05-21-2015, 01:18 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2015, 04:13 AM by FireIceTalon.)
It's called the American "Dream" because you have to be asleep to believe it -- George Carlin (RIP). The American Dream is and always has been a myth.
Asking for free education isn't a free ride (and even if it is, I don't see anything wrong with that) - education is (supposed to be) a right, not a privilege. There is no such thing as equality of opportunity in a capitalist system - those who are born into wealth or obtain it because they happen to know the "right" people or circumstances of nepotism will ALWAYS, ALWAYS have an huge advantage over those who come from poor or working class backgrounds. And fuck equality of opportunity anyway, I want simple and plain equality period. There is no reason why we should have a small privileged few in society, fuck that. They are the reason why the world is such a shitty place to live in. The philosophy of "equality of opportunity" is that someone HAS to be better than someone else, which is pretty deplorable to say the least.
C®apitalism is chock filled with contradictions, but one of the most glaring ones is that employers want the most qualified and educated candidates, but then the system says that to go to college (which is required for almost any job that pays even a decent wage, though even a degree is rarely enough anymore), you have to put yourself in exorbitant debt to do it. Why should I have to suffer financial hardship to be a so-called "productive" member of society (whatever the hell that even means)? This is both irrational and mean spirited at the same time. Higher education right now is really more of a burden or a road block for most people than it is a benefit.
And don't give me that mumbo jumbo about scholarships supplementing student loans. Anyone with even a hint of common sense knows that scholarships are EXTREMELY rare (with the ones worth anything being just as difficult to get should you find it), and only available to a select few - if they weren't, everyone would have them but its very clear that they don't as evidenced by the fact that student debt is now the second highest debt in the States after mortgages. Yet we can spend 2 trillion a year on military, go figure. And not only are we saddled with debt if we are lucky enough to get to go to college, but we also get rewarded with boring, unrewarding jobs that pay shitty wages even if we do have a degree. Of course, many higher paying jobs are pretty useless anyways (see advertising execs). As a result, considering all of this....
I don't believe in that whole bourgeois rhetoric or values of hard work. Hard work doesn't bring you success, all it brings you is misery and pain. It's a load of crap and I reject it completely. I deplore the fact I have to work AT ALL, though ofc I do because I am coerced to. Why should I work (or even like working) when it is me and my fellow working class citizens who produce all social value in society, while the capitalist class sits on their lazy asses while producing absolutely nothing of value, leeches off our productivity and pockets all the profits (unpaid labor) for themselves to produce yet more capital - all because they own private property. Last I checked, this was called THEFT. Yet the capitalist class has a State and police force to legitimize and protect this theft, meanwhile using the media and other institutions they control to obfuscate people into believing it to be some sort of "fair or voluntary exchange" even though it isn't anything of the sort. I have to give them credit, their propaganda seems to work well, and they have MANY people fooled. I am not one of them, however. I see through this whole system for what it really is, and I think more people are starting to.
You claim to be worried about bourgeois politicians spending other peoples money. Fucking A, they already do that! Who do you think funds our military imperialist agenda and racist (bordering on fascist) police force? Working class people, thats who, because they have no choice in the matter. Capitalism is MUCH better at "redistributing the wealth" than socialism ever was - redistributing it right from the pockets of the workers (who produce everything) into the pockets of the capitalist parasites! (who produce absolutely nothing, except oppression and misery for working people everywhere)
All that being said, Sanders is way "too liberal" for me as well - too liberal in the sense that he is a representative of the bourgeois state apparatus and isn't revolutionary in the least bit. He is the other side of the same exact shitty capitalist coin, and nothing more. He can pay all the lip service he wants to working people/students/the rest of his constituents, but his purpose at the end of the day is to protect ruling class interests and that is exactly what he will do should he be elected, just like any of the other candidates. So fuck him and fuck the republicans too. A victory for either party is a victory for the capitalist class. Hopefully more people will soon wise up and realize that voting in bourgeois elections is about as productive as watching paint dry.
Asking for free education isn't a free ride (and even if it is, I don't see anything wrong with that) - education is (supposed to be) a right, not a privilege. There is no such thing as equality of opportunity in a capitalist system - those who are born into wealth or obtain it because they happen to know the "right" people or circumstances of nepotism will ALWAYS, ALWAYS have an huge advantage over those who come from poor or working class backgrounds. And fuck equality of opportunity anyway, I want simple and plain equality period. There is no reason why we should have a small privileged few in society, fuck that. They are the reason why the world is such a shitty place to live in. The philosophy of "equality of opportunity" is that someone HAS to be better than someone else, which is pretty deplorable to say the least.
C®apitalism is chock filled with contradictions, but one of the most glaring ones is that employers want the most qualified and educated candidates, but then the system says that to go to college (which is required for almost any job that pays even a decent wage, though even a degree is rarely enough anymore), you have to put yourself in exorbitant debt to do it. Why should I have to suffer financial hardship to be a so-called "productive" member of society (whatever the hell that even means)? This is both irrational and mean spirited at the same time. Higher education right now is really more of a burden or a road block for most people than it is a benefit.
And don't give me that mumbo jumbo about scholarships supplementing student loans. Anyone with even a hint of common sense knows that scholarships are EXTREMELY rare (with the ones worth anything being just as difficult to get should you find it), and only available to a select few - if they weren't, everyone would have them but its very clear that they don't as evidenced by the fact that student debt is now the second highest debt in the States after mortgages. Yet we can spend 2 trillion a year on military, go figure. And not only are we saddled with debt if we are lucky enough to get to go to college, but we also get rewarded with boring, unrewarding jobs that pay shitty wages even if we do have a degree. Of course, many higher paying jobs are pretty useless anyways (see advertising execs). As a result, considering all of this....
I don't believe in that whole bourgeois rhetoric or values of hard work. Hard work doesn't bring you success, all it brings you is misery and pain. It's a load of crap and I reject it completely. I deplore the fact I have to work AT ALL, though ofc I do because I am coerced to. Why should I work (or even like working) when it is me and my fellow working class citizens who produce all social value in society, while the capitalist class sits on their lazy asses while producing absolutely nothing of value, leeches off our productivity and pockets all the profits (unpaid labor) for themselves to produce yet more capital - all because they own private property. Last I checked, this was called THEFT. Yet the capitalist class has a State and police force to legitimize and protect this theft, meanwhile using the media and other institutions they control to obfuscate people into believing it to be some sort of "fair or voluntary exchange" even though it isn't anything of the sort. I have to give them credit, their propaganda seems to work well, and they have MANY people fooled. I am not one of them, however. I see through this whole system for what it really is, and I think more people are starting to.
You claim to be worried about bourgeois politicians spending other peoples money. Fucking A, they already do that! Who do you think funds our military imperialist agenda and racist (bordering on fascist) police force? Working class people, thats who, because they have no choice in the matter. Capitalism is MUCH better at "redistributing the wealth" than socialism ever was - redistributing it right from the pockets of the workers (who produce everything) into the pockets of the capitalist parasites! (who produce absolutely nothing, except oppression and misery for working people everywhere)
All that being said, Sanders is way "too liberal" for me as well - too liberal in the sense that he is a representative of the bourgeois state apparatus and isn't revolutionary in the least bit. He is the other side of the same exact shitty capitalist coin, and nothing more. He can pay all the lip service he wants to working people/students/the rest of his constituents, but his purpose at the end of the day is to protect ruling class interests and that is exactly what he will do should he be elected, just like any of the other candidates. So fuck him and fuck the republicans too. A victory for either party is a victory for the capitalist class. Hopefully more people will soon wise up and realize that voting in bourgeois elections is about as productive as watching paint dry.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)