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NEW: Pritzker's grandstanding didn't do a thing to stop ICE from swarming Chicago. Do Democrats have a strategy to win besides vague calls to "fight"?
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Pritzker and resistance theater
Do you want epic press conferences, or do you want to win?
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/pritzker-and-resistance-theater
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NEW: Trump is funding libertarians and defunding socialists; if socialists are going to win, we'll have to go global.
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Local socialism can't defeat global capitalism
If socialists want to win, they'll have to go international.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/local-socialism-cant-defeat-global
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NEW: Introducing our recommended readings page - a list of books, articles, and other texts and media that we think our readers would benefit from! And we've provided free links to *everything*.
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NEW: Reading recommendations
By popular demand...
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/new-reading-recommendations
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NEW: Cass Sunstein says that racists like Hayek and Reagan are liberals. He's right!
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Sunstein is right: there are indeed racist liberals
Another look at the inbox.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/sunstein-is-right-there-are-indeed
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NEW: Americans should meet evidence the government provides of left-wing violence with extraordinary skepticism.
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Is Trump going to false-flag the left?
If the administration can't find a pretext to crack down on us, they may invent one.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/is-trump-going-to-false-flag-the
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NEW: Class analysis gives us a much clearer understanding of Trump's immigration policy than vague talk about "authoritarianism".
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Class analysis and "authoritarianism"
Two ways of explaining Trump's recent H1-B visa fee yield vastly different insights.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/class-analysis-and-authoritarianism
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NEW: Rand Paul reminds everyone that you don't actually have rights under capitalism.
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Rand Paul brings back antiwoke capitalism
See how this works?
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/rand-paul-brings-back-antiwoke-capitalism
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NEW: An insane passage on the murder of Charlie Kirk
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NEW: In 2008, attempts to trivialize Obama as an "articulate" and "charming" smooth-talker were widely regarded as racist. In 2025, liberals constantly say the same things about Mamdani - because they don't want to talk about socialism.
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How capital wields race against Mandami's socialism
Beset on all sides by the woke and anti-woke, Mandami's campaign maintains its lead
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/how-capital-wields-race-against-mandamis
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NEW: The second of a multipart series on materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion.
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NEW: The first of a multipart series of materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion.
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Young liberals have plenty of career paths. That's not why liberalism is losing!
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The marketplace of ideas takes another L
Liberals are losing the argument, so Zack Beauchamp thinks they need to win with financing.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/the-marketplace-of-ideas-takes-another
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PROJECT 2029 UPDATE: We have added H.R.51 "To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union" to Project 2029.
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NEW: Americans and Ukrainians have very different opinions about the war against Russia.
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Ukraine's crisis of confidence
Ukrainians are losing trust in its government to end the war.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/ukraines-crisis-of-confidence
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NEW: Mamdani's campaign is exposing a significant rift in the party between black voters and liberals.
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Mamdani is winning the Democratic base
And no, the base of Democrats is not black voters.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/mamdani-is-winning-the-democratic
about 2 months ago
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NEW: The sixth and final installment of Carl Beijer's six part series on the past and future of capitalism. PART VI: Capitalism's long future.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part VI: The long future of capitalism.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-inequality-the-past-and-the-4a6
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NEW: Part V of Carl Beijer's continuing series on the past and future of capitalism. What would late capitalism actually look like? The answer isn't in the present - it's in the past.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part V: What would late capitalism actually look like?
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NEW from Carl Beijer: Conservatives and liberals love inventing leftists to get mad at.
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Everyone cherry-picks the left
The right's Sydney Sweeney escort mission plays the same game that liberals play constantly!
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/everyone-cherry-picks-the-left
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The grotesque irony of Trump's victory is that elite Democrats would have never spoken out against the genocide in Gaza under President Harris.
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Would Yglesias have opposed genocide under Harris?
Democratic loyalists are happy to join the antiwar movement when their leaders aren't in power.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/would-yglesias-have-opposed-genocide
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NEW - Wealth inequality: the past, and the future, Part IV Hasn't history proven Marx wrong? Nope - turns out there's still a lot of history left.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part IV: "But history has proven Marx wrong!" Nope.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-inequality-the-past-and-the-2c7
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NEW - Wealth inequality: the past, and the future, Part III Marx predicts that wealth inequality will inevitably grow under capitalism. Here's the standard liberal objection to this, and why it doesn't work.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part III: Liberal objections to Marx's law of capital accumulation, debunked.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-inequality-the-past-and-the-da0
2 months ago
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Compact Magazine has published a ridiculous eulogy for the Post Left - the insane internet clique centered around Aimee Terese. Here's what actually happened.
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RE: The death of the Post-Left
All eulogies are self-serving, and this one is no different.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/re-the-death-of-the-post-left
3 months ago
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NEW: The Center for Working-Class Politics has a new report on how to win the working class - and some odd ideas about who counts as workers. Are nurses workers, or not?
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Are nurses workers, or not?
The Center for Working-Class Politics doesn't seem to think so!
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/are-nurses-workers-or-not
3 months ago
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Remember when a faction of aging Zionists published multiple articles announcing that they were leaving DSA to start a new organization? Carl Beijer looked into it, and you'll never guess what happened!
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DSA's breakaway Zionist org has failed
The group, loudly announced in a 2023 New Republic article, is still just a mailing list.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/dsas-breakaway-zionist-org-has-failed
3 months ago
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We're excited to launch our new audio-wrap up! Subscribe today!
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Why read Carl when you can listen to him?
Announcing our audio wrap-up!
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/why-read-carl-when-you-can-listen
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NEW: Part 2 of our multipart series on the past and future of capitalism. On the law of capital accumulation
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part II: On Marx's law of capital accumulation.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-inequality-the-past-and-the-e03
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NEW: Trump's Epstein problem is funny, but it isn't likely to become a serious political problem, and it's much less important than other issues facing American workers.
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Trump's Epstein problem is hilarious - and pointless
Funny? Absolutely. Consequential? Probably not.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/trumps-epstein-problem-is-hilarious
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NEW: Marxists really shouldn't spend too much time worrying about the privacy "rights" of the rich.
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Why should the rich have privacy rights?
No sympathy for the Coldplay Couple!
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/why-should-the-rich-have-privacy
3 months ago
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NEW: You can write 2,000 words on who’s to blame for Palantir and never mention Peter Thiel — if you’re more interested in scolding workers than confronting power.
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Why won't Peter Thiel shut down Palantir?
Seems like that is a more important question than "why do people work there."
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/why-wont-peter-thiel-shut-down-palantir
3 months ago
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Call for papers! The People's Line is developing a socialist Project 2029 and we are looking for proposals. $300 for the best one. Details here:
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Call for papers: towards a socialist Project 2029
We can be much more ambitious than this.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/call-for-papers-towards-a-socialist
3 months ago
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NEW from Carl Beijer: ICE goons are lurking around Glendale Memorial Hospital, but you aren't going to kick them out with rules lawyering over private property rights.
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ICE and the trap of private property
Glendale Memorial Hospital should kick them out, but that won't hold ICE off forever.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/ice-and-the-trap-of-private-property
3 months ago
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This graph - of wealth inequality throughout the history of capitalism - is the most important thing to understand about our economy today. Especially the part at the end where it begins to go back up.
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NEW: A brief history of wealth inequality under capitalism - the first of a multipart series by Carl Beijer.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part one of a multi-part series.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-inequality-the-past-and-the
3 months ago
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NEW: The Center for American Progress has proposed expanding "immigration security" as part of their Project 2029. Our proposal: Break up the Department of Homeland Security.
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Proposal: Break up the Department of Homeland Security
Moving forward on one of the most dangerous threats to American democracy.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/proposal-break-up-the-department
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NEW from Carl Beijer: Five things Mamdani's win teaches us about socialist campaigns
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Five things Mamdani's win tells us about socialist campaigns
A whole lot of myths are going out the window.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/five-things-mamdanis-win-tells-us
3 months ago
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NEW from Carl Beijer: SOCIALISM HAS WON IN NEW YORK CITY
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SOCIALISM WINS!
A SOCIALIST HAS WON IN NEW YORK CITY. CAPITALISTS IN DISARRAY
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/socialism-wins
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Carl Beijer is now writing at The People's Line. More announcements to come.
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Welcome to The People's Line!
New brand, changes down the road.
https://www.peoplesline.org/p/welcome-to-the-peoples-line
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