1) Life is an accident 2) Existence is not consensual 3) We can’t avoid death 4) There is no meaning to your life 5) “You” don’t really exist. “You” is just posturing. Consciousness is pure negation. “The self” is a mask, but you decide how it’s worn. 6) Life in general is meaningless and absurd. Human life in particular exists as social relations, which aren’t accidental but intentional 7) Revolt against wage slavery is a revolt against nihilism. 8) Communism will nourish our universal destiny: classless despair and anguish 9) Communism is our sardonic laugh at death
“For unless revolution uproots the basic social organisation, the biological family - the vinculum through which the psychology of power can always be smuggled - the tapeworm of exploitation will never be annihilated. We shall need a sexual revolution much larger than - inclusive of - a socialist one to truly eradicate all class systems.” — Shulamith Firestone
Early in the pandemic, liberals lionized Fauci, putting him on tote bags, coffee mugs, even in that absurd photo shoot for People. Now he’s lying to the public about COVID in the service of capital, and libs are going to eat it up with a spoon because of their infantile idolatry.
Liberals: “Ugh, it’s so cringe when these teen socialists wear t-shirts with Che Guevara on them!” Also liberals:
Early in the pandemic, liberals lionized Fauci, putting him on tote bags, coffee mugs, even in that absurd photo shoot for People. Now he’s lying to the public about COVID in the service of capital, and libs are going to eat it up with a spoon because of their infantile idolatry.
Liberals: “Ugh, it’s so cringe when these teen socialists wear t-shirts with Che Guevara on them!” Also liberals:
“More than half of economic income generated by closely held businesses does not appear on tax returns and that ratio has declined significantly over the past 25 years.”
“From 2014 to 2018, the 25 wealthiest Americans grew about $400 billion richer, according to Forbes. To an economist, this was income, but under tax law, it was mere vapor, irrelevant. And so this group, including the likes of Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett, paid federal income taxes of about 3.4% on the $400 billion.”
“On average, the rate of income tax that people pay climbs as incomes ascend into the top 1%, but when you get to the range of $2M-$5M, that trend stops.
After that, average tax rates actually drop the further up in income you go.”
“Human connection, care, and concern are wonderful feelings which sustain humanity. Ukraine deserves all the empathy we can provide, but empathy is not a zero-sum game, and the lessons of the present can and should change American interpretations of the past. For decades, some Europeans imagined that they had evolved beyond war, that their evolved humanity had arrived at an epoch where the garishness of armed conflict was simply impossible. As Afghans and Iraqis could have told anyone who cared to ask, there has been no giant leap in human evolution; war is still grisly, bombs still kill, and babies are born nevertheless in subway stations in Kyiv and tiny village hovels in Helmand.”
Africans living in Ukraine say they were stuck for days at crossings into neighboring EU countries, held up by Ukrainian authorities who pushed them to the ends of long lines and even beat them, while letting Ukrainians through.
“Two-thirds of the Afghan population is under 25 years old. That means most Afghans either were not yet born or were too young to remember 9/11. Remember also that most of the hijackers were Saudi, and none were Afghan. The U.S. is collectively punishing—with starvation and theft—an entire group of people who were not even alive for a crime their country did not commit.”
“Even if the outward and visible manifestations of class were not as conspicuous as they do in fact remain, it would still be quite unwarranted to interpret this as evidence of the erosion, let alone the dissolution, of class divisions which are firmly rooted in the system of ownership of advanced capitalist societies. To achieve their dissolution or even their serious erosion would take rather more than working-class access to refrigerators, television sets, cars… and more even than death taxes, progressive taxation, and a host of other measures denounced and deplored by the rich as ruinous and crippling, yet which have had no radical impact upon economic inequality–not very surprisingly since this system of ownership operates on the principle that ‘to him who hath shall be given,’ and provides ample opportunities for wealth to beget more wealth.”
