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I swear to god, if i hear more from any outlet how the American middle class is “dying”, i’m gonna have an aneurysm.
The middle class is not dying. By capitalism’s own design it cannot die, otherwise all the useless commodities being produced by surplus labor will not be bought. What we are seeing right now is just a lull in the class’ fortunes before the spending patterns are recovered as the state goes on another imperialist adventure.
That this rhetoric has been adopted by part of the left is no surprise, but is also stupid as all hell in that it turns workers into a consumer demographic rather than a class. For every middle-class sucker there exists, there necessarily has to be a hundred or more impoverished workers invisibly supplying them with things.
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any advice on this?
That’ just America’s 250-year old democracy coming to its conclusion. No ammount of small incremental changes or twitter debates or election campaigns will change that, the upper classes have already perfected totalitarianism. The only thing one can do is physically resist.
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I spoke to a Grab driver and asked him about the current shortage in drivers leading to higher prices than pre-Covid times.
He told me that many of the workers left because the banks and Grab refused to help them during the pandemic. Now that there are few drivers in Grab, now it aggressively advertises and gives incentives, while people who cannot have their own expensive cars suffer from long waits.
Malaysia really needs a bit of socialism to knock some sense into our $tupid government and the big-shot companies! The rakyat (people) doesn’t need to wait for them to bleed while the rich pile up!
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It’s not really something that’s isolated to your own country, mind. Resignations and strike actions are happening everywhere today, putting the system at an ugly crossroads. It’s not something that can be easily “solved” through policy, no matter how good the proposals might sound, for all reform is temporary, it doesn’t break the vicious cycle of exploitation and wage slavery which is what brought us to this point to begin with.
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So all that is needed is a worldwide revolt and establishment of communist governments? Hopefully they won’t simply ban everything or end up like Khrushchev or North Korea.
People trying to defend inflation are why I hate capitalism and corporations nowadays. Do they ever care about making life more convenient for everyone, especially the poor?
If inflation continues, eventually we will all end up like Zimbabwe, no mattwr how hard we work. Isn’t that what sick capitalists want?
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So all that is needed is a worldwide revolt and establishment of communist governments? Hopefully they won’t simply ban everything or end up like Khrushchev or North Korea.
North Korea’s isolation only exists as a reflex by its ruling dictatorship against hostile neighbors. If the entire world is swept up by a revolutionary uprising aiming to help people survive and live instead of maximizing profit, it’s safe to say it won’t have such distortions and abuses.
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If I remember correctly, prices usually go down if there is more supply, usually after a disaster kills off demand, something is less needed, or (hopefully) more of something is produced and made more available.
So is it possible for prices to start going down even during inflation?
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If prices as a whole go down it wouldn’t be inflation. So you are right that if their is an issue with demand that would cause demand as a whole to shift back then yes, the quantity supplied decreases and price decreases. You wouldn’t even need a disaster, if for some reason the economy was flushed with cash, but people just never spent the money and buried it, you still wouldn’t have inflation.
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That’s what they tell you to say. But what they don’t want you to know is that by the two very real and serious metrics Bill Clinton has been a president unsurpassed in this nation’s history. As president he had:
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Let me guess, you’re either a communist, a Maoist, an anarcho-communist, a revolutionary socialist, a libertarian socialist, or some other kind of far-left ideologue.
And no, I’m not even trying to be insulting, here. I am sincerely attempting to speculate on what you may possibly align yourself with as being by unironically promoting talking points of a “revolutionary uprising” among the greater masses.
any advice on this?
That’ just America’s 250-year old democracy coming to its conclusion. No ammount of small incremental changes or twitter debates or election campaigns will change that, the upper classes have already perfected totalitarianism. The only thing one can do is physically resist.
I do remember reading some of your comments at some point, and saw that you identified yourself as a Brazilian.
For all I know, how things go about in your country could very well be much different from ours, as well as regarding how stable the legitimacy’s of either your country’s political system/culture and our country’s political system/culture are, in comparison to one another.
So with that in mind, I really do not think it’s wise for either one of us to make such judgments as if our countries work the exact same ways as each other’s, since we both appear to not really know a whole lot about the other country, myself regarding Brazil, and yourself regarding America.
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Let me guess, you’re either a communist,
Personally, yes, but only in Garry’s Mod, and on tuesdays.
a Maoist,
I don’t know, do i look like a cult member who screams at old retired white women at DSA rallies to you? Maoism was only relevant so far as Mao himself was alive and the Russian communist party dominated progressive movements worldwide and promoted demobilization. The maoists tried to offer an active alternative but ultimately failed given their incoherent strategies.
an anarcho-communist,
I have disagreements with the anarchist current given their propensity to declare the strategy of dual power as an end in itself rather than a means for something more serious down the line.
a revolutionary socialist, a libertarian socialist,
I’m not sure these labels are clear enough? “Liberty” is always a mystified word that obscures relations of power more than it clarifies anything, so i reject it.
So with that in mind, I really do not think it’s wise for either one of us to make such judgments as if our countries work the exact same ways as each other’s, since we both appear to not really know a whole lot about the other country, myself regarding Brazil, and yourself regarding America.
I’m not American myself and neither have i visited the land, but i am an avid reader on its history and society, and judging by the policy track record of the Democratic Party, they seem wholly incapable and inadequately equipped to resist the current GOP political onslaught. This was likely inevitable considering the Democrats are as much a party of big business as their nominal opponents are. As a result, their platform is less capable of base mobilization than the GOP is, considering their now decades-old abandonment of welfare policies in favor of the neoliberal consensus.
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Then obviously, to address the problems of neoliberalism, a concerted effort that promotes the implementation of Keynesian economics or social democracy (or any system in between the two, of which doesn’t include neoliberalism) should already be prevalent among the majority of people who have legitimate criticisms of neoliberalism, rather than just ignorantly mistaking neoliberalism as being all forms of capitalism (not just one), and naively, irrationally buying into far-left ideologies like marxism and extreme-left ideologies like communism.
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