• KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    21 days ago

    While I don’t make much money and can’t afford to move out, I sometimes still feel guilt for not coming from a very poor background, even if my family isn’t that rich, because then I tell myself that I can’t be a true socialist. Does anybody else feel something similar?

    I feel this way because my parents have a middle class income and they own their own house. My dad is a lower manager in healthcare, what is the marxist vision on that type of work? My mom also works in healthcare but as a worker.

    • sudo_halt@lemmygrad.ml
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      17 days ago

      Marxism isn’t about poverty worship, it’s about ending exploitation. Being a rich fuck doesn’t automatically make you evil or something. But you should try to minimize or end exploitation (if any, and as much as possible under a capitalist system). However, for some middle class nobody who doesn’t have the MoP this basically doesn’t mean anything.

    • Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml
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      19 days ago

      Engles was rich as fuck.

      Being poor doesn’t make you a better socialist. Its is more noble to go against your own self interests to fight for the betterment of all people than it is to fight for your fair share.

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      21 days ago

      Class traitors are every bit as helpful, it’s just a thing where due to circumstance, it’s not as expected that someone well-off will join a revolutionary cause against the furthering of their own position in class.

      But also, I don’t think having their own house makes them rich. It means they have a bit more to fear losing than some in a societal upheaval, but if they have to work to make a living, they are still working class. It’s more the ones who own and rent out multiple properties, who own loads of stock, etc., who I’d expect are unlikely to ever change their ways and support a revolution, because their wealth is directly tied into the capitalist financial system and its exploitation.

      Either way, you could be Bill Gates level of wealth background and still become a socialist. Unlikely if you were from a background that wealthy, but it’s not impossible.

    • burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
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      19 days ago

      First of all, if the majority of the earnings of your family come from their labor (wages, self employment, small businesses), doesn’t matter if the earnings are small or high, your family is working class.

      Secondly, doesn’t matter even if you were born in a bourgeois family, socialists aren’t like Nazis that strive for racial purity. As long as you share our values, meaning you understand that we need to end class exploitation and advance for a class-less society, you are our ally. In fact, we had some bourgeois class traitors to join our ranks, like Zhou Enlai and Friedrich Engels.

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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      21 days ago

      I mean Che himself came from a relatively well off family, was studying to be a doctor, decided to fuck around traveling for a while like the rich kid he is and he became one of the most influential marxist figures there is. I think we should not let ourselves get hung up on puritan views of the ideal socialist because it is pointless to our cause.

      It’s always good to be aware of the privileges you may have but don’t feel bad for having them per se. Just like poor people never asked to be (born) poor you didn’t ask for being born into a middle class family, if that makes sense. What counts is that you found marxism and are contributing to achieving communism in this world.

  • Felhfeltetel ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    21 days ago

    Everyone make sure to wish a great week to Oppo.

    Btw, anyone familiar with millenial.chaos from TikTok? Or maybe anyone in his Discord? If not, maybe we could let them know we exist, because they seem to be a cool bunch.

    Other than that, last saturday I attended the 31st congress of our party, which was overall a positive experience, even if just slightly tipping the scale. I’d appreciate other autistic people helping me with tips how they do fieldwork, being on the streets, talking to people, being observed and judged and so on. As well as, I’m wondering if there is anyone here, who can not do any type of party work like this, because if they’d do, they’d lose their jobs or be hated out of their local community. Cause these are the things I’m facing, but obviously I’m expected to perform and work for the party.

        • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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          20 days ago

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  • Jin008@lemmygrad.ml
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    21 days ago

    Question for Londoners and people who’ve been to London, is it actually that much of a piss-smelling shithole? That’s basically all I’ve heard coming from friends who have gone there, which as someone from a fairly dirty third-world city, is surprising.

    • nugs [Comrade/Them]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Yes. I lived there for some years. The pungent urine aroma emitted from the entrance to Lancaster Gate Station will forever be etched into my mind

    • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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      21 days ago

      I’ve been to London twice, once as a exchange student for some time. Lived in Eltham actually. I’ve always thought it was a great city to live in. But that was around ten years ago, something like that. It faces the difficulty of every western city: overpriced, gentrified, housing shortage, etc.

      I enjoyed the city very much. It is absolutely massive though so there is no ‘one London’ to speak about. Walking around Fulham is vastly different than walking around, idk, Hackney. The piss smell wasn’t noticed by me at least.

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I finally had my first Seder yesterday. It was also the first time that I had matzah, matzo ball soup, wine, and gefilte fish, all of which I enjoyed having. I tried to imagine myself being an ancient Hebrew who hastily escaped chattel slavery, but it was difficult when there was so much commotion in the room.

    Above all, the Seder was about mourning the situation in Gaza, how they have little to eat and only salt water to drink. We took turns reading from a pamphlet about the situation there and why we could not in good conscience have a celebratory Seder like most other Jews would normally have. We weren’t miserable during the event, but being conscious of Palestinian suffering made the Seder very different: we all knew that Gazans were still going to be in agony after the Seder was over.

    Despite the noise in the room (in between and after reading from the pamphlet), I managed to have a couple of conversations with the other guests. The one to my right was taciturn, but we talked a little about the Spanish State and the Jewish history there and in Morocco.

    The one to my left was more energetic, and we talked about modern history, like the status of gay Jews in the Third Reich. I told him that I may well have written the first article specifically on the subject, and I wrote on a napkin where he could find the topic—https:lemmy.ml (I wish that I had been more specific)—and my telephone number. Later he agreed to take me home and we talked about historical conspiracies and other events in modern history, like the Fascist invasion of Ethiopia and how Imperial America forgave most of Fascist Italy’s WWI debt, which amazed him. He hasn’t tried to contact me yet, but I wish that we could speak again.

    • ZEDtheRED@lemmygrad.ml
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      18 days ago

      That’s great! I had my first Seder with my (now) ex and her mom who was a Holocaust survivor. It turned out to be her mom’s last Seder, we buried her not long after. Very poignant and I am so glad she passed without seeing nazis marching in her neighborhood

    • Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml
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      20 days ago

      Most metrics include those under 18 (most sources say 16-24) to make China look bad. It’s a good thing that most minors don’t have to work.

      • nugs [Comrade/Them]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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        20 days ago

        Wait… you’re telling me this whole time the big fuss was about the 16-24 demographic in one of the most studious countries on the planet having low employment rates? Fuck me man. News outlets were talking about it like it was under 30s. Well glad I asked lol

      • coolusername@lemmy.ml
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        20 days ago

        It’s not normal for college aged adults in China to work in the first place. They’re all studying hard. What a random metric to look at.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    20 days ago

    I want to start being more active for my union, FNV. I want to go to more events they organise, and I’m going to ask working class friends and family around me if they want to join. Since my party BIJ1 doesn’t really work that much with the unions I’ll have to do it myself.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    20 days ago

    Vijay Prashad will come to my city in two weeks, excited to see what he will say.

    Starting up a fire within the Union to strike against the new government plans affecting my job. Let’s not have them have any rest 🔥

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    I got another guy mad enough to start digging through my old posts to look for things to dunk me on. I think that’s a sign of victory, making him waste his own time.