We need to intentionally stop having children in order to starve the capital class of the workforce it needs to extract labour from. Declining birth rates could end up being a key weapon in the class war. It could parallel the Black Death which lead to the collapse of feudalism as labourers obtained far more bargaining power. Population collapse could similarly lead to the collapse of capitalism (or to the collapse of techno-feudalism should we regress to that stage).

In any case, these policies will fail to raise birth rates, as did all previous attempts to do so, as it results from a core contradiction in capitalism. Labour can be grossly divided into two parts, productive and reproductive labour. Productive labour is that directly used in the production of commodities, that is most waged labour under capitalism and it is this labour whose value is expropriated. Reproductive labour is that used to reproduce the conditions for future labour. Buying groceries, cooking falls into this category but so does dating, pregnancy and raising children. This is not directly expropriated by the capital class. In order to keep raising profits, capital needs to perpetually increase the amount of productive labour performed by the labouring class. Since labourers have a finite amount of labour they can perform in one day, this comes at the expense of reproductive labour. The largest share of this reproductive labour is that involved in raising children. This is also the part that, when cut, has the least effect on labourers immediate wellbeing. The result is that the working class meets increasing demands on productive labour by decreasing the labour it expends on raising kids. This leads to the birth rate falling precipitously. The total available labour for the capital class decreases in the space of a generation which requires it to take even more extreme measures to continue increasing profits. Eventually, economic collapse occurs as the few remaining working age labourers become unable meet extreme demands for profit.

This can only be solved through seizure of the means of production. The labouring class must reorganize productive labour into a democratically run configuration. The distinction between the labouring and capital classes must disappear in order to bring about the formation of a classless society. In the meantime, refusing to create new sources of labour value for the bourgeoisie can 1) weaken it in order to more easily overthrow it and 2) provoke the capital class into a draconian overreaction that would help us recruit women and LGBTQIA+ people into the struggle against the bourgeoisie.

That’s on the US for fucking things up so bad that people turn to another capitalist fascist state that is even more extreme (for now anyway) because at least that other state is more predictable.

Probably slightly controversial but I’m actually missing getting into arguments with strangers. I feel like I need some conflict in my life.

How was Marx genocidal?

This article claims that Bernie Sanders and AOC are intentionally trying to redirect public anger towards useless methods the author views as useless, but where is the evidence for this?

I saw someone praising Stalin earlier. It seems you’re right.

The Democratic Party is so full of collaborationists. Just shows how democracy and capitalism are incompatible. The bourgeois class just buy the politicians.

Do stand your ground laws still apply?

Dracarys.

Dictators deserve death.

My ban was for saying there should be mass protests outside the building in which that American judge was held and that these protests should prevent anyone from entering or leaving until that judge is released. Apparently, that’s “violence”, even though it’s self-defence against the violence of a fascist state.

I just continued using posting the same things I did before until I got banned, trying to figure out how to evade the ban for the sake of it.

Why? I literally just joined.

Thank goodness.

Or his donors.

We should not forget the original aim of the ruling which is genocide. That last part about introducing mixed-sex toilets in thanks to public protests. They work. Keep up with public protests until the ruling is reversed.

No surprise after 15 years of austerity.

As an adjective, yes. Every word in that acronym is an adjective.