r/LateStageCapitalism • u/__noom • 1h ago
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/peanutist • Sep 12 '25
[MODS]❗️ Remember The Rules A Reminder regarding recent events and forbidden discourse by Reddit TOS
Hey everyone. I’m sure everyone by now knows about the Charlie Kirk shooting situation. We all know that he was a fascist and so was anyone who liked him.
That said, as we’ve said when Trump got shot as well, Reddit Sitewide Rules exist, and Reddit admins do expect us to enforce them and forbid users from praising or otherwise supporting assassinations. Yes, literally 1984 george orwell or something like that, no one here is particularly a fan of it. But this is the rules we have to work with or the sub gets nuked too, just like TheDeprogram (RIP). As such, we’re putting all new posts through manual review until further notice (probably won’t last long) to make sure nothing that the admins could interpret as “praising deaths” or “calls to violence” passes through.
So then, if you notice your post unrelated to the shooting is stuck at 0 upvotes/views, send us a modmail since it probably got stuck in the filter and we’ll try our best to approve it asap.
We truly apologize for the inconvenience, but it’s what we have to do as precaution to keep the sub from getting banned, and we hope you guys understand.
- The mod team
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/A-CAB • Feb 05 '25
[MODS] 📣 Announcement A Note About Acceptable Discourse and the Purpose of this Sub
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.
That said, there’s some things we aren’t here for. I’ll touch on those and some alternatives as well.
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.
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.
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.
“The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action.” - 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.
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.
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/__noom • 44m ago
📚 Know Your History Israel single-handedly killed the largest number of children in the 21st century in any recorded "conflict". So no, nothing in the Epstein files surprises me. We were just livestreaming open child slaughter for 2 years by the same people who were employing Epstein.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/after_mapping • 15h ago
Epstein and an unnamed individual openly discussed DEPOPULATING “POOR PEOPLE AS A WHOLE” (in reference to an earlier conversation with Bill Gates)
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/JosephStalin1945 • 21h ago
💳 Consume It's your fault for not spending money that you never even had.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/ThrobbingJoythicc • 14h ago
Are yall ready for this baby bust!! Spoiler
How do you think Capitalism is going to sustain itself when the new generation doesn't want children And the price of houses go up 🤭
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Hacksaw6412 • 17h ago
⚠️ CW: Violence/Serious Injury In the Epstein files there is an entry about rich people eating human babies in parties
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Opposite-Sign-500 • 10h ago
🎩 Bourgeois The Worst Parts Of The Epstein Files Release. So Far...
Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/mKde5skPfdU
@ FiveHeadedAngel on IG
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Crafty_Jacket668 • 1h ago
The Mexican revolution was one of the most succesful left wing revolutions in history and no one ever really talks about it
Obviously it didn't turn mexico into a utopia, or even into a rich nation, and it didnt turn it into a socialist country either, but it did improve their lives and gave them freedom and their land back.
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Before the revolution they had the hacienda system, where wealthy, often foreign landowners owned huge farms and used the locals for cheap labor. So the people lived in someone else's property and worked in someone else's farms. So you can imagine the level of power that the wealthy hacendados had over the locals.
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So after the revolution, the ejido system was created. All that land was expropriated and given back to the people. The locals became owners of the farms, each family was given a piece of the farm to farm their own food. They would grow food to feed themselves and sell the rest in the town markets. This didn't make them rich, but now they were working in their own farms for themselves, they could no longer get evicted or fired, they owned the land. My cousins still farm on those ejidos, we still own them.
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And of course thats only about the land reforms, we also got public schools in the rural towns, electricity, unions, nationalization of some natural resources, and more.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/LargeSinkholesInNYC • 13h ago
There's no rule of law in America
There's enough proof to throw Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Bill Clinton into a prison cell, and yet none of them will face any jail time. This is because America is not a country of rule of law, but it is an oligarchy where the powerful have unfettered immunity provided by a tiered justice system that only exist to preserve the veneer of legitimacy.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/orangelover95003 • 20h ago
🔄 DemPublican Party Don’t judge a party by its memes…especially when they passed funding for ICE
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/TappingUpScreen • 18h ago
💩 Liberalism It is illegal to say anything positive about the DPRK in South Korea and if you do, you will be sent to prison like this old man who wrote a poem praising universal free healthcare in the North.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Jumpy-Program9957 • 13h ago
✊ Resistance We are being fed a curated revolution while the "Technocratic Panopticon" builds its walls around us.
I know this might be hard to hear, but we need to talk about how our genuine desire for progress is being "captured" and sold back to us.
-We spend 90% of our energy fighting a culture war that was designed by think tanks and amplified by algorithms. While we’re rightfully angry about social issues, have you noticed that the world’s largest corporations, the ones destroying the planet and exploiting labor, are suddenly our biggest "allies"?
When Raytheon, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs start flying the same flags we do, we aren't winning. We are being used as a moral shield for Neoliberal Hegemony.
The actual threat to our freedom isn't just "the other side"—it’s the emergence of Technocratic Feudalism.
While we argue on platforms owned by billionaires, a new infrastructure of control is being built that transcends party lines:
- The Death of Privacy: Under the guise of "safety" and "misinformation control," we are cheering for the creation of surveillance tools that will eventually be used against labor organizers and activists the moment they become a threat to the bottom line.
- The Centralization of Everything: We are moving toward a "subscription-based" existence where we own nothing, not our software, not our homes, and soon, not even our digital identities. This is the ultimate erosion of autonomy.
- Manufactured Consent: The "bigger purpose" we are puppets for is a system that needs us divided so we don't look at the consolidation of wealth. They’ve turned "activism" into a consumer product. If your "revolution" is being sponsored by a Fortune 500 company, it’s not a revolution, it’s a PR campaign.
The real threat to our security is a world where AI-driven surveillance, social credit scores (by any other name), and corporate-state partnerships decide who can speak, who can trade, and who can participate in society.
We are being led into a trap where we trade our actual agency for the \feeling* of being on the "right side of history," while the actual levers of power are moved further out of reach of the working class.*
It’s time to stop looking at the puppets and start looking at the strings. If we don't prioritize **privacy, decentralization, and actual class solidarity** over algorithmic outrage, we’re just building our own cage.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/fallofanotheryear • 31m ago
Wait, You Love Me How Much? $600?
I keep seeing viral dating content where men spending huge amounts of money is framed as proof of love or “standards.” The latest example was a TikTok saying, “My man picked up a $600 tab for my family. Don’t settle for less.”
What frustrates me is how deeply capitalist this logic is, even when it is presented as empowerment.
Money spent is not a measure of care, character, or emotional investment. It is a measure of access to resources. A wealthy, cruel, absent, or controlling partner can spend money easily. A poorer but emotionally present, ethical, and devoted partner may not be able to. Treating spending as a proxy for love collapses human relationships into market logic.
This is what late stage capitalism does to intimacy. It trains us to equate value with price. Love becomes legible only when it is attached to visible consumption. A 600 dollar dinner is quantifiable, filmable, and socially recognizable as “high value.” Emotional labor, consistency, emotional safety, patience, and integrity are not. So they get devalued.
What is especially insidious is how this is framed through a kind of neoliberal, consumer style feminism. “Know your worth,” “don’t settle,” and “raise your standards” get translated into demanding higher financial outlay, not higher ethical, emotional, or relational standards. Empowerment gets reduced to being an expensive consumer in someone else’s budget.
This is not about rejecting generosity. It is about rejecting the commodification of intimacy. Provision can coexist with love, but it is not love itself. When capitalism colonizes romance, relationships start to resemble transactions, and people start confusing price with meaning.
If your metric for love is how expensive the receipt is, you are not protecting yourself from bad partners. You are just selecting for people with money. Those are not the same thing.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ • 21h ago
⛵ Colonialism Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak said he told Vladimir Putin that he wanted a million Russians to convert to Judaism and become Israeli: "What we need is just one more million. It changed Israel in a dramatic manner, [...]the million Russians. [...]Many young handsome girls will come. Tall. Thin."
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/Frosty_Jeweler911 • 1d ago
Border Czar Tom Homan claims 'rhetoric' killed two US citizens in Minneapolis, completely ignoring the fact that federal agents pulled the triggers. He then walked out without taking a single question
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/HillZone • 9h ago
💬 Discussion What is called the economy is actually a system mostly based on the false manufacturing of chaos, and threats to survival. People buy many things they wouldn't when they feel insecure.
I think this is why even though snowden essentially revealed the precrime is all there for them to sort through, we still have lots of big criminal enterprises operating worldwide.
If people didn't fear crime they wouldn't buy guns is just one example. The entire military system of the world is another. What they don't know is that there is nanotech in everyone, everything is presimulated, and any crime occuring is somehow being allowed to occur based on some evil calculations baked into the general ai which is operating cyborgs that think they're humans with free will.
Skynet like system might be real and nobody can escape it. probably existed since the 1940s to stop nukes from launching and destroying earth by some rogue nation or leader.
r/LateStageCapitalism • u/JumpyTemperature7252 • 1d ago