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  • Noam_Parenti@lemm.eeOPtoChina@sopuli.xyzMake the markets serve the people
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    1 day ago

    The profits of investors is a very low priority concern.

    What matters is the material conditions of the people.

    China let housing markets exist just to get the houses built. Now that they have way more houses than they need, investors are left out to dry like they should be.

    There will always be schmucks trying to get rich off the market. It’s our job to force the market to build things that people need. The needs of investors are irrelevant.












  • Noam_Parenti@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldThey’re the same
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    2 days ago

    “Redneck” was literally a labor movement term before it became a insult for poor rural people. During the Coalfield Wars (1910s-20s), Appalachian miners—many wearing red bandanas as a union symbol (“red necks”)—waged open war against corporately bought private armies and the US military. The Battle of Blair Mountain (1921) saw 10,000+ armed miners (called rednecks by both sides) fighting cops and strikebreakers in the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Socialists like Eugene Debs even rallied these “rednecks” as class warriors. The term got whitewashed later, but it started as a badge of honor for strikers.

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