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Today on my bus to work I was sitting reading my book and opposite me was a senior couple who were unemployed and were going to the hospital, they had hospital papers and weren't lying about it. Then a ticket inspector walks in and checks everyone. Turns out their unemployment card had expired 11 days prior and they hadn't yet renewed it so the inspector started writing them a ticket. I protested with the couple telling the inspector to make an exception since the couple is obviously wronged here. The other people on the bus though were either silent or they took the side of the inspector, except very few voices that said something supporting the couple. Some bourgeois looking lady told me that I don't know because I'm young and haven't paid taxes. After I told her that I'm on my way to work right this moment she changed her tune and said that I haven't been on the inspector's place and I stopped dealing with her then. Some other people were ironic after the couple left saying that "it's not even a long distance to walk" while the couple was on the bus before me and we had passed tens of stops already. This really opened my eyes to what society around me really is, I want to believe that most people were sympathetic but too cowardly to also step up but I don't know. I'm really frustrated even hours later and I've lost a lot of hope on people after this event. Communists and real leftists in general are the only people that give me hope for change.

The government in my country is planning to install sea wind turbines as a part of the transition to green energy, and the communist party led local town govenment body is against it.

Lots of sensible reasons are stated, like the impact on local people and fishermen, and the energy being used for capitalists and not for the people, but one of the reasons is them supposedly being harmful to the environment. Is there any proof for this?

I would get them saying it for wind turbines being installed in forests or mountains where you would have to cut down many trees, but I don't get it when it's at sea.

First off, I love the new changes on

One question I have is on the megathread chat mode. I noticed that it's not using the same sorting as with choosing "New" without the chat mode.

What is the difference?

Many people who are filthy rich by being corporate asslickers, the human trash that get paid huge amounts for manipulating the masses, and other similar people don't own anything yet they can hardly be called part of the proletariat.

Are they petty bourgeoisie or an exception of the working class that works against it?

13-18 November 1973 the Athens Polytechnic university was occupied by students protesting against the US supported junta in Greece, wanting NATO out and better living conditions.

The most famous chants were "US out, NATO out" and "Bread, Education, Freedom" (translated).

As of today, the police forces started becoming violent and the first innocent people had died.

The following two days martial law was declared and police with the army were beating and shooting at anyone outside of their homes.

In total, 34 innocent people were killed and 1103 were injured, though the numbers are still very uncertain.

Less than a year later, the junta ended giving place to parliamentary democracy. Many factors led to its fall, most notably its failure in politics surrounding Cyprus that led to the Turkish invasion, but the uprising and public opinion was surely another major factor.

Every year those days are kept in memory especially by the communist party KKE and communist youth KNE. Tommorow a protest will be taking place towards the US embassy against imperialism.

A Vodafone store in my country tried firing an employee once she announced her pregnancy. They tried to do it in a sly way claiming that she had signed a contract that ended, I haven't completely understood the details.

The union quickly responded by gathering outside the specific store and demanding her to stay, and they talked to the management afaik.

Today they announced that she is hired again like she was supposed to be

Why did the coup leading to the civil war happen, and which are the parties involved?

Who are the common people with?

I'm not very informed on modern China and there's a ton of sources accusing China of killing and even harvesting organs from Uyghurs and Falun Gong believers.

Is there any truth to those claims or is it all ?

What are the most popular Marxist reading group communities on Lemmy (probably here or on Lemmygrad)?

I came across one of these posters in my country too translated in my language, is it legit?

I went into the site when I saw it out of curiosity using a VPN, didn't insert any info or anything. Seems like a pretty big organization, too big perhaps

I'm also curious about c/chapotraphouse

What are your opinions on DiEM25 and its founder Yanis Varoufakis?

Having read some of his works and seen a few talks and interviews, he explains very well why capitalism doesn't work, kills our planet, people, and the democracy it's said to promote as the capitalists believe (or want us to believe anyway). His ideas are not purely Marxist, though they are inspired by Marxism among other theorists.

Leaving details aside, he supports full state ownership of banks and a system where each company's shares are evenly split among the workers who have the right to vote or abstain on any decision the company (the collection of all the workers) makes, even when it comes to hiring people and financial managing. Those shares are not tradable at all, they serve to resemble your partial ownership of the company and right to vote in its decisions, and it disappears after you leave the company.

There is more depth to it and you can also read the manifesto in the website.

Is this a theory that could work out and sustain itself, or is it another fence-sitting opportunist theory? Personally I think there's creativity in it, Varoufakis has a very clear understanding of economics so he gives a pretty unique approach to things, but it also kinda reeks of a capitalist system waiting to emerge.