How can you claim to be a radical while behaving so reactionary?
Drew ☭
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Marxist My writing: https://simplifyingsocialism.substack.com
Has anyone read any of Paul Cockshott's work? I am curious what he's written about socialism and technical planning, but I don't want to spend $30 🫨
One day, my feet will be on Cuban soil, my hands will be interconnected with the people, and my eyes will be locked onto the vision of a better world in reach; only then will my body be congruous with my heart and mind. My latest on Cuba: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
Cuba Beyond the One-Party Myth
Rethinking Cuba's political system as a model of participatory democracy
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One day, my feet will be on Cuban soil, my hands will be interconnected with the people, and my eyes will be locked onto the vision of a better world in reach; only then will my body be congruous with my heart and mind. My latest on Cuba: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
Cuba Beyond the One-Party Myth
Rethinking Cuba's political system as a model of participatory democracy
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It’s so low effort. This is redbaiting propaganda, first of all, and it’s poorly written. The first line contradicts the third.
PublicWrx@publicwrx.bsky.social · 5mo agoA spectre is haunting #Canada — the spectre of mild milquetoast social democratic reforms like a public grocer. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
This is like Comicon but for middle-aged, divorced white dudes whose daughters immediately went no contact as soon as they turned 18.
Norah 🤗@thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 6mo agoArmed gun owners in VA showed up outside the State Capitol in Richmond this afternoon to rally against new gun control measures. Governor Spanberger is due to sign into law a ban on the sale of assault weapons & large capacity magazines in the state. Oh, and the larger the gun the smaller the penis
The question “Is violence ever justified?” assumes that politics begins in peace. History suggests otherwise. Can ever function as a force against the systems that produce it? I explore this problem in a new essay. open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
On Violence
An examination and reinterpretation of violence as a progressive force against oppression.
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The Joint Statement by the three parties is weak. We need to be absolutely unequivocally clear about one thing. It is AMERICANS and ISRAELIS who should be advocating for revolutionary defeatism, not the people of Iran.
Drew ☭@simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 6mo agoJoint Statement by the Communist parties of Iran 🇮🇷 (Tudeh), Israel (Maki), and the U.S. (CPUSA) www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/join...
Joint Statement by the Communist parties of Iran 🇮🇷 (Tudeh), Israel (Maki), and the U.S. (CPUSA) www.idcommunism.com/2026/03/join...
Joint Statement by the Tudeh Party of Iran, Communist Party of Israel and Communist Party USA
Joint Statement of the Communist Parties of Iran (Tudeh), Israel (CPI) and the United States (CPUSA) The war of aggression launched by the Netanyahu
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I’ve tried to make the shift from shitposts to serious work. Over the past year we’ve grown from 0 to nearly 4,000 subscribers on substack. My writing does not get pushed by the bluesky algorithm at all, but it would mean the world if you took a minute to check out my page.
We must always fight imperialism at every level on every continent. I do believe it is the greatest threat to humanity, not least because it makes people abandon theirs. It is a long essay, but I think it’s well worth the read. Please check it out if you have the time.
Drew ☭@simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 6mo agoNuclear weapons dominate our imagination, but are they truly humanity’s greatest threat? In my latest essay, I argue that the bomb is only the most dramatic expression of a deeper system: imperialism. open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
Reported footage from Tehran shows an apocalyptic US-Israel axis bombing of Iran. The US has nothing left to save its hegemony other than raining death and destruction from the sky.
I just want to put it out there that I have been a longtime hater of The Atlantic. They are a neofascist publication and have been since the beginning—they just don’t even try to hide it anymore, like at all.
Gee, I wonder why the Western oligarch class is so keen to start a war... The price of Brent oil has exceeded $84 per barrel for the first time since June 2024 due to the US/Israeli violence.
Please do not complain about having to pay $0.33 more per gallon of gas right now, you sound ridiculously ignorant.
Nuclear weapons dominate our imagination, but are they truly humanity’s greatest threat? In my latest essay, I argue that the bomb is only the most dramatic expression of a deeper system: imperialism. open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
Nuclear Weapons, Sanctions, and Imperial Hierarchy
How imperialism, not nuclear weapons, creates global instability. A Marxist analysis of militarism, sanctions, and financial hierarchy.
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The financial oligarchy needs to be obliterated
Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 6mo agoBREAKING: JPMorgan says that the Iran conflict is a "buying opportunity," not a reason to sell stocks.
You are not choosing. You are being conditioned. The algorithm doesn’t force you to consume, it makes certain you want to. This is capitalism refined. open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
Algorithmic Consumerization
Capitalism’s Circulatory System and the Privatization of Consciousness
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Most people think exploitation means low wages or bad bosses. For Marx, it means something far more structural: profit itself depends on surplus labor. Rising wages don’t eliminate exploitation. They can intensify it. New essay: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
What Does "Exploitation" Actually Mean?
This essay explains labor-power, surplus value, absolute and relative surplus value, and why profit arises structurally under capitalism.
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Most people think exploitation means low wages or bad bosses. For Marx, it means something far more structural: profit itself depends on surplus labor. Rising wages don’t eliminate exploitation. They can intensify it. New essay: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
What Does "Exploitation" Actually Mean?
This essay explains labor-power, surplus value, absolute and relative surplus value, and why profit arises structurally under capitalism.
open.substack.com
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Climate collapse is not an accident. It’s the predictable outcome of an economic system built on endless growth, fossil finance, and asset protection. A longform breakdown of why reform keeps stalling and what systemic change would actually require. open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
Climate Collapse Is Not an Accident
This essay argues that climate collapse is structurally embedded in capitalism. It examines why reform repeatedly stalls and what systemic change would require.
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Starting this one today! I've been putting this one off for a little while because I didnt know if I had the stomach to read through yet. But decided just to rip the bandaid off get it over with. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Fun fact: Harry Truman vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act, calling it a "slave-labor bill." Unfortunately, the majority of his party in Congress disagreed with that assessment and voted to pass the legislation anyway. Notable opponents included progressive Vito Marcantonio & populist Wayne Morse.
Far from being a consequence of the Red Scares, racial divides were manufactured by the state to defend against the ultimate threat: a multiracial labor movement and a collective class consciousness transcending artificial segmentation. My newest piece: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...
Stop Being a Spectator
A Marxist analysis of the Red Scares as a racial project: “Americanism,” the “alien radical,” deportations, blacklists, and the crushing of solidarity.
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