“Kids”

“At one stage, I spent four days in hospital because one of the kids accidentally, or deliberately, tried to drown me. Which wasn’t very good,”

Good old 60s am I right?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48266511

Counter: Bars should have taxes lifted on the first round of beverages purchased in bars. And increased taxes for alcohol purchased in shops. And maximum music dB enforced.

In the current time of AI, music by bands should be required.

Social drinking should be promoted to counter loneliness.

When you colour 80% of all bike lanes orange the defence that a driver didn’t know it was a bike lane becomes moot.

I’m not talking about trust, I mean two enclosed single bicycle lanes that merge at a bicycle crossing before entering an enclosed 2 way bicycle lane.

The dutch solved this by colouring the bike lane orange. Yes occasionally we add bollards but the entrances to 2 lanes often end/start in protected intersections

Nice try Peter Thiel you ain’t getting my birth year that easily.

No no I’m talking about real unions like the German Auto Industry union Industriegewerkschaft Metall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Metall

*.ml users will be mad about the impovements made thanks to unions instead of the failed GDR “revolution”

• Five-day work week (1959)
• Paid vacation time concessions (1962)
• 40 hr work week (1965–1967)
• Paid sick leave (1956)
• 35-hour work week in the metal industry (1995)

Trump, this is how you do tariffs properly.

1. You create an economic block that already know how to produce the product
2. you cut out outside competition of said product
3. worker unions happy, company ceo’s happy

2008 nuff said

This is news to me that the meat industry isn’t already owned by billionaires.

Classic Stazi - yes any form of criticism of Marx’s socialism must be stamped out and silenced

Thanks yes this seems to be a mistake, reading more into history I’ve even found that the push for better working conditions has come from elected social democrats and political union parties (1906 in the Netherlands) long before the Russian revolution.

Sorry I should have used effectively, being ideological about democratic centralism is nice until you find yourself organising a workers demonstration against one.

Every single piece of information Marx Lenin Mao Stalin points to: the replacement of power of any method a worker has, in a capitalist democracy and migrate it after the revolution to a state held apparatus above which the flawed democratic-centralism takes grasp to hold absolute power. At which point strengthening a secret police is all that’s needed to let fascism in from the back door. At least Mussolini stated his intentions from the beginning.

The whole mass of the people must take part in it. Otherwise, socialism will be decreed from behind a few official desks by a dozen intellectuals.

— Rosa Luxemburg

https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/ch06.htm

Classic Marxist Leninist.

workers ownership of the means of production

Great lets try that out; how much ownership do you think a worker has over the means of production, without the ability to choose a union not pre-appointed by the state?

Communism (not DemSoc) is an economic system where a government essentially owns the population ruled by an autocrat, under the veil of a single union. The ML way of democratic centralism completely fails when the opposition is blocked from voting which assures total enforced hegemony.

Independent unions are illegal in China with only the All-China Federation of Trade Unions(ACFTU) permitted by the Chinese state and the Chinese Communist Party to operate.

This doesn’t sound like a good idea.

I take it you haven’t seen my red rose profile picture 😉

But no not as literature, I thought I’d get the foundation of Marx but took a detour on Mao do you have any recommendations?

Thanks ❤️

Yeah it would definitely help to know who downvoted or upvoted some blatantly heinous comments.

Having now been fodder to a couple of the 50c army I’m now much less inclined towards the label of Socialism so I’m not sure for the overall motives other than Cult purity.

I’ll be looking for a mbin or piefed instance now 👋

https://rdctd.pro/defense-against-cult-control-tactics/