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- • 20%tankie.tube The American Dream vs The Chinese Dream
I love China I love douyin #🇨🇳 #PeoplesRepublicofChina #china #studentinterview #peoplesrepublic
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20199598
- • 63%tankie.tube The world makes no sense when you are not class conscious
A free, general-purpose video sharing platform for the leftist community
The script was by JohntheDuncan.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18218451
> Then & Now
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18103859
> Lepht Hand
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16156327
> How The West Underdeveloped Haiti
- tankie.tube Second Thought: The New F-Word
The New F-Word explores the history, ideology, and contemporary resurgence of fascism, the reactionary and anti-human philosophy first developed in Post-WWI Italy. Far from being eradicated after W...
>The economic base of fascism has always been the petit bourgeois, or as I like to call them, the roofing class. Small business owners. The guys who have a handful of contractors and pay 1,200 bucks a month on an F-150 Raptor that’s never been used for any kind of manual labor.
>Every worker in this country has always been at the mercy of the elite, but not the elite fascists assume are pulling the strings. It’s not a shadow cabal of elite Jews, it’s just the people who own the means of production. They’re not shy about it. People like Warren Buffet routinely admit there’s a class war being waged, and that the capitalists want to make sure that they win it.
>On the whole, there’s a reason the ruling class tolerates fascism and not socialism. Socialism is genuinely revolutionary, whereas fascism is just a cancerous offshoot of capitalism that can, in their mind, be used as a tool when needed.
>What we’re seeing today has the same hallmarks of every other period where fascism has grown in popularity: economic insecurity, the formation of fascist paramilitaries, and a series of charismatic figures trying to tap into the rising tide of far-right populism for personal gain.
