DankZedong ☭☭☭

I only work in theory

‘E questo è il fiore del partigiano, morto per la libertà’

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  • Why do they deserve it according to you?

    Why are these people not victims of a diseased system? If I look at what most of them seem to want, which is financial freedom and freedom from the grind, I can’t blame them for trying. Even if I don’t agree with the methode (crypto).

    The whole point of me joining this ideology was that I wanted freedom from the meaningless grind for myself and others as well. I’m lucky to have found communism as an ideology but I could absolutely see myself becoming a cryptobro as well. Without guidance, you do what makes sense to you. And if you find a lot of people investing in a hard to get, seemingly endless pot of gold, you might want to chip in.

    We can be critical at these people. But we shouldn’t be hostile imo. After all, the big system has failed them again. What if they now find a better alternative in communism? And what if they are greeted with smug ‘I told you so cryptobro’ vibes? After all, we preach solidarity for our working class equals for a reason.












  • The East India Company, one of the first major imperialist companies that went on to get military and governmental functions to loot the British colonies.

    Together with the Dutch United East India Company, it is one of the most evil companies to ever exist for sure. They together looted, killed and destroyed Asia, Africa and South America and brought incredible wealth to Western Europe.

    Edit: in The Netherlands we are actually thaught to be proud of this history, which is lacking any sort of commentary about how we completely fucked over entire countries.





  • Inflation is inherent to capitalist greed. Prices are set by one group of people only, and that’s the employers (or capitalists, whatever you want to call them). Prices going up is because they choose to raise the price.

    Don’t let them fool you. Raising the prices hurts their ‘customers’. They know that. But they will have a few tools to deal with that as well. They will say they don’t want to raise the prices, but they HAVE to, they are FORCED to (because their costs went up, or the governments taxes went up etc). They act as if they, the ones setting the prices, don’t have any influence over said prices. They act as if we, the common people, and them, the 1%, are somehow in the same boat and that these inflations just suddenly appear from nowhere. That’s not true. They set the demand and they set the price. If I sell toothbrushes and I want to make more profit, I produce less toothbrushes to create an artificial scarcity. I can then set my price higher in order to make more profits.

    The number one reason why companies raise prices is simple. It’s to make more profits. If you raise the price you might sell fewer, but you sell fewer at a (much) higher price. It also means you have to buy less, you need less employess you have to pay. Oftentimes companies actually hold back in producing in order to set higher prices (hello oil companies).

    Inflation is part of the class war between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. It’s meant as a tool to squeeze whatever is possible from the proletariat for the benefit of the ruling class.

    Don’t even for a second think the oil companies in this picture are seperated from the war and are sad about it. This war created a ‘shortage’ in oil which has been really helping the oil companies story about how they needed to raise the prices because of the war and oil shortages. It’s just to make more money. That’s all.