Red Pill me on Marxism

You're american, you will never be a propper leftist. It's in your essense to kill and destroy every other culture in order to achieve world domination.
Of course you can LARP like the other americans on this board…but ask yourself, why bother right?
You are the enemy and we can ever become friends while i have to share my city with 5 McDonald's restaurants.
But if you want to really become a leftist, then go outside and protest against the fact that your taxes dollars pay for military bases all over the world for starters. That's far better than what you guys usually call "the left" does.

Why in the name of god would you use that site? They're filled with pseudo who, I shit you not, believe that NASA has the power to SHUT DOWN ATOMS.
Look up Socialist Patriotism, but under capitalism you only serve the supposed interest of the state and porky. Nationalism divides the working class against each other.
The reason why ou have immigrants fleeing from other countries is due to economic problems caused by capitalism, be it in the form of embargoes, imperialism robbing them of a home, or lack of jobs. Under socialism mass immigration movements won't be a problem and they won't be compelled to move. We're neutral on immigration, due to it being immigration under capitalism which in the long term still has immigrants being exploited under porky (porky being the capitalist class)
So you support the economic system which is making these immigrants which you despise come here.
Good, most of us here are too, minus the Christian socialists.

And yet you're strongly anti-immigration. People die trying to get into countries to seek an objectively better life. Either all life is sacred or it isn't. I don't really see how this has anything to do with Marxism, however.
It's been proven not to be, though again, how does this relate to marxism.
scientificamerican.com/article/where-transgender-is-no-longer-a-diagnosis/
Unless you're confusing us with SJWs, please read the FAQ. We hate Anita Sarkeesian as much as any gamer gates, albeit for probably different reasons.
Nice spooks. Civilisation needs people to help construct society. Does it matter if they're gay if they contribute to laws, arts, and science which improves our standing in life?
Race doesn't exist. I'm not going to bother opening that can of worms yet, but you ought to read these archives of debates that we had.
archive.is/An7zF
archive.is/I9vEh
archive.is/GFOBo
Bullshit, considering that the upper class has a monopoly on culture: what you view, what is advertised and what you buy. Artists are still subject to capitalist classes dictating their livelihood and producers are in charge of what you can create. Artistic expression is stifled under capitalism. The free market doesn't help squat. If it did, we wouldn't have businesses buying other businesses and flooding the market with shit tier products such as iPhones. People out compete each other in the market, due to control of the MOP and the amassment of wealth. If you're looking to preserve culture to see new one's arise, then why the fuck would you support neo-liberal policies which have done nothing but crush culture. if you're so anti-immigrant, you wouldn't support the free market which allows these people to come in.
Basic income isn't enough. wages are still dictated by markets.
Inflation won't be an issue under communism as there is no markets or circulating forms of currency. Unemployment has detrimental effects on the working class
youtube.com/watch?v=J-fCRcT1D9s
Some of us did to. We hate Clinton, but I suppose you're feeling like an arse for (what I assume you had) actually having faith in him.
Free market capitalism isn't going to solve shit for the environment. Without regulations, companies can be free to do as they please for the sake of profit, even if it is environmentally detrimental. Look at china if you don't believe me.
Why would you sympathise with them. They're fucking idiots who larp and believe in pseudo science and conspiracies. Even Varg think's they're idiots.
youtube.com/watch?v=93cO8Dxtkkc
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Those are liberals, not leftists.
Degeneracy is a lie made by the alt right to justify their bigotry. Plenty of powerful empires partook in acts that the alt-right would consider to be degenerate. The Roman Empire for example, had gays and they were not persecuted and this was centuries before their collapse. So much for being an "evolutionary dead end"
Thank you.
I'm leftists due to the absolute idiocy of the right. I was a borderline stormfag, and then after founding out that they're full of shit, I started to stray further left. I'm anarchist, and if you want to stop the world from collapsing in on itself and people starving and for you to save the environment, capitalism and the state are ineffective bodies in handling the issues. As for the core problems I think I addressed them earlier.

I appreciate it, and I will read both.

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You don't belong here, user.

This right here is why Holla Forums is better than Holla Forums. Lemme look for some PDFs for the new guy.

I can't tell if you're genuine or shitposting

I shouldnt be mad but…

I appreciate your honestly, and input. I'll be sure to read the links you left, tonight, and watch the videos soon. Reading this particular jpg couple weeks ago really milked my almonds

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I'm a leftist because, even with a cursory glance at history, I'm aware that right nationalist movements motivated by race and identity desire not material well-being, not individual liberty, not even untouched markets, but utterly homogeneous societies populated by obedient subjects. Current hierarchies will be enforced and made rigid, with most people stuck performing their "traditional" role in society as dictated by the regime. No moral or rational argument will dissuade a fervent ethnonationalist from removing people he considers different from his country, and he will have no problem using mass murder to do so. This inevitably includes people who disagree with the reigning power, or those within the ruling ethnicity that poe a threat to genetic purity. This regime will also likely position itself as the sole legitimate representative of the people and will only relinquish power through use or threat of armed force.

I became a leftist as I realized how many ways an ethnonationalist would see me or my loved ones a threat. My cousin would be sterilized or murdered because he has schizophrenia. My parents would be beaten for participating in strikes. I would probably be denied employment, sent to a camp or worse for my writing in high school and university.

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Eh heh about that… Anyway this thread on freedu should set yous straight.

8ch.net/freedu/res/5.html

The question is who controls the resources, the means of production. You might think that the people who currently do deserve to, but you'd be wrong. In reality they have their position because of a long historical process of conquest, and then leveraging one's conquests to conquest even more. This is fucked up, and we think we should have a revolution to change it, so that instead of a tiny group of people enjoying the produce of the people's labor, we all can enjoy the fruits of our labor.

Check the reading list thread in the catalog.

Identifying with your nation-state is a poor substitute for genuine liberation from a globalized system of commodities and exploited labor. Why do you owe the bloated imperialist parasitic waste of resources US government anything? You can love the people in your community and geographic location while hating the nation-state, which you have every reason to because the US government is one of the worst. Read some Chomsky and Zinn for starters.

I think its reasonable/practical to have some restrictions on immigration. But national boundaries are ultimately a spook, they're just some lines drawn on a map. No one really "owns" the land, they just put fences on it and shoot people who cross the invisible barriers. Look into Georgism. Also if anyone has rights to US land it would be brown people, they were here first.

You need to study Marxism and critical theory to understand that capitalism is at the root of a great many of our social problems. Liberalism is a utopian fantasy that we can make capitalism serve our interest, when in reality capital serves only itself.

That's a good start. But being atheist doesn't prevent you from being a politically clueless asshole, like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins.

Classical marxists could care less about such social issues - they're a red herring tossed out by the ruling class to distract from real issues. I don't think this is an unreasonable position and it would really only get you in trouble with hardline feminists.

I tend to agree, and there are at least some transgendered people who agree, like Blair White on youtube. But nonetheless the right-wing fixation on transgendered people is pathological, and probably also a mental disorder. Live and let live.

Aren't humans like 99.99% genetically identical, regardless of race? I actually wouldn't be surprised if there are differences in Autism Level results across races, but that doesn't mean shit. Fuck the Autism Level, anyone who thinks that intelligence can be boiled down to one number probably needs their intelligence tested. Even if, let's say, black people were stupider than white people on average, what does that prove? People in general are dumb as fuck including most white people. And nazis aren't the brightest of the bunch.

outdated Keynesian Phillips curve bullshit. Capitalism cannot be managed technocratically, it obeys its own logic. The object of Marxism is to understand that logic.

Meaningless choice between two flavors of bourgeois scum.

Good, it is real. You're free to argue for nuclear power as a solution, but what about disasters like Fukuyama? Last I heard it was still spewing out thousands of gallons of radioactive water per day.

Fuck that milquetoast liberal garbage. Not even leftist.

This, reading is always the best way to understand leftism in its various forms, since it's essentially become a bit of an academic sub-branch. However, here's a quick rundown of my understanding of the thrust of Marx's critique of capitalism: Society is basically split into two distinct groups, centred around the way things are produced. There are those who earn a living by working, and those who passively earn money by investment into the ownership of a business or land etc. Of course, there are those who do both, and those who do neither, but for the most part in a given societal role one does one of these two things. When a commodity (good produced to be exchanged on a market) is exchanged for another commodity, the price is determined by supply and demand as well as the cost of the commodity's production, since if exactly the same number of people are selling as are buying, supply and demand cannot sufficiently explain the cost of each commodity. Marx then outlines that the cost of the commodity's production is determined by the raw materials used, maintenance costs, initial capital cost and the cost of the labour used in production. As such, the owner of the factory or whatever makes money by the worker producing goods for a cost which is lower than the cost of the commodity. By doing so, the owner makes money for owning the factory, while the worker makes an amount of money equal to the monetary value of all the commodities he produced on a given day, minus the owner's share as well as the other costs of production. 1/2

Marx realised that the owner is not necessary in this process. Even if the owner does non-physical work, such as coordinating the distribution and sale of commodities, he can just hire a manager to do this and can make money without being critical to the process. The worker, on the other hand, is not recieving the value of his labour. This is the critical imbalance, not simply a hatred of the rich or whatever. By removing the need for capital intrinsic to capitalism, one can remove the need for an owner and still produce commodities for people to use. If workers collectively own the factories and land etc of the society, they can receive the fruits of their labour without the owner skimming off the top. This is important because, under capitalism, workers (the vast majority of people) cannot buy back the goods they produce, meaning that on aggregate they do not have enough money to buy all the commodities of the society on aggregate. Since the capitalists constitute a far smaller portion of the population, they too will not buy back the remainder of goods for the simple fact that they don't need so many of them and it's not in their self interest to buy things they don't need. This leads to prices being driven down by the oversupply of commodities, resulting in a number of things. First, supply is artificially restricted to prevent prices from free falling. Second, capital is moved overseas to extract the value of poorer nations' workers, thus allowing for goods to be produced far more cheaply and profit margins to be maintained by selling to richer nations. Third, capital compounds on itself to form things like credit and speculative industries, which use the management of capital to increase capital without actually contributing anything to society on a fundamental level. All of these are things are inefficient and harmful, and result in shit like chronic poverty and wars as countries defend economic interests overseas. This is what creates the immigrants you are worried about, this is the reason unemployment is a problem despite the fact that it really doesn't need to be. This is the reason there's homeless in a society with an excess of empty housing, or starvation despite an excess of food. I'm not trying to appeal to your "feels", but rather just trying to show how inefficient and needless the system is. Anyway, I'm a bit of a booklet and brainlet so people can feel free to tell me I'm wrong. 2/2

In regard to the social issues you outlined, I'd ask why you care at all. If gays are an evolutionary deadend, let them die out. At no point will a majority of the population be exclusively gay, so it's not a problem. In regard to race, races are far from constant. The genetic makeup of ancient populations was wildly different from those today, there are whole fields dedicated to studying shit like this. Evolution simply doesn't happen on such a small time scale, and why would it be evolutionarily advantageous anyway for, say, Bantu Africans to have a lower Autism Level than East Asians or Western Europeans? I can't see any good reason for this to be the case. In regard to the historical development of these peoples, plenty of significant scientific and civilisation-forming work was done by various Eurasian peoples, normally situated in the Middle East, but only recently towards Western Europe. Why prioritise such a recent phase of historical development? I agree on abortion, and disagree on materialism, but I wonder why you care about the slaying of a human life which feels no pain or loss as a result, as a materialist. Under a utilitarian framework the 'slaying of a human life' is not intrinsically wrong, and the maximum benefit principle would appear to justify abortion. Finally, onto the biggest sticking point. Why would a free market help everyone in the long term? Inequalities are critical to its proper function, as this allows for the concentration of capital and thus the continuation of the cycle of production. This is why alt-right types tend to harp on about the necessity of hierarchy and inequality. In the end though, free markets mean that workers participate in a race to the bottom in terms of wages, since the lowest possible wage will be the norm. Also, it is objectively in the interest of capitalists to not create a free market, since by controlling the market they advantage themselves. You can't remove this imperative, so why would you think that free markets are sustainable? 3/2

You're probably not materialist m8, at least not in the sense most people here would use it.

read the Ego & It's Own first.

This. OP is clearly an idealist.

Wait a moment, being anti-gay is inherently reactionary

could you relink those race debate archives? They appear to be dead links.

nvm they work now… for whatever reason my connection was timing out. my idiocy.

I just vomited

Pick one and only one.

A+ shitpost, almost raged too.

are you literally capable of anything except regurgitating the same substance-devoid posts in every thread?

thank god this stupid bookchinite meme is dying

Read:

Wage labor and capital
Value price and profit
The german ideology
Socialism utopian and scientific

Once your done if you are still interested try Capital volume 1-3.

don't do this

do this

Watch this full video series.

youtube.com/watch?v=dGT-hygPqUM&list=PL3F695D99C91FC6F7

Bookchin will never die you gigantic faggot

It's like you're trying to turn a non-argument into an argument. Why?

i don't get why people don't include in this list: "On The Jewish Question" (identify liberal democracy and the need to overcome it insofar as the conflicting duality of man's existence in the civil and citizen sphere ask him to work against himself) as well as his "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" and perhaps even "King of Prussia and Social Reform" (identification of the shortcomings inherent to political revolution in the emancipation of humanity from capitalism followed by what characterizes a social revolution and why even a failed social revolution is closer to achieving emancipation than any political ones will ever be).

these are the best preliminary readings to gain an insight into early Marx which reveals the Marxian philosophical underpinnings that are felt throughout the rest of Marx's writing and well into the Marxist materialist methodology to history.

sorry i'm tired but I really feel that overlooking the early philosophy, which is easily digestible enough to appeal to people interested in Marx at large and not too dragged down by overly technical jargon; is overlooking one of the most important components of Marx's thought. I have found more people who get inspired to read further into Marx just simply by reading his early philosophy (all of these are relatively short). one of the best comprehensive books compiling Marx I've found is pic related

Anyway just please consider all this!! sorry if my post is a little sloppy

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