#worker peasant

[tilbageidanmark]

Symbol of the old revolution

[guerillas-of-history]

The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army

The Chinese Red Army was the military wing of The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1928 to 1937.

[thoughtportal]

Here's everything you need to know about the tariffs. Why they're happening, why now, and what to do as a lowly little peasant with no power. First off, you need to know that it has nothing to do with bringing manufacturing back to the US. Tariffs are happening because the US empire is crumbling. Basically Trump is doing the work of the financial and tech elite who are trying to claw their way back into the center of global finance. How? By reasserting dominance by state-backed protectionism. Really since the 70s, the US has been the global reserve currency because of a deal that we made with OPEC. That deal said that oil would be priced exclusively in US dollars and that oil profits would be reinvested into US assets and in exchange that would get US military protection and weapons. This petrodollar system let the US run massive deficits without crashing the currency. This artificial dollar demand meant that we could print money infinitely. Waging wars, tax cuts, bailouts, without worries of immediate inflation. Meanwhile, all that oil profit that was being funneled into the US economy meant that we could keep interest rates low, feed all these speculative bubbles, and support stagnant wages with increasing consumer debt. But quite possibly the most important thing this did was give the US incredible power on the global stage. We could discipline and control entire nations through access to the IMF and World Bank or sanctions. This is how we have destroyed or stunted the development of socialist nations across the world. But now that system is unraveling. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran are de-dollarizing. They're trading oil and other currencies, they have alternative payment systems, and they're rapidly dumping US assets. If the dollar loses its reserve status, the US loses its exorbitant privilege, the ability to spend without consequences and bully others through financial dominance. How the US and US capitalists are trying to reconstitute their hegemony, and that's where the tariffs come in. Tariffs are a power play to shield the US from the consequences of its own decay. Through tariffs, trade policy, and military threats, the US government is trying to force the world to play by the rules of American tech and financial institutions. This new strategy has a goal to make US tech the infrastructure for the global economy. If we can't rule because of oil and debt, we can try and rule through cloud storage or payment facilitation or surveillance infrastructure. The government wants US companies like Apple, Google, Stripe, PayPal, or MasterCard or whatever be indispensable nodes in the circuits of global commerce. These tariffs also punish other countries like China or India or the European Union for passing data privacy laws, anti-monopoly rules that cut into the profits of US tech companies. The US is both protection but also coercion, make them both back off and pay up. So will it work? Probably not. But that doesn't mean you're not going to feel the effects of it. Higher prices and more instability are going to become the norm. So what do we do? The biggest thing is to reduce consumption wherever possible. The less you feed the beast, the less it feeds on you. Cut off US companies from your data and your dollars. Delete the apps, quit the brands, starve the machine. Build solidarity networks. Support your friends materially and emotionally. Strengthen the relationships that capitalism has hollowed out. Join a union, join a community organization, join a mutual aid group. Broaden your relationships into your larger community. And definitely join a political party that isn't the Democrats. Remember, AOC and Bernie won't save us. We save us. I wish there was more we could do right now, but that's at least stuff we can do right now.

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[vorueg]

Yes m'lord?

Peasant from warcraft 3

[dead-generations]

I think the weirdest thing leninists on here do is try to determine whether a group is a revolutionary subject by how moral they are. For most of the Chinese Civil War the PLA was (in terms of manpower) principally composed of literal bandits who had been (to various degrees of success) reformed by the cadre within the PLA. There's a reason why they had to produce a pamphlet which stated "don't rape women or steal shit." The Russian Revolution was made possible in large part because of the Cossacks! The Cossacks were not nice people - they were the force of state repression!

Moralising does not really have a place in the formation of a vanguard party, clearly!

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Thousands of young Nicaraguans, together with Commander President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo, participated in the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution, held in Plaza de la Fe in Managua.

[multlingvulo]

América Livre

DeviantArt - Weasyl - InkBunny

PORTUGUÊS "América" não quer dizer só Estados Unidos; mas é este continente! Agora muitos latinoamericanos estão sentindo o que nossos países significam para os imperialistas. Precisamos saber que eles nos vêem como servos somente e que não vão nos ajudar. Exaltemos a Pátria Grande da América Latina e nos ajudemos mutuamente como uma família. Por isso neste desenho quis levantar a América Livre! Eu gosto de por o Sul pra cima. Neste desenho, o lobo-guará mostra os povos indígenas da América Latina, eles que são os donos originais desta terra e que cuidam das florestas; o gato preto representa as pessoas pretas que vivem aqui e que trouxeram sua cultura ancestral para nossa cultura atual; e o coelho está no lugar dos campesinos, porque fazem a nossa comida, e lutam contra os latifundiários que queimam a mata. Eu não falo quíchua, mas procurei em livros e dicionários pra escrever "qispi Amirika". Se você falar quíchua e eu tiver escrito errado, me avise, por favor!

GUARANI "Amérika" ndohe'iséinte Estados Unidos; hákatu ha'e niko ko parapa'ũ! Angete heta latinoamerikaygua oñepyrũ oñandu hína mba’épio omoha’ãnga ore retãnguéra imperialistas peve. Tekotevẽ roikuaa orerechaha hikuái huguái guáichante ha norepytyvomo’ãiha. Torombotuicháke ore Tetã Guasu Latinoamérika ha toroñopytyvõke pehẽnguekuéraicha. Upévare ha’ese ko ta’anga rupi tomopu’ãha Amérika Sãso! Chegusta amoĩ Ñemby yvate gotyo. Ko ta’angápe, aguara ohechauka ypykuéra latinoamerikaygua, ha’ekuéra ko yvy jára ypy ha ka’a angarekohára; mbarakaja hũ omoha’ãnga kambakuéra oikovéva ko’ápe ha oguerurakue heko yma ore reke ag̃aguápe g̃uarã; ha tapiti oĩ chokokue rãngue, ojapo haguére ore rembi’urã, ha oñorairõva latifundiário ndive, ka’a rapyhára. Nañe'ẽkuaái kíchuañe'ẽ, ha aheka arandukápe ha ñe'ẽryrúpe ahai hag̃ua "qispi Amirika". Reñe'ẽkuaárõ kíchuañe'ẽme ha ahaivaírõ, eremína chéve!

CASTELLANO "América" no quiere decir Estados Unidos nomás; ¡sino todo este continente! Ahora muchos latinoamericanos están sintiendo lo que nuestros países significan para los imperialistas. Necesitamos saber que ellos nos veen cómo servos nomás y que no nos van a ayudar. Exaltemos la Patria Grande de Latinoamérica y nos ayudemos mutualmente cómo una familia. ¡Por eso en este dibujo quise levantar la América Libre! Me gusta poner el Sur hacia arriba. En este dibujo, el aguará muestra los pueblos originarios de Latinoamérica, ellos que son los dueños originales de esta tierra y que cuidan nuestros bosques; el gato negro representa a las pesonas negras que aquí viven y que trajeron su cultura ancestra para nuestra cultura actual; y el conejo está en el lugar de los campesinos, porque hacen nuestra comida, y luchan contra los latifundiatios que queman la selva. No sé hablar el quechua, pero busqué en libros y diccionarios para escribir "qispi Amirika". Si hablás quechua y cometí algún error, ¡decime, porfis!

ENGLISH "America" doesn't just mean the US; but it's this continent itself! Now many Latin-Americans are finding out what our countries mean to the imperialists. We need to know that they only see us as servants and that they aren't going to help us. Let us exalt the Great Motherland of Latin America and help each other as a family. Thus I wanted to say in this drawing Free America! I like to put South upwards. In this picture, the maned wolf shows the indigenous peoples of Latin America, who are the original owners of this land and who take care of our forests; the black cat represents the black people who live here, who brought their ancient culture to our modern culture; and the rabbit is in the place of the peasants, who produce our food and who fight against large farmers who cause forest fires. I don't know quechua, but I searched in books and dictionaries to write "qispi Amirika". If you speak quechua and I made any mistake, please let me know!

[freedelusionshere]

So, I was watching the Stanley Tucci show about Italian cooking finally, and this factoid was presented about the Venetians and the role of the doge, which means “duke” or “leader”.

I did find articles comparing the current set of criminals occupying the WH at the moment to this office. Mostly favorably or with a “wait and see” approach. They’re obviously not as concerned about the loss of basic human rights and scapegoating of disenfranchised minorities.

It’s the same concept, using a goofy acronym:

But what may have put the maritime powerhouse on the road to permanent decline was that starting in the early 14th century, the Venetian state began to nationalize trade. State-organized trading fleets began to monopolize the Republic’s commerce, and individuals still wanting to take part in overseas trade were hit by punishing taxes. The end result was that long-distance trade became the sole province of the most powerful nobles.

And there you have it. They’re doing it right out in the open.

[mbrainspaz]

guess who just wasted 2 hours drafting and deleting about a dozen text messages to their corporate boss who acted all sad and pitiable about being asked to pay them about $300 extra for two weeks worth of grueling overtime in the summer heat doing the full work of a barn manager while being paid like a teenage stable hand?

ya boy

[monkeyssalad-blog]

BOILLY, Louis-Léopold. L'Automné, 1824. by Halloween HJB

[guerillas-of-history]

Chinese Red Army soldier with the Communist flag, Shaanxi province, mid 1930's.

(Photo credit: Harrison Forman)

[hauntingofhouses]

i tried watching the netflix a:tla live action and got so frustrated that i could only make it through 1 episode before i decided "fuck this" and started rewatching the cartoon from the first episode

anyway that led to me writing this in my notes app while half-asleep in bed last night

[anarchotolkienist]

The core insight of Marxism - that capitalism creates the industrial worker, and concentrates them in specific places, thus creating the necessities for an organised working class movement that eventually overcome it - proved to be false, at least in those places he identified (France, Germany, Britain). The workers movement failed to overcome capitalism. Successful marxist revolutions almost universally had a lot more in coming with the Jacobin revolutions of a century before them than they were produced by the organised mass of industrial workers. In the meantime, Marxist progressivism and belief in the inherent progress of industry as a path to socialism was socially, ecologically, and politically massively destructive. Let's not revive that teleology now.

[alientitty]

american economists will do anything to call as many people as possible middle class. ive seen some measures go straight from "poor" to "lower middle class" so they can avoiding even saying the word "worker." it's a great way to try and convince everyone that they're a potential business owner so that they side with policies that benefit million-dollar megacorps and real estate cartels because it's "good for business"

[stiwfssr]

Contraband Police

Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors. [x]

[mbrainspaz]

Kid coworkers: Yeah the boss was trying to get us to do management stuff like make the shift schedules again.

me, the guy with management experience they hired 2 years ago and then demoted to maintenance technician because they got pissy about me refusing to work unpaid hours and generally having a backbone: Is she offering to pay you management money?

kiddos: ...nah.

me: Then here's a pro tip—DON'T DO IT