The guillotine is a funny revolutionary symbol in abstract for killing the King, but the actual history of the French Revolution shows that it really existed as a way for the government to terrorize the people, not the people terrorizing the government

"When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions." theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma...

There's like a 70% chance that this heat wave is the gates of hell opening up for Mitch McConnell

You can tell Fourier was far ahead of his time because we still haven't achieved six moons yet

It's really interesting listening to the history of the French Revolution, since you see how much of the Jacobin strategy was aimed entirely on centralization and against federalism. Wild that a leftist magazine would name themselves after them

New micro video about how the word 'marxist' first emerged. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFyn...

I'm mid-way through the French Revolutions podcast. The Enragés seem like a pretty interesting bunch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrag%C...

I see a lot of people try to define class as someone's relationship to the means of production. This definition of class is clearly incomplete though. For one thing, what would this make of class abolition? Would we abolish our relation to the means of production?

NYTimes Daily today covering the Mamdani sweep was funny in showing just how deep they take the establishment Dem view as default. It's not a story about Dems being out of touch with their voter base, but a problem of radical people doing a Trump style take over and worry about GOP name calling

Gonna be very funny seeing Republicans try to describe the Democrats being taken over by socialists as if they haven't said all Democrats are full blown communists for decades now.

A really fun thing about reading Marx's Capital is when we see his analysis of capitalism break down into a vision of communism. Loved this part in Capital Vol 3 Ch 39 www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms:

It's only a war if it comes from the war region of France. Otherwise it's sparkling hostilities.

The effectiveness of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz in taking down a superior military power should be a major lesson for organized labor

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100 years ago today the Dielo Truda (Workers' Cause) group—made up of exiled Ukranian and Russian anarchists—published the Draft Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists. The document has come to profoundly shape the anarchist movement. 🚩🏴 Read it here: shorturl.at/0HAGK

Oh my God FINALLY. It's taken Marx so long to acknowledge that unreproducible products of labor have no value. I don't think it's been addressed until this last third of Volume 3 of Capital www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

TIL that Marx thought that crop rotation was a myth www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

One of my favorite historical events.

Proudhon's stance on slavery would be indefensible in any case, but it's extra ridiculous to go to bat for him on it when his own contemporary anarchists like Déjacque, Bakunin and Reclus took the opposite stance.

JD Vance's role as sin eater is so damn funny

Obsession is a really good movie

In the notes after saying he prefers slavery not be abolished & instead be government regulated in order to get the master to educate their slave, & that when yts colonize Sudan they have the right to force Black people to work for them, Proudhon complains of calls for slave revolts in the South.

Marx in the Manifesto: We declare the abolition of all right of inheritance Marx after Bakunin called to abolish inheritance: That's stupid actually. Inheritance will go away on its own once we abolish private property. We just need to tax and regulate inheritance Maddening

Finished my notes on the second chapter of the Manifesto judgesabo.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

What a great speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...

I'm glad people are turning on Trump but it's very absurd how much of this is spun as a betrayal. A lot of that is just saving ego I suppose, and it's technically true that he lied about what he wanted to do. But it was also an open secret that it was a lie, and people admired that brand of "honest"

Publishing some of my notes on Erich Fromm judgesabo.substack.com/p/notes-on-e...

I wish Marxists knew as much about anarchism as anarchists know about Marxism lol.

By far the worst error Engels makes in On Authority is claiming that, in socialism, the workplace still confronts the worker as an authority, as a hostile power above and opposed to it. In effect, he is arguing that estranged labor must always exist, and the emancipation of labor is impossible.

Finished reading Erich Fromm's "Marx's Concept of Man." Very good discussion of how Marx's humanism, connecting the younger Hegelian Marx to the older mature Marx, and showing it underlying his life's work. Does do some hagiography at the end, but still solid. www.marxists.org/archive/from...

"Not the man who denies the gods worshiped by the multitude, but he who affirms of the gods what the multitude believes about them, is truly impious." Epicurus

Marxists: "Socialism is a stepping stone toward communism." Marx: "It's literally the exact opposite." www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Pitch in: send anarchist labor organizers to Labor Notes 2026! 🚩🏴 chuffed.org/project/1765...

"Yeah, well if Stalin wasn't a great hero of the proletariat, why do I have a quote from a socialist I like praising him?"

It is incredible how much the SPD hunting down Rosa Luxembourg is vilified, but people just kind of ignore the Bolsheviks hunting down literally every other socialist party. Not a good thing to be a SR in 1922!

From Erich Fromm's "Marx's Concept of Man" www.marxists.org/archive/from...

Always funny when Stalinists pretend that Stalinism isn't a thing. "Umm, actually, Stalin had no ideas of his own, and you using the term Stalinism is a sign you've not questioned propaganda. Like those Trotskyists."

Some of the most annoying philosophy arguments are just against the ghost of Logical Positivism

Damn, so long Knowledge Fight. Was a great podcast

"For them, socialism is not a society humanly different from capitalism, but rather, a form of capitalism in which the working class has achieved a higher status; it is, as Engels once remarked ironically, "'the present-day society without its defects.'" - Erich Fromm, Marx's Concept of Man (1961)

"The Pope isn't responsible for the American Congress of Bishops banning trans healthcare" so the thing about the power of the Pope is that he could just overwrite them if BANNING ALL TRANS HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE ADULTS AND MINORS ALIKE was something he cared about Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Israeli forces assaulted a Palestinian shepherd while settlers stole his livestock in Al-Mughayyir, West Bank.

Can a journalist with press credentials ask JD Vance why he follows an account like this? Is this better or worse for the safety of the Jewish community than a college student wearing a keffiyeh?

yeah dude i'm not buying it

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

This whole thread is really worth reading, RE: the election in Hungary.

I know Marxism is fairly dismissive of ethics, but I have yet to hear a very convincing argument on that front. There's a lot of great analysis for how people's ethical ideas are born out of material conditions. I see lots about that. But all of our ideas come from our material conditions.