Let me explain 😊
Karl Marx has some interesting insights about capitalism. You should read some of his works, or not. I’d throw in the Norwegian Minnesota farm boy economist Thorstein Veblen too as being someone with an interesting analysis of capitalism or so-called free market capitalism.
This advice only applies if you are capable of thinking for yourself. If you prefer listening to right wing propagandists in the media or your church, then you are welcome to the hell that way of not thinking has created.
If you and I can feel shame - now (as the world burns leaving our children to suffer the consequences) would be a good time. You my friend are not just a moron you are as Rex Tillerson said about your dear leader a fu**ing moron. a loser, a traitor and a weakling who has betrayed your country. Eric Hoffer said it better than I can. But I digress.
I am joking about becoming a communist. Karl Marx has some interesting critiques of capitalism but neither he (nor anyone else) has a blueprint for utopia. You could make a case that Jesus and the apostles we’re recommending some form of communism or look at the anabaptist Christian sects that practice common ownership and non-resistance, if you wanted to think about communism absent Marxist ideology.
Perhaps read the section from the book of Acts where believers share their possessions, to get a biblical perspective on communism. Not state communism but a personal communism one would expect those who profess their Christianity to practice.
Acts 4 (32-35) (NIV)
“All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.”
Three gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke tell us -
“Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
Or if you wanted a little more fiery biblical perspective on rich people you might be interested in the book of James warning to rich oppressors.
James 5 (1-4) (NIV)
“Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.”
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The group of pedophiles party (GOP) or is it gross old pedophiles (GOP) or grab our pussy (GOP) party propagandists, call people that threaten the plutocrats - communists (or socialists or antifas). The point is to divide the 99% and thereby keep the revolting peasants (working people poor people) from revolting. By revolting I mean insisting on media, courts and a political system that work for people rather than serving the interests of the oligarchs. In the 1930’s and 40’s this was known as being a New Deal Democrat.
The New Deal made a lot of people angry (FDR was a class traitor) so a lot of money-power was expended to undo the New Deal's progress over the decades. The anti-worker movement, which was a very radical movement below the surface, really took off in the 1980's with the election of the Hollywood actor, anti-union activist, and G.E. spokesperson Ronald Reagan, a more polished version of Trunk but with quite similar political goals.
How do I know about FDR you ask? My grandmother a Montana schoolteacher who grow up poor on a farm near Sarpy Creek Montana told me about him. Gram loved FDR and I loved Gram.
Here’s my advice - educate yourself, Join a union. Vote for politicians who will represent you e.g. vote for people the right-wing propagandists call socialists and communists who are in reality FDR style New Deal democrats like your grandparents or great grandparents voted for 80 years ago before the billionaires bought the media, courts and politicians.
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Here's a link to the full Bernie speech at Zohran's swearing in ceremony.
