Cool. One of my favourite new(ish) bands.

Thanks to manga, I now automatically scan comic panels in the "wrong" order. 🤦‍♂️

I hate how things usually have to get worse, and that they cancelled the get better part.

Worry less about the jargon. Talk in terms accessible to people who haven't read Marx and Engels: they will be more concerned with the actual point than the semantics.

That point is that capitalism doesn't create anything but poverty/inequality. It steals what actual working people make and need.

I have the impression that there's a hierarchy of "love" terminology. Using anime as a reference (as I'm not academic), we have 好きです (I like you), 大好きです (I *really* like you) and あいしてる (I love you).

This may be completely wrong as usual (there are usually things going on that I haven't grasped).

Workers produce. Capitalism just empowers a tiny subset to control resources and leech the product of work. It is a tool of control and enslavement.

Without capitalism, people can still organise and work for their own mutual benefit.

Capitalism is not the only motivator for work and production.

So far as society is concerned, capitalism and private ownership are inefficient and parasitic. Not all product is put to the uses desired by those who produce.

Economic and political jargon don't change reality.

What is ' "wealth" proper '?
Definition of wealth from Meriam Webster

1: abundance of valuable material possessions or resources
2: abundant supply : PROFUSION
3a: all property that has a money value or an exchangeable value
b: all material objects that have economic utility

The ordinary people of Europe thank you.

Inconveniently, vegetarianism means I have to just use the corpses of the rich as compost to grow vegetables.

In the beginning, I thought I was learning Japanese. 12 months on I sometimes wonder if I was mistaken.

Either that or don't fix heavy dummies to your furniture.

That seems to me to be uncharacteristically sloppy wording if Marx really said it.

Capitalism doesn't create wealth: the labour of working people creates wealth. Capitalism merely enslaves that labour and steals the wealth.

Let's not give capitalism credit it doesn't deserve.

Love the pic, but we always need to fact-check so we retain the high ground from where we can look down on right-wing bullshit.

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