I decided to not be bitter and i followed a liberal influencer for like a week (they dont make political content usually) but today they posted that BULLSHIT about how trump is causing wars as a cover for the files and i had to unfollow. nobody is starting wars over that, theyre starting wars for capital and resources.

what the fuck is a ”eipstein class”? just those guys on the files? are the billionaires who refused or were not invited alright with you?

and of course the religious zealots doing the bit about how eipstein was satan incarnate while churning out money for their pastor to buy a new mansion.

the prolecattleiat is not being elevated to sapience by this situation alone. people have to read theory which is why i encourage them to do so. libs, anarchists and conservatives have the balls to talk about how mao, stalin and other leaders were also pedophiles or ray peests so communism is not worth it either so we just need a matriarchy as if a capitalist system would be fine if women were in charge.

  • GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    2 小时前

    But the US sits in a different position in a globalised economy. The poor in the US are still consumers of resources from the Global South. In terms of the Earth’s production, it’s a big funnel and the Global South consumes a tiny amount relative to the West. Even those in poverty in the US consume a lot more based on metrics like electricity use, fuel, steel, fertilizer, clothing etc.

    There’s a big imbalance there regardless of the internal inequalities of the US.

    • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      22 分钟前

      Crudely:

      • $12-$14 per hour = global gdp per capita ($110T global gdp, mean 2000 work hours per year, 50% of 8 bill population as workers contributing to that gdp)
      • less than that the planet net exploits you
      • mean global wage is something like $7/hr/per worker
      • if you make above the above threshold of $14/hr on net your wage is subsidised by imperialist profits

      Material conditions (think relations rather than stresses) influence one’s worldview, even with relative poverty. It’s why reactionary politics still exist within a settler nation (think peoples rather than borders).

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      2 小时前

      I agree, however a relatively tiny percentage of the US population consumes a disproportionate amount of resources, with a small spattering of concessions given to an almost equally tiny labour-aristocratic vanguard. The working class enjoys little to nothing of the imperial spoils, at least not much that they can buy without going into debt peonage with a credit card. However that imbalance is the result of systemic capitalist extraction and superprofit, which must be dealt with by a changing of the base. Something that is not possible without revolution, which is why I was also referring more to the necessity of building an intersectional class consciousness among the lowest echelons of US society, as hundreds of millions are internally subjugated and used as fuel for the capitalist machine.