Worker burns down toilet paper factory low wages

May 2026 Forums General discussion Worker burns down toilet paper factory low wages

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    james19
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    I missed this but heard about it on TikTok.
    Good speaker, his username is archer.
    I have been posting on his videos, he has said that there are two classes, the capitalist and workers, which l have been saying, this is great.

    Here he is talking about burning down the factory – violence and building an AI Data Centre …in the backyard of a poor neighbourhood that poisons the air…

    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR4wppw7/

    Worker who allegedly set fire to California warehouse compares self to Luigi Mangione
    Chamel Abdulkarim was charged with felony and state arson counts after allegedly destroying property worth nearly $600m owned by Kimberly-Clark.
    (Best known in the UK for its Kleenex Tissues and loo paper)

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/california-warehouse-arson-luigi-mangione?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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    #263566
    Ciudadano Del Mundo
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    Karl Marx analysed the destruction of factories and machinery—often termed “machine-breaking” or Luddism—as a natural, albeit misguided, response by workers to the exploitation, misery, and unemployment caused by the rise of industrial capitalism. While acknowledging these actions, Marx argued that workers needed to learn to differentiate between machinery itself and the capitalist mode of employing it.

    Key Perspectives on Burning Factories in Marx’s Analysis:
    Result of Industrial Crises: In Capital, Vol. I, Marx, noted that improvements in machinery, under capitalism, “throw workers out of employment” and produce the effects of a commercial crisis, leading to desperation and destruction of property.

    Targeting the “Material Instruments”: Marx observed that early working-class revolts (such as the Luddites in the early 19th century) targeted the factories and machines themselves.
    From “Burning” to “Organising”: Marx argued that the labour movement needed to evolve from attacking the material instruments of production to attacking the system that uses them. He argued that machines, in a “well-ordered state of society,” should be a source of benefit, not wretchedness.
    Context of Rebellion (Silesia 1844): Marx identified early factory uprisings, such as the 1844 Silesian textile riots, as the beginning of collective action, marking a shift toward recognising class antagonism.

    Marx believed that once workers realised that the machine was not the enemy—but rather its capitalist employment—they would transition from random destruction to structured, socialist revolution

    #263574
    james19
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    CIUDADANO DEL MUNDO Interesting post thx.

    This is the other story in the TikTok video.
    OpenAI says CEO Sam Altman’s house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail
    The company said the suspect also made threats outside its corporate headquarters in San

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx91rdxpyeo

    #263575
    Ciudadano Del Mundo
    Participant

    https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2024/09/political-assassination-accomplishes.html

    Monday, September 16, 2024
    Political assassination accomplishes nothing

    Assassinations or class struggle?

    A History of Assassination

    #263582
    TobyBelch
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    This story reminded me of former Bolton Wanderers, Manchester City and Derby County football professional, Francis Lee, who found it difficult to stand up in the penalty area if another player was in the same post code area. After his playing career, Lee moved into business. His toilet roll manufacturing business FH Lee Ltd once employed Peter Kay, later a famous comedian, who mentions his time there in his autobiography, The Sound of Laughter. Lee had a great punch up with Leeds United midfielder Norman Hunter that is much loved on re-runs of Match of the Day.

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    #263584
    Ciudadano Del Mundo
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    The point is that socialists oppose the death penalty and violence. Left and right are against the killing of their own, but support the killing of others. Class struggle and political struggle are the real struggles of the world’s working class. The so called anti fascists are also violent, like the fascists

    https://www.marxists.org/archive/martov/1918/07/death-penalty.htm. Down with the death penalty, Martov

    Julius Martov’s 1918 article, “Down with the Death Penalty!”, was a principled, defiant condemnation of the Bolshevik regime’s use of capital punishment during the Red Terror. Martov argued that the death penalty was “savage barbarism” and a tool of political terror employed by leaders who had lost the trust of the people.

    In our time, the killing of a corporation’s CEO and political leaders is useless. Capitalism continues as usual

    Leon Trotsky was assassinated by the same political machinery that he supported, and he was part of the killing of the Bolsheviks and the workers who opposed the soviet state

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