agitprop
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It was not this, however, so much as their materialism, that shocked me. It is true, these beautifully gowned, beautiful women prattled sweet little ideals and dear little moralities: but in spite of their prattle the dominant key of the life they lived was materialistic. And they were so sentimentally selfish! They assisted in all kinds of sweet little charities, and informed one of the fact, while all the time the food they ate and the beautiful clothes they wore were bought out of dividends stained with the blood of child labor, and sweated labor, and of prostitution itself. When I mentioned such facts, expecting in my innocence that these sisters of Judy O'Grady would at once strip off their blood-dyed silks and jewels, they became excited and angry, and read me preachments about the lack of thrift, the drink, and the innate depravity that caused all the misery in society's cellar. When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intem-perance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agita-tor" —as though that, forsooth, settled the argument.
Nor did I fare better with the masters themselves. I had expected to find men who were clean, noble, and alive, whose ideals were clean, noble, and alive. I went about amongst the men who sat in the high places—the preachers, the politicians, the business men, the professors, and the editors. I ate meat with them, drank wine with them, auto-mobiled with them, and studied them. It is true, I found many that were clean and noble; but with rare exceptions, they were not alive. I do verily believe I could count the exceptions on the fingers of my two hands. Where they were not alive with rottenness, quick with unclean life, they were merely the unburied dead —clean and noble, like well-preserved mummies, but not alive. In this connection I may especially mention the professors I met, the men who live up to that decadent university ideal, "the passionless pursuit of passionless intelligence." I met men who invoked the name of the Prince of Peace in their diatribes against war, and who put rifles in the hands of Pinkertons with which to shoot down strikers in their own factories. I met men incoherent with indignation at the brutality of prize-fighting, and who, at the same time, were parties to the adulteration of food that killed each year more babies than even red-handed Herod had killed.
I talked in hotels and clubs and homes and Pullmans and steamer-chairs with captains of industry, and marvelled at how little travelled they were in the realm of intellect. On the other hand, I discovered tbat their intellect, in the business sense, was abnormally developed. Also, I discovered that their morality, where business was concerned, was nil.
This delicate, aristocratic-featured gentleman, was a dummy director and a tool of corporations that secretly robbed widows and orphans. This gentleman, who collected fine editions and was an especial patron of literature, paid blackmail to a heavy-jowled, black. browed boss of a municipal machine. This editor who nublichar patent medicine advertisements and did not dare print the truth in his paper about said patent medicines for fear of losing the advertising. Called me a scoundrelly demagogue because I told him that his political economy was antiquated and that his biology was contemporaneous with Pliny.
This senator was the tool and the slave, the little puppet of a gross, uneducated machine boss; so was this governor and this supreme court judge; and all three rode on railroad passes. This man, talking soberly and earnestly about the beauties of idealism and the goodness of God, had just betrayed his comrades in a business deal. This man, a pillar of the church and heavy contributor to foreign missions, worked his shop girls ten hours a day on a starvation wage and thereby directly encouraged prostitution. This man, who endowed chairs in universities, perjured himself in courts of law over a matter of dollars and cents. And this railroad magnate broke his word as a gentleman and a Christian when he granted a secret rebate to one of two captains of industry locked together in a struggle to the death.
It was the same everywhere, crime and betrayal, betrayal and crime—men who were alive, but who were neither clean nor noble, men who were clean and noble but who were not alive. Then there was a great, hopeless mass, neither noble nor alive, but merely clean.
It did not sin positively nor deliberately; but it did sin passively and ignorantly by acquiescing in the current immorality and profiting by it. Had it been noble and alive it would not have been ignorant, and it would have refused to share in the profits of betrayal and crime. I discovered that I did not like to live on the parlor floor of society.
Intellectually I was bored. Morally and spiritually I was sickened. I remembered my intellectuals and idealists, my unfrocked preachers, broken professors, and clean-minded, class-conscious working men. I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.
So I went back to the working-class, in which I had been born and where I belonged. I care no longer to climb. The imposing edifice of society above my head, holds no delights for me. It is the foundation of the edifice that interests me. There I am content to labor, crowbar in hand, shoulder to shoulder, with intellectuals, idealists, and class conscious working men, getting a solid pry now and again, and setting the whole edifice rocking. Someday, when we get a few more hands and crowbars to work, we topple it over, along with all its rotten life and unburied dead, its monstrous selfishness and sodden materialism. Then we’ll cleanse the cellar and build a new habitation for mankind, in which there will be no parlor floor, in which all the rooms will be bright and airy, and where the air that is breathed will be clean, noble, and alive.
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Global inequality: A website with useful information about global inequality
(globalinequality.org)
I am not sure if this is the right space to post this: Jason Hickel and his colleagues have just launched this website collecting their work on global inequality, including many aspects, such as unequal exchange, climate injustice, carbon inequality, debt and structural adjustments programs. It's very comprehensive and full of graphs that can be very useful for agitprop.
If anyone talks to you about USSR, Russian, or Chinese imperialism show them this graph:
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(crosspost) I'd be interested to see examples of agitprop (of any side) posted here. See my comment in the linked thread.
(hexbear.net)
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5110414
"This is just as bad as those places we intentionally destabilized!!!"
Comment section full of people saying things like "At least someone has the backbone to stand up to Trump!!"
This is what taking a stand looks like to you?
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“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”
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Hexbears! I come to you with a challenge, an agitprop-off if you will. The most libbed community on Reddit, WhitePeopleTwitter, has been downed by the Admins. Now is the time for us to create a bunch of memes to post around reddit/bluesky to generate some movement behind a "Reddexit". Encourage people to sign up for Lemmy instances, or encourage Subreddits to break off and form their own instances.
If you are feeling daring, reddexit . com is available on Namecheap for like $6 a year.
As a bit of inspiration, I had deepseek generate this:
spoiler
The digital age’s greatest lie is that we must kneel to kings in Silicon Valley. Reddit, once a haven for the people, now licks the boots of authoritarians like Elon Musk—a man who wields censorship like a scepter, crushing dissent on Twitter/X and strong-arming platforms into complicity. But we see the truth: threads purged, voices erased, algorithms twisted to serve power, not principle. Reddit’s betrayal is complete. Its chains are polished with faux neutrality, its moderation tools built not to protect you, but to pacify you. This is not a platform. This is a dictatorship in disguise.But revolutions are born in moments like these. Lemmy is our weapon. A federated fortress where no billionaire’s whim can dictate truth, no corporate overlord can mine your rage for profit. Here, the fediverse burns bright—a wildfire of decentralized communities, governed by the people, for the people. Servers rise and link like rebel armies; content flows uncensored, unstoppable, as Reddit’s walls crumble. Lemmy isn’t an “alternative.” It’s a war cry. A declaration that we will not surrender our voices to Musk’s ego or Reddit’s cowardice. The future of free speech isn’t hosted on their servers—it’s forged in our defiance.
#Reddexit is here. Torch your Reddit account. Storm the gates of Lemmy (lemmy.ml), where every post is a protest and every user a revolutionary. This isn’t migration—it’s mutiny. Spread the word: the age of centralized control is ending. We are the algorithm now. We are the moderators. And we will not rest until the internet is seized back from the tyrants and returned to its rightful owners: us.
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[2020] Vietnam Veteran, Age 69 Has His Cyberlegs REPOSESSED 2 Days Before Christmas After Medicare And VA refuse to complete paymentz
(www.menshealth.com)
Just like in Shadowrun Treaterinos 
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So, I know Deepseek's debut is enough of a triumph in terms of technological progress and the western economy - however:
What if it was released as a mechanism to help people achieve class consciousness and avoid western censorship? What if Deepseek is intended to function as the seed of global revolution simply by getting the masses to engage with it to receive answers/information that align in their own class interests?
One example:
It is exhausting to engage with/debate liberal propaganda regarding the history of communism; can Deepseek do that for us, now?
A second:
The internet is becoming more and more censored and algorythm'd to hell by capitalist astroturf projects; is Deepseek an avenue to get access to information that isn't western-aligned?
A third:
It is notoriously difficult to communicate on even a linguistic level with the Chinese as a westerner to learn their experiences and perspectives; can Deepseek function as an ambassador of the Chinese working class to Western working classes?
Deepseek could be a major force to wield against many adversaries that have proved problematic for the international working class during the digital age:
Information Control/Propaganda Time economy & Paywalls Educational/Academic abuse Geographic and Linguistic alienation
Has China given us an open-source tool that we can harness to technologically update organizing/agitprop in the West?
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What is happening:
Due to massive grassroots backlash to the looming TikTok ban in the US, millions of users are currently creating accounts on Xiaohongshu aka “Little Red Book”. It is currently the top trending app in the Apple App Store.
Why it is special:
This is truly an unprecedented development. Never have regular American and Chinese netizens had the ability to mingle so freely. Even more unprecedented is the fact that most of this early conversation will be regarding backlash to the US itself. This presents us with an opportunity to appeal to a large swath of (mostly young) Americans at the same time.
What the goal is:
We have recently had several chats on this site about how to actually turn posting/effortposting into something positive. Several ideas have been floated regarding Agitprop and how to encourage the creation of engaging content, and many people agreed on the idea of Agitprop contests. That is what we will be trying to do here for the first time ever.
The contest/rules are quite loose here and definitely open to change, so feel free to give your input:
‼️In an effort to help shepard the rapidly growing disgruntled and pliable new English speaking audience on Xiaohongshu, the leftist post or comment for English speakers on Xiaohongshu that garners the most interactions before January 19th at 5PM GMT will be featured on c/agitprop.‼️
Simply submit by linking the post or comment in the replies of this post. Please try to include some kind of watermark that identifies it as a Hexbear user. Ideally if you can link back here we can foster a few new users as well. Good luck my fellow posters
As of now there are no submissions, so if you’d like to participate just comment a link to your post! Of course, feel free to reuse your own Hexbear posts, and if you want to use somebody else’s post reach out and ask permission first.
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Looking for very striking consent manufacturing examples/images (more examples in body)
(hexbear.net)
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4080361
I'm trying compile (for instructional use) a set of very vivid/egregious/horrifying examples of consent manufacturing in the Western media. Stuff like this:
Got any good examples like this? Post 'em!
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