Ben Jennings on the billionaires who bent the knee to Trump – Guardian cartoon: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/nov/05/ben-jennings-billionaires-bent-the-knee-donald-trump-cartoon

“The democratic petty bourgeois want better wages and security for the workers, and hope to achieve this by an extension of state employment and by welfare measures; in short, they hope to bribe the workers with a more or less disguised form of alms and to break their revolutionary strength by temporarily rendering their situation tolerable" - Marx, Abstract from the Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League, London 1850

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54937709

Hello. I will be running two reading groups, one for Cowbee's Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Basic Course, and another for Soviet Democracy, and am looking for participants. If you would like to join, make sure you can see hexbear communities (specifically !soviet@hexbear.net and !marxism@hexbear.net), and then make a comment stating which you would like to join and I will add you to the list.

We will start reading each book on monday, see the programs down below for what we will read each week.

program for Cowbee's list

1. Introduction

• Week 1: 1 2 3 4 5
• Week 2: 6

2. Fundamentals

• Week 3: 1
• Week 4: 2 3 (Bibliography not required in Karl Marx)
• Week 5: 4

3. Philosophy

• Week 6: 1: Part 1
• Week 7: 1: Part 2
• Week 8: 2

4. Political Economy

• Week 9: 1
• Week 10: 2
• Week 11: 3

5. Scientific Socialism

• Week 12: 1
• Week 13: 2: Preface, Chapters 1, 2, 3
• Week 14: 2: Chapters 4, 5, 6
• Week 15: 3

6. Imperialism

• Week 16: 1: Prefaces, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Week 17: 1: Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Week 18: 2 3

7. Leninism

• Week 19: 1 4 5
• Week 20: 2: Intro, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
• Week 21: 2: Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Week 22: 3
• Week 23: 6

8. Cultural Hegemony

• Week 24: 1 2
• Week 25: 3

9. Social Liberation

• Week 26: 1 2
• Week 27: 3
• Week 28: 4

program for Soviet Democracy

Week 1: Intro, 1, 2
Week 2: 3, 4
Week 3: 5, 6
Week 4: 7, 8
Week 5: 9, 10
Week 6: 11, 12
Week 7: 13, 14
Week 8: 15, 16, 17
Week 9: Part 3 (18, 19, 20)

The libs got their "blue wave" after spending the last year and a half saying they couldn't do any actual actions cause it'd hurt the Dems chances and Trump has too much power. Now the Dems (at time of writing this) gained 25 seats in the House, 7 seats in the Senate, and 5 new Governors. Are the libs finally gonna stop yelling at everyone wanting to do more than a peaceful protest every 9 months on a weekend? Are they even gonna bother still doing that? Or are they gonna have a new excuse of "we can't till we also have the presidency and the margins are too thin"?

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We should have a global Land Value Tax on the top 1%.

NEW YORK -- The Federal Trade Commission has sued the bargain chain Dollar General for what it characterized as “long-running deceptive pricing practices” by charging customers more once they reach the register than the prices that are displayed on shelves and in advertisements.

Twenty states joined in the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. It said that Dollar General failed to correct the issue despite what it said was “extensive corporate knowledge of the problem.”

“Dollar General has betrayed the trust of millions of American consumers and imposed significant financial harm on communities and consumers who are already struggling to make their paychecks last,” wrote Christopher Mufarrige, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Dollar General, based in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville, did not immediately return a request for comment from The Associated Press.

Yes, tax the rich, but we won't close the income gap that way...there are things to be done before taxation, as the article points out.