Anarchists and Marxists have often disagreed on key aspects of political strategy and theory. In this book--Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States--Chris Wright tries to reconcile the two with worker coops as the lynchpin.

TRUMP: he tells me--what was it called--commodity fetishism. I said, what like feet or something? Zohran's a smart guy. I dunno why he likes feet but he's gonna be the best mayor. The best.

TRUMP: he says it's dialectical. di-a-lec-tic-al. beautiful word. no one really knows what it means but we're doing it.

Yuval Harari as he wrote this book

The meme is about the people under the bombs, you chucklefuck. And a lot of them are gay and have brown skin. The fact that the bombs are being dropped already shows that the flags on the bomber are being used cynically.

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Data from the National Association of Realtors paints a painful portrait of American home buying: All-cash buyers at 26% of the market. Median age of the typical homebuyer: a stunning 59 years old. nar.realtor/research-and...

Question for married folks: if you take a new surname that's closely associated with a particular ethnicity that is not your own, does that ever impact your interactions with people? Like, are people surprised to see a white person with the last name Nguyen?

Is there research on the long term health consequences of the constant vigilance required to avoid being ripped off in our economic system? The stress and distrust cannot be good psychologically. I think this is at least part of the reason for such low social trust in our society.

I am once again reminding you not to give any money to the New York Times.

Old enough to marry but not old enough to divorce. Really gives the game away, doesn't it?

Amigos hispanohablantes: ¿Es Jeannette Jara tan genial como parece? ¿Qué probabilidad tiene ella de ganar? #chileelecciones #jeannettejara

"el DSA ha crecido entre jóvenes urbanos precarizados, conectando con algunas de las principales contradicciones del capitalismo estadounidense “realmente existente”, en particular en lo referido al sistema de acceso a la vivienda." Always fascinated by foreign coverage of American politics.

Echoes of Eugene Debs. "You may be a convict, but... There is more to the real religion of Jesus Christ in the spirit you breathe out to the world from behind your cruel prison bars than in all of the orthodox sermons ever preached." Idk this Minister's exact politics but this is real shit.

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The story of Cuba's medical system and research capabilities is inspiring. Did you know they invented the world's first Meningitis B vaccine?! #booksky

Buenos días a tod@s.

This is another reason universal healthcare is so important and is a feminist issue. It meets people's needs of course, but it also eliminates a key vector of exploitation and manipulation.

The PDX city council public comment period on homeless camp sweeps is a microcosm of modern liberalism. We have white people in feminist T-shirts invoking the safety and innocence of children, using terms like "unhoused" while advocating for forcibly removing the most downtrodden in our society.

When Jay-Z says "I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man" he is engaging in what Lukacs calls reification. The commodity form has become universal. Even personality traits are separated from us and reduced to mechanical concepts to be integrated into capitalist rationality. In this essay I will

There's a passage in the Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin which discusses wages and what is "owed" to each of us. He describes how everyone's work relies on a million other works past and present, some of which can't be quantified or remunerated. That argument lodged deep in my brain (and heart).

This. And don't look back. Best political decision I've made.

It's time.

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

This is what I've been saying. I don't see many democratic off ramps for the regime at this point. The longer their lawlessness and violence goes on, the less likely they are to abide by democratic processes and norms.

For the first time, Australia generated more electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels for an entire month.

Find you a woman who looks at you like Rama looks at Zohran (and who wants to dismantle capitalism).

Portland is special.

Nice of @nytimes.com to make clear that, whenever its dull conservative columnists complain about the evils of "feminism" or "liberal feminism," they of course mean "women."

I am once again asking you not to give any money to the New York Times. There are so many other places to get your news that don't push this sort of rage bait sexism.

Historian Eric Williams once said that "slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery." In The Invention of the White Race, Theodore Allen makes a related claim: when Africans were brought to Virginia in 1619, there were no "white" people there. #booksky

sorry but I can't support zohran. someone with a wife that hot should be spending every minute dedicated to her, not the people of New York City.

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Inspired by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and want to learn more? Go to your local DSA chapter meeting and see how you can get involved! As an introvert myself I know it can seem daunting, but it is 100% worth it to be a part of an organization like this @demsocialists.bsky.social

It's probably not a good sign that every other commercial in this football broadcast is prepper style food supply kits and backup generators.

We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions

The perfect book for Halloween! In Monsters of the Market, McNally explores the history of zombies, vampires, and other monsters, arguing that their origins are tied to socioeconomic and cultural changes experienced by the working class under capitalism. #booksky #halloween

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Mamdani/Halkias 2028 We're taking the white house babyyy @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

As a child I called my babysitter "Aunt." No actual relation to me. This is very common and the media are showing their whole ass by pretending like this is some sort of scandal.

A huge issue for Biden which is often overlooked is that the expansion of benefits during the pandemic was ended rather abruptly with catastrophic results. The overall poverty rate and child poverty rate were higher at the end of his term than when he started! @stephensemler.bsky.social

Pandemic relief worked! And then they ended it. Guess what happened? Poverty increased! If you give people money, food, and low cost healthcare, protect them from eviction, and pause their student loan payments, their lives get a lot better.

It's been like pulling teeth to get Dem leadership to endorse Mamdani and THIS is his competition.

Good stuff here 👇

There are now job listings on LinkedIn to identify and provide "corrections" when AI model outputs are too left-wing.

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

Huge showing at the #NoKings protest in Portland today. There were little old ladies with American flags marching next to punk girls with cardboard guillotines. All while chants of "Fuck ICE" and "Free free Palestine" rang out. We're going to win.