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The profit motive seems to be important for innovation. Or at least entrepreneurialism. Someone setting up a business rightfully expects to profit from it. Self-interest is a big driver.

On the other hand, non-profits that exist for the interest of their members/employees or another group in society can focus on their mission, without the distraction of generating profit for the owners.

There must be a balance here. Is the answer stronger community and institutional infrastructure to promote the establishment of non-profits where there is a need?

Could there a threshold where a for-profit gets big enough that its role changes, and the owner is told "well done, you've had your reward, this organisation is bigger than you now" and refocusses as a non-profit on providing jobs and services as its objective, not making money for its owner?

#economics #capitalism #socialism

#socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics

Libs: America spreads liberty and democracy!

America:

"fuck your Parliament and your Constitution. [...] If your Prime Minister gives me talk about Democracy, Parliament and Constitutions, he, his Parliament and his Constitution may not last very long."

- Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the USA

#socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics

Liberals when they say they only read "unbiased" sources

Liberals when you ask them, under capitalist society, who owns the media?

(Hint: rhymes with crapitalist)

Christianity is not Christian Nationalism, Christian Imperialism, or Evangelicalism. These are all the "Spirit of Antichrist." (1 Jn 4:1) They go against the most basic teachings of Jesus, and of the scripture more generally. It is tempting to take the out of academic religious studies that "anyone claiming to be a Christian, is a Christian," but outside of academia, that is neither useful without harm. Cult leaders like Peterson, Trump, and Vance who hate the Gospel of Love, who scorn compassion, and persecute the widow, orphan, and refugee are not Christian. Their views and actions are diabolical. They serve money, not God. If you still have trouble telling the difference, here are some entertaining and interesting videos.

How Jesus Turned Me Into A Marxist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrbo2BuD_0M

How Trump and Vance use Christianity as a Tool Against the Oppressed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omH_XquUxY

Why Jordan Peterson Got The Bible Completely Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d20KIalq74

#Christianity #Bible #Philosophy #Marxism #Socialism

#socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics

Karl Marx: Eventually, the proletariat will unite to fight the bourgeoisie!

WW1 begins: The proletariat starts killing each other.

Marx: WHAT THE FUCK?!

#socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics

Soviet flag and black-and-white picture of Soviet soldiers on top of a statue holding a giant Soviet flag after they invaded Nazi Germany.

Balikatan: Joint US-Philippines military exercises are a dangerous escalation toward war with China https://liberationnews.org/balikatan-us-philippines-escalation-toward-china/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism #leftist #activism

The Long Transition lays bare the global contradictions of capitalism and delivers a strategic blueprint for building a socialist world rooted in historical lessons and urgent contemporary realities.

free download here https://www.iskrabooks.org/the-long-transition

#socialism

Book review: Torkil Lauesen - The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism

https://lemmy.ml/post/29503215

In France, the Collective Denial of Islamophobia Is Deadly https://jacobin.com/2025/05/france-islamophobia-muslims-denial-violence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism

https://cipoml.net/en/strengthen-the-unity-of-the-working-class-and-the-peoples-fight-to-end-the-regime-of-exploitation/

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If they can not even do such a bare minimum thing - they will never do anything else. Just blablabla. #leftists #socialism #communism #workingclass #politics #news #covid #longcovid

Every single damn time!

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Thought it might help some people if I reposted this on here

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