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O capitalismo está podre. Todos sabemos disso. Mas ele não cai sozinho, ele não morre de morte natural. Precisamos aliar o antifascismo e o antimperialismo ao internacionalismo proletário, e assim somar forças para construir o socialismo. Faça a sua parte. A FRENTE REVOLUCIONARIA DOS TRABALHADORES-FRT, busca unir os trabalhadores em toda sua diversidade, e formar o mais forte Movimento Popular Revolucionário em defesa de todos e construir a Sociedade dos Trabalhadores - a SOCIEDADE COMUNISTA!
"O COMUNISMO SÓ É BOM ENQUANTO DURA O DINHEIRO DOS OUTROS"
ResponderExcluir"O CAPITALISMO SÓ É BOM ENQUANTO A MAIORIA DA POPULAÇÃO PASSA FOME E ESTÁ DESEMPREGADA E AS ELITES SÃO BILIONÁIRAS!"
Excluir"O CAPITALISMO SÓ É BOM ENQUANTO A MAIORIA DA POPULAÇÃO É POBRE E ESCRAVA E SÓ A MINORIA É BILIONÁRIA!"
ExcluirCada vez mais eu concluo que o Ocidente vem sendo o Quarto Reich desde 1945 de facto e desde 1949 de jure. É isso, basicamente. E toda essa galera do Núcleo Imperial que se diz "antiimperialista" mas que apoia os EUA/UE/OTAN/Ucrânia/Israel são apenas nazifascistas querendo autoprojetar seu próprio nazifascismo em outras pessoas, pra eles todos são nazifascistas, exceto os próprios nazifascistas. O OTANismo é o Fascismo do Ocidente assim como que o Sionismo é o Fascismo Israelense e o Nazismo é o Fascismo Alemão. É isso, basicamente. Eles chamam o socialismo/comunismo de "ideologias genocidas" apenas para minimizarem e negarem a verdadeira ideologia genocida que é o capitalismo, o neoliberalismo e a democracia liberal. Infelizmente artigos como este realmente estão certos, infelizmente cada vez mais a esquerda está sendo proibida de ser esquerda e cada vez mais estamos caminhando para uma falsa pluralidade e para uma pluralidade controlada. Infelizmente cada vez mais o Ocidente mostra como que ele é o Quarto Reich, e isso cada vez mais fica mais claro. Precisamos parar o Quarto Reich antes que seja tarde demais...
ExcluirAbzuCC
ExcluirA Abzu Cooperative Corporation Group, também abreviada como Abzucoopcorp, ou Abzunian Cooperative Corporation, também AbzuCC, e AbzuCC Group, é um grupo corporativo hipotético teorizado e idealizado por William Anthony Mounter, que seria uma resposta às falas e atitudes de Bill Ackman e dos CEOs de extrema-direita que apoiam Israel, a Ucrânia e o Eixo EUA-UE-OTAN, e também uma reposta ao grupo X de Elon Musk. A AbzuCC seria basicamente a detentora de marcas como a Dama-da-Noite, Nutripastelent, Psiontech Corporation, E-SETI Group, Quantum Transhuman Association, Nanotechnological Transhuman Association, Seach for Gods and Afterlife (SGAf), Supermercados Grande Vitória (Supermercados GV), Gemological Cooperative of the Américas (GCA); Centro Abzuniano de Pesquisa, Tecnologia e Ciência (CAPTC); Centro Educacional Abzuniano do Brasil (Abzuniano - do ensino infantil ao ensino médio); Faculdade Abzuniana do Brasil (FAbzuB - Ensino Superior); Union of the World Socialist Cooperatives and Corporations (UWSCC), Dingir Industries; Dingir Technologies; Dingir Corporation; Dingir Science, Dingir AI, entre outras. A AbzuCC se caracterizaria por praticar um modelo estilo a Mondragon, mas se baseando em princípios abzunianos.
Um dos fundamentos da AbzuCC seria a denúncia e o combate ao autoritarismo e totalitarismo promovidos pelos EUA, UE, OTAN e pelo Ocidente. Além de criar bilionários e CEOs socialistas e comunistas.
Dingir Group
O Dingir Group, também Dingir Cooperative Corporation Group, ou Grupo Dingir, é uma hipotética corporação idealizada por Dumugian a qual seguiria os princípios da religião anunnaki-anurashi-abzuniana e os princípios do socialismo de mercado e da propriedade cooperativa. O Dingir Group também possuiria suas próprias subdivisões, como o Abzu Group, a Dingir Industries, a Dingir Technology, a Dingir Science, a Dingir Nutripaste, a Dingir Health, a Dingir Education, a Dingir Church, a Dingir Vehicles, a Dingir Space, a Dingir Quantum, a Dingir Spirituality, a Dingir Divinity, a Dingir Weather, a Dingir Atomics, a Dingir Subatomics, a Dingir Cybernetics, a Dingir Synthetics, a Dingir Genetics, a Dingir Infrastructures, a Dingir Buildings, a Dingir Neurotechnology, a Dingir Biotechnology, a Dingir Nanotechnology, a Dingir Media, a Dingir Food, a Dingir Nutrition, a Dingir Economics, a Dingir Internet, a Dingir Psionics, a Dingir Psychics, a Dingir Commerce, a Dingir Finances, e as subdivisões Abzu de cada uma das mesmas. O Dingir Group seria uma versão de esquerda radical e anunnakista anurashi abzuniana das corporações de Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg e de Bill Ackman.
A logo do Dingir Group é o cuneiforme Dingir. E o logo do Abzu Group é o cuneiforme Abzu (logo primário) e o cuneiforme Nammu (logo secundário)
Os verdadeiros vagabundos e canalhas são vocês! Bando de capitalistas autoritários, capitalistas totalitários, neoliberais autoritários e neoliberais totalitários! Precisamos de uma revolução comunista mundial o mais rápido possível e com urgência no mundo inteiro!
ExcluirCapitalismo autoritário, capitalismo totalitário, neoliberalismo autoritário e neoliberalismo totalitário são tudo parte do mesmo sistema de capitalismo fascista e de capitalonazifascismo. Capitalismo autoritário e totalitário só é bom enquanto a maioria da população é pobre e não possui direitos enquanto o legislativo, judiciário, as forças policiais, os patrões-burgueses, os milionários-burgueses, e os bilionários-burgueses deitam e rolam na maioria da população pobre e proletária. República Socialista da Terra já! Já chega de capitalismo autorizado, de capitalismo totalitário, neoliberalismo autoritário e de neoliberalismo totalitário! Socialismo e comunismo funcionam sim, e já temos vários exemplos disso na história, e até hoje em dia com as comunas de Gran Caracas, os Kibbutz de Israel, a economia da China, os Kibbutz da Rússia pós-soviética, os pequenos e médios empreendimentos comunais, e as empresas comunais. Authoritarian capitalism, totalitarian capitalism, authoritarian neoliberalism and totalitarian neoliberalism are all part of the same system of fascist capitalism and capitalonazifascism. Authoritarian and totalitarian capitalism is only good as long as the majority of the population is poor and has no rights while the legislative, judiciary, police forces, bourgeois bosses, bourgeois millionaires, and bourgeois billionaires lie and roll over the majority of the population. poor and proletarian. Socialist Republic of Earth now! Enough of authorized capitalism, totalitarian capitalism, authoritarian neoliberalism and totalitarian neoliberalism! Socialism and communism do work, and we already have several examples of this in history, and even today with the communes of Gran Caracas, the Kibbutz of Israel, the economy of China, the Kibbutz of post-Soviet Russia, small and medium enterprises communal, and communal companies. El capitalismo autoritario, el capitalismo totalitario, el neoliberalismo autoritario y el neoliberalismo totalitario son todos parte del mismo sistema de capitalismo fascista y capitalonazifascismo. El capitalismo autoritario y totalitario sólo es bueno mientras la mayoría de la población sea pobre y no tenga derechos, mientras que las fuerzas legislativas, judiciales, policiales, los patrones burgueses, los millonarios burgueses y los multimillonarios burgueses mienten y atropellan a la mayoría de la población pobre. y proletario. ¡República Socialista de la Tierra ahora! ¡Basta de capitalismo autorizado, de capitalismo totalitario, de neoliberalismo autoritario y de neoliberalismo totalitario! El socialismo y el comunismo sí funcionan, y de ello ya tenemos varios ejemplos en la historia, y aún hoy con las comunas de la Gran Caracas, el Kibbutz de Israel, la economía de China, los Kibbutz de la Rusia postsoviética, las pequeñas y medianas empresas comunales. y empresas comunales. Le capitalisme autoritaire, le capitalisme totalitaire, le néolibéralisme autoritaire et le néolibéralisme totalitaire font tous partie du même système de capitalisme fasciste et de capitalonazifascisme. Le capitalisme autoritaire et totalitaire n'est bon que tant que la majorité de la population est pauvre et n'a aucun droit pendant que les forces législatives, judiciaires, policières, les patrons bourgeois, les millionnaires bourgeois et les milliardaires bourgeois mentent et roulent sur la majorité de la population. et prolétaire. République Socialiste de la Terre maintenant ! Assez de capitalisme autorisé, de capitalisme totalitaire, de néolibéralisme autoritaire et de néolibéralisme totalitaire ! Le socialisme et le communisme fonctionnent, et nous en avons déjà plusieurs exemples dans l'histoire, et encore aujourd'hui avec les communes de Gran Caracas, le kibboutz d'Israël, l'économie de la Chine, le kibboutz de la Russie post-soviétique, les petites et moyennes entreprises communales. , et les entreprises communales.
ExcluirE a Enel? E as empresas bilionárias? E as privatizações? E os aeroportos privatizados? E a privatização da energia e da água? E os pedágios? E os CEOs e bilionários? E os bancos e financeiras com juros astronômicos? E o SPC-Serasa? E é esquerda que é "vagabunda"? Bando de lambedor de graxa e sola de sapato de bilionário e CEO...
ExcluirVocês capitalistas totalitários e neoliberais totalitários amam lamber graxa e sola de sapato de bilionário e CEO, né? Vocês defendem a escravidão da esquerda ao mesmo tempo que lambem os sapatos de bilionário e CEO, né? Principalmente os da Enel, né? A direita pode tudo e a esquerda não pode nada só ser escrava do capitalismo, né? Bando de capitalonazifascista e liberalonazifascista. Bando de lambedores de sapatos de bilionários e de CEOs.
ExcluirA insanidade dos lambedores de sapatos de bilionários e CEOs não tem limites. Querem a escravidão da esquerda ao mesmo tempo que defendem que bilionários e CEOs podem fazer oq quiser. Bando de escravagistas capitalonazifascistas do século XXI defensores do capitalismo totalitário e neoliberalismo totalitário.
ExcluirOCHENT!
ResponderExcluirPROTESTO EM DIA DE TRABALHO?
SÓ VAI QUEM É VAGABUNDO E NÃO TRABALHA.
VAI TOMAR NO SEU CUBA QUE TPARIU SATANÁS, ESQUERDOPATA, COMUNAZIFASCISTA........
E Bilionáiro e Capitalista trabalham? "Todo desemprego é voluntário" kkkkkkk. Vocês direitopatas querem que a maioria trabalham igual escravos sem nenhum direito!
ExcluirVAI TOMAR NO SEU OTAN QUE TPARIU! NEOLIBERALOIDE, CAPITALOLIBERALONAZIFASCISTTA!
CAPITALISMO QUE É O VERDADEIRO NAZIFASCISMO! A OTAN / O OCIDENTE QUE É O QUARTO REICH!
VOCÊS CAPITALISTAS NOS CHAMAM DE "VAGABUNDOS" POIS NOS RECUSAMOS A TRABALHAR COMO ESCRAVO! VOCÊS CAPITALISTAS DEFENDEM ESCRAVIDÃO E SEGREGRAÇÃO COM BASE POLÍTICA E IDEOLÓGICA!
BILIONÁRIO E CEO QUE SÃO OS VERDADEITRO VAGABUNDOS!
Só vai quem é segregado do mercado de trabalho e se recusa a trabalhar com empregos/salários/direitos análogos a escravidãos! Trabalho = Escravidão parq vocês. Direitopatas capitaloliberalotanonazifascistas! Onatonazifascistas! Capitalonazifascistas! Capitaloliberalonazifascistas! Neoliberalismo é neofascismo em disfarce!
ExcluirO erro da URSS foi ter deixado de ser uma república/democracia conciliar e ter parado em Berlin e não ter dominado toda a Europa, Ásia e América do Norte! Capitalismo é barbárie! Capitalismo é nazifascismo!
R/TheDeprogram, r/CommunismMemes e r/ShitLiberalsSay realmente tem razão!
Aí a pessoa de esquerda quer ser MEI e ter sua própria empresa e aí vocês querem proibir pessoas de esquerda de terem suas próprias empresas. Bando de capitalonazifascistas! Segregracionistas anticomunistas capitalonazifascistas!
ExcluirCada vez mais eu concluo que o Ocidente vem sendo o Quarto Reich desde 1945 de facto e desde 1949 de jure. É isso, basicamente. E toda essa galera do Núcleo Imperial que se diz "antiimperialista" mas que apoia os EUA/UE/OTAN/Ucrânia/Israel são apenas nazifascistas querendo autoprojetar seu próprio nazifascismo em outras pessoas, pra eles todos são nazifascistas, exceto os próprios nazifascistas. O OTANismo é o Fascismo do Ocidente assim como que o Sionismo é o Fascismo Israelense e o Nazismo é o Fascismo Alemão. É isso, basicamente. Eles chamam o socialismo/comunismo de "ideologias genocidas" apenas para minimizarem e negarem a verdadeira ideologia genocida que é o capitalismo, o neoliberalismo e a democracia liberal. Infelizmente artigos como este realmente estão certos, infelizmente cada vez mais a esquerda está sendo proibida de ser esquerda e cada vez mais estamos caminhando para uma falsa pluralidade e para uma pluralidade controlada. Infelizmente cada vez mais o Ocidente mostra como que ele é o Quarto Reich, e isso cada vez mais fica mais claro. Precisamos parar o Quarto Reich antes que seja tarde demais...
ExcluirAbzuCC
ExcluirA Abzu Cooperative Corporation Group, também abreviada como Abzucoopcorp, ou Abzunian Cooperative Corporation, também AbzuCC, e AbzuCC Group, é um grupo corporativo hipotético teorizado e idealizado por William Anthony Mounter, que seria uma resposta às falas e atitudes de Bill Ackman e dos CEOs de extrema-direita que apoiam Israel, a Ucrânia e o Eixo EUA-UE-OTAN, e também uma reposta ao grupo X de Elon Musk. A AbzuCC seria basicamente a detentora de marcas como a Dama-da-Noite, Nutripastelent, Psiontech Corporation, E-SETI Group, Quantum Transhuman Association, Nanotechnological Transhuman Association, Seach for Gods and Afterlife (SGAf), Supermercados Grande Vitória (Supermercados GV), Gemological Cooperative of the Américas (GCA); Centro Abzuniano de Pesquisa, Tecnologia e Ciência (CAPTC); Centro Educacional Abzuniano do Brasil (Abzuniano - do ensino infantil ao ensino médio); Faculdade Abzuniana do Brasil (FAbzuB - Ensino Superior); Union of the World Socialist Cooperatives and Corporations (UWSCC), Dingir Industries; Dingir Technologies; Dingir Corporation; Dingir Science, Dingir AI, entre outras. A AbzuCC se caracterizaria por praticar um modelo estilo a Mondragon, mas se baseando em princípios abzunianos.
Um dos fundamentos da AbzuCC seria a denúncia e o combate ao autoritarismo e totalitarismo promovidos pelos EUA, UE, OTAN e pelo Ocidente. Além de criar bilionários e CEOs socialistas e comunistas.
Dingir Group
O Dingir Group, também Dingir Cooperative Corporation Group, ou Grupo Dingir, é uma hipotética corporação idealizada por Dumugian a qual seguiria os princípios da religião anunnaki-anurashi-abzuniana e os princípios do socialismo de mercado e da propriedade cooperativa. O Dingir Group também possuiria suas próprias subdivisões, como o Abzu Group, a Dingir Industries, a Dingir Technology, a Dingir Science, a Dingir Nutripaste, a Dingir Health, a Dingir Education, a Dingir Church, a Dingir Vehicles, a Dingir Space, a Dingir Quantum, a Dingir Spirituality, a Dingir Divinity, a Dingir Weather, a Dingir Atomics, a Dingir Subatomics, a Dingir Cybernetics, a Dingir Synthetics, a Dingir Genetics, a Dingir Infrastructures, a Dingir Buildings, a Dingir Neurotechnology, a Dingir Biotechnology, a Dingir Nanotechnology, a Dingir Media, a Dingir Food, a Dingir Nutrition, a Dingir Economics, a Dingir Internet, a Dingir Psionics, a Dingir Psychics, a Dingir Commerce, a Dingir Finances, e as subdivisões Abzu de cada uma das mesmas. O Dingir Group seria uma versão de esquerda radical e anunnakista anurashi abzuniana das corporações de Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg e de Bill Ackman.
A logo do Dingir Group é o cuneiforme Dingir. E o logo do Abzu Group é o cuneiforme Abzu (logo primário) e o cuneiforme Nammu (logo secundário)
Fascism
ExcluirTo understand Fascism, one must first understand Capitalism. There are three primary characteristics of Capitalism:
Private ownership of the Means of ProductionCommodity ProductionWage Labour
The essence of the Capitalist mode of production is that someone who owns means of production will hire a wage labourer to work in order to produce commodities to sell for profit. Marxists identify economic classes based on this division. Those who own and hire are the Bourgeoisie. Those who do not own and work are the Proletariat. There is far more nuance than just this, but these are the bare essentials. The principal contradiction of Capitalism is that the Bourgeoisie wants to pay the workers as little as possible for as much work as possible, whereas the Proletariat wants to be paid as much as possible for as little work as possible.
Fascism is a form of Capitalist rule in which the Bourgeoisie use open, violent terror against the Proletariat. It is an ideology which emerges as a response to the inevitable crises of capitalism and the rise of socialist movements. It is characterized by all forms of chauvinism (especially racism, occasionally leading to genocide), nationalism, anti-Communism, and the suppression of democratic rights and freedoms. In a Capitalist society, Liberalism and Fascism essentially exist on a spectrum. The degree to which a given society if Fascist directly corresponds to the degree to which the proletariat must be openly oppressed in order to maintain profits for the Bourgeoisie. This why we have the sayings: "Fascism is Capitalism in decay" and "Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds"
Capitalism requires infinite growth in a finite system. This inevitably leads to Capitalist Imperialism as well as Fascism, given that infinite growth is not actually possible. When the capitalist economy reaches its limits, the Bourgeoisie are forced to either expand their markets into other territories (Imperialism) or exploit the domestic proletariat to an even greater degree (Fascism). This is why we have the saying: "Fascism is imperialist repression turned inward"
The struggle against fascism is an essential part of the struggle for socialism and the liberation of the working class and oppressed people. However, it is critical to note that simply combatting Fascism alone without also combatting Liberalism is reactionary, because it ignores the fact that Fascism inevitably arises out of Capitalism, so Liberal Anti-Fascism is not really anti-Fascism at all.
Additional Resources
Video Essays:
Were The Nazis Socialist? | Second Thought (2022)Capitalism and Fascism | Marxism Literature Collective (2021)Fascism: The Decay of Capitalism | Leslie Fluette (2020)The New F Word: How Fascism Found a Market | Second Thought (2021-2023)What Exactly is Liberalism? (no, it's not about being "woke") | Hakim (2023)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
The Struggle Against Fascism | Clara Zetkin (1923)Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism | Michael Parenti (1997)
Freedom
ExcluirReactionaries and right-wingers love to clamour on about personal liberty and scream "freedom!" from the top of their lungs, but what freedom are they talking about? And is Communism, in contrast, an ideology of unfreedom?
Gentlemen! Do not allow yourselves to be deluded by the abstract word freedom. Whose freedom? It is not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but the freedom of capital to crush the worker.
- Karl Marx. (1848). Public Speech Delivered by Karl Marx before the Democratic Association of Brussels
Under Capitalism
Liberal Democracies propagate the facade of liberty and individual rights while concealing the true essence of their rule-- the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie. This is a mechanism by which the Capitalist class as a whole dictates the course of society, politics, and the economy to secure their dominance. Capital holds sway over institutions, media, and influential positions, manipulating public opinion and consolidating its control over the levers of power. The illusion of democracy the Bourgeoisie creates is carefully curated to maintain the existing power structures and perpetuate the subjugation of the masses. "Freedom" under Capitalism is similarly illusory. It is freedom for capital-- not freedom for people.
The capitalists often boast that their constitutions guarantee the rights of the individual, democratic liberties and the interests of all citizens. But in reality, only the bourgeoisie enjoy the rights recorded in these constitutions. The working people do not really enjoy democratic freedoms; they are exploited all their life and have to bear heavy burdens in the service of the exploiting class.
- Ho Chi Minh. (1959). Report on the Draft Amended Constitution
The "freedom" the reactionaries cry for, then, is merely that freedom which liberates capital and enslaves the worker.
They speak of the equality of citizens, but forget that there cannot be real equality between employer and workman, between landlord and peasant, if the former possess wealth and political weight in society while the latter are deprived of both - if the former are exploiters while the latter are exploited. Or again: they speak of freedom of speech, assembly, and the press, but forget that all these liberties may be merely a hollow sound for the working class, if the latter cannot have access to suitable premises for meetings, good printing shops, a sufficient quantity of printing paper, etc.
- J. V. Stalin. (1936). On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R
What "freedom" do the poor enjoy, under Capitalism? Capitalism requires a reserve army of labour in order to keep wages low, and that necessarily means that many people must be deprived of life's necessities in order to compel the rest of the working class to work more and demand less. You are free to work, and you are free to starve. That is the freedom the reactionaries talk about.
ExcluirUnder capitalism, the very land is all in private hands; there remains no spot unowned where an enterprise can be carried on. The freedom of the worker to sell his labour power, the freedom of the capitalist to buy it, the 'equality' of the capitalist and the wage earner - all these are but hunger's chain which compels the labourer to work for the capitalist.
- N. I. Bukharin and E. Preobrazhensky. (1922). The ABC of Communism
All other freedoms only exist depending on the degree to which a given liberal democracy has turned towards fascism. That is to say that the working class are only given freedoms when they are inconsequential to the bourgeoisie:
The freedom to organize is only conceded to the workers by the bourgeois when they are certain that the workers have been reduced to a point where they can no longer make use of it, except to resume elementary organizing work - work which they hope will not have political consequences other than in the very long term.
- A. Gramsci. (1924). Democracy and fascism
But this is not "freedom", this is not "democracy"! What good does "freedom of speech" do for a starving person? What good does the ability to criticize the government do for a homeless person?
The right of freedom of expression can really only be relevant if people are not too hungry, or too tired to be able to express themselves. It can only be relevant if appropriate grassroots mechanisms rooted in the people exist, through which the people can effectively participate, can make decisions, can receive reports from the leaders and eventually be trained for ruling and controlling that particular society. This is what democracy is all about.
- Maurice Bishop
Under Communism
ExcluirTrue freedom can only be achieved through the establishment of a Proletarian state, a system that truly represents the interests of the working masses, in which the means of production are collectively owned and controlled, and the fruits of labor are shared equitably among all. Only in such a society can the shackles of Capitalist oppression be broken, and the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie dismantled.
Despite the assertion by reactionaries to the contrary, Communist revolutions invariably result in more freedoms for the people than the regimes they succeed.
Some people conclude that anyone who utters a good word about leftist one-party revolutions must harbor antidemocratic or “Stalinist” sentiments. But to applaud social revolutions is not to oppose political freedom. To the extent that revolutionary governments construct substantive alternatives for their people, they increase human options and freedom.
Class Struggle
ExcluirThe Marxist definition of economic class stands in stark opposition to the Liberal understanding of class. The Liberal understanding is quantitative, looking only at how much someone makes, whereas the Marxist definition is qualitative, looking at how people relate to commodity production in society.
Marxist DefinitionsThe Bourgeoisie, also known as the Capitalist class or the owning class, are the owners of the means of production (e.g., factories, tool, equipment, land, technology, etc.) who accumulate wealth and profit by exploiting the labour of the working class and controlling the means of production in order to produce commodities for profit.The Proletariat, also known as the working class, do not own the means of production but instead sell their labour-power to the Bourgeoisie in exchange for wages. They are the ones responsible for producing goods and services but often face exploitation and economic hardships.The Petty Bourgeoisie consists of small business owners, self-employed individuals, and skilled professionals. They own some means of production but are often caught in an intermediate position between the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat, facing challenges from both classes.The Lumpenproletariat refers to a marginalized and impoverished social group that includes people who may be unemployed, homeless, or engaged in informal and illegal activities. They do not have a clear role in the Capitalist mode of production and are often considered to be outside the traditional working class.Class Struggle
Class struggle is the central driving force in human history and society. It refers to the ongoing conflict and antagonism between different social classes resulting from the inherent contradictions within the current mode of production.
Under Capitalism, the principal contradiction is between the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. The Capitalist class profits by extracting surplus value from the labour of the workers, leading to economic exploitation and social oppression. This is the principal contradiction of Capitalism, and why the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat are irreconcilably opposed. To summarize:
ExcluirCapitalists want to keep hours long, prices high, wages low, etc.Workers want reasonable hours, affordable prices, high wages, etc.
These interests are mutually exclusive. The good news is that Capitalists need workers, but workers don't need Capitalists; the class war is winnable by us and only us.
These contradictions and struggles, more than any other model, explain the current political landscape:
Why The Political Compass is Wrong: Establishing An Accurate Model of Political Ideology | halim alrah (2019)Intersectionality
Anti-Capitalism without Intersectionality is class reductionism. Intersectionality without anti-Capitalism is Liberal identity politics.
Intersectionality is a framework that recognizes and analyzes the interconnected nature of various forms of oppression faced by individuals who belong to various marginalized groups. Economic structures, institutions, and class relations intersect with other social hierarchies, leading to complex and varied forms of oppression and exploitation in society. Intersectionality helps highlight these overlapping forms of discrimination and their cumulative impact. For example, a working-class woman of color may experience racism, sexism, and classism simultaneously, each influencing and exacerbating the others.
If you watched the video from the previous section, particularly the "Culture War" chapter, then you'll already know why this matters. Sowing division along various social lines creates pockets of economically and politically vulnerable workers that the Capitalists can exploit to a much greater degree. These oppressed groups also help to depress wages and worsen working conditions for the rest of the workforce, due to competition in the labour market.
ExcluirIf you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
- Lyndon B. Johnson. (1960). Remark to a staffer
Why Do Socialists Care About Intersectional Liberation Movements? | Second Thought (2022)Total Liberation
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
- Maya Angelou
Developing class consciousness is crucial for the working class to organize effectively and advance our revolutionary goals. Intersectionality encourages us to be inclusive and create solidarity by recognizing and respecting the different experiences and struggles within the working class and actively supporting each other's fight for justice and equality.
Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
- Karl Marx. (1867). Capital: Volume One
Oppressive power structures are interconnected and reinforce each other. Capitalism, Imperialism, Colonialism, Patriarchy, White Supremacy, and other systems of domination are all inextricably intertwined and must be challenged simultaneously to achieve true liberation for the working class.
A people which oppresses another cannot emancipate itself.
- Friedrich Engels. (1874). A Polish Proclamation
Radical solidarity is required, and therefore all forms of chauvinism and bigotry must be fiercely combatted.
Additional Resources
Video Essays:
What Is Social Class? | Socialism 101 #6 | Marxism Today (2021)The Professional-Managerial Class Doesn't Exist | Marxism Today (2020)The Middle Class doesn't exist | How a fabricated myth divided the working class. | Yugopnik (2020)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
The Principles of Communism | F. Engels (1847)Manifesto of the Communist Party | K. Marx & F. Engels (1848)
Podcasts:
Episode 38: Boug…borj…wtf is class? | The Deprogram (2022)Episode 42: There's more to it than just class - the importance of intersectionality | The Deprogram (2022)
Capitalist Imperialism
ExcluirImperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. It is a global system of economic, political, and military domination, with the imperialist powers using a variety of means, including economic sanctions, military interventions, and cultural influence to maintain their dominance over other nations.
Imperialism is inevitable under Capitalism because Capitalism is based on the premise of infinite growth in a finite system. When capitalists first run into the limits of their own country, they will eventually be forced to expand their markets, resources, and influence into other countries and territories in order to continue increasing their profits.
Furthermore, the capitalists can exploit and oppress the workers of other nations much more easily than they can in their own. For example, by moving manufacturing jobs from the imperial core out to the periphery where wages are lower, and environmental protections and labour rights are much weaker-- if they exist at all-- they can reduce costs which increases profits.
When the capitalists run into limits again, and are unable to continue increasing their profits-- even by exploiting the periphery-- they will inevitably turn Imperialism inwards and further oppress and exploit workers domestically. This is the origin of Fascism.
Features
Some key features of capitalist imperialism are:
Joint-stock corporations dominating the economyIncreasing monopolies within capitalist economies (For example, only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world.)Globalization of capital through multinational corporationsA rise in the export of finance capitalMore involvement of the capitalist state in managing the economyA growing financial sector and oligarchyThe domination and exploitation of other countries by militaristic imperialist powers, now through neocolonialismOverall, a period of world strife and conflict, including imperialist wars and revolutionary uprisings against the capitalist-imperialist system.
In Practice
ExcluirSo what does this look like in practice? The IMF, for example, provides loans to countries facing economic crises, but these loans come with strict conditions, known as structural adjustment programs (SAPs). These conditions require recipient countries to adopt specific economic policies, such as reducing government spending, liberalizing trade, and privatizing state-owned enterprises. The SAPs also require austerity measures, such as the dismantling of labor and trade regulations or slashing of social programs and government spending, to attract and open up the country to foreign investment.
These policies prioritize the interests of multinational corporations and investors over those of the recipient countries and their citizens. For example, by requiring the privatization of state-owned enterprises, the IMF may enable multinational corporations to gain control of key industries and resources in recipient countries. Similarly, by promoting liberalized trade, the IMF may facilitate the export of capital from recipient countries to wealthier nations, exacerbating global inequalities.
Moreover, SAPs are often negotiated behind closed doors with the political elites of recipient countries (the comprador bureaucratic class), rather than through democratic processes. This can undermine the sovereignty of recipient countries and perpetuate the domination of wealthy nations and multinational corporations over the global economy.
Anti-Imperialism
The struggle against Imperialism is an essential part of the struggle for Socialism and the liberation of the working class and oppressed people worldwide. Anti-Imperialism is the political and economic resistance to Imperialism and Colonialism (or neo-Imperialism and neo-Colonialism). Anti-Imperialism requires a revolutionary struggle against the Capitalist state and the establishment of a Socialist society.
It is important to recognize that anti-Imperialism is not simply about supporting one state or another, but about supporting the liberation of oppressed peoples from the exploitation and domination of global Imperialism. Therefore, any course of action should be evaluated in terms of its potential impact on the broader struggle against Imperialism and the goal of establishing a Socialist society.
During WWI, Lenin called on Socialists to reject the idea of a "just" or "defensive" war, and instead to see the conflict as a class war between the ruling class and the working class. He argued that Socialists should oppose the war and work towards the overthrow of the Capitalist state. Seeing that the war was an Imperialist conflict between competing Capitalist powers, the workers of all countries had a common interest in opposing it. Socialists who supported their home countries during World War I had betrayed the principles of international Socialism and Proletarian solidarity.
ExcluirLenin also pointed out that anti-Imperialism is not inherently progressive:
Imperialism is as much our “mortal” enemy as is capitalism. That is so. No Marxist will forget, however, that capitalism is progressive compared with feudalism, and that imperialism is progressive compared with pre-monopoly capitalism. Hence, it is not every struggle against imperialism that we should support. We will not support a struggle of the reactionary classes against imperialism; we will not support an uprising of the reactionary classes against imperialism and capitalism.
- V. I. Lenin. (1916). A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism
Additional Resources
Video Essays:
Lenin in Five Minutes: Imperialism | The Marxist Project (2019)How Rich Countries Rob The Poor; The Failure of Social Democracy | Hakim (2020) [Archive]What is imperialism? Feat. Hakim | azureScapegoat (2021)What is Capitalist Imperialism? | Socialism 101 | Marxism Today (2022)How Capitalism Robs the Developing World | Second Thought (2022)4 Characteristics of the Current Phase of Imperialism | The Peace Report (2022)Why Do Poor Countries Stay Poor? (Unequal Exchange and Imperialism) | Hakim (2023) [Archive]Imperialism Today: Unequal Exchange and Globalized Production | The Marxist Project (2022)This Poverty Graph Is Lying To You | Hakim (2023)The Myth Of Capitalist Peace | Second Thought (2023)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism | V. I. Lenin (1917)Lenin's 'Imperialism' in the 21st Century | Institute of Political Economy (2018)The IMF debt trap in Ukraine | Amanda Yee (2023)
Revisionism
ExcluirRevisionism refers to the explicit or implicit attempt at revising the fundamental premises of Marxist theory. Often this is done in attempt to make alliances with the bourgeoisie or to render a working class movement impotent. Explicit revisionism clearly states that Marxism is wrong or outdated and needs to be changed. Implicit revisionism is harder to notice because it claims to still be Marxist, but in actuality puts forward positions that are counter to Marxist theory.
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
- Karl Marx. (1845) Theses On Feuerbach
Although there is ongoing debate and discussion within Marxist circles about how these principles should be interpreted and applied in specific historical contexts, there are several key tenets that are generally considered to be central to Marxist theory and which are not subject to revision:
Dialectical Materialism: The idea that everything is in a state of constant flux, driven by a process of contradictions and conflicts which are an inherent part of the natural and social world.Historical Materialism: The understanding that material conditions and class relations are the driving force behind historical development.Surplus Labor and the Law of Value: The concept that the value of a commodity is determined by the amount of socially necessary labor that has been expended in producing it. Profits are derived from the surplus value extracted from the worker.
From these fundamental premises follow a series of conclusions, which informs our understanding of the world and teaches us how to affect change. Revisionism alters these fundamental premises or rejects the conclusions that follow from them, the most important of these being the need for revolution.
The events of the Paris Commune and the October Revolution demonstrated the role and necessity of revolution, and provided important lessons in establishing and defending a revolutionary movement. Revolution is not just a means of seizing political power, but of fundamentally transforming society and creating a new social order. Revolutions must be defended against counter-revolutionary forces both from within and without. The movement must be organized and disciplined, and must be able to defend itself against attacks from reactionary forces.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
Right Opportunism
ExcluirRevisionism, or Right opportunism, is a bourgeois trend of thought that is even more dangerous than dogmatism. The revisionists, the Right opportunists, pay lip-service to Marxism; they too attack ‘dogmatism’. But what they are really attacking is the quintessence of Marxism. They oppose or distort materialism and dialectics, oppose or try to weaken the people’s democratic dictatorship and the leading role of the Communist Party, and oppose or try to weaken socialist transformation and socialist construction. After the basic victory of the socialist revolution in our country, there are still a number of people who vainly hope to restore the capitalist system and fight the working class on every front, including the ideological one. And their right-hand men in this struggle are the revisionists.
- Mao Zedong. (1957). On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Right opportunism is a political tendency that seeks to make concessions to the bourgeois ruling class in order to maintain or achieve political power. This tendency is often associated with a lack of commitment to revolutionary change and a willingness to compromise on fundamental principles in order to realize short-term gains. Right opportunists may advocate for policies that are not in the long-term interest of the working class, such as supporting capitalist reforms or forming alliances with capitalist parties. This can lead to a weakening of the revolutionary potential of the working class and a failure to achieve real social change. Right opportunism is seen as a deviation from the Marxist principle of class struggle and a betrayal of the interests of the working class.
Trade Unionism is an example of right opportunism as unions focus on limited concessions, rather than advocating for the long-term interests of the working class as a whole. They negotiate with employers for better wages, benefits, and working conditions for their members, but do not challenge the fundamental power relations between labour and capital. Union bosses make compromises or alliances with capitalist parties in order to achieve these concessions.
This creates a privileged layer of the working class who are more interested in defending their own privileges than in fighting for the liberation of the working class as a whole. This labour aristocracy is a barrier to the development of revolutionary consciousness among the working class because it prefers the status quo to radical political movements that seek to overthrow it.
Case Study #1: Social Democracy
ExcluirOne of the first revisionists was Eduard Bernstein, a leading theorist and prominent member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who argued that the gradual extension of social welfare programs and the reform of capitalist institutions could lead to a peaceful transition to socialism, without the need for a violent revolution. This was in sharp contrast to the German Communist Party (KPD). There are two historical events which underscore this fundamental divide:
The Spartacist Uprising: Rosa Luxemburg was a prominent Marxist theorist and leader of the left-wing revolutionary movement in Germany. She was a fierce critic of the SPD's moderate reformist politics and its decision to support Germany's involvement in World War I. In January 1919, following the collapse of the German monarchy, a left-wing revolutionary movement emerged in Berlin, and Luxemburg played a leading role in the movement. The movement challenged the authority of the new Social Democratic-led government and sought to establish a socialist republic. On January 15, 1919, the SPD government ordered the army and the Freikorps, a right-wing paramilitary group, to suppress the revolutionary movement. Luxemburg and her comrade Karl Liebknecht were arrested, beaten, and executed by the Freikorps.The Enabling Act: The Nazis rose to absolute power in 1933 with the passing of the Enabling Act. The KPD were absent from the vote because the party had been banned and its members imprisoned or in hiding. The SPD were present and voted against it. The SPD was subsequently banned and many of its members were arrested, tortured, and killed by the Nazis, while others were forced into exile or went into hiding.Case Study #2: Democratic Socialism
Salvador Allende was a socialist politician who was elected president of Chile in 1970, becoming the first Marxist to be elected to the presidency in a liberal democracy. In power, he pursued a program of radical reform, including the nationalization of key industries, the redistribution of land, and the expansion of social welfare programs. His government was supported by a coalition of left-wing parties, including the Chilean Communist Party, and was seen as a model for peaceful democratic socialist transition. However, Allende's reforms faced opposition from powerful domestic and international forces, including right-wing politicians, the military, and the United States government. In 1973, Allende's government was overthrown in a US-backed military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet, who established a brutal Fascist dictatorship that lasted for years.
In "The State and Revolution", Lenin explained why the capitalist state could not be reformed or co-opted for the purposes of Socialism, but had to be destroyed and replaced by a new proletarian state. Allende's failure to apprehend this lesson proved fatal. His reliance on the existing bourgeois state apparatus as well as his failure to implement more radical measures, such as the establishment of workers' councils or the arming of the proletariat, left him vulnerable to counterrevolutionary forces.
“If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.”
- George Carlin
Additional Resources
Video Essays:
Why Social Democracy Isn't Good Enough | Second Thought (2023)Why Democratic Socialism Isn’t Enough | Marxism Today (2022)"The US Doesn't Meddle In Foreign Affairs" | Second Thought (2021)Electoralism Always Fails, Now What? | Hakim (2019)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
Reform or Revolution | Rosa Luxemburg (1900)Marxism and Revisionism | V. I. Lenin (1908)
Podcasts:
Episode 3 - Reform or Revolution | The Deprogram (2022)
Authoritarianism
ExcluirAnti-Communists of all stripes enjoy referring to successful socialist revolutions as "authoritarian regimes".
Authoritarian implies these places are run by totalitarian tyrants.Regime implies these places are undemocratic or lack legitimacy.
This perjorative label is simply meant to frighten people, to scare us back into the fold (Liberal Democracy).
There are three main reasons for the popularity of this label in Capitalist media:
Firstly, Marxists call for a Dictatorship of the Proletariat (DotP), and many people are automatically put off by the term "dictatorship". Of course, we do not mean that we want an undemocratic or totalitarian dictatorship. What we mean is that we want to replace the current Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie (in which the Capitalist ruling class dictates policy).
Why The US Is Not A Democracy | Second Thought (2022)
Secondly, democracy in Communist-led countries works differently than in Liberal Democracies. However, anti-Communists confuse form (pluralism / having multiple parties) with function (representing the actual interests of the people).
Side note: Check out Luna Oi's "Democratic Centralism Series" for more details on what that is, and how it works:
DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM - how Socialists make decisions! | Luna Oi (2022)What did Karl Marx think about democracy? | Luna Oi (2023)What did LENIN say about DEMOCRACY? | Luna Oi (2023)
Finally, this framing of Communism as illegitimate and tyrannical serves to manufacture consent for an aggressive foreign policy in the form of interventions in the internal affairs of so-called "authoritarian regimes", which take the form of invasion (e.g., Vietnam, Korea, Libya, etc.), assassinating their leaders (e.g., Thomas Sankara, Fred Hampton, Patrice Lumumba, etc.), sponsoring coups and colour revolutions (e.g., Pinochet's coup against Allende, the Iran-Contra Affair, the United Fruit Company's war against Arbenz, etc.), and enacting sanctions (e.g., North Korea, Cuba, etc.).
The Cuban Embargo Explained | azureScapegoat (2022)John Pilger interviews former CIA Latin America chief Duane Clarridge, 2015
For the Anarchists
ExcluirAnarchists are practically comrades. Marxists and Anarchists have the same vision for a stateless, classless, moneyless society free from oppression and exploitation. However, Anarchists like to accuse Marxists of being "authoritarian". The problem here is that "anti-authoritarianism" is a self-defeating feature in a revolutionary ideology. Those who refuse in principle to engage in so-called "authoritarian" practices will never carry forward a successful revolution. Anarchists who practice self-criticism can recognize this:
The anarchist movement is filled with people who are less interested in overthrowing the existing oppressive social order than with washing their hands of it. ...
The strength of anarchism is its moral insistence on the primacy of human freedom over political expediency. But human freedom exists in a political context. It is not sufficient, however, to simply take the most uncompromising position in defense of freedom. It is neccesary to actually win freedom. Anti-capitalism doesn't do the victims of capitalism any good if you don't actually destroy capitalism. Anti-statism doesn't do the victims of the state any good if you don't actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don't develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions. It is not enough to be right, we must also win.
...anarchism has been a failure. Not only has anarchism failed to win lasting freedom for anybody on earth, many anarchists today seem only nominally committed to that basic project. Many more seem interested primarily in carving out for themselves, their friends, and their favorite bands a zone of personal freedom, "autonomous" of moral responsibility for the larger condition of humanity (but, incidentally, not of the electrical grid or the production of electronic components). Anarchism has quite simply refused to learn from its historic failures, preferring to rewrite them as successes. Finally the anarchist movement offers people who want to make revolution very little in the way of a coherent plan of action. ...
Anarchism is theoretically impoverished. For almost 80 years, with the exceptions of Ukraine and Spain, anarchism has played a marginal role in the revolutionary activity of oppressed humanity. Anarchism had almost nothing to do with the anti-colonial struggles that defined revolutionary politics in this century. This marginalization has become self-reproducing. Reduced by devastating defeats to critiquing the authoritarianism of Marxists, nationalists and others, anarchism has become defined by this gadfly role. Consequently anarchist thinking has not had to adapt in response to the results of serious efforts to put our ideas into practice. In the process anarchist theory has become ossified, sterile and anemic. ... This is a reflection of anarchism's effective removal from the revolutionary struggle.
- Chris Day. (1996). The Historical Failures of Anarchism
Engels pointed this out well over a century ago:
ExcluirA number of Socialists have latterly launched a regular crusade against what they call the principle of authority. It suffices to tell them that this or that act is authoritarian for it to be condemned.
...the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part ... and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule...
Therefore, either one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don't know what they're talking about, in which case they are creating nothing but confusion; or they do know, and in that case they are betraying the movement of the proletariat. In either case they serve the reaction.
- Friedrich Engels. (1872). On Authority
For the Libertarian Socialists
Parenti said it best:
The pure (libertarian) socialists' ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.
- Michael Parenti. (1997). Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
But the bottom line is this:
If you call yourself a socialist but you spend all your time arguing with communists, demonizing socialist states as authoritarian, and performing apologetics for US imperialism... I think some introspection is in order.
- Second Thought. (2020). The Truth About The Cuba Protests
For the Liberals
Even the CIA, in their internal communications (which have been declassified), acknowledge that Stalin wasn't an absolute dictator:
Even in Stalin's time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist's power structure.
- CIA. (1953, declassified in 2008). Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership
Conclusion
The "authoritarian" nature of any given state depends entirely on the material conditions it faces and threats it must contend with. To get an idea of the kinds of threats nascent revolutions need to deal with, check out Killing Hope by William Blum and The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins.
Failing to acknowledge that authoritative measures arise not through ideology, but through material conditions, is anti-Marxist, anti-dialectical, and idealist.
Additional Resources
Videos:
Michael Parenti on Authoritarianism in Socialist CountriesLeft Anticommunism: An Infantile Disorder | Hakim (2020) [Archive]What are tankies? (why are they like that?) | Hakim (2023)Episode 82 - Tankie Discourse | The Deprogram (2023)Was the Soviet Union totalitarian? feat. Robert Thurston | Actually Existing Socialism (2023)
Books, Articles, or Essays:
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism | Michael Parenti (1997)State and Revolution | V. I. Lenin (1918)
Freedom of the Press
Excluir“Freedom of the press” in bourgeois society means freedom for the rich systematically, unremittingly, daily, in millions of copies, to deceive, corrupt and fool the exploited and oppressed mass of the people, the poor.
- V. I. Lenin. (1917). How to Guarantee the Success of the Constituent Assembly
Anti-Communists criticize a lack of "freedom of the press" in societies run by Communist governments. They claim that the government suppresses dissenting voices and controls the media in order to maintain its power, and that this leads to a lack of transparency and accountability, as well as the suppression of free speech and the ability of individuals to express their opinions and hold those in power accountable. They also argue that state control of the media leads to censorship which prevents citizens from accessing unbiased information and making informed decisions. This critique is often used to argue against Communism and in favor of Capitalism. In this light, Capitalist societies are believed to offer greater freedom of the press and personal expression.
These are all important concerns which ought to be taken seriously. The problem is that these concerns are not specific to Communism; Capitalist societies, as a result of the profit-motive and the accumulation of wealth, suffer from all these same issues.
Media Concentration
There can be no such thing as freedom of the press, except for the owners and editors of newspapers, while capitalism lasts.
- Arthur Cowell
Do you own a news station? A newspaper? Then what "freedom of the press" do you really have?
A deep analysis of America’s top 100 news sites reveals key shareholders, parent companies, and commonalities.
About 15 billionaires and six corporations own most of the U.S. media outlets. The biggest media conglomerates in America are AT&T, Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, National Amusements (which includes Viacom Inc. and CBS), News Corp and Fox Corporation (which are both owned in part by the Murdochs), Sony, and Hearst Communications.
- Who Owns Your News? The Top 100 Digital News Outlets and Their Ownership
With this kind of concentration, the select few who actually own these media outlets have an unparalleled ability to set the narrative and promote their own interests. Sinclair Broadcast Group, for example, owns hundreds of local TV news stations. The most infamous example of them using this network to spread an agenda was this unsettling video: Sinclair's Soldiers in Trump's War on Media.
This issue affects movies and television producers as well: Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today
Obvious Bias
ExcluirAll over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
- V. I. Lenin. (1921). A Letter To G. Myasnikov
In Capitalist societies, the concept of "freedom of the press" is a misleading and deceptive notion. While the ruling class promotes the idea of a free press as a fundamental right, the reality is that the press is owned and controlled by a small group of billionaires who use it to advance their own interests.
Under Capitalism, the media is a profit-driven industry that is dependent on advertising revenue to survive. As a result, the media serves the interests of the capitalist class by promoting their ideology and suppressing dissenting voices. This is evident in the way that news stories are framed and presented, with an emphasis on sensationalism, celebrity gossip, and consumerism, rather than on issues that affect working-class people.
The Capitalist media is not a neutral observer of society, but an active participant in the class struggle by hyper-focusing on culture war non-issues such as the endless debate about manufactured controversies such as trans women in sports, an issue which does not affect the vast majority of people. This ragebait distracts from real issues that affect the working class. The media is constantly scapegoating some minority group with sensationalized ragebait narratives such as the "Welfare Queen" or "illegal immigrants".
The owners and editors of media outlets use their power to set the narrative, which shapes public opinion and influences government policy, to serve their own interests. This is why it is essential for the working class to build its own media institutions that are independent of Capitalist influence.
The general deal is that Marvel gets to use real military hardware, film on military bases, and hire real soldiers as extras, while the Department of Defense gets to approve the final script of the film. In other words, Marvel gets tons of stuff to make production easier and cheaper, while the military gets to edit out anything that doesn't make them look good.
ExcluirEven the movies that don't have a direct marketing connection to the US military have a noticeable bias towards it. Consider Black Panther, a movie about the monarch of an advanced African nation. The one prominent white character in that film is Everett K. Ross, a CIA agent who aids T'Challa in overthrowing Killmonger. The CIA has a long history of overthrowing regimes, but, in this film, an agent of the organization that put Pinochet in charge of Chile aids in a coup for good. This may not be the intention of the film, but the CIA sure appreciated it. The agency promoted the film heavily on social media, allowing it to glom onto a project that was seen as a great leap forward for representation and a masterful blockbuster film.
- The Marvel Military Propaganda Criticism, Explained | GameRant (2022)
The bottom line is that there is nothing "free" about the press in Capitalist society. For those who have the means, being able to control the media is an incredibly powerful tool for shaping public opinion. We need a truly free and democratic press, but that will never be possible under Capitalism.
Censorship
The corporate media in the US practices self-censorship by limiting the range of acceptable opinions and perspectives that can be expressed in their reporting. This is done to maintain a narrow range of political debate that is acceptable to the ruling class and to ensure that the interests of the Capitalist class are not threatened.
During red scare period of the 1950s, the government was cracking down on leftist and progressive organizations, accusing them of being communist sympathizers or agents. Many journalists and media outlets were investigated and harassed for their supposed left-wing leanings by the the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which led to a climate of fear and self-censorship in the media.
As a result, many media outlets and journalists began to avoid covering or promoting progressive or leftist ideas in their reporting. This trend has continued to the present day, with mainstream media outlets often avoiding critical coverage of US foreign policy, imperialism, and corporate power, and instead promoting a narrow range of views that are acceptable to the ruling class.
Similarly, Operation Mockingbird began in the early years of the Cold War to recruit journalists to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes. The US government also operates a few explicit propaganda networks such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and more in order to export America's ideology internationally, particularly in regions where Communism is popular. In particular, RFE/RL was meant to counter the USSR and RFA was meant to counter the PRC. Organizations such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) fund activities which promote America's interests.
How could we do better?
ExcluirFirst, we could ensure that the media is owned and controlled by the working class. This would allow the media to operate in the interests of the people rather than in the interests of profit and of promoting bourgeois ideology. We could also ensure that the media is run democratically, with workers having a say in the editorial and managerial decisions.
Second, we could establish strict guidelines for media coverage, ensuring that the media covers events and issues of importance to the people. These guidelines would be developed through democratic participation, with workers, intellectuals, and activists contributing to the decision-making process. We could also establish mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating media coverage to ensure that it is accurate, objective, and free from bias.
Third, we could promote a culture of critical thinking and media literacy among the population. This would help the people to evaluate media coverage critically and to identify when propaganda is being spread. We could also promote independent media outlets and encourage the development of a vibrant and diverse media landscape.
Additional Resources
Video Essays:
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Os verdadeiros vagabundos e canalhas são vocês! Bando de capitalistas autoritários, capitalistas totalitários, neoliberais autoritários e neoliberais totalitários! Precisamos de uma revolução comunista mundial o mais rápido possível e com urgência no mundo inteiro!
ExcluirCapitalismo autoritário, capitalismo totalitário, neoliberalismo autoritário e neoliberalismo totalitário são tudo parte do mesmo sistema de capitalismo fascista e de capitalonazifascismo. Capitalismo autoritário e totalitário só é bom enquanto a maioria da população é pobre e não possui direitos enquanto o legislativo, judiciário, as forças policiais, os patrões-burgueses, os milionários-burgueses, e os bilionários-burgueses deitam e rolam na maioria da população pobre e proletária. República Socialista da Terra já! Já chega de capitalismo autorizado, de capitalismo totalitário, neoliberalismo autoritário e de neoliberalismo totalitário! Socialismo e comunismo funcionam sim, e já temos vários exemplos disso na história, e até hoje em dia com as comunas de Gran Caracas, os Kibbutz de Israel, a economia da China, os Kibbutz da Rússia pós-soviética, os pequenos e médios empreendimentos comunais, e as empresas comunais. Authoritarian capitalism, totalitarian capitalism, authoritarian neoliberalism and totalitarian neoliberalism are all part of the same system of fascist capitalism and capitalonazifascism. Authoritarian and totalitarian capitalism is only good as long as the majority of the population is poor and has no rights while the legislative, judiciary, police forces, bourgeois bosses, bourgeois millionaires, and bourgeois billionaires lie and roll over the majority of the population. poor and proletarian. Socialist Republic of Earth now! Enough of authorized capitalism, totalitarian capitalism, authoritarian neoliberalism and totalitarian neoliberalism! Socialism and communism do work, and we already have several examples of this in history, and even today with the communes of Gran Caracas, the Kibbutz of Israel, the economy of China, the Kibbutz of post-Soviet Russia, small and medium enterprises communal, and communal companies. El capitalismo autoritario, el capitalismo totalitario, el neoliberalismo autoritario y el neoliberalismo totalitario son todos parte del mismo sistema de capitalismo fascista y capitalonazifascismo. El capitalismo autoritario y totalitario sólo es bueno mientras la mayoría de la población sea pobre y no tenga derechos, mientras que las fuerzas legislativas, judiciales, policiales, los patrones burgueses, los millonarios burgueses y los multimillonarios burgueses mienten y atropellan a la mayoría de la población pobre. y proletario. ¡República Socialista de la Tierra ahora! ¡Basta de capitalismo autorizado, de capitalismo totalitario, de neoliberalismo autoritario y de neoliberalismo totalitario! El socialismo y el comunismo sí funcionan, y de ello ya tenemos varios ejemplos en la historia, y aún hoy con las comunas de la Gran Caracas, el Kibbutz de Israel, la economía de China, los Kibbutz de la Rusia postsoviética, las pequeñas y medianas empresas comunales. y empresas comunales. Le capitalisme autoritaire, le capitalisme totalitaire, le néolibéralisme autoritaire et le néolibéralisme totalitaire font tous partie du même système de capitalisme fasciste et de capitalonazifascisme. Le capitalisme autoritaire et totalitaire n'est bon que tant que la majorité de la population est pauvre et n'a aucun droit pendant que les forces législatives, judiciaires, policières, les patrons bourgeois, les millionnaires bourgeois et les milliardaires bourgeois mentent et roulent sur la majorité de la population. et prolétaire. République Socialiste de la Terre maintenant ! Assez de capitalisme autorisé, de capitalisme totalitaire, de néolibéralisme autoritaire et de néolibéralisme totalitaire ! Le socialisme et le communisme fonctionnent, et nous en avons déjà plusieurs exemples dans l'histoire, et encore aujourd'hui avec les communes de Gran Caracas, le kibboutz d'Israël, l'économie de la Chine, le kibboutz de la Russie post-soviétique, les petites et moyennes entreprises communales. , et les entreprises communales.
ExcluirE a Enel? E as empresas bilionárias? E as privatizações? E os aeroportos privatizados? E a privatização da energia e da água? E os pedágios? E os CEOs e bilionários? E os bancos e financeiras com juros astronômicos? E o SPC-Serasa? E é esquerda que é "vagabunda"? Bando de lambedor de graxa e sola de sapato de bilionário e CEO...
ExcluirVocês capitalistas totalitários e neoliberais totalitários amam lamber graxa e sola de sapato de bilionário e CEO, né? Vocês defendem a escravidão da esquerda ao mesmo tempo que lambem os sapatos de bilionário e CEO, né? Principalmente os da Enel, né? A direita pode tudo e a esquerda não pode nada só ser escrava do capitalismo, né? Bando de capitalonazifascista e liberalonazifascista. Bando de lambedores de sapatos de bilionários e de CEOs.
ExcluirA insanidade dos lambedores de sapatos de bilionários e CEOs não tem limites. Querem a escravidão da esquerda ao mesmo tempo que defendem que bilionários e CEOs podem fazer oq quiser. Bando de escravagistas capitalonazifascistas do século XXI defensores do capitalismo totalitário e neoliberalismo totalitário.
ExcluirNão deixar anonimo ofender - aprovar os comentários - senão os Robôs e Fake News Ganham a luta
ResponderExcluirNem precisa, é só trata-los como eles merecem e tá tudo bem.
ExcluirA nossa bandeira jamais será vermelha! Cambada de vagabundos!
ResponderExcluirVagabundos são vocês direitopatas capitalistopatas
ExcluirVagabundo mesmo são vocês bootlickers de bilionários e de CEOs. Vocês defendem segregação com base política e ideológica. Os verdadeiros vagabundos são os capitalistas, banqueiros, bilionários, CEOs, think tankers, acionistas (rentistas) e afins.
ExcluirA esquerda é "vagabunda" pq é segregrada do mercado de trabalho e se recusa a trabalhar com empregos e salários análogos a escravidão! Vocês são os verdadeiros nazifsscistas. Capitalonazifascistas!
ExcluirA bandeira do planeta Terra sim será vermelha! Cambada de escravagistas! Cambada de capitaloliberalonazifascistas! Cambada de lambedores de botas e sapatos de bilionários e CEOs!
ExcluirCada vez mais eu concluo que o Ocidente vem sendo o Quarto Reich desde 1945 de facto e desde 1949 de jure. É isso, basicamente. E toda essa galera do Núcleo Imperial que se diz "antiimperialista" mas que apoia os EUA/UE/OTAN/Ucrânia/Israel são apenas nazifascistas querendo autoprojetar seu próprio nazifascismo em outras pessoas, pra eles todos são nazifascistas, exceto os próprios nazifascistas. O OTANismo é o Fascismo do Ocidente assim como que o Sionismo é o Fascismo Israelense e o Nazismo é o Fascismo Alemão. É isso, basicamente. Eles chamam o socialismo/comunismo de "ideologias genocidas" apenas para minimizarem e negarem a verdadeira ideologia genocida que é o capitalismo, o neoliberalismo e a democracia liberal. Infelizmente artigos como este realmente estão certos, infelizmente cada vez mais a esquerda está sendo proibida de ser esquerda e cada vez mais estamos caminhando para uma falsa pluralidade e para uma pluralidade controlada. Infelizmente cada vez mais o Ocidente mostra como que ele é o Quarto Reich, e isso cada vez mais fica mais claro. Precisamos parar o Quarto Reich antes que seja tarde demais...
ExcluirAbzuCC
ExcluirA Abzu Cooperative Corporation Group, também abreviada como Abzucoopcorp, ou Abzunian Cooperative Corporation, também AbzuCC, e AbzuCC Group, é um grupo corporativo hipotético teorizado e idealizado por William Anthony Mounter, que seria uma resposta às falas e atitudes de Bill Ackman e dos CEOs de extrema-direita que apoiam Israel, a Ucrânia e o Eixo EUA-UE-OTAN, e também uma reposta ao grupo X de Elon Musk. A AbzuCC seria basicamente a detentora de marcas como a Dama-da-Noite, Nutripastelent, Psiontech Corporation, E-SETI Group, Quantum Transhuman Association, Nanotechnological Transhuman Association, Seach for Gods and Afterlife (SGAf), Supermercados Grande Vitória (Supermercados GV), Gemological Cooperative of the Américas (GCA); Centro Abzuniano de Pesquisa, Tecnologia e Ciência (CAPTC); Centro Educacional Abzuniano do Brasil (Abzuniano - do ensino infantil ao ensino médio); Faculdade Abzuniana do Brasil (FAbzuB - Ensino Superior); Union of the World Socialist Cooperatives and Corporations (UWSCC), Dingir Industries; Dingir Technologies; Dingir Corporation; Dingir Science, Dingir AI, entre outras. A AbzuCC se caracterizaria por praticar um modelo estilo a Mondragon, mas se baseando em princípios abzunianos.
Um dos fundamentos da AbzuCC seria a denúncia e o combate ao autoritarismo e totalitarismo promovidos pelos EUA, UE, OTAN e pelo Ocidente. Além de criar bilionários e CEOs socialistas e comunistas.
Dingir Group
O Dingir Group, também Dingir Cooperative Corporation Group, ou Grupo Dingir, é uma hipotética corporação idealizada por Dumugian a qual seguiria os princípios da religião anunnaki-anurashi-abzuniana e os princípios do socialismo de mercado e da propriedade cooperativa. O Dingir Group também possuiria suas próprias subdivisões, como o Abzu Group, a Dingir Industries, a Dingir Technology, a Dingir Science, a Dingir Nutripaste, a Dingir Health, a Dingir Education, a Dingir Church, a Dingir Vehicles, a Dingir Space, a Dingir Quantum, a Dingir Spirituality, a Dingir Divinity, a Dingir Weather, a Dingir Atomics, a Dingir Subatomics, a Dingir Cybernetics, a Dingir Synthetics, a Dingir Genetics, a Dingir Infrastructures, a Dingir Buildings, a Dingir Neurotechnology, a Dingir Biotechnology, a Dingir Nanotechnology, a Dingir Media, a Dingir Food, a Dingir Nutrition, a Dingir Economics, a Dingir Internet, a Dingir Psionics, a Dingir Psychics, a Dingir Commerce, a Dingir Finances, e as subdivisões Abzu de cada uma das mesmas. O Dingir Group seria uma versão de esquerda radical e anunnakista anurashi abzuniana das corporações de Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg e de Bill Ackman.
A logo do Dingir Group é o cuneiforme Dingir. E o logo do Abzu Group é o cuneiforme Abzu (logo primário) e o cuneiforme Nammu (logo secundário)
Os verdadeiros vagabundos e canalhas são vocês! Bando de capitalistas autoritários, capitalistas totalitários, neoliberais autoritários e neoliberais totalitários! Precisamos de uma revolução comunista mundial o mais rápido possível e com urgência no mundo inteiro!
ExcluirE a Enel? E as empresas bilionárias? E as privatizações? E os aeroportos privatizados? E a privatização da energia e da água? E os pedágios? E os CEOs e bilionários? E os bancos e financeiras com juros astronômicos? E o SPC-Serasa? E é esquerda que é "vagabunda"? Bando de lambedor de graxa e sola de sapato de bilionário e CEO...
ExcluirVocês capitalistas totalitários e neoliberais totalitários amam lamber graxa e sola de sapato de bilionário e CEO, né? Vocês defendem a escravidão da esquerda ao mesmo tempo que lambem os sapatos de bilionário e CEO, né? Principalmente os da Enel, né? A direita pode tudo e a esquerda não pode nada só ser escrava do capitalismo, né? Bando de capitalonazifascista e liberalonazifascista. Bando de lambedores de sapatos de bilionários e de CEOs.
ExcluirA insanidade dos lambedores de sapatos de bilionários e CEOs não tem limites. Querem a escravidão da esquerda ao mesmo tempo que defendem que bilionários e CEOs podem fazer oq quiser. Bando de escravagistas capitalonazifascistas do século XXI defensores do capitalismo totalitário e neoliberalismo totalitário.
Excluir𒅆 𒁃𒂊 𒈬𒂊𒅆𒅔𒅍𒆷 𒁷𒆤𒇷 𒌷 𒉆 𒋻𒁺𒉌 𒄩𒁀𒅆𒌈𒅍𒆷
ResponderExcluir[igi baḫar2]-e mu-e-ši-in-il2-la
[den-lil2]-le iri nam ku5-ra2-ni [ḫa]-ba-ši-ib2-il2-la
The potter lifts his gaze to you: 'May Enlil look upon the city that he cursed.'𒂄 𒇻𒄷𒌝𒈠 𒋤𒀀𒀭
šaḫ2 lu-ḫu-um-ma su3-am3!
Like a pig spattered with mud.𒉆𒋻𒈬 𒃡𒂷 𒂵𒈾𒀊𒅗 𒅔𒈾 𒈠𒂷𒂷
nam-tar-ĝu10 ušur-ĝa2 ga-na-ab-dug4
in-na ma-ĝa2-ĝa2
Were I to tell my neighbour about my fate, he would heap insults upon me.𒀖 𒋢𒀀𒁶 𒂕 𒇽 𒄀𒄥𒁕𒅗 𒀠𒁺𒌧
ab2 /su?-a-gin7 eĝer lu2 gi?\-gur-da-ka al-du-un
O cow, like a cat you walk behind the man carrying the food basket.𒁉𒀀𒋤𒀀 𒂵𒅘 𒍠 𒃲𒆷 𒂵𒆪
kašbir(A.SUD)-a ga-naĝ zag gal-la ga-tuš
Let me drink beer shandy and sit in the seat of honour!𒆠𒂖 𒋀𒍪 𒊕 𒉡𒈬𒊑𒅁𒆗𒇷 𒀀𒁀𒀀𒀭 𒊕 𒈬𒂊𒆗𒇷𒂗
ki-sikil šeš-zu saĝ nu-mu-re-eb-kal-le
a-ba-am3 saĝ mu-e-kal-le-en
Girl, your brother cannot choose for you; whom do you choose?𒃴𒂊 𒆪𒁀𒀭𒍢𒂗 𒌧𒁉𒂠 𒊬𒊑𒂗𒍢𒂗
galam-e dab5-ba-an-ze2-en uĝ3-/bi\-še3 /sar-re\-en-ze2-[en]
A crafty man exhorts the crowd: 'Seize him! Drive him away!'𒊷𒂵𒁉 𒅆𒊒𒁕 𒅆𒌨𒁉 𒌑𒄖 𒌤𒀀
sag9-ga-bi pad3-da
ḫul-bi u2-gu de2-a
The good thing is to find it. The bad thing is to have lost it.𒁹𒃶𒀀 𒅆𒅆𒁉 𒀭𒁲𒉌𒅁𒉽𒉽
1(DIŠ)-bi 1(DIŠ) ḫe2-a igi-igi-bi an-di-ni-ib-kur2-kur2
Let the solitary one remain alone; he is forever treacherous.𒂍𒃲 𒄑𒌁𒊏𒀀𒀭 𒈗 𒌨𒈤𒂊 𒀭𒉣𒃲𒄑𒊓𒍑𒃲 𒄨𒂊 𒃵𒃵
e2-gal ĝiš-tir-ra!-am3
lugal ur-maḫ-e d.nun-/gal\ ĝiš-sa-uš-gal! ĝuruš-e gam?-gam?
The palace is a forest. The king, the lion, subdues men with a huge net like Nungal.𒉆𒋻 𒌨𒊏𒀀𒀭 𒅗 𒈬𒌧𒁕𒀭𒋻 𒌆𒈬𒁍𒊏𒁶 𒅎𒈠𒋰𒋰 𒀀𒁀𒀀𒀭 𒇽𒈬 𒄷𒈬𒌧𒁕𒀭𒍪
nam-tar ur-ra-am3 zu2 mu-un-da-an-kud
tug2-mu-dur7-ra-gin7 im-ma-tab-tab
a-ba-am3 lu2-ĝu10 ḫu-mu-un-da-an-zu
Fate is a dog -- well able to bite. Like dirty rags, it clings, saying: 'Who is my man? Let him know it.'𒀭𒊩𒌆𒅔 𒉎 𒀭𒊏𒉡𒍪
d-nin-kilim ni2 diĝir-/ra\ nu-zu
The mongoose does not know fear of god.𒂍 𒌉 𒋰 𒆕𒀀 𒃶𒈨𒂗
e2 dumu tab du3-a ḫe2-me-en
May you be a household built up by twin sons.𒇽𒅎 𒌈𒆪𒁀 𒇽 𒄀𒈾 𒁀𒀭𒁶
lu2-IM ib2-dab5?-ba lu2 gen6-na ba-/an\-dim2
That which the thief has taken was made by an honest man.𒈜𒊑 𒇷𒁺 𒁹𒀀𒀭 𒃶𒂗𒍪 𒀜 𒁺𒀀𒀭 𒃶𒂗𒊷 𒂊𒉈𒀀𒀭 𒈜𒊏
nar-re en3-du 1(DIŠ)-am3 ḫe2-en-zu
ad ša4-am3 ḫe2-en-sag9 e-ne-am3 nar-ra
If a singer knows only one song but makes the sound pleasant, he is indeed a singer!𒂍𒂍𒇳𒁺𒇳𒁺𒊏𒌨𒂊 𒆷𒁀𒃵𒂊
e2-e2? /ukur3?\-ukur3!-ra? teš2-e la-ba-gam-e
Not all the households of the poor will bow down together.𒌷𒀀 𒆻 𒁄𒁄 𒁀𒀭𒆻 𒋗𒄩𒉈 𒉻 𒁀𒀭𒆪𒁉𒌍
iri-a niĝ2 bal-bal ba-an-ĝar šu-KU6-de3 šukur2 ba-an-dab5-be2-eš
Things may be traded in the city but it is the fisherman who brings in the food supply.𒉺𒇻 𒃶𒅎𒋫𒀊𒇯𒁺𒉈𒀀 𒇻𒉌 𒋗𒀀 𒇷𒉈𒅔𒄄
sipad ḫe2-em-ta-ab-ed3-de3-a
udu-ni šu-a li-bi2-in-gi4
If you get rid of the shepherd, then his sheep will not return.𒁾𒊬 𒋃𒈠 𒅎𒈠 𒁀𒀭𒇲 𒁾𒊬 𒅎𒈠𒋃𒂊 𒁀𒀭𒇲
dub-sar šudum-ma im-ma ba-an-lal
dub-sar [im]-/ma\ šudum-e ba-an-lal
The scribe trained in counting is deficient on clay. The scribe skilled with clay is deficient in counting.𒁀𒍝 𒀀𒈾𒀀𒀭 𒁺𒁀𒁉
ba-za a-na-am3 gub-ba-/bi\
How does a cripple stand up?𒇽 𒁉 𒉡𒍪𒁶 𒉎 𒁯𒁯𒊏𒀀𒀭
lu2 kaš nu-zu-gin7 ni2 dar-dar-ra-/am3\
He is fearful, like a man unacquainted with beer.elamki 𒆭𒊏𒀀𒀭 𒅗𒉌 𒁀𒁕𒆟
elamki kur9-ra-am3 zu2-ni ba-da-keše2
He who entered Elam -- his lips are sealed.𒍚𒉈 𒉆𒌝𒈠 𒁀𒅗 𒉆𒌑𒅲 𒌈𒀝
ud5-de3 nam-um-ma ba-dug4 nam-u2-zug4 ib2-ak
The goat spoke in the manner of a wise old woman but acted in the manner of an unclean woman.𒀭𒌓 𒁇𒊏 𒋗 𒃶𒂗𒉈𒋙𒉎𒍪 𒋗 𒉡𒍪𒀀 𒆭𒉌𒅁
d-utu bar-ra šu ḫe2-/en-ne\-[šu2] ni2-zu šu nu-zu-a /kur9\-ni-[ib]
When the sun is setting outside so that you cannot see a hand in front of you, go inside!𒇳𒁺 𒉆𒋾𒁉 𒉆𒍗𒁕 𒉡𒌒𒋛𒀀
ukur3 nam-til3-bi nam-uš2-da /nu?\-[ub-dirig]
The lives of the poor do not survive their deaths.𒄞 𒉽𒊏 𒌑 𒅥𒅥 𒄞 𒉎𒂷 𒌑𒋆𒂊 𒁀𒈿
gud kur2-ra u2 gu7-gu7
gud ni2-ĝa2 u2-šim-e ba-nu2
A stranger's ox eats grass, while my ox lies hungry.