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☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>"Dialectics"</p><p>Chapter 2 of Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch02.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1880/soc-utop/ch02.htm</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>"Achievements and Difficulties of the Soviet Government"[excerpt] (1919) by Vladimir Lenin. Audiobook.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leninism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leninism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxismleninism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxismleninism</span></a><br><a href="https://youtu.be/SS9WyXEUhoQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/SS9WyXEUhoQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Nat Oleander<p>What does it mean, on a practical level, to imagine—and then create—a life that expands beyond the bounds of capitalism?</p><p>Few of us are going to move to an off-grid commune with a couple dozen of our closest friends. Those who do usually run into enormous interpersonal problems in that environment.</p><p>But it's difficult to picture other options when the tantalizing image of an anarchist utopia hijacks your brain into all-or-nothing thinking.</p><p>1/</p><p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchy</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>"The Development of Utopian Socialism," Chapter 1 of Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch01.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1880/soc-utop/ch01.htm</span></a></p>
Yogthos<p>Despite spending her entire life working, 81-year-old Betty is still clocking in at a local Eat'n Park diner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While many her age enjoy retirement, Betty is waiting tables just to stay afloat – because her monthly Social Security income of $910 falls short of covering her basic expenses.</p><p><a href="https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/i-still-cant-retire-81-year-old-waitress-us-struggles-get-910-social-security-1732227" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ibtimes.co.uk/i-still-cant-ret</span><span class="invisible">ire-81-year-old-waitress-us-struggles-get-910-social-security-1732227</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a></p>
Yogthos<p>Trump’s tariffs will necessarily cause prices to spike as inflation will shift from financial assets to consumer goods. The crisis of capitalism is here; the question is whether workers or oligarchs will control its resolution.</p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/CapitalistCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalistCollapse</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>"History (the role of Religion) in the English middle-class," a 1892 English Edition Introduction to Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" by Frederick Engels, written in London, April 20, 1892<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-hist.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1880/soc-utop/int-hist.htm</span></a></p>
Oneleggedjedi<p>Posted by Earth Democracy on fb. Pretty apt I would say!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EarthDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarthDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USAtariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAtariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cheguevara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cheguevara</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cuba</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>A very important discussion by Engels about materialism:</p><p>1892 English Edition Introduction to Frederick Engels' "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific"</p><p>[General Introduction and the History of Materialism]<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/materialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>materialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agnostic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agnostic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/god" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>god</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atheism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/int-mat.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1880/soc-utop/int-mat.htm</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>The complete audiobook of Moissaye J. Olgin's "Trotskyism: Counter-revolution in Disguise" (1935)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leninism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leninism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxismleninism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxismleninism</span></a><br><a href="https://youtu.be/4KujovKnTek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/4KujovKnTek</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>Part 4 of Karl Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme"<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1875/gotha/ch04.htm</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>Part 3 of Karl Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme"<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch03.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1875/gotha/ch03.htm</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>Part 2 of Karl Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme"<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch02.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1875/gotha/ch02.htm</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>As might be expected from a capitalist, the worry expressed here is not so much that the breakdown of Earth’s climate and environment threatens extinction for millions of species — including our own — and it’s not so much about the cost in human terms to poor communities in the Global South who will suffer the earliest and worst outcomes.</p><p>No, the biggest concern is that capitalism might be in trouble. 😱</p><p>How awful! Nothing could possibly be worse than that!!</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>
Alex P Roe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> Well, arguably perhaps, capitalism has accelerated, if not brought about extreme climate change, so there’s a certain irony in the fact that climate change may extinguish <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a>. Problem is, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> may extinguish the human race too…which won’t necessarily be a bad thing for the planet! Rise of the cats, incoming?!</p>
Emeritus Prof Christopher May<p>Günther Thallinger (from Allianz SE, a global insurer) thinks that the climate crisis may (unless we respond better) bring about the end of capitalism.</p><p>In other words, the planet may bring about the political economic result the Left has been working towards (unevenly, to be fair) for more than a century...</p><p>The Q. is: if he is right &amp; our responses remain weak &amp; ineffective, what will replace capitalism?</p><p>Answers on a postcard (as we used to say)</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer</span></a></p>
AJ Sadauskas<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ocratato" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ocratato</span></a></span> Really great point around the sales tax.</p><p>And presumably local and state sales taxes would be levied on the price of goods after tariff taxes are applied?</p><p>If so, given most products are either imported or use imported parts/materials, Trump has basically unilaterally increased every state and local sales tax in America.</p><p>So using my example above of an American-made product with Chinese parts. </p><p>With tariff taxes, it goes up in price from $100 to $125.50.</p><p>Let's imagine a given city or state has a 10% sales tax.</p><p>Before the Trump tariff tax, that item would have cost $100 and attracted $10 in sales tax.</p><p>With the Trump tariff tax, that same item costs $125.50 and attracts $12.55 in sales tax.</p><p>In effect, he's pushed up the local sales tax by $2.55. </p><p>So the total cost, including sales taxes and tariffs, goes up from $110 to $138.05!</p><p>And keep in mind this is for an American-made product! </p><p>Didn't the Republicans say they were the party of lower taxes? Sure doesn't seem that way to me!</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>Part 1 of Karl Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme"<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1875/gotha/ch01.htm</span></a></p>
AJ Sadauskas<p>One of the perverse things about Trump's tariff taxes appears to be that it, in some cases, they will make American-made goods *more expensive* than imported ones.</p><p>How so?</p><p>Imagine this.</p><p>There are two identical products that sell for $100.</p><p>One is manufactured in Australia, one is manufactured in the US.</p><p>For both products, there's $75 worth of parts and components made in China.</p><p>The Australian-made product is hit with a 10% tariff tax. That's $10. So it would retail in the US for $110.</p><p>The $75 worth of Chinese-made parts in the American-made product are hit with a 34% tariff tax. That's $25.50. So it would retail in the US for $125.50.</p><p>So if I'm not mistaken, it works out $12.50 cheaper to export the Chinese-made parts to a low-tariff-tax country like Australia to assemble before importing them to the US, than it is to just assemble them in the US.</p><p>Also, how is it not inflationary to make the cheapest product in the market $110 rather than $100?!</p><p>It gets even worse for exports.</p><p>Let's imagine the EU reciprocates Trump's 20% tariff tax on imports from the US.</p><p>That $125.50 US product gets slugged with an additional $25.10 tariff tax in the EU. That's $150.60.</p><p>The net result is American goods end up far *less* competitive.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>"Engels to August Bebel<br>In Zwickau," from Marx's "Critique of the Gotha Programme" (1875)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a><br><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/letters/75_03_18.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1875/letters/75_03_18.htm</span></a></p>
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