The slave is sold once and for all; the proletarian must sell himself daily and hourly.

The individual slave, property of one master, is assured an existence, however miserable it may be, because of the master’s interest. The individual proletarian, property as it were of the entire bourgeois class which buys his labor only when someone has need of it, has no secure existence. This existence is assured only to the class as a whole.

God’s punishment on /pol/heads.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich–that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty”–supposedly petty–details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers”!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc.,–we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been inclose contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.

• V. I. Lenin

entrepreneurs like himself were often best equipped to serve in commander and officer roles, while some of his best trench fighters were former miners and factory workers

The bourgeois are not human.

No, because enemy is both weak and strong at the same time.

Nazis also had collaborators.

The same applies to elections.

Hilbert spaces are relatively nice.

American hogs are so mouth-frothingly angry all the time that it’s easy to point them out, they wear their fascism right on their sleeve. But there’s a certain type of central European EU-loving neoliberal who presents this soft and friendly facade, wearing sensible business attire and never raising their voice, who is so rabidly anticommunist and anti-immigrant it would give the ghost of Hitler pause - basically Democrats but intensified in every way.

The difference is like between Himmler and Speer. Both are unrepentant Nazis in the end.

I’d say this describes the old guard in the 8 or so European countries that were colonial powers. I sometimes see the British or French acting like this, yeah.

Eastern Europe has its share of bootlickers, hoping to prove they are “one of the good ones”.

LISAN AL GAIB!

Lmao, is this ДМБ reference?

It’s weird even if you buy into that propaganda, because learning the language of the enemy was always important.

It’s exactly as bad.

Operation Iraqi Liberation

If I compare this with the original I cannot make out any such emphasis

This is an Ukrainian translation, actually, not the original.

No, their careers are financed by capitalists.