#socialism

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Hey everyone, I am Bryan, a queer socialist in East TN (USA). I used to be on Mastodon previously but fell out of it as my feed had become full of news and negativity. I want things different this time. I am trying to build something outside the surveillance economy. I self-host what I can, run FOSS exclusively, and believe in software freedom. By training I'm a Historian (North American Indian Studies), which means I think a lot about colonialism, resistance, and what autonomous infrastructure actually requires. Looking to connect with others doing similar work, share resources, and participate in this space without treating it like a content mill. Happy to boost FOSS projects, mutual aid, movement stuff, etc. I believe in the #NoAI movement. I am not interested in meeting people who promote its use. I enjoy playing videogames, trying to get back into the habit of regular reading for fun, and listen to a lot of music (Acid Techno, Power Metal). I started reading "The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi. Feel free to say hi! #Introduction #Socialism #NoAI
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Activism is actually about behind the scenes work. The Lula victory makes me think of all the organisers who must have worked their arses off to get this idea across the line. Activism is not just the rally, it is also everything before and after. Think of the activists and organisers in these next few days, who are doing their best every day. We take a lot for granted here in Australia, where voting is compulsory. Please get out and vote. #activism #socialism #lula #brasil #brazil
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Americans and Canadians live under capitalism and always have. At no point have we had a planned economy with state- or collectively-owned means of production. At no point have we challenged the right that bourgeois currently have to pocket the surplus value of the labour of others. These countries have been capitalist for as long as they've existed. We are not, and have never been, "neo-feudalist", and we have certainly never been socialist. Not even the best booms of the capitalist boom-and-bust cycle can be ascribed to socialism. Neither can any of the concessions that the bourgeoisie has granted us in the hopes of making us tolerate their dictatorship. The way out of the crisis we find ourselves in today cannot be found in the past. It is found in the works of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, in the conscious and organised rising up of the proletariat against the entire bourgeois economic and political system. Even if it was possible to turn back the clock seventy, a hundred, or even a hundred and seventy years, this would only delay the current crisis seventy, a hundred, or a hundred and seventy years. And the same solution would be no less necessary. #communism #socialism #capitalism #USpol #CDNpoli
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