average costal DSA chapter: the road to Socialism is through electoral performance and broad community partnerships
average midwestern DSA: The Red Sun rises. may the masses awaken to the evils of the US empire and let the cowards who fear the permeant revolution be washed away
Guy in 1789: unlike 1302, 1323, 1351, 1358, 1381, 1437, 1441, 1450, 1514, 1524, 1596, 1637, 1651, 1670, or 1773 this set of crises will be terminal for feudalism
Every leftist should read theory: trivial, obvious
Every leftist should workout: banal, unimportant
Every leftist should learn differential equations: true, Avant garde, revolutionary
sakai still an outlier but his whole deal makes more sense now. reading these fucking newspapers is kinda like learning about all those ascetics the sakyamuni was hanging with
When people wonder why reading scores are down, the obvious answer to me, as someone who’s spent lots of time grading writing, is that they read less, and so they are worse at recognizing what good writing is like. No real fix here within the school system
I'm not trying to be mean but all the "I feel like something bad is going to happen soon" posts are frying me. It already happened! The consequences are lurching toward you as you breathe.
the trump regime is obviously lying about this as a deadman’s switch. In the unlikely future where a dem president does an authentic census survey amerika will suddenly “have imported” millions of immigrants, which will delegitimize a dem admin and push ice to go rogue
its utter yank nonsense in any case but any idea of a "woke 1" serves to legitimise the current moment by suggesting the extreme idiocy, incompetence and dysfunction of trump 2 is only a consequence of some parallel leftist idiocy prior to it. nah
If anything, El-Sayed should be something of a lifeline to the mainstream Democrats. He perfectly captures all of the current radical energy and channels it out of DSA and back into Warrenism.
When he talks about communism being tried “over thousands of years” he means guys like Peter the Hermit, Savonarola, John Ball, Hans Böhm the Drummer of Niklashausen, Thomas Muntzer, and many others