/lit/ - Literature

>>14675136
Socialism works. /lit/ is a Socialist/Communist board. No denying that

"gib stuff" -garlmardz
''not gibbing stuff id fashum, also craze'' -frens of garlmarg

>>14675136
Das Kapital, No Gods, No Masters (2 volume anthology of anarchism to direct further reading) and Bookchin

>>14675136
The State and Revolution

>>14675136
capital is sucking you dry like some filthy thot

>>14675158
This. Socialism works if combined with nationalism.

Gives you false hope if youre a poorfag and can feign empathy as anything else

>>14675136
>A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society

>To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind. This form of socialism has, moreover, been worked out into complete systems

If you kill enough people any economic system can work :)

>>14675158
"To each according to his contribution" Yes.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" No.

>>14675393
So that’s why capitalism still exists

>>14675393
It's true, the mesoamericans had a system based on nothing but stargazing and murder and it worked for them until a superior murdercivilization appeared.

>>14675136
It's pretty telling that the first thing they do is genocide the intellectuals for being "anti-revolutionary". Probably a factor in why it always fails.

>>14675222
>So well in fact, the Soviet Union is still a superpower

>>14675239
Education, unity and organization is needed, it isn’t false hope, it’s the only way, even if doomed to failure, it’s an obvious cure for nihilism

it's a coping mechanism you're right

What is it with the modern leftist and the insane amount of young blatant tankies who fly the hammer and sickle, think they're revolutionaries, and romanticize Soviet Russia like it wasn't a hell hole?

Anyone have some insight? Why can't they just adopt the social policies like a normal fucking person? And don't give me the bullshit of that's just the weirdos, it's not. I see local people who by all means look normal doing this shit too. It's fucking weird man and makes me uncomfortable despite pretty much being on board with Bernie. I cannot stand some of his supporters.

>>14676382
It’s a cult of a sort. The cappies propaganda hides so much of the facts that the people who become socialists get in through all sorts of weird doors. Punk rock anarchism leads nowhere, Stalinism, Trotskyism, neo-Trotskyism, Maoism and all the other tankies are dogmatic and wont hear of any faith.
Sanders fans? Don’t pick on ‘em. There’s multiple types of progressives too.

>>14676419
Where do you stand politically? It just really annoys me because there are university students I know, who grew up in my town, that I really do admire to an extent but are drinking the """"revolution"""" kool aid.

>>14676472
I came from a Christian conservative background, so entered i to socialism cautiously. Stupidly slow, but self educated while holding various jobs, so w/e. I like anarchism, though it is schismatic, that is probably how it would be across the world anyway. The best way to do things will be decided by the people of that region. But how we get there, if it is at all possible, has to be worked out. We have to have a working replacement and a very alert educated people determined to uproot the elitists. Is Sanders or someone like him ever going to be allowed in the White House? Only to be shot or have Air Force One drop into the ocean, I’m afraid.
Reading Bookchin now to pick up some of his hybrid ideas. Sounds good. Not fond of legalisms but Im a radical.

>>14676533
Sounds like you want ethnostates for everyone. Welcome to the club, join us in forming a HRE-style federation for autonomy for every ethnicity.

>>14675136
Marxists are right that capitalism isn’t the right path, but it’s not because of the ‘proletariat’. It’s bad for humanity period. But they’re solution to capitalism is utter dogshit, anyone who is shilling communism has adopted an ideology out of intellectual retardation. So, read some marxist critiques but don’t be one. Be more.

>>14677300
This. Keep reading, keep learning, don't be another idiot shilling for a broken utopia.

>>14675136
>tfw work all wee
>tfw boss get almost all the money and does almost no work

>>14677300
>>14677305
This is only partly true(a stateless, classless society is fake and gay), but don't fall for there fascist rhetoric.
Fascism is just crisis capitalism/liberalism.

>>14675969
Capitalism has saved more people than it killed

>>14675969
yes
>>14677339
no

>tfw literally living like Athenian-styled slaves
>people tell me this is the good and natural state of things

>>14676382
You say it like current Russia isn't a hell hole.

>>14676092
>doing something you know to be completely futile is a cure for nihilism
what the fug

>>14677341
I dont think you have any idea what capitalism actually is.

>>14675969
No capitalist nation has ever killed for no reason