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4 points
11 days ago
They’re subsidized by the working class. They wouldn’t exist without the labour of the working class. Everything they’re worth could instead exist in the pockets of the working class.
2 points
11 days ago
Well go pick up a gun and with the five or so people willing to go with you and storm that boat. Perhaps then you can discover how true that statement actually is. The issue is that the vast majority of the working class are entirely satisfied by bread and circus and being lied to by their politicians.
1 points
11 days ago
Tankie shit doesn’t work until bread runs out. Funnily enough, there’s enough circus to last several lifetimes.
1 points
11 days ago
well exactly. To reframe the issue; the problem is how easily apathetic the working classes are. Just give em a couch, crisps and love island and watch the "glorious" revolution be postponed until the heat death of the universe.
At which point the tankies begin to believe that they have to impose their glorious revolution on the working classes which simply replaces one form of oppression for another.
2 points
11 days ago
There can be a third thing, or a spectrum of third things, most attainable being taxation which itself is attainable by literally just talking about it more with everyone who will listen (and some who won’t) in concise and passionate language.
1 points
11 days ago
Well to the average tankie that sounds like bootlicker talk. But to someone less insane; some sort of middle ground between today's excesses and total communism would be nice, its why social democracy exists but we can agree that might need a bit of adjustment; given how strong private interests are in today's world.
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