr. was obviously and absolutely a devout Christian, probably one of the most dedicated Christians in recent memory. He did do everything by the power of God and with the influence of Christ. He is considered a saint by multiple international churches, including the Anglican Communion. But here’s the thing: King was also a radical socialist that regularly called for a new economic and political system. He didn’t do this in spite of his Christianity, but entirely because of it. King correctly got the economic justice message that Jesus preached that American conservatives pretty much entirely ignore.

So, it isn’t the left-wing that should be getting challenged by King’s Christianity. It is that most hypocritical and blindingly massive body known as the American Christian right-wing, who somehow can’t see that King’s dedication to Christianity is precisely why he became such a radical socialist in the first place. Maybe you should figure out why King was the way he was rather than trying to co-opt his message for your anti-Christian messages that you try to sell under the name of Jesus. King got Jesus right. Maybe you should try to do that too.

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Money is originally the representative of all values; in practice this situation is inverted, and all real products and labours become the representatives of money.

Marx - Grundrisse 1857 (via dailymarx)

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The Communists are reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.  The working men have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got.

Marx & Engels - Communist Manifesto 1848 (via dailymarx)

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

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One True Centrism: The Soviet Union was not nearly as bad as American patriots make it sound, but it was way worse than Marxist-Leninists make it sound

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Indoctrination and the resulting ideolog-zombies

So originally I was gonna write about some of my own theory for socioeconomic and political organisation but I’m yet to flush it out and I’ve been thinking about this and it needs to be talked about overall:

It was a conversation with one of my friends who has been trying to find flaws in communism and my arguments for some time now with little success and we where talking about the current opposition to communism and the general dislike for the word (being associated with Marxism-Leninism and all that mess) and the misunderstanding of socialism (many mistaking it for social democracy and even stating it’s separate from communism) and one of the things I went over was the spread of ideas and he said: “that just sounds like indoctrination” and obviously this started me thinking about the topic and through my thoughts I’ve noticed a trend that needs to be talked about; there is a current issue with modern day zombies, not of technology but rather the brainwashing that happens regularly and is often not seen due to a lack of education. I do not intend to call people dumb by saying they are uneducated about the indoctrination that happens to them because there primary source of education is the schooo system, which is guess what, where the indoctrination happens. This is something that isn’t necessarily evil but it should be mentioned that it seems most people fear indoctrination and are thus scared of people with new ideas, especially ones with malicious connotations due to the misconceptions around such ideas like communism, despite the very irony of that being that these ‘new ideas’ are intact due to the conditioning they have been as a child before free thought flourishes, despite I myself finding an interest in this as an early teen I was also fairly smart so the point is null and void, they in fact tech these things wrong due to not only a lack of understanding by the fact is they have pleanty of reason not to and simply put to maintain there position- but back to indoctrination the very idea does scare people yet it is a necessity to all systems and is bound to happen even if it happens less and less in each system starting with Europe in early feudalism binding people to the systems as the word of god to now where they remove access to these ideas and gently push people away in our modern age of ideological content and ignorance, ignorance may never be bliss but it does bread content. Hence why it is our job to help people show that they are justified to want more out of life and break social norms to help people think outside their bourgeois mindset

Thank you for reading- comrade zeldon

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Put simply

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This is put excellently but there’s few things I want to add: Marx states that religion would inherently fade under communism (atleast a I think it was Marx) but that doesn’t mean we should make it illegal or try to push it out that’s just what some old man in the 19th century said, also as long as you don’t try to bring religion into theory or otherwise tie the two there is no real overlap between them and shouldn’t be, just because the philosophy of Marx was materialist doesn’t mean you have to be a materialistic to be a marxist

Hi! I'm a religious Muslim and interested in learning here. I'm sort of confused if you are a communist or socialist tbh but either way, how do you see religion working under those systems, esp communism?

Technically I advocate both socialism and communism, if we’re going by the marxist definitions of both terms – socialism is a political/economic system beyond capitalism where the population democratically controls their workplaces/society at large and institutes production on the basis of need and interest (rather than on the basis of profit for a select few capitalists), and communism is the advanced form of socialism where resource abundance, automation, and direct democracy cause the state, economic classes, and money to disappear. There’s a bit more to it than that, and I recommend checking out my “ask” tag on here to see if any other questions you might have are answered there.

As for the religion point, there’s nothing inherent to socialism or communism that excludes religious or spiritual people. There’s a firm demand for egalitarian relationships between people, and as long as the religion has universal solidarity and equality at its core, I don’t see it conflicting with a genuinely socialist or communist society. There are major issues with how organized religion as an institution presently maintains the domination of ruling classes, but religions themselves can be removed from this context. Religious socialists exist all over the world, and I’ve never had any qualms about calling them my comrades. If we all come from one spiritual source, all the more reason to support an egalitarian directly-democratic society that supports people on the basis of needs; it’s finally creating the conditions for a universal human family, united in freedom and solidarity.

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The transition to communism

Communism as I see it and from what I know of marxist theory consists of 3 phases (even though one of them is just a transition into the system) first of all the workers state directly after the revolution in which the implementation of the new system happens to move to socialism or lower phase communism, this phase still has money and possibly markets and everything would most likely be fairly unstable whilst things started. Because after a revolution you have removed the old government and the old system there unfortunately would be no functioning democracy instead the country would be lead by the vanguard party central committee and its leader, before you start saying that they wouldn't release power or its be some sort of evil authoritarian regime which would kill all who oppose I have a simple answer for that: when you lead a successful revolution with the help of the armed masses after laying out your intentions, then you better do as you said you would or else your gonna have a political revolution on your hands to replace you with someone who will, the ussr was a unique example where Stalin seized power during this time after Lenin's untimely demise but due to the state of Russia and the lack of education no one could stop him before it was too late and they never progressed making a degenerated workers state. This period of transition would most likely be a lot more brief in countries with high industrial capabilities compared to those without. After this phase we have socialism which does away with the money in favour of labour vouchers to help regulate the labour put in and taken out and definitely removes any markets that may still exist and basically grants any resources in abundance for free and any not in abundance (or luxuries in other words) would require labour equal to their value to be performed by you in order to get them. After years and years and years of this we progress to communism, a fully use based society at which point you remove the regulations which are at this point in socialism just a tedious regulation and you move to a truly use based society where one individual would not gain anything from taking out more than they need because of the way society is built. That is my simple overview of the process we would and should take to communism. Thanks for reading-

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I do not doubt this person is from Venezuela but I what I doubt is there understanding of the situation, because Venezuela is not communist nor even socialist, in fact it's not even a degenerated workers state, because it's economy is not socialist, around 70% of it is in the private sector! Despite its current leaders socialist agenda it has not made the shift, not yet, and yet people blame it's troubles on the socialist system when in fact the issues lay with the crash in the oil market which was one of its main forms of income (a crash in a market which is an inherent part of capitalism) and the droughts it experiences making the growth of crops very hard, as for your dictator I will not lie the political situation is confusing but the people support him and have been against military coups to overthrow him every time they come up and even so it has been the opposition which has been refusing to engage in politics, he himself has not destroyed democracy and on multiple times has tried to par take in it, yet the 1st world capitalist countries call him a communist dictator because they fear socialism for they know it is the next step for our world and they wish to hold onto power as long as they can. Although I may not fully agree with reformism but it does not mean that I will not try and help spread the truth that the ruling class intend to hide to keep their power. The only issues in the country have been due to misjudgements and poor choices by the leader, keeping military members working for him after a coup and trying to boost the economy on oil alone. Socialism in one country does not work

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I, as a venezuelan girl, born and currently living in the country, want to tell you, ignorant youth of first world countries,

Communism not work, not here, not in Cuba, not in North Korea, not in Russia, not in Cambodia, not in Vietnam, not in any place of this world, i can assure you, it is a failed ideology, i know it, i live that failure every day of my life.

You don’t have idea how sad, how miserable, how frustrating, is living under a true dictatorship goverment, stop believing in fairy tales, stop, you, first world teenager, will notice this when you grow up.

Meanwhile, no me jodas.

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Socialism, sounds scary doesn't it?

Socialism and other words relating to it such a communism or Marxism are often misused or misunderstood, I'm here to help end the myths created by the ruling class and spread class consciousness by going over some common misconceptions(I will cover them simply and go into detail in other posts):

1.) all socialism means is democratic worker ownership of the means of production which may sound complicated but it's really not, and it is not just super high taxes or Everyone getting the same wage or anything ridiculous like that. Socialism is an actual economic system not some state conspiracy, overwise the ruling class wouldn't crush it wherever it comes up

2.)Socialism, by definition, is a democratic system and has a democracy, it's not some vile dictatorship or a system collectivisation to turn us into a hive mind. Socialism works to free people by not forcing them to sell their labour to survive whilst getting stolen from, allowing them to do what they want and truely freeing them from capitalists system of wage slavery

3.) socialism as an economic system does work, the reason often think it doesn't is often because they can't get their heads round it because of there mind being created and only knowing a capitalist system (myself included) and i get its hard to understand but if It didn't work you wouldn't see ale of the great minds like Albert Einstein or moving leaders like Martian Luther king jr. being socialists. Another reason people often think it doesn't work is because of its past failures and blaming that on the system whereas when you look at them it's often because of the political chaos, external capitalist forces or a lack of natural resources (which could technically be classed under external capitalist force because of an unwhillingness to trade due to the nature of socialism but this isn't alway the case so I included it seperetly). Stalin and his degenerate workers states are not a socialist model we should or intend to follow-

Thank you for reading, comrade zeldon