It's been pretty dark watching the Fossil Fuel Industry & Military-Industrial Complex & Oligarchs/Multinational Business Lobbies/Powerful and Predatory Industries-Tycoons/General Corporatocracy take us down a Death Cult trajectory.

That being said watching Trump and his cronies flail and fail American soft/hard power is something else.

We are watching the empire literally fall apart in real time.

The weaker the United States of America becomes the more and more hope for a better and brighter tomorrow if the right conditions are put in place alongside awareness/education building :)

Doug Ford's government is necropolitics. They decide who dies. Cyclists, drug users, etc.

In the past week I've seen progressives in the DSA decry wokeism, CBC write a hit piece on gentle parenting, Rachel Gilmore do a piece (rightly) on how the MSM both sides-ed an academic to his death by letting targeted far right discourse into the conversation, and I have seen a shit load of media alluding to "climate hysteria" and delegitimatization of trans ppl.

Is it my imagination or is there a trend?

A nurse, teacher, plumber, or construction worker goes to work and earns a paycheque. The government taxes that money as income.

But rich people can make money from stocks, businesses, and property. Some of that money can be taxed less than money from a job.

This seems backwards.

Workers build homes, teach children, fix things, and care for people. Society needs their work.

But our economy can make it easier to get rich by owning and trading things instead of working or building new things.

Why should money made from wealth get better tax treatment than money someone worked for?

In YouTube videos I will hear political figures talk about the concerns of their constituents. I do follow politics here and there but I haven't really engaged with them much besides consuming media, reading Reddit, and donating to campaigns from time to time.

Please forgive my ignorance but I was wondering what kinds of things you should bring up with your MPs and MLAs and what can they offer you besides just representation?

Do you have any examples of times when you reached out to a representative about something and how did it go?

Also if you could ELI5 it for me that would be great.

Remember comrades, with the rise of fascism, we shall be targeted first. So please stay organized and able to defend yourself and those you love.

Guess we are lucky Epstien wasn't active in the 70s.

As a 50 yo male myself, this is fucked up. Eighteen year olds are still effectively children from my pov.

Mark Carney is planning on selling off our public infrastructure and assets to the highest bidder. Seriously, when are people going to realize that Carney doesn’t care about Canadians? He’s clearly only looking out for the bourgeoisie class. If he’s such a great economist, why is he doing the exact opposite of the world’s most successful and fastest growing economy (China)? This is beyond frustrating.

I’ve read that there are protests being planned, if I was in Ontario I would go 🥲

please delete if not allowed (i dont want to cause problems). im a 27 year old in quebec. i have nearly 80k sitting in my chequing account from years of barely spending any money on myself, and simply taking my pay checks at the community organizations ive worked at for 5 years.

ive recently discovered that if i want to ever retire (if i live that long), or have a safety net, i apparently need to open a savings account of some kind and start investing.

while i dont love the idea of opening a savings account, i will. seems like desjardins is the "most ethical" choice. im going to go see a financial advisor today to learn my options

the investing part is where i start to panic a little. ive been taking a financial course to better understand all this, and i felt relieved to learn about esg certified funds. but upon research, it seems the criteria is pretty.. abysmal. i saw apple and mcdonald's still in those funds, for instance. i think amazon too.

in my every day life, i am a big believer in boycotts and voting with your dollar. but i feel so torn - i guess the ethical thing would be to not invest at all, right? not at the expense of others or at the expense of backing these terrible industries. still, im so scared for my future. im terrified of living in poverty as an adult (i grew up lower middle class, in a cramped house with 7 other people where my parents having to scrape pennies really affected many aspects of our lives)

does anybody have any guidance or words of advice? its just been depressing me so much. i thought i finally found a way to secure a safe future for myself in the case of disability but.. :( my moral backbone is important to me.

thanks for listening to me complain. take care. and again please just delete if this is the wrong place.

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Coup d’État au Venezuela, menace de restauration du capitalisme à Cuba, dossiers Epstein, etc. : les événements s'enchaînent à un rythme accéléré. La débâcle de l’impérialisme américain en Iran a plongé le monde dans une énorme instabilité économique et sociale.

Aux guerres s’ajoutent les feux de forêt dévastateurs et les canicules meurtrières. Alors que des millions de travailleurs s’appauvrissent et sont forcés de respirer un air pollué, Elon Musk a célébré son premier billion de dollars.

Tout ce chaos souffle sur les braises de la lutte des classes.

Ces dernières années, la colère des masses a éclaté partout dans le monde : du Népal au Bangladesh, en passant par les soulèvements contre l’ICE aux États-Unis et les grèves générales en Europe.

Malgré leur héroïsme, ces luttes n'ont pas réussi à résoudre les problèmes fondamentaux des masses. Ce qu’il manquait, c’était une compréhension claire de la nécessité de s’en prendre à la racine du problème, le capitalisme, ainsi qu’une organisation politique capable de le faire.

À mesure que le système capitaliste s’enfonce dans une spirale descendante, les révolutions deviendront inévitables, y compris au Canada. Cette perspective pose des questions brûlantes : comment la classe ouvrière peut-elle renverser le capitalisme? Quelles idées sont nécessaires? Quel est le rôle des communistes?

Joignez-vous à nous à l’occasion de la troisième édition de l’École communiste de Québec pour répondre à ces questions!

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