We need all the comrades and allies we’ve got, and our disagreements and differences — if we’re not engaging in scorched-earth campaigns against one another — could actually strengthen us.
[...] Our battles today are urgent, no doubt, but we should have a sense of humility and proportion about our own experience and influence
[...] we have to be able to debate one another without just trying to win a line or points. We have to actually engage with competing political positions.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/left-arguments-comrades-democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders/
[...] Our battles today are urgent, no doubt, but we should have a sense of humility and proportion about our own experience and influence
[...] we have to be able to debate one another without just trying to win a line or points. We have to actually engage with competing political positions.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/left-arguments-comrades-democratic-socialism-bernie-sanders/
Jacobinmag
How to Argue With Your Comrades
When faced with political setbacks like Bernie Sanders’s loss, it’s easy for socialists to blame our own comrades for our defeats. But those losses are more rooted in the powerful structures we’re up against than our own failures — and while vibrant debate…
The radical right does not simply reject science; it invents its own “scientific” rhetoric to provide an “alternative” interpretation
www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/radical-right-spreading-coronavirus/
www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/radical-right-spreading-coronavirus/
openDemocracy
Is the radical right spreading the coronavirus?
The radical right has always been good at spreading misinformation; now they might be spreading Covid-19.
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Happy Birthday to Malcolm X, born on this day in 1925. While known for his devotion to Islam and his activism towards Black Liberation, Malcolm also began to fight for the liberation of all workers, black and white, shortly before he was assassinated.
(Image courtesy of Washington University Libraries, Henry Hampton Collection.)
(Image courtesy of Washington University Libraries, Henry Hampton Collection.)
Some useful sources for organizing ✊
https://side-blog-for-politics.tumblr.com/post/614558541138771968/poblacht-na-n-oibrithe-how-to-get-active-and
https://side-blog-for-politics.tumblr.com/post/614558541138771968/poblacht-na-n-oibrithe-how-to-get-active-and
Wake up samurai, we've got papers to sell
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TIL that Medieval Peasants had significantly more days off than Modern Americans with Americans working 244 days a year and Peasants working only 150.
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Even Medieval Peasants Got More Vacation Time Than You
Of course, their teeth fell out and they died young, but, hey, vacation!