Rylee

I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids. I played it at CBGB's. Everybody thought I was crazy.

[Rylee @RyleeLawson]

@varnvlog Thank you. Cooper definitely puts forward some good analysis, but has a tendency to imply that the strategies and mechanisms for elite pushback in the 70s were historically novel. I’m skeptical of that framing

[Rylee @RyleeLawson]

@varnvlog Reading Counterevolution by Cooper right now and she talks about a transition with city financing in the 70s, but seems to ignore the deeper history. Any recommended reads?

[Rylee @RyleeLawson]

@PJ11819211 Thought so- hopefully you are enjoying the read a bit more now haha. I remember the moral grounds of economic relations and the credit/bullion cycling being the most interesting parts. Been some years since I’ve read it though

[Rylee @RyleeLawson]

@SrslyWrong I think engaging with @arnold_schroder ‘s work would be very worthwhile

[Rylee @RyleeLawson]

@drumm_colin Social currency was originally used for the rearranging of kinship ties. Only with the State & it’s accompanying violence does social currency turn to ‘hard’ money, leading to a totalizing market economy & the broader commodification of everything thru it. That’s my recollection

[Rylee @RyleeLawson]

@drumm_colin @HertzfeldVictor Bernard Harcourt wrote critically about the movement in parts of his book, The Illusion of Free Markets

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

My latest for @TeenVogue delves into the history of “free speech,” and how the U.S. government has curtailed it in order to repress and brutalize union members (especially the @IWW), leftists (particularly anarchists) and the Black liberation movement https://t.co/rZnedDfgVe

[zellie @zellieimani]

What the media won’t show in Minneapolis. Free food, water and resources.

Community is a verb.

[Rylee @RyleeLawson]

“Violence is not in contradiction with our principles, since it is not the result of our free choice, but is imposed upon us by necessity in the defense of unrecognized human rights which are thwarted by brute force.” - Errico Malatesta

Unrelenting solidarity with Minneapolis.

[David Graeber @davidgraeber]

what precisely do people mean by "getting the economy up again"? If the economy is how you keep people alive, fed, clothed, housed, etc, the economy was still running during lockdown. So in what sense is "the economy" coming back when lockdown is lifted? 1/

[Iowa City Tenants Union @ICTenantsUnion]

Attention Iowa Tenants!

Don’t let scummy landlords try to push you out during a global crisis. Know your new rights!

You are not alone!

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Reminder: bipartisan US sanctions are actively killing people in Iran as they scramble to contain Coronavirus.

[julian francis park @jfpark3]

This is the first US rent strike I've heard of launching in & bc of this COVID19 moment, when the phrase, rent strike, seems to be on so many lips & finger tips. May it be the first of a wave! Spread the strike!

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Most unfair thing about US electoral system is that people in other countries whose very existence is decided by US presidents’ wars & sanctions don’t get a voice. It is sickening to think of Biden — after Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Honduras — as the alternative to Trump.