Yes if you think about it with enough nuance nuclear tipped ICBMs are just spears and therefore are human nature and therefore they’re good
Capitalist propaganda is so entrenched that liberals and just about everyone who’s apathetic to politics around them don’t just know what Marxism is, they don’t even know what Capitalism is. The strongest propaganda apparatus on the planet truly is something horrifying to behold, because it spawned us smug, condescending, confidently wrong internet losers who are almost impossible to deprogram.
Good thing there’s at least hope and normal people are waking up to the realities around them, and their bubbles are starting to show cracks. So don’t let my comment get too doomerish for you, remember that I’m a Polish communist. If I could do it, anyone can. We just need the proper conditions for it.
Also: Jesus what a fucking dork, the replies really are a sight to behold even after I wrote all that. Fuck that website man.
Arguably, it already is barbarism. But many times before, there have been times as barbaric or more than this, and at a certain point even people in reactionary areas like Bavaria, in the most impoverished rural areas of the world like say 1930s China, in Latin American barrios and indeed even disadvantaged communities inside of the centers of capital and empire have eventually said enough’s enough and at least attempted to throw off their shackles - or even earlier, if you count the various medieval and early modern era revolts by peasants, indigenous people, etc.
Things are bleak now, and they might get bleaker, but giving into depressive fatalism is not the solution.
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I’m gonna have to go to Poland again next week, that’s gonna be psychic damage to look forward to.
The strongest propaganda apparatus on the planet truly is something horrifying to behold, because it spawned us smug, condescending, confidently wrong internet losers who are almost impossible to deprogram.
It’s a lot easier for “nonpolitical” consumers to nod along to all of the totally-not-role-models-but-yes-they-are-role-models on their screens and LARP as the Adults In The Room who Don’t Give A Fuck (compassion is for fools and weaklings, after all!) and Make The Hard Decisions (profitable ones, too) to Get Shit Done (atrocities).
kinda reminds me of some of the very early contact reports and exchanges that occurred between indigenous peoples and explorers/settlers, as related in Mann’s 1491. one of the stories that has stuck with me in the 15 years since i read it, is this one about some indigenous peoples brought back to the metropole to meet royals and curious elites in the 1600s. i want to say it was London, but that could just be me wanting it to be.
anyway, so this contingent of american indigenous is being shown the city streets and whatnot of the Great City and while they were reportedly impressed with all the stonework, they expressed much confusion about the extreme wealth inequality. they posed the question to the guide, gesturing to a few clearly starved men huddled in rags on the street being passed by a well-fed, fancy lad in fine furs, with the question being something along the lines of, “is this a punishment? why don’t they bash that guy and take his things so they can be warm and eat?” apparently, no amount of explanation that the guide could come up with about “right and wrong” or “order” could dissuade the guests from seeing the gross inequality unto death from cold and hunger itself as the actual wrong.
but yeah, capitalism is clearly the original form of property relations. we can all remember the story of the first cave man to say “i own the mountains, the forests, the oceans, and the fields. you must pay me rent to sleep, farm, fuck, eat, harvest, swim and scratch your nuts.” and how everybody was like, “yeah, that makes total sense innately that you, a mortal man, owns all the property.”
That reminds me of an interesting read about how settlers taken from a very remote and scarcely populated island colony (to the point where they had very few of the usual structures of capitalism and the state) really didn’t enjoy being forced to reintegrate into things like wage labor after they got relocated due to a natural disaster.
Wage labor and private control of production for profit are human nature, which is why they had to be imposed on indigenous people and the working class at gunpoint
Cavemen knew how to throw a spear before we understood ballistics
TIL, the ballistic missile is just human nature.
