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Are universities just glorified capitalist labor camps? How can people not see the obvious corruption and collusion with the bourgeoisie. They merely serve as supplies of labor reserve armies and even stemlords cant get jobs easy now.

Will communists eliminate these rotten institutions?
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>>554
>Fortunately this isn't really the case, but if it is it's exactly the problem.
It's to the extent to which they're non-industrial that they're able to create beyond the myopic views of industry.
If it did serve industry, industry would need to reinvent it as something separate from it.

On the individual level it's this non-industrial attitude gives freedom, and with it meaning to the enterprise.
What meaning can there be in a world in which decisions are made by an impersonal dictatorial force.
When will we escape the totalitarian logic of rationality, of economics, and be free.

"They give more agency to the markets than they do to themselves"

>>564
This anti-industrial attitude is exactly what university promotes and they create excess laws to bar youth from industrial affairs
That's what creates the short sighted view of how the world works

This whole "industriality is the opposite of the arts" is a common marketing tactic

>>529
That's actually working class adults who think that

>>383
I will never get tired of posting this Engels letter. The whole thing is revealing but this sentences is my favorite:
>> The biggest obstacles are the small peasants and the importunate super-clever intellectuals who always think they know everything so much the better, the less they understand it.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_08_21.htm

>>539
>Unemployment is still low
Official stats are fake, real unemployment is very high.


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how does one go about getting a job as a carnie? a traveling fair person? a worker who works at one of these? I had a one night stand (well two night) with a chick who did this, so i know it's still a viable thing

how to vaudvillemaxx in 2025?
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>>515
how to get carnie poon, tell us ur secrets bro

Humblebrag thread.

You could invest in a ride and truck it to festivals, otherwise you need connections because I imagine they're petty bourgeois so they wouldn't really hire random people off the street unless they were desperate, maybe you could just try go to a carnival an talk to some carnies

was she hot tho?

lol if youre going to be a petit bourgeois at least get a job that pays well

LeftyPol not beating the allegations made against leftism


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I slam the door. I take these drugs! I go to the mental hospital! I am in the garage. The boat in texas. Getting jumpin in by a bunch of black people. MS gay teen. I slam my head on the table. 4/5/2025

Ok

Schizo

Sounds like a Death Grips song


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/finesse/ general

Tips of stretching the dollar, getting one over on the small business owner, etc

Tips for working to rule/stealing time, finessing free food, side hustles and quick cash, etc without fucking over your fellow worker

I clock in late then clock out early.

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secure yourself a sinecure then do a 2nd job while clocked into your sinecure

>>510
only works for techbros that can get remote jobs


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Seeking good contract language protecting political activity and speech to reduce the risk of getting fired over being a communist or anti-zionist. My workplace is majority anti-zionist Jewish people with a plurality of reds. A handful of zionist and rightoid pricks really hate that fact and keep trying to wield management against us and call in outside zionist orgs for backup because our existence fucks with their messaging that all Jewish people support Israel.
We're in the US and I expect the attempts at purging leftists to get worse in the future. Any good examples of protections we could copy? Also, general suggestions on things to definitely fight to have in our contract are welcome.

To make it more clear: we're unionized and almost done forming the bargaining committee and starting negotiations. There's strong buy-in from members for political protections because even the resist lib types are scared of getting retaliated against these days.

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rape is bad because it's not corrective violence. it's just gooners taking advantage of a sitaution


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Im a man and I DO consider myself, really, very manly. But I genuinely suffer daily, or extended angst, because my "material conditions of existence" don't allow me to ,not even TRY OUT FOR, extreme manly lifestyles….
Special unit active-War soldier, SWAT team member\SORT member, or even mma\bluhurt\rugby amateur player. non-violent yet extreme jobs like Underwater Welder, altitude rescue\medicine missions. etc
WTF Am I supposed to do? i changed and suited my whole lifestyle to be manlier: diet, sleep pattern, exercise type, so on.
>inb4 being a rEAl Man is about being a (((householder)))
No. Im Celibate.

Goon or jack off or whatever

Dont fall for that psyop unless you want lifelong joint pain. Judt be average eith some muscles

you literally cant become "alpha" or "chad" or "le real man" the second you start getting all insecure and fretting over if you got the sauce or not. A so called real men doesn't question if he is one cause he just knows that shit already and doesn't feel a need to question it or prove it others.


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Do you consider certain jobs off-limits, for youself or in general from the perspective of a leftist or for personal reasons, such as military, the defense industry, banks, maybe even the meat industry or the work in capitalist governments?

Do you think that there is a point in entryism into those spaces?

Do you judge people based on the profession they chose, independent of their personal circumstances or do you take that into account even if it's probably? Is there a difference if you are talking to someone who 'should know better' i.e. is a self-styled class- or otherwise politically conscious person?

Should a leftist who can't afford or sustain to be a 'professional revolutionary' seek out professions that seek to 'ameliorate' the worst effects of capitalism, like social work, teaching etc.?

Or is just obsessing over the ethics of one's job just moralist lifestylism, akin to 'ethical consumerism' and basically 'anything goes' since the profanition is considered absolute?


What are your thoughts on these points?
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>>390
idrc

>as long as I am paying my party membership dues?
yeah joining some reformist party is par for the course for your types

>>391
What if it's a radical party that even is kind of spicy (like being observed by intelligence services for having contacts to what the government considers foreign actors and 'antagonist governments')

>>392
sounds just as impotent lol, you think proletarians associate over ideas and not necessity?

>>393
You think there is no necessity for radical political parties?

>>388
what's the actual real answer according to you?


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I work at a shitty grocery store in an even shittier area. People come in who are completely illiterate and need to be walked through each step of paying. Basically everyone uses foodstamp payment and we get robbed every single day whether it's the carts and baskets getting carried off or someone running out the front with food.

Is it anti-Marxist to prevent shoplifting? Should I just ignore people blatantly stealing when I am working the self checkout machines?
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>>323
You shouldnt usually for your own safety. Many homeless people have nothing to lose so they stab you for less than stopping them from shoplifting. Then if all the lumpen know you wont stop them from shoplifting it could encourage them to shoplift even more during the hours you work and situation can get out of control. Its not an easy yes or no question.

>>342
illiterate retard award

It's not your problem. Do be careful to not lose your job though. There's also a chance that the branch becomes too unprofitable and ends up closing, and that means you lose your job, so if someone is constantly stealing expensive shit all year it might be in your best interests to intervene. Otherwise fuck them boojs

>>342
Dumbass

>>323
imo, you should close an eye as long as you dont realistically (that is, not out of paranoia or bootlicking/stockholm syndrome with bosses impulses) jeopardize your position and that of your work mates. You otherwise, you dont benefit from stopping shoplifting as you are going to be paid the same, the only one that could loose is the porky in question, which is already gaining more than he should. i personally call shoplifting from porky redistribution of wealth

>is it anti-Marxist
lmao
Dude, Marxism is not some kind of lifestyle movement or religion. Anyway, just let them shoplift. You have no incentive to stop them unless your store has a fucked up policy where people are fired to make up for losses.


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I'm so fucking tired of my job, it's so boring and soulless. All I do is stare at a computer all day and contemplate my life decisions.
Worse of all? I have to work another 40 fucking years or so until I retire, which at that point I'll be an old fart sitting in some shitty nursing home watching the window and praying that someone dares to visit me.

Work all year round just for two rest days where I have to do other life shit. The reward? Living with the basics and a two week vacation. Fuck this man, I can't stand living like this anymore.
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>>346
>That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is spending almost all my waking life making profits for a fucker that doesn't even know my name.
thats your biggest gripe?? lol

>>349
>thats your biggest gripe?? lol
well working my life away is indeed my biggest gripe, yes
man, we're only in this reality for a little while, 80 years tops most of the case, and you work for most of your waking life for a shitty wage
I firmly believe that most mental issues come from this fact

>>347
>Yet you guys downplay and dismiss that
Who are you quoting? I don't downplay it, school is, as most institutions, a tool of the bourgeoisie. And, as such, it reproduces capitalism.
Most things do, even hospitals are there to keep workers healthy enough to continue the reproduction of capital. Nothing escapes capital, nothing.

That's alienation, OP. I'm sorry, for real. I hope you can at the very least get a less insufferable job, and/or learn how to remaing employed while procrastinating at work.

>>347
Shut the fuck up newgene

>>365
No you.
You think work is a punishment in itself


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If you're not organised with wage labourers in any meaningful and consequential way you're not a communist, just a sympathiser who knows plenty. It's akin to calling oneself a physicist because they watch PBS Space Time & read Feynman sometimes.

But anon I am member of a trade union and a leftist united front party.


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