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Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン Hepburn: Shin Seiki Evangerion, literally 'Gospel of a New Century') is a Japanese animated television series (an

[Black Rose/Rosa Negra @BRRN_Fed]

It was fantastic to see a comrade & anarchist union militant from @CGT close out Labor Notes 2026 🚩🏴

"Organize, talk to your coworkers, trust the collective intelligence of the working class, trust militant unionism, trust organization from below, trust the power of assembly!"

[John Hernandez @JohnWillflow]

Walter Smolarek PSL resignation letter. He was a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation for a very long time, including when I was a member and I quit a long time ago, in late 2012.

https://t.co/r7jBxfgems

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

I have just signed this Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School and urge others to do so.

https://t.co/xBGEHEG4da

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

Nearly every major revolt in Chinese history, including those that won, was led by hyper-religious secret societies (White Lotus, Red Turbans, Taiping, etc). Numerous religious conflicts fought between Daoist and Buddhist dynasties.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is probably the single feature that makes China most unique as a civilization in human history: it is pretty much the only one where religion never had a say in political affairs.

We often wrongly believe that China's secularism came with Communism but this couldn't be more wrong. The roots are far, far more ancient than this.

Think about any other civilization - India, Persia, ancient Egypt, European civilization, the Incas: they all had a priestly class that held considerable political power. China? Never.

Never, ever? Actually China, in its very early history, had a brush with theocracy during the Shang dynasty in the 2nd millennium BC. And it is precisely this episode - or rather what came afterwards - that decisively de-linked religion from government affairs.

How so? Because around 1046 BC, the Zhou overthrew the Shang and immediately faced a big problem of legitimacy. The Shang had claimed to rule because Heaven had chosen them. If that were true, then the Zhou had just committed the ultimate act of sacrilege. How do you justify going against God’s will?

The answer the Duke of Zhou (who can thus be credited as the - perhaps unwitting - inventor of secularism) came up with was essentially to say that Heaven's mandate is not a birthright but a contract - conditional on the virtue of the ruler and good governance.

It might not sound like much but this idea completely changed the whole equation: suddenly the legitimacy of power didn’t rest on God’s will but on man’s moral judgement, on whether the ruler had virtue (德, Dé) and governed well. Which meant that, ultimately, the people - as opposed to a God - became the arbiter of whether a ruler is legitimate.

If there is one single decision that most shaped China's destiny as a civilization, it's probably this one. And, as I explain in my latest article, it ultimately shaped all of us in profound ways: through a chain of events involving Jesuit missionaries, Voltaire, and what French Enlightenment thinkers called "l'argument chinois" ("the Chinese argument"), it is this very idea that ended up secularizing Europe too and drove the Enlightenment movement.

That's the topic of my latest article: the origins of China's secularism, how it shaped three thousand years of Chinese civilization, and why - far from being a belief in nothing or an absence of belief as it's all too often depicted - it's on the contrary a faith in humanity itself.

Read it all here: https://t.co/XLwhKFlaNl

[Integrity Guy @Integrity_Freak]

No ma’am, I don’t have a boarding pass. I’m simply here to enjoy the world famous dining and nightlife at O’Hare International Airport

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

@glosseantics Everyone is in shock whenever I bring up that is how they first built their audience. Their interviews about how they got into and later gave up right wing libertarianism are also interesting.

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

(Guy who has "former World Bank, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund" in their bio) wow piketty is such an out of touch leftist to call for a Global Fund to finance ecological sustainability

[spoti @_Spoti]

$4,602 raised so far, the goal is $6000.

"With your generous support, we sent nearly 30 members and supporters of Black Rose, as well as members of our South American sister organization Federación Anarquista Rosario (FAR), to Labor Notes in 2024. "

https://t.co/WC5VTgiykP

[Black Rose/Rosa Negra @BRRN_Fed]

Going to the @labornotes Conference in Chicago this weekend?

Join us on Friday for a night of drinks, DJ sets, and more at our third bi-annual Red & Black Party! 🚩🏴🎉

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

Move to San Francisco with some kind of medical certification and get a job in a hospital (pays comparatively well) to get involved in anti-carceral and militant labor organizing in your workplace.

Trust me it will change your life.

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

Do not do this

[Satyam @sattyyouneed]

Move to San Francisco and take a loan for your life style expenses.

Trust me it will change your life.

[“The New Thoreau” 🌴🌺🍌⛈️🌍 @TheNewThoreau]

How it feels

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

@UtilityCalc @EcoTechBro @peakcapitolism Theres lots of historical examples of it scaling. CNT membership at its height was ~9% of all of Spain. I think history shows both electoralist and anti-state politics can scale, but they have different visions of what a better society is and how to get it
https://t.co/HPihSTVT5f

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

@UtilityCalc @EcoTechBro @peakcapitolism Some US examples of thinking through this strategy can be found here
https://t.co/xgFDikBQLK
Which is part of the long history of anti-state social movement organizing globally (ezln, rojava, the old revolutionary syndicalist unions etc) which i can share more if youre interested

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

@UtilityCalc @EcoTechBro @peakcapitolism Theyre generalizing due to character limits. They mean (correct me) building militant labor unions, tenant unions, anti ICE orgs, etc, that fulfill peoples needs through direct action and thus can build a critical mass to go on the offense to overthrow systems of domination.

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

@irl_neil Hegel had something to say about a society that has reached universal alienation, where nobody even believes in what they themselves say or do.
https://t.co/94EOvuUmPW

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

@posauce95 @IamCJ_27 I would like to wade in just to point out that there were episodes of ethnic cleansing and mass deportations in the USSR, especially under Stalin, with those orders coming from predominantly white people in Moscow.
https://t.co/LdD6ONqnDK

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

Forty year old man brought up Chapo Trap House to me in real life.

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

@NewPerspectives Going to share for anyone interested this overview of how PSL has expelled and disciplined members who have spoken out internally against sexual assault committed by party leaders, among other things.
https://t.co/qfFjw5zf2W

[whats 🍉 @bofades]

@Himedanshi2199 @NewPerspectives Yes. Longer read on some of this here.
https://t.co/qfFjw5zf2W