Look at that, they didn’t even need to mine it to control it.

How do you feel about this take now?

Modern day fascist. This time the “in group” is defined as Jewish Israelis.

Have you seen Gaza bro?

Light the region’s oil fields on fire and mine the straight of hormuz.

The confederacy also didn’t want to be occupied and some people would like to go back to pre-invasion confederacy.

Tibet as localized governance and a federal government. They have some control, similar to how the US has a federal government. Obviously the government structure is different and China has more control at the federal level. I don’t care.

The US killed far far more people during the Civil War. Still justified.

Gonna give you a hint about what was going on in Tibet before reunification with China…

It was slavery. 95% of the population was a peasant class.

There are some people that want to bring back the confederacy in the United States… so what?

People say ACAB because police are class traitors. They violently protect and serve the interest of capital.

Maybe all the sanctions on the country cutting it off from basically everyone else has something to do with it, assuming it’s even true.

This is why you aren’t a billionaire. You aren’t a sociopathic husk of a human.

It’s OK. I’m just describing these systems from a Marxist lens. As in, I’m not being prescriptive, but descriptive of how these processes work and their definitions. Your confusion is normal as there’s a lot of incentive to obfuscate to protect those with wealth and private property. It’s also not exactly simple either.

And to clarify what I meant, it was more anti-“people who own capital / owner” rather than anti-“capitalist system” exactly. The most anti capitalist system would be the workers themselves owning the tools, buildings, property, etc; collectively and with democratic control of the workplace. Obviously the above described where workers collectively bargain is closer in that direction but the capital owner still ultimately remains in control of the company and assets.

Profit definitionally is value extracted from laborers. I own a factory. For every $40 of materials, and $40 dollars of labor, I can sell a product for $100 dollars. I definitionally made profit of $20 simply for owning the property it happens in.

You’ll notice there is an incentive to pay less to labor in order to make more profit. Labor wants to work the least amount of effort for the most amount of money, and capitalists want the most labor for the least amount of money. It’s an adversarial relationship. Any gains to claw back more profits will necessarily be adversarial and technically anti-capitalist.

There’s only one goal, profit / capital maximization. Everything else is secondary or in service of that end, such as efficiency.

A for-profit health insurance industry is deeply inefficient but very profitable for example.

Working for a wage is very capitalist. By that I mean that capitalist owns the capital and rents labor hours for less than what will be made from them.

Wage labor is one of the core tenents of capitalism.

You think it’s better off in the hands of a former Isis guy where they’re murdering Druze and other ethnic minorities while Israel has basically free reign to bomb, displace, and take land? It hasn’t become more stable after the fall brother.

Is Iraq better off now without Sadam? Is Syria better off now without Bashar? Is Libya better off now without Gadafi?

I don’t like any of those previous leaders, but every single case the country was worse off after. The same will be true of Iran.

I would love it if the Iranians had another revolution on their terms. However, you’re naive as hell if you think that would happen without western meddling. It’s already the root cause for most of the material conditions that cause these grievances.

Sanctions isolate Iran and actively hurt the common people. Israel and the US are constantly threatening, attacking, and doing espionage meaning the government is in constant threat and has to be more authoritarian to survive. The whole reason for the revolution was the people getting pissed at the Shah, our western puppet from before.

This has been a decades long project that you are being suckered into cheering for.

Nah, you can be the next Syria, or have an American puppet in place to syphon off the country’s wealth.

Describe how or it’s just copium