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How can anyone be deluded into thinking a communist revolution could ever happen? Workers don't even exist anymore and it's just the corporations and psy-op'd college kids that support Marxist thought

>> No.17466655

>>17466508
>Workers don't even exist anymore
Do you live in the land of Cockaigne? In what country do the people not have to work?

>> No.17466677

>>17466655
Flipping burgers at Mickey Ds and being a Starbucks barista is not real work.

>> No.17466686

>>17466508
>it's just the corporations and psy-op'd college kids
I remember this phrase from the Marx thread

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>>17466508
"""Communist""" revolutions happened relatively recently in SE Asia. Or look at all the Commie warlords in postcolonial Africa. It can happen in shithole countries.

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>How can anyone be deluded into thinking a communist revolution could ever happen? Workers don't even exist anymore and it's just the corporations and psy-op'd college kids that support Marxist thought

>> No.17466698

>>17466655
The proletariat has never been the revolutionary subject. If they were, communist revolutions would have happened in the West. More so, Marx's argument is a bit silly. The value of "work" is subjective; you do not have to treat it as a virtue; it is a means of existence. You do not have to value the lives of workers. Also, just because someone "works" doesn't mean we share common interests because there more to an individual than where they work. Most people in the west, especially the United States, don't even work full time jobs anymore.

>> No.17466722

>>17466508
Why would I give my life for a revolution when I can just learn a skill that makes me productive enough to enjoy the fruits of my labor? I don't need to be a revolutionary to get a cushy job. Society already gives me all the tools I need to succeed; I just need to have the will power to do what I want with my life.

>> No.17466755

>>17466677
Am a barista flipping burgers and posting on laotian butthole sniffing forum, can confirm

>> No.17466777

>>17466508
It is something that will inevitably happen as labor becomes obsolete.

>> No.17466795

>>17466508
Communists can not invent an economy that works without wage labor, profit incentive or markets

>> No.17466856

>>17466777
who are the workers if labor is obsolete?

>> No.17467181

>>17466856
It already is obsolete, the recent year has proved this. The workers are anyone that receives a wage, as Marx defined it. There will be union of peoples that aim to achieve some ideal vision of society, but rather simply a coalition against labor.