No.392901
Yes, and it is paradoxical, cause we're winning it cause socdems are losing it.
Remember, as communists, our objectives are these, and are in order:
>Capitalism is in a state that it's about to collapse.
>We force it's collapse.
>We impose communism.
Think for a second on the conditions that the proletariat has to endure: There's cases of jobs in which the employees have to go with fucking diapers cause capitalists think that it's preferable to have their workers fucking shit themselves before having them go to the bathroom, or the piss in bottles for amazon workers, or the most egregious example of them all: Greece, (which is pretty much the future which the PIGS countries, Portugal/Italy/Greece/Spain has to look at) has made it legal for a 10 hour work day, with the same salary, in a country in which, mind you, has probably about 20% of unemployment (much of it being hidden cause it's being done on the black market of labour, without goverment intervention like putting taxes on things, checking that the worker is not being overworked, or that it's work can be delivered to a pension program on the future).
All of this is showing us that the capitalist class is trying to save the boat as fast as they can, the only way out for them, that is to maximize the work hours that they get from the proletariat. Beforehand you could not have to force the proletariat to work them as for much as you could, they just did so cause they could, but during the 20th century, thanks to a big workers movement which was backed by the 2nd world power, the bourgeoisie had to cede on some territory, also because there was a bigger market that they could exploit, being that of the imperialized nations. But that well from which the bourgeoisie got their water from is rapidly dwindling, cause the falling rate of profit is one hell of a bitch.
If you know, the falling rate of profit exists because of modernization and competivity, Modernization makes stuff more rapidly, meanwhile competivity between the bourgeoisie makes it so the prices HAVE to go down, making the profit from more products turn into less profit overall, cause you NEED to sell stuff to complete the M-C-M cicle. This falling rate of profit has been going one and going one, and no one can stop it unless you force the state to buy tonnes of your stock, which is what happened during wars, the rate of profit went up cause states weren't the ones making the bullets or the rifles or the tanks, businesses were, and because of that the US has the military complex that it has nowadays and is so violent towards pretty much anyone, the US state needs to mantain the military complex business that became massive during the second World War and during the Cold War, and thus, if there's no war, then such relationship is pointless, and thus it needs to be mantained, and also because they guys in the goverment are literally representatives of the military complex itself. That's why the biggest companies on the world are military ones, which got such profit thanks to the state itself.
This is also why there has been such a shift in neoliberalized countries in still providing public services, but instead of delivering it themselves, paying some private enterprise to be the provider, having it's costs payed by the goverment and also taking it's money from the people themselves. Do not be fooled, taxes are not progressive, taxes on capitalist countries are used only by the purpose of enriching further the capitalist, be it making new roadlines (The fact that most railroad services are public is because the bourgeoisie wouldn't benefit at all that if it was conducted by another enterprise lmao), or making new tunnels… making infrastructure, basically. Aside from that, there are other services which were given to the state, be it the sanitary system or the mailing system, by the same reason, so enterprises could make more profits.
Either way, nowadays such a total war like the second world war seems impossible cause nuclear fallout would completely fuck up everything and it would be completely unpopular, but as a poster in here says, the bourgeoisie don't care about the life situation of the proles, they live on their mansions, and their focus is on profit, not on survival. The bourgeoisie, if a meteorite were to hit the Earth, would be going to some Wall Street Journal type newspaper to write how horrible such a catastrophe would be to the ECONOMY, not the people, the ECONOMY.
To put another example, the push for the proles to eat bugs for the environment. You need to think like a diary capitalist on this, beef you can only get about, maybe 30% meat, which means everything else is wasted space, chicken more meat, maybe 60%, Pork can be used for whatever you want, but cause they don't really have that much usefulness, about 80%. Bugs, being so small, has about a 100% profitability, cause you can't get out the bad stuff from it, it's so small that it doesnt matter, which means that, let's say, 1m squared of bugs is quite a lot more profitable, you can use all that 1m squared, that 1m squared of beef. This also is because of the need to buy them food, with 1m squared of bugs, 100% of the food you serve them is going towards profitability, with beef, 70% of the food you buy goes towards things you don't need, things that are useless to you (but useful to the cow in question) and thus it's a waste of money.
To finalize, I want to make this declaration.
CAPITALISM HAS REACHED IT'S FINAL DESTINATION, THE MINMAXING DESTINATION