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The falseness of it has been well theorized by Antonio Gramsci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony

The Fascism of Common Sense

In one of those two, the workers do have real power, and in the other one they have no more power than workers in any other capitalist state.

hierarchy-destroying bastions of freedom

You seem to be under the misconception that we have freedom, but unless you’re in the big club, you don’t.

• [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
• "Bourgeois Democracy": What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?

Protests that upset the US federal government are serious business. Garden-variety privacy won’t do.

Why not Signal? » Good Alternatives

🤣 This is the way the empire ends: not with a bang but a blockchain.

Trustee of US Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation says Fascists were ‘Misunderstood’ and a ‘Lost Cause’

😂

I gave you a link to a basic introduction of what capital is, but instead of engaging with the material, you say “it’s just a meme.”

https://www.sba.gov/business-guide/plan-your-business/fund-your-business

Why not Signal? » Good Alternatives

 bash

    
#!/bin/sh

# Get the original RSS feed URL from an Apple Podcast show URL.

podcast="$1"
id=$(echo "$podcast" | awk '{sub(/^.*\/id/, ""); print}')
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=%24id" | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'

  

There seems to be a bug in Lemmy that messes up the script’s rendering a little, but you’ll figure it out.

Interesting! You extract the ID from the link (e.g. the 1258545975 from https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/citations-needed/id1258545975) and then:

 bash

    
$ curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1258545975' | jq -r '.results.[0].feedUrl'
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/rss
$

  

I’m not sure those links will render RSS feeds. I just pulled them from my Apple Podcasts app. None of them are exclusive to Apple, though, so if you’re not in the Apple ecosystem you can still find them.

• Citations Needed
• Behind the News with Doug Henwood
• Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
• Macro N Cheese
• Geopolitical Economy Report
• The Deprogram
• Actually Existing Socialism
• Revolutionary Left Radio
• Guerrilla History
• This Machine Kills
• Tech Won't Save Us
• Bad Faith
• The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
• QAnon Anonymous
• TrueAnon

If Biden and Harris enforced the Leahy Act, all you would have heard from the right is that Democrats are antisemites who protect Hamas terrorists.

We don’t give a flying fuck what “the right” would say; we give a fuck about stopping genocide.

You’ve solved capitalism: everyone can simply fill out a government form and become petit bourgeois.

Yes, you are proletariat now. I too have vacillated between proletariat and petit bourgeois over the years, sometimes an employee, sometimes a freelancer, and sometimes a business owner with employees. Class isn’t a measure of income or a vibe, it’s one’s relationship to capital.

There’s no such thing as imperialism in the modern world.

God damn, you really don’t know shit about fuck.

• Neocolonialism
• The Shock Doctrine
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• Super-Imperialism
• How to Hide an Empire
• The Jakarta Method

it insists on this 1800s argument/fantasy about factory workers. In an age and economy where 70% of people work in the services sector.

It insists nothing of the sort. It makes no difference whether one labors for manufacturing industry wages or service industry wages. Either way one is proletariat, selling one’s labor to the bourgeoisie for survival.

I seized my means of production.

Congratulations, you are now petit bourgeois.

[A bunch of embarrassingly ignorant nonsense.]

And once more: lol @ downvoters constantly butthurt that their Marxist pov is challenged

Every industry and business empire ultimately starts with clever individuals working very hard on ideas

That is the flowery idealist narrative that the capitalist class relentlessly promotes, to the point that you’re now promoting it for them, but in fact each one starts with capital.