As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.
  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Communists do not oppose egoism to selflessness or selflessness to egoism, nor do they express this contradiction theoretically either in its sentimental or in its highflown ideological form; they rather demonstrate its material source, with which it disappears of itself. The Communists do not preach morality at all.

    They do not put to people the moral demand: love one another, do not be egoists, etc.; on the contrary, they are very well aware that egoism, just as much selflessness, is in definite circumstances a necessary form of the self-assertion of individuals. Hence, the Communists by no means want to do away with the “private individual” for the sake of the “general”, selfless man. That is a statement of the imagination.

    —Marx, The German Ideology

    • Pili [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      6 days ago

      For real, you’ll never hear him say craps like “Israel has the right to defend itself”.

      He’s our only acceptable politician really.

      • boiledfrog [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        6 days ago

        Yeah, he has a decent understanding on the fact that you just have to ignore baseless accusations, every dog in the media has been calling him an antisemite since Oct 7, he just says they’re fullof shit and.leaves it at that, something a lost of people appreciate

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Oh, is that not going to trickle down like the wealth is supposed to? That one needs to be from the bottom up?

    What’s that? The younger generation needs to bailout the big failing system? Daring today, aren’t we?