Waking Up From The Nightmare Of Western Civilization "We’ll sit on the edge of our seats watching made-up tales about psychopathic killers while psychopathic killers rule the world." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/waking-up-...

We do not live in a society. My latest. Link below 👇

When asked if every person had a right to the Constitution’s guarantee of due process, Trump responded “I don’t know.” This is a right that has long been under threat. Here’s 3 ways the system tramples our right to due process.

Today's lesson discusses the American health care system for those in countries where their system provides care for free or reasonable fees. 👇

Before the industrial revolution, feudal lords used hereditary property rights to force both free and unfree labourers to support their lives of opulence and abundance, immiserating everyone else. Good thing we don’t have anything like that now

It’s insane that we live in a society where people want to profit from, or buy, a pill to replace such things as *breathing consciously* (which is available free, at any time, to anyone and everyone, always)

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“If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all;

The ultimate “far left” position is this: that the value created by us, in our millions and billions, should be for our families, or for the public good as we choose to define it, not to make parasites like Elon Musk wealthy and powerful. But honestly, I find it strange that anyone would disagree

“Maxim Gorky: The bourgeoisie is hostile to culture!” Soviet poster, 1949

Mark Twain says, "Workers of the world unite." #SocialistSunday

Capitalism is the belief that you can achieve infinite growth in a restricted system with finite resources This is also the definition of cancer Happy #SocialistSunday

As true now as when this was drawn over 100 years ago #socialistsunday

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Liberals are hypocrites, they will condemn Russia hard when they destroy entire city blocks but will turn around and consider Israel defending itself when they are currently reducing Gaza to rubble.

Capital is an amazing read that I recommend to everyone, and if it feels a bit intimidating there are lots of great companion courses. Here’s one:

The US went from “Israel is committed to international law” to “international law does not apply to Israel or any of us for that matter” in less than a year. This is how hyper-normalisation works.

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Don't side with the powerful. Don't side with Israel against the Palestinians. Don't side with the US empire against any nation it targets. Don't side with cops against their victims. Don't side with billionaires and politicians against the people. Don't side with the powerful.

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In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. —MARX & ENGELS, The Manifesto (1848)

In my view, it’s incumbent upon all of us to be organised, because we won’t achieve a better world atomised, divided and alone. So people should if possible choose and join a socialist organisation. But it’s worth mentioning that a union is also a fine start, and the Greens are anti capitalist.

Hopefully.

Whenever I’m struck by the mood for prose fiction, Proust is always top of mind. Swann’s Way is calling me this evening 🙂

The average medieval peasant would likely have been appalled at our social and economic position today: rootless vagabonds with no security and nothing to sell but our labor

A few of my personal heroes,

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instead of a coherent plan of dealing with overshoot, the world is just going to throw overpopulation, poverty, ethnic and racial hatred, plutocracy, authoritarianism, and war into the blender and let things rip.

Today In Imperial Recklessness And Insanity "Everywhere you look it’s powerful criminals getting away with far too much while the people who are supposed to be resisting them do far too little." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/today-in-i...

How little things change “We want peace, while imperialism does not want peace and is preparing for a third world war. We must fight with all our might to avert a world war and to bring about the triumph in the world of a just and democratic peace.” Enver Hoxha