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There is political crisis because the bourgeoisie is divided between those who wish to resume neoliberal globalization -change everything to keep everything the same— and paleo-conservative factions who want to return to a nation-based accumulation of capital, authoritarian rule, and warfare to secure the lion's share of the global spoils.
The split
... See moreYou are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property... See more
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
Proudhon: What is Property?
youtube.comThe right to product is exclusive, the right to means is common. Everything is really only borrowed.
If you already have a stable middle-class life, you can worry about the end of the world. If you don’t, you’re worried about the end of the month, as the yellow vest protesters in France put it.
Joan C. Williams • The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
Work under capitalism alienated individuals from themselves since work is no longer a joy, but simply a means to earn wages to survive
Saul McLeod • Marx's Theory of Alienation In Sociology
The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
As long as elites empathize deeply with immigrants while judging and dismissing middle-status people’s pain, we won’t help immigrants.
Meagan Day • The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
It is again the wonderful irony of history: China alone is still to be conquered for capitalist production, and in so doing at long last the latter makes its own existence at home impossible. -Engles, letter to Kautsky 1894
Patriotism