@redsad

If you're going to speak against wealth, then cite #Marx or #Engels , or hell, #AdamSmith after page 50 of the Wealth of Nations.

We have enough #christofascism , and we dont need shit propaganda like #veggietales memes running around.

Tariffic

How ‘bout those tariffs? I’m sure the penguin delegation was instrumental in getting their implementation partially delayed. Seriously though, this is what happens when the president has no idea how anything actually works and then delegates the policy creation to AI. Yup, the whole tariff chart was likely created with AI. And if the tech bros have their way, the whole country will soon be run mostly by AI.

Capitalism, and with it modern civilization as the “developed” world has come to know it, was always going to collapse at some point because it is unsustainably predicated on perpetual growth in a finite system. This is why Musk wants to go to Mars, Bezos to the Moon, and plenty of others talk seriously about mining asteroids. Without the Sam Altmans, Peter Thiels, and Elons Musks, capitalism probably would have stumbled along for a good many years to come. However, with the tech bros at the top of the money-power pyramid, the collapse is suddenly accelerating.

Even up to a few months ago mention of collapse was not likely to appear in any kind of mainstream media, even the more liberal ones. You’d need to tune into podcasts like Crazy Town where they talk about it on the regular. But when The Guardian publishes an article about a report from Allianz SE, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, that warns climate change is on track to destroy capitalism and Scientific American publishes an article about how big banks like Morgan Stanley are quietly preparing for climate catastrophe you know things are getting serious. Of course, neither of the articles mentions how the insurance industry or the global finance industry have played significant roles in creating the conditions of collapse while they continue to find ways to profit off of it.

Meanwhile, as Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor write, we find ourselves moving ever deeper into end times fascism. The super rich are building their bunkers and walled cities while they dismantle democracy. The tech bros are forthright about capitalism and democracy being incompatible. They cannot keep making money, using resources, and immiserating you and me unless all the guardrails of democracy are removed. So they make up lies about Venezuelan gang invasions, hoards of immigrants crossing the border, and trans people. They stop funding science and education and libraries. And then they start removing information from government websites about health and climate change, and anything that can be considered DEI or DEI adjacent. Because information is dangerous. If we know how to think, we can figure out how to resist.

All of the tech bros and a good many of the people who think like Robert Kennedy, are huge supporters of eugenics. It’s why Elon Musk pays women to have his children. It’s one reason why anti-vaxxers and health influencers are so self-righteous—if you are genetically worthy, the measles/COVID/other disease won’t kill you. Viruses are just Nature’s way of editing the gene pool.

The well-off know collapse is coming and that they, and their greedy capitalist fingers, are the reason for it. But they won’t ever say that and the mainstream will avoid talking about it for as long as possible because we wouldn’t want people to panic. Except people are panicking, we just don’t know what we are really panicking about. Those who suspect are being encouraged to prepare by buying guns, gold, ready-to-eat meals, to create our own mini bunkers so capitalism can make money off our panic.

It may seem nothing but doom and gloom, but it’s not. When you live in a dying civilization there are opportunities to create what comes next. What we do now, the ideas we talk about, the communities we create, and the positive futures we imagine make a difference. It is up to us as things fall apart to create the tools and vision to build something new and better.

Surveying possibilities, I recently read The Communist Manifesto for the first time. It is a fascinating and still relevant document. The analysis of capitalism is sharp and Marx and Engels are weirdly admiring of capitalism’s adaptability. They believed that capitalism’s end would come about by the rupture of revolution. I think at this point we are well beyond that sort of end. But even as capitalism collapses beneath its own weight, I do not agree with the communist future the pair imagined.

To go along with the Manifesto, I read China Miévile’s book A Spectre, Haunting. He provided very good historical context for the whole undertaking. Miéville, who considers himself a Communist, concludes his book by talking about hate. He says that Marx and Engels were very careful in the Manifesto to make it clear that we are to hate the system of capitalism and not the people who comprise the capitalist class—the bourgeoisie. A good and important distinction.

But then Miéville goes on to say for the sake of humanity, we must “hate harder” than the Manifesto. That “class hate is constitutive with and inextricable from solidarity.” He insists that we should “hate this hateful and hating and hatemongering system of cruelty.” He does say that we cannot celebrate or trust hate, that hate can easily turn on us. He quotes Che Guevara who said that the true revolutionary is “guided by a great feeling of love.” And then he does a bit of doublespeak by concluding his book: “It’s for the sake of love that, reading it today, we must hate more and better than even The Communist Manifesto knew how.”

That scares me more than straight up hate.

I recently read another book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez. In one of the chapters Fours Arrows comments that it isn’t “so much about resisting [or hating in Miéville’s case] those who are destroying life systems,” but about loving those life systems so much that you work to save them.

That’s what I aim to do. As capitalism and civilization collapses, I will be loving as much and as hard as I can. Hate can do nothing but destroy. But love, love saves and love creates. Let’s create a new and better world together.

#capitalism #ChinaMiéville #ClimateChange #collapse #CommunistManifesto #democracy #Engels #eugenics #fascism #loveHate #Marx #techBros

Kennt ihr schon die #MEGAdigital der @BBAW? Letzte Woche ist der Briefjahrgang 1871 erschienen. Darin finden sich auch die Briefe *von* Dritten, nicht von ihnen an #Marx und #Engels. Die #Briefe werden zukünftig nur digital publiziert. https://megadigital.bbaw.de/briefe/index.xql?jahr=1871

Friedrich Engels - The Shadow of Karl Marx, Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocipx3NZwVE
#engels #marx #daskapital #communism

Boeken – Hier was het wachten op, zo’n tweehonderd jaar

Ongeveer tweehonderd jaar geleden publiceerde Ludwig Feuerbach zijn boek Het wezen van het christendom. Dit boek corrigeerde veel aspecten van het Duitse Idealisme en legde een stevige materialistische basis voor het dialectisch materialisme. Aan de kritiek op het eerste werd verder gewerkt, aan de opbouw van het tweede bouwden Marx, Engels en Joseph Dietzgen voort.

Die verwerking van de basis die Feuerbach legde kwam maar in beperkte mate van de grond. Dit manco kan nu worden rechtgezet. Bij uitgeverij Damon is zojuist verschenen: Feuerbachs hoofdwerk. Het wezen van het christendom. Voor het eerst in Nederlandse vertaling en meteen als volledige versie van 313 pagina’s. Het boek opent het boek met een stevige historische inleiding, waarin ‘aangetoond’ wordt hoe Feuerbach aan de mens zijn plaats in de kosmos teruggeeft. Een uiterst actueel thema in de huidige tijd van grote spanningen. Kortom, maak gebruik van de filosofische tool die Feuerbach geruime tijd geleden al aanbood.

Heeft God de mens geschapen? Of heeft de mens God geschapen? Dat is de centrale vraag in Het wezen van het christendom (1841), het hoofdwerk van de Duitse filosoof Ludwig Feuerbach. Dit boek wordt algemeen beschouwd als een van de belangrijkste en invloedrijkste godsdienstkritieken in de moderne filosofie. Hierin benadert hij religie vanuit een humanistisch perspectief en onderzoekt hij het idee dat goddelijkheid een uiterlijke projectie is van onze idealistische menselijke aard. Feuerbachs scherp geformuleerde standpunten waren van enorm belang voor de ontwikkeling van de moderne menswetenschappen.

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#Engels #HetWezenVanHetChristendom #JosephDietzgen #LudwigFeuerbach #Marx

Război 🇷🇺#Rusia-🇺🇦#Ucraina. Atac masiv cu drone, al Armatei Ucrainene, asupra Crimeei și a numeroase regiuni din 🇷🇺#Rusia. 🛡️#MinisterulApărării din 🇷🇺#Rusia susține că ar fi interceptat azi-noapte 158 de drone. Pe rețelele ruse de socializare sunt raportate însă numeroase explozii. Au fost vizate inclusiv bazele strategice 🛫#Engels și Mozdok, de unde decolează bombardierele Tupolev și 🛦#MiG31.

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#Știri #Crimeea #ArmataUcraineană

[11:02] Histoaniel, kwasykronyk of doetiidboartsje: wat is re-enactment in het Fries?

Re-enactment is het naspelen van historische gebeurtenissen in historisch kostuum. Maar hebben we daar nu echt een woord uit het Engels voor nodig?

https://lc.nl/friesland/Re-enactment-Nij-Frysk-Wurdboek-46068494.html

#Engels

"Karl Marx, the self-proclaimed enemy of the exploitation of man by man, not only exploited his devoted friend Friedrich Engels financially, but also psychologically. Thus, only three months after Marx's wife, Jenny von Westphalen, gave birth to his daughter Franziska in March 1851, their live-in maid, Helene (‘Lenchen’) Demuth, whom Marx had ‘inherited’ from Jenny's aristocratic family, also gave birth to Marx's illegitimate son, Henry Frederick. ..." #marx #history #aphet #engels #karlmarx

1891 Introduction by Frederick Engels to Karl Marx's "The Civil War in France" On the 20th Anniversary of the Paris Commune

#socialism #communism #marxism #marx #engels #FredrichEngels #karlmarx #paris #france

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/postscript.htm

Forbes: One Ukrainian Attack Cost Russia Almost $1 Billion

https://charter97.org/en/news/2025/3/28/634793/

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Saratov #Engels #airbase #Attack #army #update #drones #war #Russia #WarCriminal #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

Ukrainian Drones Atack Engels Again

https://charter97.org/en/news/2025/3/28/634788/

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #airbase #Saratov #Engels #army #update #Drones #war #Russia #WarCriminal #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

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BEST STRIKE IN 2025: 96 RUSSIAN CRUISE MISSILES DESTROYED Vlog 995: War in #Ukraine

General Staff: 96 cruise #missiles destroyed at #Engels 2 military #airbase in #Russia.

#russoUkrainianWar

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#Ukraine 🇺🇦 pushed #Russia 🇷🇺 out of #Kotline

🇷🇺 conducted mass UAV attack on 🇺🇦 #Poltava

🇺🇦 conducted another UAV attack on #Engels military air base in #Saratov oblast', the first one a week ago resulted in destroying nearly 100 🇷🇺 cruise missiles and Tu-95MS strategic bomber

🇷🇺 captured gas metering station "Sudzha" on the border with 🇺🇦 #Sumy oblast'

20 🇷🇺 soldiers taken POW in #Toretsk by 🇺🇦 #Azov National Guard Brigade

🇷🇺 ~910'000 irreversible losses since 2022 (KIA+WIA+MIA+POW)

Residents of #Saratov and #Engels reported more than 20 explosions.

https://t.me/astrapress/77679

#Ukraine #Russia

Strike on Engels airbase: Russia loses 96 cruise missiles

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/strike-on-engels-airbase-russia-loses-96-1743059959.html

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Engels #army #update #airbase #war #Russia #CruiseMissiles #WarCriminal #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

Als het dan toch zo moet zijn dat #Europa Amerikaanse onderzoekers onderdak biedt, zorg dan tenminste dat ze meertalig zijn. Doordat #Engels wetenschapstaal is, gaan al te veel inzichten verloren. Een voorbeeld uit de krijgsgeschiedenis van het #RomeinseRijk.

https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/03/26/de-vloek-van-het-engels/

UK intelligence assesses impact of Ukraine's most successful strike on Russia in 2025

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/uk-intelligence-assesses-impact-of-ukraine-1742905591.html

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #airbase #UK #army #update #Engels #aircraft #war #Russia #WarCriminal #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни