An excellent deconstruction of the Palantir manifesto by comrade Alex.
https://youtu.be/VZInpChw_eI?si=Kx7VPUxjMV8WdAeI
https://youtu.be/VZInpChw_eI?si=Kx7VPUxjMV8WdAeI
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The Palantir Manifesto - A Marxist Response
I take a look at the "manifesto" issued by the crazy world of Alex Karp and Peter Thiel
https://melsm25.substack.com/p/the-palantir-manifesto-a-marxist?utm_source=youtube
https://melsm25.substack.com/p/the-palantir-manifesto-a-marxist?utm_source=youtube
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The ruling class is not patriotic to country, only to capital. It has spent decades hollowing out Britain. They sold off industry, destroyed communities, stripped workers of power, and handed whole sectors of the country over to private profiteers. Now the same politicians and media figures who oversaw that decay wrap themselves in the flag and demand loyalty from the people they abandoned. Blaming migrant workers for the issues they created.
That is why so many right-wing movements cling so heavily to patriotism. They know people are angry. They know people are feeling disconnected and are struggling under the weight of capitalism in decay. Instead of directing that anger upwards towards the finance capital that is responsible, they direct it towards migrants, foreigners, and ordinary people abroad who are suffering under the same system.
There is nothing wrong with loving your country. There is nothing wrong with caring about your community, your history, your people, or the places that shaped you. Working people built Britain. Workers dug the coal, forged the steel, built the docks, railways, homes, and factories. The country belongs far more to those who laboured for it than those who profit from it.
But patriotism becomes poisonous when it turns into chauvinism. When people are taught that their enemy is another worker speaking a different language instead of the millionaire gutting their town for profit. The man struggling in Liverpool has more in common with the worker in Cairo, Glasgow, or Mumbai than he does with the billionaire waving a Union Jack from a corporate boardroom.
Real pride should not come from feeling superior to others. It should come from the toil of workers who built the ivory towers the bourgeoisie rule from.
A nation is not its ruling class. It is it's Proletariat.
Be proud of where you come from. Be proud of your culture and your community. Be proud of the workers all around the world who toil to create what we take for granted. But never forget who is truly behind the destruction of our material conditions.
Pride in your country is fine. Pride in your class is better.
The Class Consciousness Project
That is why so many right-wing movements cling so heavily to patriotism. They know people are angry. They know people are feeling disconnected and are struggling under the weight of capitalism in decay. Instead of directing that anger upwards towards the finance capital that is responsible, they direct it towards migrants, foreigners, and ordinary people abroad who are suffering under the same system.
There is nothing wrong with loving your country. There is nothing wrong with caring about your community, your history, your people, or the places that shaped you. Working people built Britain. Workers dug the coal, forged the steel, built the docks, railways, homes, and factories. The country belongs far more to those who laboured for it than those who profit from it.
But patriotism becomes poisonous when it turns into chauvinism. When people are taught that their enemy is another worker speaking a different language instead of the millionaire gutting their town for profit. The man struggling in Liverpool has more in common with the worker in Cairo, Glasgow, or Mumbai than he does with the billionaire waving a Union Jack from a corporate boardroom.
Real pride should not come from feeling superior to others. It should come from the toil of workers who built the ivory towers the bourgeoisie rule from.
A nation is not its ruling class. It is it's Proletariat.
Be proud of where you come from. Be proud of your culture and your community. Be proud of the workers all around the world who toil to create what we take for granted. But never forget who is truly behind the destruction of our material conditions.
Pride in your country is fine. Pride in your class is better.
The Class Consciousness Project
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Landlords are complaining about the new Renters Rights Act.
Landlords, remember, do not build or maintain homes. They are not productive workers. They just own property and make a living from someone who needs to live there.
Now they are threatening to make people homeless as their profits may fall.
Laws alone won’t make things better for Renters while landlords are allowed to do this, only a complete change of system will.
You don’t have to be a radical to know it’s wrong to kick someone out of their home for your own gain.
A society someone can make a living from providing a basic human need is not a free society. Even fair landlords are doing something which should not be allowed. If renting out a property is your only way to make a living, neither you nor your tenant are free.
You will hear that there is a housing shortage because of building regulations, because of immigration. It isn’t. It’s profiteering like this, utter greed and contempt for fellow humans that causes artificial housing shortages
Landlords are not being demonised. Demons aren’t real. Parasites are real and landlordIsm is parasitism.
The Class Consciousness Project
Landlords, remember, do not build or maintain homes. They are not productive workers. They just own property and make a living from someone who needs to live there.
Now they are threatening to make people homeless as their profits may fall.
Laws alone won’t make things better for Renters while landlords are allowed to do this, only a complete change of system will.
You don’t have to be a radical to know it’s wrong to kick someone out of their home for your own gain.
A society someone can make a living from providing a basic human need is not a free society. Even fair landlords are doing something which should not be allowed. If renting out a property is your only way to make a living, neither you nor your tenant are free.
You will hear that there is a housing shortage because of building regulations, because of immigration. It isn’t. It’s profiteering like this, utter greed and contempt for fellow humans that causes artificial housing shortages
Landlords are not being demonised. Demons aren’t real. Parasites are real and landlordIsm is parasitism.
The Class Consciousness Project
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Football is a working class sport being wrecked by capital. Fans know that and regular protest against it.
It's great to see class solidarity in any form, but it would be great to see this translated to every day struggles.
The Class Consciousness Project
It's great to see class solidarity in any form, but it would be great to see this translated to every day struggles.
The Class Consciousness Project
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Our friend and Comrade Joti Brar, Chair of the CPGB-ML has been arrested in Kenya for demonstrating against French imperialist dominance of the country.
The demonstration was peaceful with banners and chants. The imperialist foot soldiers have replied with repression.
Free Joti Brar and the comrades of the Anti-imperialist Platform!
https://www.kdrtv.co.ke/news/11-activists-arrested-blocked-from-protesting-at-africa-forward-summit/
The demonstration was peaceful with banners and chants. The imperialist foot soldiers have replied with repression.
Free Joti Brar and the comrades of the Anti-imperialist Platform!
https://www.kdrtv.co.ke/news/11-activists-arrested-blocked-from-protesting-at-africa-forward-summit/
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Forwarded from Platform News
PlatformNews
Revolutionary Theory Group Statement on Arrest of Anti-Imperialists in Nairobi - PlatformNews
We demand the immediate release of all comrades arrested by the Kenyan police for participating in the demonstration against French imperialism and the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi! The pro-imperialist government of William Ruto, which is trying to keep…
As if the history of bourgeois democracy everywhere and at all times hadn't warned workers against believing in declarations, demands, and slogans! As if history hadn't shown us hundreds of examples when bourgeois democrats advocated not only for complete freedom, but also for equality, for socialist slogans, without ceasing to be bourgeois democrats and thereby further "obscuring" the consciousness of the proletariat!
V. I. Lenin, Working-Class and Bourgeois Democracy.
www.marxists.org
Lenin: Working-Class and Bourgeois Democracy
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One of the telltale signs of a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO), or an Airbnb, is multiple doorbells or lockboxes for keys. This house has six key boxes. From that, you can reasonably conclude there are six separate occupants.
These houses are four bedrooms at most, with what should be a living room, dining room, and kitchen. So it is likely the living and dining areas have been converted into extra bedrooms.
If this is an HMO, that means six unrelated people are being crammed into a house built for families. This is not housing; this is profiteering from people’s inability to afford proper living space.
These houses are four bedrooms at most, with what should be a living room, dining room, and kitchen. So it is likely the living and dining areas have been converted into extra bedrooms.
If this is an HMO, that means six unrelated people are being crammed into a house built for families. This is not housing; this is profiteering from people’s inability to afford proper living space.
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