"Unfortunately, if all you’ve read are mainstream news outlets, and not the conservatives themselves, it’s almost impossible to understand just how deranged the entire movement has become."
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/beyond-compromise/
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/beyond-compromise/
Democracy Journal
Beyond Compromise
In 2011, when I was interviewing to be an intern at this journal, I was asked what authors and publications I read. I listed a couple of newspapers and progressive magazines, but, wanting to seem open-minded, also mentioned some conservative magazines and…
#books
"Wobblies In Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era", by Eric Chester
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/wobblies-past-and-present/
"Marx and Social Justice: Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy", by George E. McCarthy
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17579_marx-and-social-justice-ethics-and-natural-law-in-the-critique-of-political-economy-by-george-e-mccarthy-reviewed-by-xuanpu-zhuang
"Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor", by Steven Greenhouse
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/sticking-with-the-union/
"Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, In the Streets, and on the Air", by Michael Steven Smith
https://portside.org/2019-04-18/lawyers-left-courts-streets-and-air
"Wobblies In Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era", by Eric Chester
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/wobblies-past-and-present/
"Marx and Social Justice: Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy", by George E. McCarthy
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17579_marx-and-social-justice-ethics-and-natural-law-in-the-critique-of-political-economy-by-george-e-mccarthy-reviewed-by-xuanpu-zhuang
"Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor", by Steven Greenhouse
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/sticking-with-the-union/
"Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, In the Streets, and on the Air", by Michael Steven Smith
https://portside.org/2019-04-18/lawyers-left-courts-streets-and-air
Jacobin
Wobblies Past and Present
Radical historian Staughton Lynd on the lessons we can draw from the demise of the original IWW.
#video
Everything wrong with what Peterson said on Marx and Marxism in the debate against Zizek. This whole channel is extremely interesting, especially if you want to learn about post-modern philosophy
https://youtu.be/V2hhrUHSD6o
Everything wrong with what Peterson said on Marx and Marxism in the debate against Zizek. This whole channel is extremely interesting, especially if you want to learn about post-modern philosophy
https://youtu.be/V2hhrUHSD6o
YouTube
Learning about Marx with Jordan Peterson (feat. Anarchopac and Red Plateaus)
Cuck Philosophy:
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Anarchopac:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/anarchopac
Patreon: https://www.patreo…
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSkzHxIcfoEr69MWBdo0ppg
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cuck
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilosophyCuck
Anarchopac:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/anarchopac
Patreon: https://www.patreo…
"Commonly held beliefs don’t develop in a vacuum. Trans people have never had control over their own narrative, in science or in media. That has started to change recently, but by and large, cis people still hold the power to frame trans lives for the masses. Maintaining that power to define trans lives is what ultimately drives anti-trans activists, not only in their online presence but in the courts and more broadly."
https://newrepublic.com/article/156104/biology-becomes-cover-anti-trans-bigotry
https://newrepublic.com/article/156104/biology-becomes-cover-anti-trans-bigotry
The New Republic
When “Biology” Becomes a Cover for Anti-Trans Bigotry
How an employment case in the United Kingdom revealed the ugly contours of anti-trans discrimination
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"Overall, the relative dimension of privatization proceeds in 1934-7 Germany is close to the ratio for the EU-15 in 1997-2000, at 1.79 per cent."
A short paper on privatization under Nazi Germany, to disprove the common belief that "Nazis were socialists"
A short paper on privatization under Nazi Germany, to disprove the common belief that "Nazis were socialists"
"While much international media coverage has focused on the Kurds’ role in the battle against Islamic State, some claim that the more significant battle is that fought “with pens.” The Institute for Educational Science, established as part of the revolution, is tasked with designing a new curriculum to reflect the self-administration’s broader attempts at challenging the capitalist regimes that precede and surround it."
roarmag.org/essays/fighting-with-pens-in-rojavas-war-of-education/
roarmag.org/essays/fighting-with-pens-in-rojavas-war-of-education/
ROAR Magazine
Fighting with pens in Rojava’s “war of education”
Rojava’s revolutionary education system is built around a homegrown curriculum promoting gender equality, ecology and social and cultural inclusivity.
some useful tips on campaigning and creating a grassroots movement
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/03/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-2020-presidential-election/
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/03/bernie-sanders-democratic-party-2020-presidential-election/
The Intercept
A New Electorate
The Bernie Sanders campaign is trying something new: trusting people.
www.currentaffairs.org/2019/11/why-you-should-take-a-chance-on-the-socialist
"Bernie 2020 is running a working class left-wing campaign, clearly aimed at governing from the streets, not in the backrooms of Washington or in Martha’s Vineyard."
Also, Sanders ha recently surpassed 5 Million Individual Contribution (source) and has closed the year with the most donations of any candidate in history at this point in a presidential campaign (source)
"Bernie 2020 is running a working class left-wing campaign, clearly aimed at governing from the streets, not in the backrooms of Washington or in Martha’s Vineyard."
Also, Sanders ha recently surpassed 5 Million Individual Contribution (source) and has closed the year with the most donations of any candidate in history at this point in a presidential campaign (source)
Current Affairs
Why You Should Take A Chance on the Socialist ❧ Current Affairs
If we want to build popular power, we need an organizer-in-chief.
"As we enter a new decade and go into the 11th year since the end of the last global slump, these are the fundamental factors that suggest a new slump is not far away. They are: stagnant or falling profits and profitability; weak or falling investment; rising corporate debt and falling trade (amid a global trade war)."
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/forecast-2020/
thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/12/30/forecast-2020/
Michael Roberts Blog
Forecast 2020
“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” is an old Danish proverb, often attributed to Nils Bohr, the Danish atomic physicist and quantum theorist. And amusing and insigh…
The 1945 Labour Manifesto that defeated Churchill
"Does freedom for the profiteer mean freedom for the ordinary man and woman, whether they be wage-earners or small business or professional men or housewives? Just think back over the depressions of the 20 years between the wars, when there were precious few public controls of any kind and the Big Interests had things all their own way. Never was so much injury done to so many by so few. Freedom is not an abstract thing. To be real it must be won, it must be worked for."
"The Labour Party stands for freedom - for freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press. The Labour Party will see to it that we keep and enlarge these freedoms, and that we enjoy again the personal civil liberties we have, of our own free will, sacrificed to win the war. The freedom of the Trade Unions, denied by the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927, must also be restored. But there are certain so-called freedoms that Labour will not tolerate: freedom to exploit other people; freedom to pay poor wages and to push up prices for selfish profit; freedom to deprive the people of the means of living full, happy, healthy lives. "
"The Labour Party is a Socialist Party, and proud of it. Its ultimate purpose at home is the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - free, democratic, efficient, progressive, public-spirited [...]."
www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml
"Does freedom for the profiteer mean freedom for the ordinary man and woman, whether they be wage-earners or small business or professional men or housewives? Just think back over the depressions of the 20 years between the wars, when there were precious few public controls of any kind and the Big Interests had things all their own way. Never was so much injury done to so many by so few. Freedom is not an abstract thing. To be real it must be won, it must be worked for."
"The Labour Party stands for freedom - for freedom of worship, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press. The Labour Party will see to it that we keep and enlarge these freedoms, and that we enjoy again the personal civil liberties we have, of our own free will, sacrificed to win the war. The freedom of the Trade Unions, denied by the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act, 1927, must also be restored. But there are certain so-called freedoms that Labour will not tolerate: freedom to exploit other people; freedom to pay poor wages and to push up prices for selfish profit; freedom to deprive the people of the means of living full, happy, healthy lives. "
"The Labour Party is a Socialist Party, and proud of it. Its ultimate purpose at home is the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - free, democratic, efficient, progressive, public-spirited [...]."
www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtml
www.labour-party.org.uk
1945
Labour Party Manifesto -
Labour Party Manifesto -
The full text of all Labour Party manifestos from 1900 to the present.
"Transformation of the state apparatus tending toward the withering away of the State can rest only on increased intervention of the popular masses in the State: certainly through their trade-union and political forms of representation, but also through their own initiatives within the State itself. This process should be accompanied with the development of new forms of direct, rank-and-file democracy, and the flowering of self-management networks and centres."
https://marxistsociology.org/2019/11/states-and-stakes-relational-theory-and-the-politics-of-class-struggle/
https://marxistsociology.org/2019/11/states-and-stakes-relational-theory-and-the-politics-of-class-struggle/
Section on Marxist Sociology
States and Stakes: Relational Theory and the Politics of Class Struggle | Section on Marxist Sociology
How we conceive of the state has profound effects on how we understand political strategy. In this essay, written in response to Michael A. McCarthy’s recent intervention, Zachary Levenson and Teresa Kalisz argue that only by seeing the state as truly relational…