“Class struggle may be the motor of history, but it is mediated by the problem of organization, of how to link different collectivities in struggle and translate this into political hegemony. “ www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Interview mit Sozialwissenschaftlerin Eva Völpel, geführt von Sabine Nuss: "Stimmt denn die immer wieder zu hörende Behauptung, dass wir uns den #Sozialstaat nicht mehr leisten können, weil er zu teuer ist? - Nein, das ist falsch."

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Sher Singh (1951-2025) was editor of Faridabad Majdoor Samachar (Faridabad Workers News) and member of several other communist groups based in northern India, including Kamunist Kranti and Collectivities.

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

You are not imagining it!!! Agents have been more aggressive and more emboldened, quicker to fly into a rage. And the community being more organized/prepared to confront them bc they've seen this play out in other cities = feds know they have even less time to execute a kidnapping

Minneapolis 01/18/26- Anti ICE protestors gather in 10 degree weather outside the Whipple building. Barricades have been added overnight, which the sheriffs dept say is for protesters safety.

this is absolutely right. i got flack for not going into climate policy in depth in Endgame, but we have a degenerate economic system that makes rational government all but impossible and in fact is destroying government as we knew it. the very idea of ‘rational policy’ is a non sequitur

since Tooze is once again the topic du jour, some light reading on why he’s so frustrated in that interview brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

"What distinguishes his latest regime is its effort to reimagine and remake the borders of American state power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic in a single domain of impunity: call it ‘Homeland Empire’." Excellent analysis as always from Nikhil Pal Singh www.equator.org/articles/hom...

this is how you do it

Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.

nazi guys cureent triumphalism basically boils down to "one of the stupidest most out of touch perverts in history is normalizing my beliefs"

we truly do love to see it www.thedailybeast.com/personal-det...

General Strike General Strike

there is not a hell hot enough

dead to rights

What if Columbo had a Special Beam Cannon? (WIP art for a short Columbo ttrpg I’m working on)

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

“If you abolish the Praetorian Guard, who will defend the emperor?” Sejanus said, stepping over the emperor’s body

on the nazi pornbot site the mere possibility of solidarity provokes a hysterical response from the online right

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

i think it’s ultimately good that mainstream outlets are correcting the facts about ice/cbp, but these types of stories completely ignore their reporters’ and editors’ own complicity in helping dhs fabricate a narrative in the first place.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

another episode in the ruling class civil war b/t Trumpist private capital and institutional capital

Have already done a brief run through photos/videos from Chicago to see if we happen to spot the agent who killed someone in Minneapolis today. Don't think we recognize him in any footage, but there's more to comb through. If you believe you recognize him, our Signal is unraveled.66.

no training fatass failsons acting out their Call of Duty fantasies against a civilian population because the biggest jobs program in the country is now a giant LARP for mercenary losers like them. a grotesque, sickening country

ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.

Someone who claims to have witnessed the incident says - car was blocking ice - they told them to move - "something happened' - ICE shot into the car as it was driving away - passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead There is video and I have seen it

"We’re supposed to be impressed, without thinking too much about the yield. We’re supposed to forget the dilemma of a dying empire, which is that almost everything it does to hold off decline diminishes its own future power to act." [email protected] www.patreon.com/posts/147222...

Thanks Esben much appreciated! I've read some Sewell but it's been a very long time. Idk if I have anything interesting to say about those forms of consciousness in a general register, my thoughts on that are borrowed from smarter theorists (I like this a great deal libcom.org/article/clas...) To my

this looks 👌

I think this article is fantastic and everyone should read it. bsky.app/profile/pash...

every time you hit post the computer feels pain

Invading Venezuela is a small price to pay to maintain an oligarchy that pretends to be a democracy (and if the price indeed ends up being small, then it will be the first of many invasions) www.un-diplomatic.com/p/evil-peopl...

Look, the relationship between capital, the state, imperialism and international relations is mediated through complex ... Oh ... Oh ok.

Today confirms @stschrader1.bsky.social's assessment that Trump has brought to its culmination the restructuring of US foreign policy on the model of the brutal lawlessness of American policing. A sneering, thuggish hemispheric (aspirationally global) cop. www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminish...

evergreen

A great day overall for fossil capital. Trump is less worried about who exactly will lead the Venezuelan government, even saying Machado won’t have the respect to govern Venezuela. What matters is that US oil companies get to drill and sell oil to other countries too.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

Trump has been trial ballooning the bombing of Venezuela and abduction of Maduro for months and this is the kind of "push back" he has gotten from the top Dem leadership. Interview from 12/10/25.

i genuinely believe trump doesn't like wars, because he has an animal understanding that they're political liabilities. but he also loves army men and explosions. so you get this nonsense with him. kidnapping maduro. blowing up fishermen. iran. nigeria for some reason. somalia. chicago. etc etc etc

Possibly relevant! www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

‘rogue state’ doesn’t fully capture what this clown-ass country has become tbh

it’s interesting to see the start date different people attach to this condition of existential american embarrassment. ten years ago, twenty, sixty. everyone’s sort of right

Essential reading for the year ahead

BLOCK CHAIN BAR MITZVAH SPOOKY SCARY BOYS BECOMING MEN, MEN BECOMING COINS—

“A Tribune analysis found that, time and again, Trump’s DHS claimed horrific abuses at the hands of protesters. Yet time and again, their allegations of abuse did not withstand the scrutiny of judicial review.”