… Please? And could you also stay away from Nestlé, McDonald’s, and L’oreal while you’re at it? It just so happens that these megacorporations fuel the Israeli settlement-machine, and hire only Israelis, plus they do some other nasty zionist stuffs. Anyway, that’s the dumbed down version of it, you can read a more eloquent one over at mpf.org.my.
Happy boycotting!
Now I know a lot of you don’t believe in personal boycotts, because you feel like it doesn’t affect such massive corporations at all, and I suppose you’re partially right, but the same argument is often used by anarchists for not using your vote during elections. Another argument that you get a lot is that there are so few doing the boycott, so it’s not like the election thing at all, but that’s just all the more reason to start! If your friends are doing a boycott, it’s a lot easier for you to follow, so someone just has to be the one to start.
And lastly, to those of you on the other (wrong) side in this issue, I’ll get back to you in a later blog post 🙂
Song of the blog: Long Live Palestine Part 1&2
Yours truly
Bjørn
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Warning, this post is not suitable for minors, people with a weak heart, or people who use the :3 smiley extensively.
With the invention of the internet, the usage of the :3 smiley exploded. And why wouldn’t it? It’s a cute little kittenish smiley, right? Oh look how cute it is!
WELL, ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? HUH?
With this i bid you, keep using this smiley. Because it’s friggin hilarious for us who know the truth. 🙂
Vegard
I was met with a challenge today, and I don’t think it can be beaten, but please, try! It revolves around the card game “War.” Is there a way that the cards can be dealt so that the game never ends? I can think of a few ways for the game to tie, but I’ve all but given up on the eternity scenario.
Last week I was at Utøya outside Oslo with Rød Ungdom for our summer camp. I’ve been trying to condense it into one blog post, but there’s just no point in trying, so instead you might get these random tidbits of information. For instance, this is the song that almost everyone woke up to, as we, being awesome, blasted it over the speaker system every morning.
And that’s just one more reason to join us.
Yours truly
Bjørn
I actually wrote this about a week ago, but this is the first time I’ve been able to upload it. So here it is, my take on classes and stuff. Enjoy.
In an article in the norwegian paper Dagbladet, it comes forward that 2 out of every 3 norwegian believes that there is a class divide in the norwegian society.
Now, that is much higher than I thought from my experience of the norwegian
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society, where everyone seems to believe that inequalities are a thing of the past. However the article also shows another thing: pretty much everyone believes they are the “middleclass”. Not a worker, but not rich. Workers chose to definethemselves as middleclass to hide the fact that they are workers, dependant on their bosses and struggle to make ends meet. The rich define themselves as middleclass to hide the fact that they are rich. “It makes me cry that there is still poverty in Norway, but I would rather cry in my white jaguar”.
First of all, the entire idea of a middleclass is a fallacy. It comes from the idea that your class is defined purely by your standard of living. As in how you live, what you can afford etc. It is a trick and a lie, created by the ruling class to divide the rebellious worker class, and to make them at ease with society. Your class is not defined by what you earn, but your position in the hierarchy of the working place. A way of alienating the people from their position in society, so that they do not see the inequalities and suppression that they are being subjected to. Lenin defined classes as “a flock of people at the same place in the production process”. I disagree with a lot of Lenins work, but this is right on the money!
In truth, there are 2 classes. The capitalist class, and the working class. The capitalist class is the class which owns stuff. The people who own factories, and employ workers. Those who own peoples work, and can with the stroke of a pen ruin peoples lives by, for instance, outsourcing their factory to china, so that hundreds of people lose their only income.
This is you!
The vast majority of the people, are a part of the working class. The defining characteristic of the working class, is the lack of anything to sell. We do not own anything, and so we can not sell it. Thus we sell ourselves, we sell our workforce to a capitalist. It doesn’t matter if you earn a lot of money in your job, if you have 2 cars or a big house. If you have a boss, someone who oversees your work and in the end takes out profit on it, you are a part of the working class.
The problem, is the alienation I mentioned earlier. Todays consumer culture has left people willing to accept the state of the realm, to accept the bullshit that goes on in the world, because “after all, we’re doing alright”. Everyone, please accept this for truth: A heightened standard of living does not equal a heightened status in the class hierarchy, as long as you maintain the same place in the production!
Vegard