Sam Blakeborough

Anarchist, IWW member, public sector worker, and all-round despicable charlatan.

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

Want to open an anarchist co-op that deals in fresh produce. Workshopping the name: "Dufrutti".

[Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung London Office @RosaluxLondon]

What can the UK renters movement learn from Berlin, with their (near) wins on rent controls and the state expropriation of private rented housing? Join us on 7th July to discuss this question with politicians and activists from Berlin and the UK https://t.co/qDqx6sF3rC

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@MrTimHeatley @jimgito @MENnewsdesk This article mentions 120 properties ringfenced. This is a really small number to be flexing over after contributing so much to the stranglehold of parasitic landlords on Manchester and the city's rampant gentrification.

Whatever helps you sleep I guess.

[Sheffield IWW @sheffieldIWW]

Fellow workers of Sheffield:
Join us at our branch zoom meeting on Saturday, June 26th at 3pm. Emails have been sent out with an agenda and link to join the meeting.

If you haven't received an email or are interested in joining get in touch!

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

We talk about radicalisation. But radicalising who, and how?

The people we should be looking at are already out there, supporting their communities, delivering mutual aid, protecting the vulnerable, etc. But radicalising those people takes action, not rhetoric.

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @RealDeBergerac I'm not a marxist lmao

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @AnhurdynPlus @Ryytikki @taizou_hori @BayesReality The owner*

No. It's more the case that owners and other capitalists have ringfenced the productive wealth of the world to such an extent it is no longer feasible in most Western geographies to live independently of the formal capitalist economy. So one works for them, or dies.

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @AnhurdynPlus @Ryytikki @taizou_hori @BayesReality Agree. That's why I'm against making people work shit jobs to live. I swear we've been here before.

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @AnhurdynPlus @Ryytikki @taizou_hori @BayesReality Yes, you're learning! And living with other people requires different ethical approaches to living alone.

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @AnhurdynPlus @Ryytikki @taizou_hori @BayesReality Yes, your understanding of ethics and economics would probably be accurate if society was based on people living alone on islands. Reality is ever so slightly more complicated sadly.

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @AnhurdynPlus @Ryytikki @taizou_hori @BayesReality Again, I don't see what's voluntary about "work or starve"

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @AnhurdynPlus @Ryytikki @taizou_hori @BayesReality Interesting.

So the ethical conclusion you've arrived at is that it's only okay to take someone's labour if you are already rich, otherwise you have no right to do so?

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @AnhurdynPlus @Ryytikki @taizou_hori @BayesReality Or like if a worker at a bread factory makes hundreds of loaves in an hour and gets paid for the value of one loaf?

[Sam Blakeborough @BlakeboroughSam]

@Freshl_ @Ryytikki @AnhurdynPlus @taizou_hori @BayesReality Cool straw man bro lmao