Can we just call it “capitalist hellscape?” “Polycrisis” sounds like a thruple that ran out of soygurt
Joe
@wobblymole.bsky.social
Libraries, banjos, socialist feminism, revolutionary unionism, philosophy, value critique, degrowth, better worlds are possible and already exist.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social Y'all ever cover mid-20th century French marxist critiques of cars as, basically, ideological state apparatuses? Andre Gorz and Louis Althusser come to mind. Gorz: libcom.org/article/soci... Allthusser: newsocialist.org.uk/beyond-worke...
The Social Ideology of the Motorcar - André Gorz
Piece by André Gorz critiquing the "radical dependency" created by automobiles as a primary means of transportation under capitalism, as well as other harmful effects of cars.
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"We're not talking about going after small business owners or even big business owners". This is most of what the economy is as the power structure that creates billionaires. It won't START TO BECOME an economy for working people without systematic changes to class power from employers to workers.
Pod Save America@podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 6mo agoGraham Platner wants the Democratic party to become a party of working people again.
People say billionaires should be taxed out of existence, but an economy that runs on money will create billionaires or undo tax mechanisms that nominally bar their existence. This happened under the high-tax post-war boom. We need socialism & a use- not money-based economy to abolish money lords.
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 6mo agoTax billionaires out of existence.
Is riding an e bike cheating? No, it's just like doing 20 reps at a low weight instead of 10 at a heavy weight in the gym. You get the exercise anyway. AND you might be more likely to get on the bike in the first place. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2586115...
E-bike scheme gives 67-year-old joy and a new lease of life
Frances King, 67, who lives with osteoporosis, was referred to Cherwell District Council’s Move Together programme to support her in becoming more…
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Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean
Despite a fake culture war about denial, the corporations and many world leaders have understood the science of climate change. we know this because their scientists predicted climate crisis and they invest in it for /profit/. we assume that mitigation is the only response to climate science.
I appreciate the desire for peace, but because peace is the goal we cannot bypass the reality of how peace will come about in a world racked by violence and domination.
Jason Straughan@jdstraughan.com · 7mo agoJerry Garcia on thinking about a peaceful planet RIP Bobby
Americans will hallucinate classes everywhere except in the employment relation permeating society. Ergo The Billionaire Class, The Middle Class, The White Working Class, The Epstein Class. In this way, class consciousness is kept in an analytic cave of cabals & their social shadows.
Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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My kiddo just fell asleep on my arm, as I read another chapter from Braiding Sweetgrass, which they says they really like— “hehe, Baba, trees have sex.”
This comes up in movement histories over and over again! Despair is your enemy’s friend! Good organizers know this!!
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 7mo agoi have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
Democratic Lawmakers Say DOJ Is Investigating Them over Video to U.S. Service Members
Democratic Lawmakers Say DOJ Is Investigating Them over Video to U.S. Service Members
Several Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday they’re under investigation by the Justice Department over a social media post in which they reminded U.S. service members they have a duty to disobey illeg...
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“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do” played over video of ICE engaging in acts of violence should be the wall to wall DNC media strategy right now
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7mo agoMike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it. “I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
GoFundMe Campaign for Autoworker Who Got the Middle Finger From Trump Hits $340,000 https://gizmodo.com/gofundme-campaign-for-autoworker-who-got-the-middle-finger-from-trump-hits-340000-2000710238
GoFundMe Campaign for Autoworker Who Got the Middle Finger From Trump Hits $340,000
The autoworker called the president a "pedophile protector," a reference to his suppression of the Epstein files.
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Great example of why I always try to train union stewards to avoid the words "can" and "cannot" when describing an employer's powers.
Ted Lieu@tedlieu.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe First Amendment protects the public’s right to: 1. Film ICE in public 2. Photograph ICE in public 3. Observe what ICE does in public ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
#OtD 14 Jan 1921 Murray Bookchin, theoretician of social ecology and libertarian municipalism, was born. His ideas have come to prominence more recently as they have been embraced by Kurdish communities in Rojava, Syria. Learn about his life and ideas: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8569...
I keep thinking about how Ford is the main provider of new cars for ICE and how no one should buy Ford right now
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agosomebody did not do a very good job blending Trump's face paint today
Born on this day in 1921. Unfortunately, vigorously defended the State of Israel in a 1986 article.
History is What's Happening@historyiswhat.bsky.social · 10mo ago"...I demonstrate that Bookchin’s understanding of ecological science was not simply a product of a turn to anarchism, but was directly linked to debates among 1950s ecologists, typically overlooked in the recent scholarship on Bookchin."
Gotta get the flight attendants, longshoremen, & rail workers on board
For all those who have been calling for a General Strike. How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 7mo agoUnions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
#OtD 14 Jan 1987 student Park Jong-chul was tortured to death by police in Seoul for opposing the US-backed dictatorship. When his murder was uncovered it sparked the June Democratic Struggle which brought down the dictatorship. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e91-...
I think we need to understand the extent to which this use of "liberal white women" is a way of saying "race traitor." They aren't attacking these women for being white but for having a lack of loyalty to whiteness.
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 7mo agoFox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”