Lesbian Communist

Like as stated above for example, use open source software. Switch from chrome to firefox. Read the terms and conditions.

Shop at antique/thrift/pawn stores and stop buying everything new.

Barter. Exchange services, items, or skills with your peers. Are you 16 and able to drive your friends around? Carpool, and ask that your friends pay you back with food sometime, or teach you a skill that they have. Maybe that band kid is really good at knitting. Learn how to do that.

Forced labor

Child labor is on the increase despite companies’ claims

World hunger is increasing due to climate change, of which a wealthy few companies hold most responsibility for

80% of the world lives in extreme poverty while companies and governments profit off it

Billionaires made enough money in a year ALONE to end extreme poverty SEVEN times

Preventable mass industrial slaughter

Political oppression and terrorism: Banana massacre, 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, death squads, IBM and Nazi Germany, PepsiCo and Pinochet, Chiquita and the AUC, USA and Iran, COINTELPRO, and much more

The most common narrative against communism is fabricated

Pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research

Economic imperialism

False philanthropy

Wage stagnation

Outsourcing emissions

Giving people cancer because hey, it’s profitable

Yeah, sure!

Communism = “a stateless, classless, moneyless society.” There are tons of different kinds of communists, and communism has existed for thousands of years. Communes themselves have existed in many different forms throughout human history. One of the most popular forms of communist analysis in the modern world is Marxism, which is based on the writings of 19th century German intellectual Karl Marx and his long line of intellectual descendants. Marxism posits that “all hitherto existing history is a history of class struggle,” and due to this dialectic of materially different groups clashing with one another over time (dialectical materialism), communism will either inevitably spring out of the contradictions apparent within capitalism, or capitalism will destroy everything. Marxism is just one kind of communism, and there are many others, including religious communism (that’s me!), anarcho-communism (also me!), utopian communism, etc.

Socialism = “workers own the means of production.” This is a much newer idea than communism, since it basically requires capitalism or something similar to exist for the material conditions to even be right for socialism to intellectually develop. Socialism says that instead of workplaces being owned and managed by absentee business owners, they should instead be managed by the workers directly, for their own benefit. Socialism is normally conceived as a step towards communism (particularly within Marxism), and so almost all socialists are necessarily also communists.

Sometimes all of these terms are confused with something else, normally called Social Democracy, which is basically just the idea that “there should be a massive welfare state.” Almost all socialists and communists support social democratic reforms (like tax-payer funded healthcare, tax-payer funded public transportation, etc.) because they materially benefit workers, but a welfare state by itself is neither socialism or communism. Even if the government “runs everything,” that is neither socialism nor communism.

Forced labor

Child labor is on the increase despite companies’ claims

World hunger is increasing due to climate change, of which a wealthy few companies hold most responsibility for

80% of the world lives in extreme poverty while companies and governments profit off it

Billionaires made enough money in a year ALONE to end extreme poverty SEVEN times

Preventable mass industrial slaughter

Political oppression and terrorism: Banana massacre, 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, death squads, IBM and Nazi Germany, PepsiCo and Pinochet, Chiquita and the AUC, USA and Iran, COINTELPRO, and much more

The most common narrative against communism is fabricated

Pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research

Economic imperialism

False philanthropy

Wage stagnation

Outsourcing emissions

Giving people cancer because hey, it’s profitable

Reading about Congress bills can be dry, so here’s a quick thread on the eight bills (among 2,000 - according to Al Jazeera English) introduced since Trump took office in January.

here are all of the scum who control oil, coal, and natural gas

here are the ones who run the factories