it’s embarrassing. just slop for hogs who want to be mad

look at this lowballing. you some kind of pinko?

anymore

never was. from slavery to Jim Crow to modern debt peonage

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich— that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty”— supposedly petty— details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers”!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc.,— we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.

—Lenin, State and Revolution, 1917

In capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favourable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation, and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slaveowners. Owing to the conditions of capitalist exploitation, the modern wage slaves are so crushed by want and poverty that “they cannot be bothered with democracy”, “cannot be bothered with politics”; in the ordinary, peaceful course of events, the majority of the population is debarred from participation in public and political life.

—Lenin, State and Revolution, 1917

all states are class dictatorships, so it has only ever been a democracy for the bourgeois class since it has always been a bourgeois dictatorship.

https://redsails.org/concessions/

https://redsails.org/xi-on-democracy/

maybe they mean America’s history

EDIT: but even then it’s too broad. it’s just mostly shitty but there have been good and inspring things in reaction to those conditions

it’s like a microcosm of the thing where the next generation falls wholesale for the bullshit knowingly promoted by the previous stewards of empire. they think the bought-and-paid-for superstructure is the natural order not a carefully managed façade

the document’s estimate to how long this information will take to fill out? 8 minutes paper form, 4 minutes website

it would take me like three fucking hours to come up with all this

history questions will be answered by the MechaHitler LLM trained on Elon’s tweets

cutting unrefined gold exports and upping refined gold exports, ie moving from unfinished raw materials into more finished goods or ancillary materials

more on this, also mentions what RedWizard is saying about cocoa but he has a separate video that focuses on the cocoa trade

How China and the BRICS are starving the West of gold | Inside China Business

they don’t either

The Weedmacht: 420 Blitz It

playing with fire

get ready for more wan selfish handwaving

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don’t go, this is most of the time a fun comm

evacuations are pretty difficult when everyone is chained to the floor

the cruel tyranny of standardized units of measurement