r/LateStageCapitalism • • Feb 05 '25

[MODS] šŸ“£ Announcement A Note About Acceptable Discourse and the Purpose of this Sub

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Comrades - thanks for your attention as we clarify the purpose of this sub and some of the discourse we expect here. Firstly, this is a place to vociferously condemn the ills of capitalism - and here’s the kicker that liberal interlopers don’t get - from a socialist perspective. Our fundamental purpose is to drive conversation among those impacted by capitalist exploitation. This may take the form of memes, deeper theory, or the ever beloved internet screed.Ā 

That said, there’s some things we aren’t here for. I’ll touch on those and some alternatives as well.Ā 

We are NOT here to promote calls to violence. This is a violation of the Reddit TOS. If the sub is nuked, we aren’t able to fulfill the mission of providing a space for socialist discourse. This simply isn’t the place, and we will remove any content which can be perceived as a direct call to violence.Ā 

We are also not here as a staging ground for organizing. Social media is a poor place to organize. Not only is everything you do online tracked, but infiltration in online spaces is rampant. Opsec 101: if someone on the internet who you do not personally know is trying to get you to show up somewhere for an allegedly leftist/socialism project, they are probably a fed. If someone you do know is using social media for the same, they may or may not be a fed. However, what can be certain is that a fed is aware.Ā 

I know what you’re thinking: but, A-CAB, this is how I radicalized and I have lived most of my life dependent on the internet. How am I supposed to get involved? I’m so glad you asked! The reality is that your involvement may be limited for a bit, and you’re going to have to do some irl work. Your job, if you’re starting out, is to read and learn.Ā 

ā€œThe theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action.ā€ - Comrade Mao Tse Tung

In other words, learning Marxism-Leninism leads to mobilization, and provides a framework for organization.

We (socialists) need a vanguard committed to revolution, not clicktivism. If you want to organize, read first. Find likeminded people you know in real life. Study with them. Hold each other accountable for learning Marxism-Leninism. Let that guide the actions you take specific to your context and for the love of god don’t announce it to the feds when you do.Ā 

We also, as a sub, are not *the* vanguard. This is an Internet forum. We don’t determine courses of action here. We are a sounding board, a place to make you feel less alone, and ideally a part of your education in Marxism-Leninism. But what we cannot be is the vanguard itself. We aren’t an org. The way social media is set up, it would be way too easy to infiltrate, coopt, and undo.Ā 

What we are is a likeminded group of committed comrades. We want you to go out in the world and join orgs (not on the internet). I’ll offer some advice to that end:

  1. Avoid organizations with a focus on horizontal power or who have a real issue with hierarchy. (Anarchists, I’m happy to work with you on projects but I am side-eyeing you a bit here.) They don’t get things done and they’re too easy to derail and co-opt. Don’t believe me? Go ahead and join one. The next time they’re working on consensus, throw a stand aside in with mildly coherent criticism. Watch the chaos ensue. Or just wait for them to start organizing for <insert liberal party here>. Neither will take long.Ā 
  2. Do join organizations which stand against imperialism and imperialist politicking. Look for Marxist-Leninist orgs involved in projects that benefit the community and which outright reject electoral democracy. Focus on feeding people, not getting them to vote for reform. This is the work of the vanguard.Ā 
  3. Do employ the language of non-violence for political and practical purposes. Kwame Ture is a gifted orator. Look up his speeches on YouTube. He is a wealth of information about this.Ā 

I appreciate each and every one of you, comrades. Remember to keep each other safe. Be mindful, and enjoy a meme or two while you’re here.Ā 


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 2h ago

šŸ“° News Bodycam footage of the pig who murdered a 1 year old baby.

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People stealing diapers is a failure of the state to begin with. Employees calling the cops on someone stealing diapers is repulsive and puts the blood on their hands as well. Pigs stepping in front of a moving car is incompetence. Firing into a car with other innocent passengers and a visible child isn't just incompetence but malicious intent to kill innocence.

Capitalism has killed tens of millions of people. And under Capitalism the state will protect capital above the lives of civilians and even babies. This business' profits from diaper sells were more important than the life of a baby.

Hopefully the employee can't sleep at night knowing he has blood on his hands and he's unable to live with himself. Hopefully all of these pigs names are released by the news and they are held responsible for murder.

Edit: The entire Senatobia Police DepartmentĀ needs to be shut down, investigated, and have anyone involved here thrown in a prison. The Attorney General of mississippi Ā Lynn Fitch should also be thrown into a prison for using her position of power to protect these pigs.


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 10h ago

šŸš“ Police State Even the shooting of a 1 year old child is "justified".

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 6h ago

šŸ˜Ž Meme Reminder

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 3h ago

šŸ’„ Class War From the Depths

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Author: William Balfour Ker (July 25, 1877 – October 20, 1918)


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 1h ago

šŸ’­ Theory A quote given again to the liberals of the western world who are currently crying over the buildings that are being destroyed in France right now…

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ā€œThe Civil War in Franceā€ - Karl Marx 1871.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch06.htm

It’s pretty funny that this quote has to be used in reference to France… again.


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 13h ago

šŸ“° News In Nice, France Neo-Nazis beat up a man who was carrying a Palestinian flag.

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849 Upvotes

r/LateStageCapitalism • • 10h ago

šŸ“° News On October 23rd, Call of Duty is releasing Modern Warfare 4 — training millions of players to see the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), a sovereign socialist country, as the enemy.

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Call of Duty is not just a game. It's a weapon of imperialist propaganda — designed to dehumanize Koreans, desensitize you to my peoples' slaughter, and make you complicit in the next war on Korea.

Modern Warfare 4 portrays Koreans in the north as the aggressors. But history tells us who the real enemy is.
It was the US that dropped over 600,000 tons of bombs on Korea — 3.7 times the amount dropped on Japan during the entire Pacific War. The US massacred more than 3 million Koreans and obliterated 85% of our villages, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure in the north. The US Air Force killed over 600 people at No Gun Ri — 72% of them women and children.

Today, millions of Koreans still live in the shadow of a war that never ended. Divided families. Mandatory conscription for south Korean men. Camptown prostitution, where US soldiers inflict violence on Korean women. In 2025 alone, the US conducted 274 days of war drills in Korea — rehearsing for nuclear strikes, bombing civilian targets, and assassinations of North Korean leadership.
War in Korea is not a video game — it's happening in real life.

And Call of Duty does more than depict violence — it trains players to inflict it, both in the US and abroad. Families of the Uvalde school shooting victims are suing Activision, Meta, and gun manufacturer Daniel Defense — noting that the shooters in Uvalde, Parkland, and Sandy Hook all played Call of Duty and used AR-15s.

Hollywood and Western media have spent decades dehumanizing North Koreans — and it's not accidental. The Pentagon shapes how games and films depict US wars.

This week, Call of Duty MW4 releases into this moment deliberately — manufacturing consent for imperial wars.
Don't fall for it. Koreans are not your enemies. We survived a genocide — and refuse to be erased again.

Don't play the US's game. Fight the real war machine.
US OUT OF KOREA. Follow @nodutdol to learn more.

By: Sovereign Media

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DetfS-Jorkh/


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 4h ago

Anyone who believes in western democracy will become a racist.

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 1d ago

🚨 ACAB No Government Has the Right to Murder Children

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 3h ago

šŸ“° News Medicaid funding cuts - $6B in WA

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WA is set to lose $6B in Medicaid funding for the poor and the sick. Many states have a few $billion shortfall in Medicaid funding due to Federal cuts. You’re told we need to save money. Yet here’s this one guy -Elon- with 1,010 billions of dollars. He thought you’d be entertained by a jumping car instead of having affordable food, fuel, healthcare, housing, and medicine.

One man could help the sick in all 50 states and still be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

And there are more men like him. Bezos. Zuckerberg. Huang. Pichai. Ellison. Altman. Insert whichever name you’d like…there are over 1,000 of them….

They want you to keep arguing with Steve from the internet instead of taxing their wealth.

Every billionaire is exactly this kind of policy failure: each one represents something you want that they tell you we can’t afford. Every billionaire signifies, in a final sense, a child who isn’t fed. A homeless person who isn’t housed. A sick person who isn’t cared for. Billionaires are hanging the rest of us on a cross of iron.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/wa-hospitals-could-lose-6-billion-from-hr-1-cuts-cantwell-report-says/


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 9h ago

Ignore the mainstream media take - ā€œIf We Burn, You Burn With Usā€: France’s Youth Ignite a Massive Revolt

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While most media have fixated on the violence, French high school students achieved something rare and important on the weekend: sectors that usually fight alone marched together.


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 21h ago

āš ļø CW: Rape/Sexual Assault Polymarket removes contract letting users bet on fate of Cornell students accused of rape

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What a surreal headline.


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 13h ago

šŸ¤” Silence about Israel’s systematic disinformation campaign in the UK

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There is a huge push of awareness about Russian disinformation campaigns affecting Britain, yet Israel’s campaigns get no spotlight or criticism.

Video by Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno

Source link: https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/2112871671434510459


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 10h ago

šŸ’¬ Discussion Common Anti-Socialism argument- what does this video get wrong?

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28 Upvotes

I was sent this video and would like the subs opinion on these common criticisms of socialism and its effects/ past- what does this video get wrong?


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 1d ago

America has a body count that reaches into the millions. The genocide of Native Americans, enslavement and oppression of black people, the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq wars, aid for imperialist interventions both covertly and overtly during the Cold War and afterwards etc.

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 1d ago

šŸ’¬ Discussion The usual scapegoating tactics of capitalism

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 1d ago

šŸ˜Ž Meme The kids are alright (and pissed off)

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1.7k Upvotes

.meme.


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 1d ago

health insurance shouldn’t be tied to a job

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 2h ago

🚨 ACAB Riot police throws tear gas inside a metro station in Athens during operating hours

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The student protest in Athens completed on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, with violent suppression, as police forces unleashed attacks using tear gas and stun grenades against protesters.

In fact, in footage posted on Instagram by user pi_kappaa, a riot police officer blindly throws tear gas inside the entrance of the Omonoia metro station during operating hours, with the obvious intention of injuring anyone entering or exiting the station at that moment.

In a display of provocative indifference, the police officer is then seen making an ironic salute, proud of his criminal act in front of the cameras of photojournalists and reporters.

The fact that the officer felt safe to attack like this, knowing he was being recorded, reveals something even worse: that he is not afraid. He does not fear any punishment, suggesting a deeper belief that he can act without consequences. This sense of immunity is the most dangerous element of his behavior, because he knows that the system rarely touches "its own." In fact, every now and then, it rewards them with new bonuses. This sense of impunity and the rewarding of violence form the backdrop for the escalation of police brutality.

This specific example of yet another incident of police violence is not law enforcement, but criminal violence in its clearest form.

The other critical question, as always, is: since not all police officers are the same, what did his colleagues do when they saw this happening?

And finally, the real question is not "who will be punished, and if," but what we tolerate. Because as long as we remain silent, as long as the video plays for a few minutes on social media and then gets lost in the news feed, the rift will deepen in the dignity of a society that has stopped being outraged by what it sees, by what it lives through.


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 23h ago

šŸ™ƒ Satire Is Dead The students are Hamas!

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196 Upvotes

r/LateStageCapitalism • • 16h ago

✊ Resistance Drone footage from the "Battle of Tirana" against multi-million-dollar land sale project handing local territory over to foreign billionaires

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 9h ago

DREAM BLUNT ROTATION IN A MODERN CALITAL HELLSCAPE | Richard Wolff, Cornel West, & Norman Finkelstein: America Is in DENIAL | On Mamdani, Tucker, & Trump

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Some of my personal favorite modern minds (& Robinson, no offense lol)

Thoughts on this episode?


r/LateStageCapitalism • • 1d ago

✊ Agitate. Educate. Organize. In Iran women die agonising deaths from treatable cancer due to government-enforced gender segregation. Just kidding, it's England

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r/LateStageCapitalism • • 1d ago

šŸ¤” NYC Council Speaker says vandalizing a bank is a potential antisemitic hate crime. Isn’t that claim the true antisemitism?

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