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It's a social media video about being surprised with an amenity of her new apartment that she didn't have before, and the caption just says "Is this what social mobility is? Using kitchen appliances you never saw growing up?" accompanied by a laughing emoji. If she straight up thought that garbage disposals were some accurate indicator of the economic opportunities you have access to, yeah that'd be dumb, but I think it's reaching to take what happened here as evidence of that.
This is a fair enough assessment, but in my defense, there are enough examples of this where folks were serious.
I probably wasn't fair to her, but I came across it after having a discussion on commodity fetishism so there's certainly some projection on my part.
i thought malcom x was a socialist and marthin luther king was a social democrat, that was a surprise to me
Oh no, MLK plainly said we needed socialism and fought hard to help organize black working class communities.
This isn't really a rebuttal though? Nate Silver made a probabilistic claim "the socialist left in America is disproportionately white and black Americans tend to hold more moderate political views and support moderate candidates relative to white Democrats", not that leftism or socialism is intrinsically white and there are no important black figures or that it's wholly alien to black communities.
mlk was a social democrat and referred to social democracy as socialism because that's how 99% of people use the term. I don't think he was a marxist and he was anticommunist (at least in terms of being critical of Marxism-Leninism which he terms communism, he obviously was famously against the vietnam war). His famous quotes refer to "democratic socialism" which except on narrow online arguments is always laborist social democracy.
"People who Identify as Socialist" has generally been a white middle class "thing" for the past many decades. This is a joke in the late 60s film La Chinoise, for example. The DSA is pretty reluctant to disclose demographics for obvious reasons.
Obviously the socialist program knows no boundaries.
I don't know what "moderate" democratic message people supposedly prefer over other messaging.
Obviously the socialist program knows no boundaries.
I don't know what "moderate" democratic message people supposedly prefer over other messaging.
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OK, I've seen a bunch of posts on social media comparing customers using rideshare apps during the strike to breaking a picket line but, I really don't see how lowering the demand for Uber/Lyft makes the strike more effective. If drivers wanted to make their absence more noticeable to corporate, wouldn't it be better for them to strike when there's higher demand?
Breaking the picket line generally refers to workers continuing to work through the strike, not customers.
Yeah exactly, which is why I'm confused by the AFL-CIO tweeting this:
It could just be referring to the drivers, but I don't think that's the most intuitive reading.
I can understand the solidarity idea. But there is no perfect line here. DSA was posting similar things until their RideShare members pointed out that a lack of customers hurts their wages, which prompted the DSA to walk that back.
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/29/rel6a.-.2020.democrats.pdf
Starting at Page 44 is a series of policy questions only asked to democrats if it's important for the primary candidate to support the following. Unfortunately it's grouped by non-white, but it's the best I could find.
Impeach Trump
White democrats - 60%
Nonwhite democrats - 84%
Pay reparations
White democrats - 53%
Nonwhite democrats - 75%
Address climate change
White democrats - 95%
Nonwhite democrats - 96%
Medicare for All
White democrats - 86%
Nonwhite democrats - 96%
Tuition free college
White democrats - 71%
Nonwhite democrats - 87%
Executive action on gun laws
White democrats - 81%
Nonwhite democrats - 89%
Restore voting rights for all convicted felons
White democrats - 55%
Nonwhite democrats - 65%
Starting at Page 44 is a series of policy questions only asked to democrats if it's important for the primary candidate to support the following. Unfortunately it's grouped by non-white, but it's the best I could find.
Impeach Trump
White democrats - 60%
Nonwhite democrats - 84%
Pay reparations
White democrats - 53%
Nonwhite democrats - 75%
Address climate change
White democrats - 95%
Nonwhite democrats - 96%
Medicare for All
White democrats - 86%
Nonwhite democrats - 96%
Tuition free college
White democrats - 71%
Nonwhite democrats - 87%
Executive action on gun laws
White democrats - 81%
Nonwhite democrats - 89%
Restore voting rights for all convicted felons
White democrats - 55%
Nonwhite democrats - 65%
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It's OK to feel that way about anybody who put hundreds of people in the ground.
he's been doing a lot of mediocre and extremely editorialized punditry of late, which he's long presented himself as being above
Because he doesn't realize that his punditry is literally worthless and continues to blur the lines between his political speculation and data interpretation.
man was a piece of shit murderer but on the other hand, props for sticking a middle finger up to colonialism and all that
This is a bit dated but given China making the news this week I wanted to share this link.
http://chuangcn.org/journal/one/a-thousand-li/
What is Chuang? It is a collective of anti-capitalists who observe the current crisis in China from a truly anti-Capitalist Marxist Left. They look upon China and its role within the Capital system as both an anomaly and a fundamental. This consideration is taken from a modern look, how China exists and operates today in 2019 while acknowledging the existing Chinese state's origins.
This is the first of many to examine the Chinese Socialist experiment and its roll in suppressing the worker's movement.
Their take is largely unconcerned with the materialist historical arch of China's last several years as they are not interested in the orthodox, dialectic interpretation of the history of Socialist states. They draw on Leftist, Communizer, and anti Statist theory to denote China's long running Capitalist reform and participation. This is primarily due to avoid an endless debate with the antiquated, outdated, and incorrect "Marxist Leninist" interpretation of history.
The link at the top is basically the intro into a significant document. If you have the time and are curious as to learning about the economic behavior of the Chinese Capitalist/Imperialist State then this is a decent essay to read.
http://chuangcn.org/journal/one/a-thousand-li/
What is Chuang? It is a collective of anti-capitalists who observe the current crisis in China from a truly anti-Capitalist Marxist Left. They look upon China and its role within the Capital system as both an anomaly and a fundamental. This consideration is taken from a modern look, how China exists and operates today in 2019 while acknowledging the existing Chinese state's origins.
This is the first of many to examine the Chinese Socialist experiment and its roll in suppressing the worker's movement.
Their take is largely unconcerned with the materialist historical arch of China's last several years as they are not interested in the orthodox, dialectic interpretation of the history of Socialist states. They draw on Leftist, Communizer, and anti Statist theory to denote China's long running Capitalist reform and participation. This is primarily due to avoid an endless debate with the antiquated, outdated, and incorrect "Marxist Leninist" interpretation of history.
The link at the top is basically the intro into a significant document. If you have the time and are curious as to learning about the economic behavior of the Chinese Capitalist/Imperialist State then this is a decent essay to read.
Stumbled on a protest and counter-protest at the Venezuelan embassy today. The embassy had signs in the window saying "Coup Fail," while right in front of the embassy were anti-Maduro protestors, and then across the street were a mix of people who were a mix of apologetically pro-Maduro and who said they were anti-intervention but were running some sketchy anti-Guaido talking points, like claiming that Maduro's election was fully legitimate and that the following congressional elections that led to the current crisis were illegitimate.
Tough situation with wolves like Trump and Bolsonaro circling, but I think although Guaido has some very bad people in his corner, his base of support should be wide enough to prevent the country from going in a bad direction should he and the assembly take back power.
Edit: added working video, sorry for the vertical camera!
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The age-old battle can finally be put to rest. Thanks, Fox Business!
Superheroes are naturally fascistic/conservative. They exist above the law, are not democratically accountable, only fight threats that concern the destabilization of middle to upper middle class society and not, say, poverty, or lack of healthcare. Superman will save an old woman from falling and breaking her hip but he won't pay her healthcare bill. Tony Stark will invent a revolutionary energy source but not displace the coal industry.
Probably the latter.
Ohh no no. I completely agree with you on that score.
Put respect on the original vision for Superman. He sealed corrupt mining executives into their own mine and forced them to survive there so they'd see their workers' own deplorable conditions.
Superheroes are all the things that you said, but that's only the decomposition of an ideal, of an original dream. Sure, the original Superman was still above the law and not democratically accountable, but he embodied the idea of taking to task the forces of society. In terms of power he's as far above the ruling class as the ruling class is above the individual worker-- but he's in lockstep with the ideals of that worker. Maybe a vanguardist fantasy, in the end, but a vanguardist fantasy I can at least respect. Comic books, at their best, echo this dream, for better or worse.
Oh yes, Golden Age superheroes were occasionally pro-labor and outwardly humanitarian but once people got "politics out of comics" they became allegories for sustaining the status quo at all costs. I was referring to mostly modern superheroes because that's where most of my experience with them lies.
Superman was definitely a rarified form of the American Dream but he's less and less that symbol these days.
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