ComradeSharkfucker

They/Them

“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” - Mark Twain

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  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mltoCurated Tumblr@sh.itjust.works•thank you SerbiaEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I feel you but the situation in Serbia is actually exceptional. For 15 years Vucic had effectively built a “state capitalist” system but the goal was to simply make him and his friends personally very wealthy rather than using markets to build productive forces which could then be utilized by a proletarian state. Much of the Serbian economy is nominally nationalized and with a group like this in charge that corporatist structure could be dismantled. This creation of Vucic is the primary contradiction in Serbia. Should this national economy be wielded in the interest of the people (or split up and privatized in a less favorable circumstance) then the primary internal contradiction would become Capitalism generally rather than a cartel who has monopolized the entire economy. This would allow for a more class conscious movement to form. It isn’t THE change but it is progress towards it and the unique way they accomplished this could be emulated in similar places. America is not a similar place unfortunately.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mltoCurated Tumblr@sh.itjust.works•thank you SerbiaEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Note that the student movement formed an incredibly unique decentralized political apparatus OUTSIDE of the formal institutions. They are exemplary and I am excited to see how successful they are going forward. Dismantling the Vucic corporatist structure won’t be easy but I think this movement is genuinely capable of it.

    They did not vote blue no matter who, they built their own political bloc from fucking scratch.

    Edit: I’d also like to be abundantly clear that the point communists make when they say voting doesn’t work is that voting won’t dismantle capitalism. These students and the political apparatus they built can change the leadership for the better but it isn’t going to smash capitalism and replace it with a society free from oppression.

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•90% of "vote blue no matter who" discourse on lemmyEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Fascism cannot be stopped with your vote. Hitler wasn’t elected and he certainly couldn’t be removed by election. This is the same for Mussolini, Petain, Franco, Hirohito, etc. We don’t “show up” IRL to vote against fascism because we recognize it is a ridiculous exercise in futility. We do show up IRL at our political organizations which lead protests against the Palestinian genocide, fascism, ecocide, the illegal blockade of Cuba and so so much more. Not only do we educate people politically and agitate within our workplaces and community spaces, we (attempt to) build lasting parties that materially provide for the communities they rely on. So far we haven’t had great success and overthrown the bourgeois state, that is because things take time and we are faced with both very powerful enemies and a very well conditioned public.