www.marxists.org/reference/ar... important work

especially in such a situation the most historically oppressed sections of the masses with the most interest in changing the old conditions, should be uplifted and encouraged and enabled to participate

Mao wrote extensively on the importance of remembering the difference between a contradiction between the masses and their enemies, which is resolved with repressive force, and a contradiction within the mass community, which should always be resolved with democracy, persuasion, and study

The dictatorship of the proletariat in its most developed state should look like the upper extreme of what we might call participatory democracy-- this is embodied for instance in the revolutionary committees of Socialist China, liquidated by counterrevolutionaries in the 70s and 80s.

I think this concern has some merit! It is important that the dictatorship of the proletariat be, as Marx described it, merely a set of tools for achieving social ends that the whole of the proletariat has access to using-- not an institution set apart from the workers, whenever possible.

So did Metaxas. I'm not giving him medals for it

The Anime Pedophile believes he is dapper and winning

Antifa was a movement founded by martyred German communists. You insult them by the conflation with the imperialist butcher Eisenhower. He was no antifascist when he went to Korea to help the Rhee regime

it doesn't matter if we "started" equal

if you are a ceo and i am a minimum wage employee we are clearly not equal. maybe we both had a chance, but you won. and you are able to create advantages for your children, your friends, your associates that i never will. so you get to construct a ruling class that includes you, and excludes me.

>everyone is equal
>everyone has a chance to become the ceo of a company

these contradict

okay here's another one: gleefully mocking someone with less social power than you for entertainment online is always bad, even if they're a bad person

unfortunately we do need some amount of authority and force to take the resources to do that away from them. this is the purpose of the proletarian semi-state apparatus as understood by marx, engels, lenin, etc

i mean but the people who have it will just use it to make a state again, right? if the power of the us government over the towns where tesla has their plants just evaporated right now, musk et al would just hire their own goons and before too much longer it'd just be a slightly different state

i evolved to hug my sister and draw silly pictures and i think every deviation from this is a failure

get rid of the latter and the former will wither away pardner

we all need to be talking more openly and frequently about the central importance of abolishing private ownership of the productive forces in resolving nearly every social problem