Jeremy sent this recently. It’s a posting from the Dutch Communists’ Youth Brigade. Yes, these organizations still exist despite the huge lie told by the Tories and Republicans, and repeated by Corporate-owned media, on how their wannabe dictators won the Cold War. A translation of it says, “Climate conflict is class conflict, save the environment and uproot Capitalism.” The traditional symbols of the hammer and the sickle are reworked as plants. I could easily see the hammer but I find the sickle a stretch.
They’re mostly right as per Marx’s writings. The current situation vindicates them in how Climate Change’s suffering will be borne out by the poor and poorer nations. However, they may want to find a better, more precise word than “uproot.” Much like defund the police, stupid people and word lawyers will exploit a spurious definition more associated with “eliminate” or “destroy” when the context may be “reform.” At least that’s how I saw the defund the police movement which I continue to support, most cops are just tax-funded Pinkertons, protecting the upper crust’s shit. I’m not under any delusions with European Communists, many probably are diehard smash-the-system and setup a prole-based dictatorship types who think Socialists/Social Democrats are equal to America’s worthless Liberals (Biden has proven he’s still anti-Labor today via railroad workers needing sick time). Others may see how the process of exploitation, aka profit, must remain yet at lower (more humane) margins, the argument often made by Socialists, or as their saying goes…exploitation remains, we just make sure it hurts way less.
It’s good to see this and its attempt at speaking truth to power. In Amerika, you probably wouldn’t find a similar flyer outside a college campus or the more Bohemian areas of the major cities. Nevermind all the Ron Paul crap I continue to see or Ayn Rand-based crap on Teslas. What’s really pathetic is all the (Neo)Liberals feeling obliged to state why these Communists are misguided as they recite some Sorkinesque bullshit. Makes me glad I took Karl Marx and Marxism as my philosophy elective at Marquette. Contrary to the Right, it didn’t make me a Communist, it gave me a better understanding of Marx and the times he lived in. Plus how he did get numerous things right while the foundation of his thinking is derived from Hegel, someone the Right doesn’t get its undies in a knot over, as many probably never heard of him.