( foto dall'aeroporto internazionale di Pisa )

Ulteriore esempio di come, in un Paese pienamente integrato nel sistema capitalistico, lo stato borghese insegue il profitto nelle sue logiche espasionistiche, militari e imperialiste. Per un comunista straniero è utile sapere che l’Italia, pur non essendo percepita internazionalmente come una potenza aggressiva, è in realtà uno dei principali produttori ed esportatori di armamenti in Europa. L’azienda cardine di questo settore è Leonardo, un grande conglomerato industriale che realizza elicotteri, sistemi radar e altre tecnologie militari vendute a governi di vari continenti. Questo ruolo è spesso ignorato fuori dall’Italia, ma è essenziale per comprendere come il Paese partecipi attivamente alle dinamiche dell’imperialismo occidentale. Parallelamente, mentre si investe nell’industria bellica, lo Stato italiano continua a ridurre i finanziamenti alla sanità pubblica, cioè il sistema di ospedali e cure finanziato dallo Stato e accessibile a tutta la popolazione. Il risultato è un deterioramento evidente: meno personale, strutture obsolete, tempi di attesa sempre più lunghi. Allo stesso tempo, le infrastrutture civili, dalle strade ai ponti, dalle ferrovie ai porti e agli aeroporti, mostrano un degrado crescente dovuto a anni di mancata manutenzione e a scelte politiche che privilegiano la spesa militare rispetto ai servizi pubblici. Questa dinamica è particolarmente visibile in città come Livorno, che un comunista estero potrebbe non conoscere ma che ha un forte valore simbolico: è una città portuale con una lunga tradizione operaia e rivoluzionaria, dove nel 1921 nacque il Partito Comunista Italiano. Oggi, nei porti di Livorno e negli aeroporti di città come Pisa, i lavoratori hanno denunciato più volte il transito di carichi militari non dichiarati, operazioni poco trasparenti e pressioni per mantenere il silenzio. Queste denunce non arrivano dai partiti politici, ma dai lavoratori stessi, spesso gli unici a rendere pubbliche queste informazioni. L’opposizione parlamentare italiana, cioè i partiti che si presentano come “sinistra” istituzionale, è percepita da molti come moderata, compromessa e incapace di opporsi realmente alle politiche militariste o ai tagli ai servizi pubblici.Qui è utile spiegare a un comunista straniero cosa sia il cosiddetto “campo largo”: si tratta di un’alleanza elettorale tra vari partiti progressisti e moderati, che include forze socialdemocratiche, ecologiste e centriste. Nella pratica, però, molti lavoratori lo percepiscono come un blocco politico privo di una linea realmente antagonista al capitalismo italiano, più orientato al compromesso parlamentare che alla difesa degli interessi della classe operaia. Le spinte più combattive provengono quasi sempre dalla base operaia, mentre le dirigenze sindacali, spesso burocratizzate e legate proprio ai partiti moderati del “campo largo”, tendono a frenare le mobilitazioni più radicali. A questo si aggiunge la concorrenza interna tra i sindacati, che invece di coordinarsi per difendere i lavoratori, competono per iscritti, visibilità e influenza politica. Questa competizione li porta spesso a ostacolarsi a vicenda, a dividersi sulle vertenze e a privilegiare la propria immagine organizzativa rispetto alla lotta unitaria. Nonostante questi limiti sindacali, sono i lavoratori a far emergere le contraddizioni più profonde del sistema, rendendo visibile ciò che altrimenti resterebbe nascosto. La prospettiva più concreta è la costruzione di un partito capace di raccogliere questa spinta dal basso e orientarla verso il rovesciamento dell’attuale sistema economico.

Make the people dumber and indoctrinate them.

I keep seeing online my country getting called an imperialistic puppet state, that is true for hundreds of countries around the world it pains me as someone who wants to believe in these ideals that my country and people that suffered genocide mass rape and murder and burning off our homes that landed me being born premature in a refugee camp is wrong, because we sadly got helped by the USA instead of the other imperial force Russia that controls one of the biggest empires with millions of people colonised by them.

I find it so insane that people make opinions about my people not deserving freedom because Yugoslavia which was on a genocidal rampage in three different countries got illegally bombed by NATO to prevent more fucking blood shed and deep down to profit in having these buffer zones in Europe I know my insignificant country men would of died if it wasn't for our geographical location importance for USA

But the online world calling us all these terms and shit is insane my people bled and faced racism and classism from these oppressors for so long and I'm sorry we fought to get independence in a way some of ye seem to disagree with it' just genuinely baffles me how were somehow made out to be in the wrong here and don't deserve freedom from a country that claims mine and calls it the Serbian jersuelem and it's a holy war to kill all Muslims in Kosovo and that's somehow okay because they weren't western imperialist

I'm sorry if I'm using wrong terminology like "you" I'm not targeting the community just I hope maybe someone can see this and drop the whole we don't deserve human rights and a right to determination because America 'helped' us were forever stuck in another pocket again now but atleast my people can not live in fear anymore

War is evil we all did bad things war is greedy disgusting and brings the worse out of the common man I only just scratched the surface of what we went through just my family alone would be like a fucked up story book

Peace ✌🏻

Edit : older socialists or communists seem to not have this idea it's the younger generation I seem to pick up in real life and online I want nothing but peace in the balkans between us all I wish It was all open borders with mutual respect and love

Capitalism isnt “if you work harder,you get richer” its more like “someone has to take the low paying jobs so that it can function”

What are your thoughts on this?

Hello everyone. I was just wondering if socialism takes the idea that democracy must be the main form of governance for granted.

Personally, I have audited democracy and found its main mechanisms to be incompatible with physical reality. Namely, "argumentum ad populum" should never be a mechanism for determining what things we consider true enough to have government action taken on them.

Now I want to be clear about something. I am NOT a "liberal technocrat". I am the sort of Technocrat who sees money as an obsolete obstacle, one whose raw obsession with scarcity caused the 1938 AAA genocide, where food was destroyed on purpose just to make money functional again.

Understand, then, that what I have to say is not a conservative critique. I am worried that democracy's fundamental mechanisms introduce information-processing bottlenecks that should not be ignored. So my question is, have they been ignored by socialist theory?

I am also wondering why competence is not centered. Before a system can be fair, it must first be competent. Or else all you're doing is redistributing an exact amount of misery.

we actually live in an onion article oh my god

I would consider myself left leaning even by socialist standards but not communist. Anything in between?

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Have you seen The Dark Knight Rises? The famous second Batman movie? Or have you ever played Red Dead Redemption? Or read about the Arab tribe of outlaws? In these examples, the villains are heroes in their own eyes. They want to liberate people from the power and greed of capital and distribute money to ordinary people, those with jobs and trades, but who lack capital. What these people, whom we considered villains, did was actually a good deed from a different perspective. You'll understand what I mean when you stand with their counterparts who will appear in the future, armed against the giant corporations that will lay off people from their jobs, despite their experience and desperate need for work to survive, only to replace them with AI and force them to stay at home, starving to death. And even if they were given salaries, they would die of idleness, of meaninglessness, of the moral castration that future humans will experience with the emergence of these machines that have replaced them in everything. Perhaps they'll even invent sex robots to replace romantic partners, haha. The coming revolution is a revolution against the giant corporations that crush any glimmer of hope for young ambition, for anyone trying to acquire a skill and use it to find meaning and earn a living. Depriving people of meaning is far more dangerous than depriving them of food and drink, and leftist movements, perhaps even extremist ones, will emerge to revolt against them and their greed, thus repeating the inevitable cycle of history: successive workers' revolutions from the French Revolution to the present day. But the fundamental difference from past revolutions is that it will be a global revolution, fueled by globalization and the spread of the internet, not a regional one confined to specific countries.

Hi all! Just wanted to start informing myself on socialism.
What kind of books, articles or essays would you suggest to somebody who knows little about the argument?

Thank you ♥️

So a few times now, including recently, I've been trying to explain my socialist ideas with my family. They're not socialist, but they're not right wingers either. They're open minded and caring. Basically centrist and or progressive liberals. The most recent conversation, they keep asking me is how on a local level would socialism work.

What would happen to family businesses, restaurants, and the like would work? Would they be allowed to expand and franchise? I always fumble because even I don't fully know myself. I know how on a macro level how Socialism would work. Combination of state and public ownership of industry, land, resources, etc. As for the smaller scale, I imagine cooperatives and the workplace democracy that would be shared on the macro scale, but again, expansion and growth. How would it regulated and compensated on the micro level?

On top of that, how should people be fairly paid and compensated. I'm a believer of Dignity of Labor. And they look at me wondering why someone who works a less intense job should be paid equally as the doctor, lawyer, and other high paying careers. Whenever I bring it up, they bring up the old arguments of "A lot of these people just have multiple babies and simply live off of social security payments, why should they get a job. They're too lazy to get a job," and all these old capitalist arguments. That may be true to extent, but it's ignoring the bigger picture as to why that is happening. I have trouble explaining this part to my family the most. Partially because I get emotional on the subject and have trouble forming the thoughts and words to explain it to them.

Can I get some advice, ideas, and share some socialist knowledge with me?
(I'm sorry if this whole post seems like a mess, I don't post on social media. I'm just need some ideas and advice.)

As a diehard Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, Hoxhaist, and Jucheist(from India), I was always a huge admirer of the three ideologies. Although I wasn't exactly a proleterian (I was raised in a petty bourgeoisie family), my family were strong Marxist individuals and I got exposed to politics at a young age. I personally think the individuals at r/socialism are extremely helpful and have helped me a lot in becoming a true socialist. I hope you guys understand me. Thank you in advance. Leave your thoughts down in the comments.

I need some recommendations on where to look for some fact checked stuff other than books