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this appeared in my youtube recommendations
nobody is cooler than the mustache guy
thx youtube
nobody is cooler than the mustache guy
thx youtube
Dem primary thread is exhibit A as to why electoralism is a mistake and doomed to kill us all.
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At the very least...we can all wallow in misery together if Biden becomes the serious front runner.
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Revelation 3:15-16
15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
AMEM!
15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
AMEM!
What publications do you guys read? I'd like to get a different perspective on current events, and you guys don't seem likely to recommend me stuff like apologia for oppressive autocrats or the ramblings of an aging discordian.
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James 5:1-6
People tend to forget Jesus was pretty socialist, and the early spread of Christianity can likely be attributed to its robust social safety net on top of its religious content. I tend to think of that as connected to keeping the faith.
It really is amazing and dismaying how much the marriage of religion to power across time have manage to obscure that.
i suggest a new name for the thread
BIBLE |OT| PUKING IN CENTRISTS AND CONDENMING RICH PEOPLE!
BIBLE |OT| PUKING IN CENTRISTS AND CONDENMING RICH PEOPLE!
If you're OK with not just strict socialism, Abdullah Ocalan's work on democratic confederalism and Murray Bookchin's work on libertarian municipalism are things I'm always gonna recommend.
So much for current events. You don't seem to be the blog/Jacobin kinda guy, though, I can tell. :P I've been putting off Sartre for a while, now. I can dig him up out've my backlog. Zizek is a guy that's so well known I've always figured he was some kind of pop-philosopher until I noticed Capitalist Realism referenced him heavily.
Once when I was a kid I read a dumbed down, child's version of Arthurian legends. I wonder if I can find Das Kapital for a similar age range... 🤔
Yeah, I'm pretty much down for anything. Libertarian socialism, anarchism, municipalism, whatever. As long as it's not too difficult of a read; I'm trying to work my way up.
I posted a thread about this a few days ago that didn't get too much attention, but it seems like another revolutionary socialist group in the US of the Trotskyist denomination has collapsed due to allegations of a rape cover up in the national committee a few years ago,
https://socialistworker.org/2019/03/15/letter-to-the-iso-membership
Unless you live around a major college campus, you probably haven't interacted with the ISO, but in places like Columbus, Ohio they're one of the largest socialist groups in the city next to the DSA.
https://socialistworker.org/2019/03/15/letter-to-the-iso-membership
Unless you live around a major college campus, you probably haven't interacted with the ISO, but in places like Columbus, Ohio they're one of the largest socialist groups in the city next to the DSA.
there's a full course on youtube of david harvey teaching the capital, but yeah its not an easy job
that sucks to hear, the group sucked though they deserved this collapse.
The only left blog I actually read is thenextrecession.com which is a Marxist economics blog. I enjoy economics a tad but it's not for everyone. It doesn't go deep into the ideology part of the movement but focuses on analyzing and critiquing capitalist economies and capitalist economic policy.
the local green left weekly + select financial times articles thru google cache
I prefer rolling the boulder up the hill as a metaphor for labor lol. And like, class/social struggle.
I'm currently listening to Volume 1 of Capital on Audible. Damn, Karl sure loves to waffle on about linen coats....
As a decent baseline I'd just suggest Current Affairs. There's really no leftist daily news websites which is probably a good thing.
I don't agree with Camus' solipsistic outlook. Sartre's "anguish of man" still applies to a modern day setting. Camus didn't believe in revolutionary violence, Sartre did, to the point where he may have influenced the likes of Pol Pot. Camus made the same mistake of assuming that things like the Gulags and Terror were Revolutionary violence when in they were instead Institutional. Sartre was the opposite.
That said, Camus' position on what constitutes absolute freedom is what I agree with.
But ultimately, as mentioned above, the ideas of Sartre apply heavily today, especially with the concept of crafting identity to give ourselves more significance and the concept of oppression.
FWIW, Sartre was also apparently a god damn sex maniac.
made a research i founded two interesting ones, but idk which is better
https://therealnews.com/#
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https://www.truthdig.com/news/
chomsky is a contributor to this one it seems
ok, so far from what i undestand
- May tried to vote her deal for the third time, then she got blocked to do vote.
- May tried to postpone and EU talked she needed a deal.
- Then something happened that pissed off people, i think May called the IG and corbyn to talk, and somehow people are more angry against him for quitting because of the IG.
So my questions:
what can be done since you can't vote a deal, will something be done to stop brexit, what are the options? Why people are angry to corbyn when the conservatives have the majority and controls the parliament its the usual corbyn hatters? i understand tha corbyn is pro brexit, but i remember to read that labour and himself would propose to vote for remain a week ago, what happened? What is the likely outcome of all this?
Flaff about until no deal Brexit happens by default. They can always call the whole thing off (Revoking Article 50). They most likely won't because it's political suicide.
Corbyn has been a long-time bogeyman of British politics. Tory hates him because he's a socialist. Blairites (the center-left branch of Labour) hates him because he's a socialist. Remain backers and non-Blairite Labour are mad at him because they feel he didn't push for Remain strong enough, that he should've been the one to fight for Remain. They looked to him for leadership on this and they feel he let them down (because Labour is about half Leavers I think?)
Corbyn is a "euroskeptic" because he sees the EU as a neoliberal institution and in a sense he's right, but his perspective on this is about 2 decades out of date. Right now he probably knows Brexit is a bad idea because it would be ruinous for Britons.
I don't remember this but he's probably still working on it.
FT says they're still pushing for it though: https://www.ft.com/content/996085ee-49a3-11e9-bbc9-6917dce3dc62
I would only bet money on no-deal Brexit but I do have hope that it can be averted.
Article 50, total unconditional Brexit, triggers automatically on the 29th, so it's coming down to the wire, basically.
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It's a total fucking shitshow is what it is. Somehow it's managed to find the perfect combination of conflicting factors that there are a whole bunch of different factions who all separate and overlap in different ways juuuuust so that there is no one coalition that can form enough support to get something through parliament. So long as Brexit isn't resolved, our political system is frozen in place, unable to get anything done. And this just around the corner from the next big recession.
I found this while doing some cursory googling, it's a good summary of the state of things (immediately, not like a 2 year Brexit retrospective): https://www.theguardian.com/politic...e-of-play-a-guide-to-next-weeks-crucial-votes
Was written 9 days ago though and there's 9 days to go, yikes.
Was written 9 days ago though and there's 9 days to go, yikes.
It's weird until you realize Japan's Communist party is like, the 3rd largest in the world IIRC.
Shame the populace is so completely conditioned to being politically indifferent(thanks in large part to decades of influence from capital to keep labor in it's place) for it to ever take a major hold.
I remember reading an article about repression and persecution to communist by the japanese government and Yakuza, i will not be able to find those articles its been a long time.
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/newroz-kurdish-new-year-turkey-syria
While they are still under occupation by Turkey, at least the Kurds can celebrate their victory over ISIS this year.
Once I get decent at Japanese I'd love to delve deeper into the old leftist and student movements of the 60's. Shit seemed crazy for the generation after the war.
Just take away everyone's social security who doesn't believe in socialism. See how that turns out.
I very much plan on talking to my advisor about doing a capstone about the Kurdish military's role in this fight, more specifically the YPJ. They continue to push against Daesh in Baghouz.
Whilst I appreciate the sentiment behind it, I consider it an inadequate solution to the problem it is trying to solve. It is proposed as a situation where the economy is still privately owned but with high taxes to fund the ubi. This means that prices and investment and everything else will be still be determined by the capitalist sector. Prices will be set such that the ubi can provide only the most meagre survival. Workers will still be exploited. And the law of the rate of profit will still apply, so capitalism will still go through periods of slump, causing widespread unemployment and misery, with the ubi only preventing people from literally starving.
A preferred method for me is to take a significant section of the economy out of capitalist control to provide universal basic services free at the point of use. Housing, transportation, healthcare, food, energy (and other utilities), education, care, all free at the point of use.
This being only a measure until full socialism arrives ofc.
This was almost what the military provided me when I was in.
All my basic needs were met (housing, food, dental, healthcare, education, guaranteed 30 days of vacation per year), and I just had to show up for work. On top of this was basic pay determined by time in rank.
But yeah, your idea would be ideal until full socialism like you stated.