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So, what happens after we overthrow the Empire? For example, do all dwellings become the personal property of whoever is actually living in them?
What happens to the mansions of the rich, such as Mar-A-Lago and the White House? Break them up into rent-free apartments? Ditto for hotels and other large buildings that don't have other uses?
The Cultural Void of Marxism and European Anarchism
Marxism and European anarchism are often treated as original political theories, but in reality, they borrow heavily from Indigenous and non-Western social structures. Concepts like communal land, mutual aid, anti hierarchy or dialectical and historical materialism weren’t invented by Marx, Engels, or Bakunin. These systems already existed and endured in Indigenous societies across the world.
The key difference is that those Indigenous societies weren’t just built on political structure. They were held together by culture by relational systems, intergenerational obligations, protocols, stories, spiritual beliefs, and deeply embedded values. That’s what made them resilient over long periods of time, even under immense pressure.
Marxism and European anarchism, in contrast, attempt to reconstruct these ideas in theory, but without the cultural foundations that sustained them. These European ideologies emerged in societies already disconnected from land, kinship, and traditional knowledge. They try to rebuild community through politics alone, without the deeper relational systems that keep people connected and accountable beyond ideology.
The Cultural Void of Marxism and European Anarchism
Marxism and European anarchism are often treated as original political theories, but in reality, they borrow heavily from Indigenous and non-Western social structures. Concepts like communal land, mutual aid, anti hierarchy or dialectical and historical materialism weren’t invented by Marx, Engels, or Bakunin. These systems already existed and endured in Indigenous societies across the world.
The key difference is that those Indigenous societies weren’t just built on political structure. They were held together by culture by relational systems, intergenerational obligations, protocols, stories, spiritual beliefs, and deeply embedded values. That’s what made them resilient over long periods of time, even under immense pressure.
Marxism and European anarchism, in contrast, attempt to reconstruct these ideas in theory, but without the cultural foundations that sustained them. These European ideologies emerged in societies already disconnected from land, kinship, and traditional knowledge. They try to rebuild community through politics alone, without the deeper relational systems that keep people connected and accountable beyond ideology.
Antonio Costa [President of the European Council, former Secretary-General of the Portuguese Socialist Party]:
"Budapest must stop importing gas and oil from Russia: it is the best way to hasten the end of the war," accusing Viktor Orbán of being primarily responsible for the "20% of supplies" that the EU pays for to Russia.
#news #politic #today #eu #europe #euronews #war #antoniocosta #portugal #ukraine #socialist #socialism #social #mastodon #mastodonsocial #toot #council #europeancouncil
So, what happens after we overthrow the Empire? For example, do all dwellings become the personal property of whoever is actually living in them?
What happens to the mansions of the rich, such as Mar-A-Lago and the White House? Break them up into rent-free apartments? Ditto for hotels and other large buildings that don't have other uses?
BREAKING: 3 US lives spent to protect global capital. While the Pentagon counts casualties, the ruling class counts profits from "retaliation" sparked by endless provocation. This bloodshed is the inevitable outcome of a system that values markets more than men and women. Don't just be angry, be organized. The only cure for the capitalist death drive is revolution. Join a socialist organization today. 🚩 #EndCapitalism #RevolutionNow #Socialism #FightBack #USpol #pentagon #Iran
BREAKING: 3 US lives spent to protect global capital. While the Pentagon counts casualties, the ruling class counts profits from "retaliation" sparked by endless provocation. This bloodshed is the inevitable outcome of a system that values markets more than men and women. Don't just be angry, be organized. The only cure for the capitalist death drive is revolution. Join a socialist organization today. 🚩 #EndCapitalism #RevolutionNow #Socialism #FightBack #USpol #pentagon #Iran
The latest Eco Update is live! In this issue:
🌎 Developing a Proletarian Ecology
🧍Defining the “anthro” in Anthropocene
⚡️The Green Schools to Public Power Pipeline
🌿 Eco Anarchism in adrienne maree brown’s Ancestors
📖 A sleek, digital magazine
👇 And more!
The latest Eco Update is live! In this issue:
🌎 Developing a Proletarian Ecology
🧍Defining the “anthro” in Anthropocene
⚡️The Green Schools to Public Power Pipeline
🌿 Eco Anarchism in adrienne maree brown’s Ancestors
📖 A sleek, digital magazine
👇 And more!
“Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the employers always try to nullify every concession they had made to labor as soon as opportunity offered, as soon as any signs of weakness were observable in the workers’ organizations, so governments also are always inclined to restrict or to abrogate completely rights and freedoms that have been achieved if they imagine that the people will put up no resistance. Even in those countries where such things as freedom of the press, right of assembly, right of combination, and the like have long existed, governments are constantly trying to restrict those rights or to reinterpret them by juridical hair-splitting. Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution.”
― Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
“Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are, rather, forced upon parliaments from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. Just as the employers always try to nullify every concession they had made to labor as soon as opportunity offered, as soon as any signs of weakness were observable in the workers’ organizations, so governments also are always inclined to restrict or to abrogate completely rights and freedoms that have been achieved if they imagine that the people will put up no resistance. Even in those countries where such things as freedom of the press, right of assembly, right of combination, and the like have long existed, governments are constantly trying to restrict those rights or to reinterpret them by juridical hair-splitting. Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution.”
― Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice
RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116144303806412461
Filing this under "Capitalists do capitalism and they do not care about anything beyond profit and growth."
They don't care about the climate, your creativity, your privacy, your humanity, your rights, equality, etc. It's all marketing and they'll drop it the second it benefits their profit.
Begin your move to #FreeSoftware #FOSS. Don't feed their growth machine.
#Boycott #Apple #Google #Amazon #Microsoft #Tech #Technology #BigTech #Technofascism #Fascism #GeneralStrike #Degrowth #Socialism
RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116144303806412461
Filing this under "Capitalists do capitalism and they do not care about anything beyond profit and growth."
They don't care about the climate, your creativity, your privacy, your humanity, your rights, equality, etc. It's all marketing and they'll drop it the second it benefits their profit.
Begin your move to #FreeSoftware #FOSS. Don't feed their growth machine.
#Boycott #Apple #Google #Amazon #Microsoft #Tech #Technology #BigTech #Technofascism #Fascism #GeneralStrike #Degrowth #Socialism
Excellent interview with Ashik Siddique & Megan Romer, Co-Chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America, on the milestone of the #DSA hitting 100,000 members nationally. Interview starts at 45:30.
#socialism #anticapitalism #capitalism #resist #antifa #democracy #US #Politics
https://majorityfm.libsyn.com/3589-inside-bohemian-grove-dsa-hits-milestone-w-daniel-boguslaw-ashik-siddique-megan-romer
Trump’s rambling can’t hide the real State of the Union: the working class is fighting back!
Defying sanctions, advancing socialism: The DPRK’s 9th Party Congress begins.
In the run-up to the 9th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the successes of the last Five Year Plan were widely celebrated which sought to raise quality of life in the country and achieve a new level of strategic economic resilience.
Happy Hannah Spencer Day ☀️ 💚
#HannahSpencer #GreenParty #UKPol #ZackPolanski #TaxWealthNotWork #Socialism #GortonAndDenton #HappyDays
Happy Hannah Spencer Day ☀️ 💚
#HannahSpencer #GreenParty #UKPol #ZackPolanski #TaxWealthNotWork #Socialism #GortonAndDenton #HappyDays
