All three of these literally give the means of production back to the worker. You’re literally using your own capital and making a profit.
Also under communism, you wouldn’t get a choice in any of that. Last I checked, I still have the option to not be an uber driver or rent out my house but I’d also be compensated if I chose to participate.
No one’s allowed to own a restaurant in a communist society since property rights do not exist in a communist society
“everyone being able”
There is no property in communism, this means you do not own yourself according to the communists around you, you do not have the right to self determination as far as communists are concerned, and you are only able to do what the vanguard allows you to. A nice resteraunt implies extra, you’re not allowed to have extra in communism, you’re only allowed to take what you need, but that’s only when there is enough forced labor to produce enough.
Self determination, autonomy, and individuality doesnt exist in communism and barely in socialism
“My grandmother was the first in our family to discover it. One day she joined a meditation in the park. She was taking so many medications at the time, but she threw them all away and never took another trip to the hospital. That was before the crackdown. At one time were one hundred million followers of Falun Gong in China. It’s a peaceful religion. But the following grew too big. Our teacher seemed like a threat to the government. They said crazy things on state media. They called it a cult. They said we’re terrorists and that we kill our parents. They began to arrest us. They even harvested our organs. I know it sounds crazy, but you can Google it. We tried to resist. We practiced inside our home. We secretly handed out fliers to push back against the propaganda. But they caught me on camera. Everywhere there are cameras. They followed me to my home. They shoved me in their car. For eight months I was in detention. The first thing they did was take a sample of my blood. For hours every day they put us in a room and forced us to watch television about how to be a good citizen. If anyone looked away, the whole group was punished. Eventually my family bribed the court with huge money and they let me go. But for three years I had to write a letter every month saying that I am a guilty person. When my probation ended, I left the country.”
Here’s a fun fact and reminder that I am not gonna stop posting about as long as I keep seeing this bullshit:
Dear Americans, identifying as a communist is just as offensive as being a literal nazi in a very big part of the world. The hammer and sickle is an offensive symbol that is banned in many countries, just like the swastika. Likely more people died under communist oppression than nazism, and there are people still alive who can tell you about it.
And no, don’t come at me with all this “but the core ideology was good!!” or especially “here we do not have this connotation so it’s not offensive!”. Your media, culture and standards are forced on the entirety of the rest of the world, and whatever you post in english is understandable for everyone else, if I am decent enough to care about issues like blackface (that literally have zero history in eg. my entire country which was never a colonizing nation), you should be decent enough and not make a hip cool internet trend about an oppressive ideology whose victims still remember the horrors and still suffer the consequences 🙂
Thanks and don’t be surprised if you see this reposted by me again, chances are I saw another fucking idiot who thinks communism is cool uwu it was just never done right, Lenin was a bae uwu glitter rainbow hammer and sickle :3
China is
carrying out a systematic campaign to ethnically cleanse up to 15
million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, or rather what was East Turkistan
until China began occupying and colonizing the region in 1949.
Moreover,
China is sparing no effort to eradicate any memory or proof of Uyghur
Muslim life. It is truly the stuff of dystopian nightmares, or a
reenactment of the worst genocides carried out in the previous century.
The handful of personal accounts that trickle out from behind China’s
total control of the Internet and the media invoke memories of the
Communist state’s darkest days — the period of the “Cultural
revolution,” when religious people and sites were wiped from the
country’s landscape.
For
much of the 1970s and 80s, however, an increasingly open China softened
its stance towards its religious and ethnic minorities, but this
relative “openness” provided the space for minorities to express their
economic, political, and religious grievances. When Uyghur Muslims
renewed calls for a return to their independence, a status they enjoyed
briefly as a sovereign state in the 1940, then known as the East
Turkistan Republic, and as former neighboring Soviet states realized
independence, China, fearing a growing separatist movement on its
western frontier, began its crackdown on Xinjiang in the late 1990s.
China’s
crackdown turned increasingly vicious when the United States declared
its “War on Terrorism” in 2001, with China seizing the opportunity to
erroneously portray Uyghur Muslims as one-part of the global Islamic
insurgency, going so far to tie Uyghur nationalist dreams with the goals
of the terror group al-Qaeda. In doing so, China gambled that it could
pretty much do whatever it pleased to Uyghur Muslims, so long as it
could dupe Western states into believing it, too, was at war with
“radical Islam.” It’s
the exact same kind of manipulative ploy successfully deployed by
Israel, insofar as the manner the Jewish state mischievously conflates
the Palestinian liberation struggle with “Islamic terrorism,” so it’s
not like China needed to reinvent the proverbial wheel.
What began as a crackdown, however, has morphed into arguably the world’s largest state sponsored campaign of ethnic cleansing.
China
has banned any form of expression of Islam in East Turkistan, forcing
Uyghur Muslims to publicly denounce their faith and swear allegiance to
the Communist state. Recently I posted on Twitter a video
of Chinese authorities informing a group of Uyghur Muslims that it is
now illegal for them to greet one another with the Islamic greeting,
“Assalamu Alaykum.”
Islamic texts are also banned, including the Quran, as are beards that appear “abnormal,” i.e. too Muslim-y. Last year, China published a document titled, “Naming Rules for Ethnic Minorities,” which prohibits names associated with Islam, including Medina, Islam, Imam, Medina, Hajj, and others.
“In
setting limits on the naming of Uyghurs, the Chinese government is in
fact engaging in political persecution under another guise,” Dilxat
Raxit, spokesman for the exile World Uyghur Congress group, told Radio Free Asia. “They are afraid that people with such names will become alienated from Chinese policies in the region.”
These are just a sample of a new tranche of restrictive and discriminatory measures
that have come into force for those living in the region. Uyghur
Muslims are now required by the government to have tracking devices
installed on their cars and mobile phones.
But
baby names, beards, and tracking devices are the least of problems
faced by Uyghur Muslims in the face of brutal Chinese oppression,
however. Torture, imprisonment, state sanctioned murder and forced
disappearances have become the new reality in the Xinjiang area.
According to reports
from human rights watchers, China has ordered its officials in Xinjiang
to send almost half of its population to “re-education camps,”
otherwise known as forced labor and indoctrination camps, the kind long
associated with North Korea.
“We target people who are religious…for example, those who grow beards despite being young,” one Chinese government officer admitted in a report.
When I spoke
to Abdugheni Thabit, a Uyghur Muslim journalist who now resides in The
Netherlands, he told me that up to 1 million of his people are now in
what he calls “prison camps.” Steven Zhang, a Hui Muslim who now lives
in Houston, Texas, and who is suing the Chinese government for the
murder of his Uyghur Muslim wife, described Thabit’s figure as “very
conservative,” claiming, “Within the last 5 years at least 5 million Uyghurs were detained or secretly disappeared.”
Forced disappearances have become a notable and alarming trend in the past year or two. According to Chinese Human Rights Defenders,
Chinese security forces have forcibly disappeared at least 26
journalists, writers, bloggers, and human rights activists alone.
“Victims
are often violently abducted, denied their right to due legal process
and contact with loved ones or lawyers, and are at high risk of torture
while in custody,” observes The Uyghur American Association.
All
of which is happening out of the gaze of the international community,
thanks largely to China’s control of the Internet and social media.
Thabit told me he hadn’t heard from his Uyghur Muslim family in East
Turkistan since 2009 as China controls all form of communication coming
out of the area. All he knows is they were still alive in 2014, the year
his sister, who lives in Washington DC, visited. Again, parallels to
North Korea come to mind.
The situation in Xinjiang has “further deteriorated,” according to a statement issued by the US Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) earlier this month.
“Civilians
are detained without cause, ‘political education’ camps proliferate,
and a vast surveillance apparatus invades every aspect of daily life.
These rights violations are deeply troubling and risk serving as a
catalyst for radicalization,” said CECC chairman Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-FL).
Adding
to the woes of Uygur Muslims is the absence of a friend anywhere in the
international system. Traditional allies Turkey and Pakistan have been
brought into China’s sphere of economic influence, and wealthy Gulf Arab
states are too preoccupied with Iran, Qatar, or both.
If
history is a guide, and should the existential woes of the Uyghur
Muslims continue to fall on the disinterested ears of the international
community, then one can be sure that where Chinese “re-education” and
“assimilation” programs fail, mass extermination will likely follow.
neocons really are that stupid huh
Big tech companies are now working with China aiding them in controlling the internet and all forms of digital communications. It’s clear that both progressives and neoconservatives aren’t concerned with human rights or any higher aims of protecting life but self preservation.
China’s political repressions once reversed for Tibet now turns to their Muslim minority population. Both Western and Muslim governments do nothing.
And after they perfect the technology there, then they’ll bring it here and use their data in conjunction with it.
People will be assigned scores like credit scores for trustworthiness and other attributes.
If you think its bad now, imagine a future when stores and restaurants will have cameras connected to this facial recognition software.
Imagine trying to eat at a restaurant only to find that your trust score is too low. You could be made persona non grata overnight and there would be nothing you could do.
This is the future tech giants want for us.
After the tech giants perfect the technology over there, they will bring it here, used in conjunction with all the data they already have on us.
This is no different. Injustice is injustice. It does not matter the who, only that if we don’t stand against this kind of tyranny it will come for us all one by one.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Prague. August 1968. Warsaw Pact tanks invade Prague.
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalisation. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to halt the reforms.
The Prague Spring reforms were a strong attempt by Dubček to grant additional rights to the citizens of Czechoslovakia in an act of partial decentralisation of the economy and democratisation. The freedoms granted included a loosening of restrictions on the media, speech and travel. The reforms were not received well by the Soviets, who, after failed negotiations, sent half a million Warsaw Pact troops and tanks to occupy the country. A large wave of emigration swept the nation. A spirited non-violent resistance was mounted throughout the country, involving attempted fraternisation, painting over and turning street signs, defiance of various curfews, etc. While the Soviet military had predicted that it would take four days to subdue the country the resistance held out for eight months, and was only circumvented by diplomatic stratagems.
Czechoslovakia remained controlled until 1989, when the Velvet Revolution ended pro-Soviet rule peacefully, undoubtedly drawing upon the successes of the non-violent resistance twenty years earlier.
Photograph: Josef Koudelka/Magnum Photos
50 years ago today…
Never forget the horrors that come with communism.
Cigar smuggler. They’d be smuggling D’quan’s “cigar” anally on a daily basis until they finally figured out that they can hang themselves from a door knob.
The idea that these shit stains would have any role in a communist society other than landfill for mass graves is hilarious
^^^^
They’d all be bullet sponges.
These guys always think they will be kommisars in leather coats and shiny boots, not on their knees in a Lubyanka cellar, whimpering seconds before being shot for being a contra.
Wide Spread Interests 