AIPAC and a bunch of corporations spent tens of millions lying and inviting people to marinate in Islamophobia and related bigotries and they said he is an anti-Semite, what more do they have to do?! 'Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary' www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

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In the late ‘40s, organised US Leftists tried to oppose what was seen as Truman taking the Democratic Party to the Right, with his Fair Deal seen as a shift from continuing to pursue the New Deal project. In 1948 the Progressive Party ran FDR’s VP, Henry Wallace, against Truman for President.

I know it's obvious, but there's always a gap between the image people like the ICE thugs wish to project and the squalid reality of their pathetic broken selves. So when people say they're ‘cosplaying as Blackshirts’, I mean yes, fine.

Excerpt from Gordon W. Allport's discussion of then-recent work on bigotry - mostly Frankfurt School or Frankfurt School-adjacent works, including The Authoritarian Personality, but also other works by Horkheimer and Lowenthal, and Bettelheim and such - in the June 1950 issue of Scientific American.

She never quite understands why she can't find the dog behind the television. She'll stare at the screen until the dog isn't visible anymore and then check behind the tv...

I always liked that short video in which a young Bjork takes apart her television, which concludes with her saying "you shouldn't let poets lie to you".

Excerpt on 'masculinity overcompensation', from Katie L. Acosta's 2021 NYU Press book, Queer Stepfamilies: The Path to Social and Legal Recognition. Don't ask why I'm reading it or I'll get really really upset and start supporting wars.

How a leftist US newspaper reacted to the 17 January 1961 farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the speech warning of the ‘military-industrial complex’ (and to JFK's 20 January inaugural address). From the 30 January 1961 edition of National Guardian (“the progressive newsweekly”).

Was at a FABC(ML).... demonstration? 'Stunt'? Holding up signs for a road with heaps of traffic so drivers could read them

People forget how marriage was enforced and maintained as a system of control not merely through the exclusion of women from labour markets, but through institutional enforcement of the inability of women to open their own bank accounts, separate from control by husbands.

Excerpt from University of Chicago professor of social science C. R. Henderson’s ‘Woman's Work for Wages’, in the 30 September 1892 issue of Science. Much ‘natural’ talk. Natural head and bread-winner, and such. The naturally lower pay for women leading to trade unionism is striking though.

Last century, in the mid-’90s, the Israeli settler-colonial state and Jewish-Israeli society hadn't travelled nearly as far along the genocidal-fascist trajectory. But such tendencies had long been present and were growing.

I remember eighteen-odd years ago, some people got very upset because Tara Douglas wrote a Master's thesis - a MASTER'S THESIS! - entitled 'Memories, myths and misconceptions: an analysis of dominant Zionist narratives formalized in the Israeli Declaration of Independence’. hdl.handle.net/1828/1276

People forget just how publicly hegemonic the racial-sexual mythologies of white supremacy were in the early 20th century, and how that helped permit an entire array of practices of racial terrorism to be a routine part of significant sections of US society.

From The Age newspaper.

Victorian Socialists@vicsocialists.bsky.social · 2w ago

The view from the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne this morning. A sea of red as striking Victorian public school teachers and educational support staff send a powerful message to the Victorian Labor government. These legends deserve a better offer than what's been on the table so far! ✊

Semiotics of Brunswick. FFS.

Semiotics of Coburg.

One of my favourite footnotes in any dissertation I've read is this, from 2017 attached to a section which discusses accessing relevant archives.

I like Ramin Djawadi’s ‘Light of the Seven’ as much as anyone. In fact, that music and the sequence of which it is an element are possibly the last part of Game of Thrones I actually thought interesting.

The Second Trump Administration is apparently arguing the Chinese Exclusion Act wasn't racist. So suddenly everything I was recently writing about that period is even more topical... ... including in relation to Australia of course. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

Why Chinese-American success stories still provoke prejudice and fear

Almost a century and a half has passed since the notorious Chinese Exclusion Act, but anti-Asian prejudice is still rife.

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Ben Rosenzweig@benrosenzweig.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There were minutes between the opening of the first federal Parliament in Australia and politicians starting the work of racism. Two excerpts from Hugh H. Lusk's 'Chinese Exclusion in Australia', in the March 1902 issue of The North American Review. @northamerreview.bsky.social

In the 19th and early 20th century, it was not uncommon for American publications to have as a regular or occasional feature a 'letter' from cities in other countries, most often London, detailing recent events in that country. For example, in the 19 January 1911 edition of The Catholic Telegraph.

Illustration for Errico Malatesta’s article, ‘Il Sindacalismo al Congresso anarchico di Amsterdam’, in the 1908 edition of Almanacco della Rivoluzione (published in 1907 in New Jersey).

Excerpt from discussion of Italian pioneers of ‘scientific’ criminology associated with the very early 20th century Italian Socialist Party, such as Cesare Lombroso, from Michel Foucault’s 12 February 1975 lecture translated in Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975.

The Flamingo Revolution is the first truly militant, mass movement seeking to contest a corrupt government where a core issue is environmental irresponsibility which might impact birds. Specifically, flamingos.

In the Spring 1942 issue of The Public Opinion Quarterly, David Riesman - yes he of the crowds are lonely - had this to say about the international politics of fascist bigotries in his 'The Politics of Persecution'.

Excerpt from an article in the September 1941 edition of The Southern Frontier, a Black paper especially covering events in the US South.

Kind of amazing discussion of the realities of 1930s US fascist ('patriotic') groups in this article about Catholic Worker campaigning against American fascism and imperialist war (and also against CLASS WAR and CLASS HATE), from the 1 September 1934 edition of The Catholic Worker.

Front of my house. Woke up to being almost but not quite entirely blocked in.

The special (double) issue of the journal Political Theology on "Marx and Revolution" is available here:

Mikkel Flohr@mflohr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The entire special issue has now been published online and can now be found via this link www.tandfonline.com/toc/ypot20/2...

This Irresistible Man.

This Irresistible Man

YouTube video by Ben Rosenzweig

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