We Don’t Want a Post-Pandemic “Return to Normal,” We Want the End of Capitalism

[basquebromance]

We need a real ambition, but the ambition to return to normality within capitalism is surely no ambition at all. To be politically salient, the desire to return to “normal” has to be seen as an expression of desire for the good life — for us to escape hardship. “Normal” is used as shorthand because, whatever the miseries forced upon us by capitalist depredations, the memory of small day-to-day pleasures from pre-pandemic life contains hints of broader freedoms. Rather than yearning for normal, we should insist on the good by insisting on socialism.

We Don’t Want a Post-Pandemic “Return to Normal,” We Want the End of Capitalism

In 2022, we limped out of the pandemic frying pan into the fire of resumed capitalist crises. Popular yearning to “get back to normal” is a desire for the good life — and making such a desire a reality will require fighting for socialism.

jacobin.com

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I want a pony.

 

[pknopp]

Capitalism doesn't exist so you can't end what doesn't exist.

 

[Votto]

Capitalism doesn't exist so you can't end what doesn't exist.

The Left does not have to prove anything

In fact, they won't even agree to what words mean anymore and they have an entire media to back them and not question them.



The Left just points to peoples misery, any will do, and offer solutions based upon what they wanted to do anyway, which is gain full control over all our lives.

 

[Mac-7]

I want a pony.

basquebromance wants a free pony

 

[Soupnazi630]

We need a real ambition, but the ambition to return to normality within capitalism is surely no ambition at all. To be politically salient, the desire to return to “normal” has to be seen as an expression of desire for the good life — for us to escape hardship. “Normal” is used as shorthand because, whatever the miseries forced upon us by capitalist depredations, the memory of small day-to-day pleasures from pre-pandemic life contains hints of broader freedoms. Rather than yearning for normal, we should insist on the good by insisting on socialism.

We Don’t Want a Post-Pandemic “Return to Normal,” We Want the End of Capitalism

In 2022, we limped out of the pandemic frying pan into the fire of resumed capitalist crises. Popular yearning to “get back to normal” is a desire for the good life — and making such a desire a reality will require fighting for socialism.

jacobin.com

Who the fuck is " we "?

Socialism is always a failure capitalism is not

 

[basquebromance]

basquebromance wants a free pony

i want a whole lot more than that lol

 

[Likkmee]

Capitalism exist only for those of us who sought retirement at age 40-50.
I gotta get back to "work"

 

[Esdraelon]

And the sweet old lie comes round again... Funny how people always forget the way it ends in mass graves.

 

[Mac-7]

i want a whole lot more than that lol

You should be ashamed to want something someone else worked for

 

[Votto]

You should be ashamed to want something someone else worked for

It shows how the Left thinks that America is the worst country in human history, as where conservatives think just the opposite

Very telling.

 

[JGalt]

I want to see it raining socialists.

 

[DGS49]

Again I say, having a Real Job is the "boot camp" of American life. Without that experience, you are figuratively speaking, a child. A Real Job is a job with a private employer, one where you must perform or our will be cast out into the darkness, and BTW you must have that job in order to survive.

Most Leftists have never had a Real Job, hence they are totally ignorant of the comparison between what we casually refer to as "Capitalism" and what we casually refer to as "Socialism."

No one who has ever had a real job fails to see the stark difference between, let's say, Singapore, where they have Capitalism up the ass, and North Korea, where they have real socialism.

Articles like this are total foolishness, produced by oblivious fools. Sadly, this clown has hundreds of counterparts in leadership positions in government in the U.S. And they RULE Academe.

 

[alang1216]

Socialism is always a failure capitalism is not

A simple statement about a complex issue is almost always wrong. The US is a mix of communism, socialism, and capitalism. It has to be, nothing else makes sense. It is when we try to implement one of them where it doesn't fit that we fail. It is our failure not the 'ism' failure.

 

[Votto]

A simple statement about a complex issue is almost always wrong. The US is a mix of communism, socialism, and capitalism. It has to be, nothing else makes sense. It is when we try to implement one of them where it doesn't fit that we fail. It is our failure not the 'ism' failure.

Reality is whatever democrats want you to believe it is.

 

[Soupnazi630]

A simple statement about a complex issue is almost always wrong. The US is a mix of communism, socialism, and capitalism. It has to be, nothing else makes sense. It is when we try to implement one of them where it doesn't fit that we fail. It is our failure not the 'ism' failure.

In this case it is correct,'Socialism always fails

 

[Votto]

In this case it is correct,'Socialism always fails

All of man's endeavors fail eventually.

It's part of the fun of being human

 

[pknopp]

The Left does not have to prove anything

In fact, they won't even agree to what words mean anymore and they have an entire media to back them and not question them.



The Left just points to peoples misery, any will do, and offer solutions based upon what they wanted to do anyway, which is gain full control over all our lives.

Seems no one knows what capitalism means.

 

[marvin martian]

We need a real ambition, but the ambition to return to normality within capitalism is surely no ambition at all. To be politically salient, the desire to return to “normal” has to be seen as an expression of desire for the good life — for us to escape hardship. “Normal” is used as shorthand because, whatever the miseries forced upon us by capitalist depredations, the memory of small day-to-day pleasures from pre-pandemic life contains hints of broader freedoms. Rather than yearning for normal, we should insist on the good by insisting on socialism.

We Don’t Want a Post-Pandemic “Return to Normal,” We Want the End of Capitalism

In 2022, we limped out of the pandemic frying pan into the fire of resumed capitalist crises. Popular yearning to “get back to normal” is a desire for the good life — and making such a desire a reality will require fighting for socialism.

jacobin.com

An honest DemoKKKrat. There aren't many of them.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

You should be ashamed to want something someone else worked for

Shame is just another thing leftists destroyed. Remember in the 90s the left claimed being ashamed to be on welfare was mean. Now people are proud to get as much welfare as possible.