There were still classes back in the day, serfdom, slavery, guilds that had similar exploitation to wage labor. There was plenty of coercion to get labor done.
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Democrats will use 100% of their resources to make sure that a mild social democrat who'd fold under internal pressure doesn't win, which is genuinely funny for a party that's supposed to be the left opposition
Oh but you see, the guy dropped a fallacy name so it's an automatic win for them.
I'm not even middle aged, but the only game I have installed on my phone is mahjong where you pull and discard colorful tiles
I feel attacked
For some reason my dumb ass read united front as popular front back when i wrote it from work, mb mb
Even with how shitty conservative elements are, most of the issues they raise are actually correct and often missed by progressive elements, but their proposed solutions or narrative around those issues is pure garbage.
I remember seeing Andrew Tate of all people start talking about how people are living a slave's life, working for others while getting barely enough for subsistence with no real prospects for social mobility, a point that one could pull from Marx. However, the solution that he proposes is a theocracy and return to traditionalism for some reason, which is nonsense.
Reminds me of Romania right now where the centrist candidate that won the presidential elections (and tons of people on here celebrated because it wasn't a reactionary right-winger) refused to ban and straight up endorsed legionary and fascist organizations to "fight communism"
Article in Romanian, though using machine translation will get the general idea across
I'd say it's not really that bizzare - logically yes, it doesn't make sense if one is some liberal always preaching about "le nation" (with anti-immigration basically crippling economic growth), but it's a good move when we're talking about opportunism. A lot of people nowadays are reactionary, you can sway a lot of them to vote for you or continue supporting them if you commit to xenophobia, fearmongering and so on.
"Immigrants are taking YOUR JOBS and will make you UNEMPLOYED, so vote for me to get them all out and give the jobs to national volk!" "Immigrants are all CRIMINALS, look at this one crime they committed so vote for me to get the vile scum out!"
Right isn't as unified as you might think. There's plenty of right on right violence, especially when a channel that operates under the veneer of enlightenment or "smarts" does something that goes against it, like recent JP Jubilee appearance.
Left is also a very wide umbrella, not some team, so when someone is being idiotic, giving flack and "infighting" is good.
Thought it was obvious given how "every person in the world" and "practical" was in the same comment lol
Capitalism has fundamental contradictions that lead it to crisis, contradictions that government intervention can't handle.
You have monopolies naturally occurring due to snowball effect that get recreated even after government break ups, inherent overproduction that happens due to the nature of commodity production, wage labor and surplus value extracting ensuring that it's physically impossible to buy everything that we make, and so on. This shit causes wars, crises, etc