John Krumm 🌹🏍️

Socialist, Marxist, motorcyclist, looking for universal programs. Twin Ports DSA member. With friends and family in Duluth, MN.

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@Sarah_pdx And of course what steps you take along the way, and what language and framing you use so it makes sense to voters, those are things we need to figure out. "Abolition" does not make sense to most voters.

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@Sarah_pdx We had a great discussion on this with our electoral working group (with Tom J) . Everyone agreed that actual democratic control of the police is the goal, with a total revolution in police culture. How that is achieved, and what it looks like in practice, is up in the air.

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@KDicupe In our city the Mayor is a non-partisan position. It doesn't matter. All the same pressures are there. That doesn't mean that Mamdani can't be more assertive. He probably should take more chances. The blowback will come from the power structure, which is wide ranging.

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@KDicupe That actually has zero to do with the Democratic Party and its power (weak and confused) and everything to do with the actual power structure of our cities, how it functions under capitalism, and how the institutions that support capitalism (like the police) work.

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@TheRealVarnVlog @EwanBen Though after reading the article, I think it has plenty of strong points. You just shouldn't focus on the way people dress like it's saying something about character, stick to what he does.

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@TheRealVarnVlog @EwanBen It's kind of like complaining about Boots Riley for dressing too flashy when he's making a movie about worker struggles. https://t.co/5hADztQrwt

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@harbingerofwoke The DSA right seems to like Gramsci.

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@TheRealVarnVlog How many are actually homemakers? I run into a fair number these days, especially men married to women with higher paid work. According to Google (yes, AI) about 18 percent of men are homemakers of some sort these days (unsure if that's a hallucination).

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@noahpasaran Wait, you mean the two people on the sides aren't giants?

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@postlexical And even though, in most states, anyone can run on our shiny new workers party ballot line, which pulls the party right in some areas, and prompts calls for a split.

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@postlexical And then says, now we have this big, successful mass workers party without those things, and we are going to somehow make sure they don't return, even though we are under all the same pressures of capitalism.

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@TheRealVarnVlog I learned to be a close and careful reader in college (getting an English degree). But yeah my main political reading happened while working various bad jobs after college.

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@davidsirota @LeverNews Classic move for ruling elite boot licker types, to offer centrist "wisdom" as leftists and left-populists shift into power (if you do things my way I'll be licking your boots soon). After that fails, he will move right, and say it's "no longer the Democratic Party I know."

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@chairmanmeowing It always comes back to "why are you a democratic socialist?" You are a democratic socialist because you want to replace capitalism with it. So how do you fit that big goal into all the little campaign goals you have in a way that makes sense and doesn't seem pedantic?

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@chairmanmeowing "Affordability" is likely already watered down as regular Dems,who have no intention of following through, adopt it as a campaign slogan. Socialists should be telling a different story than regular Dems, how high prices are part of the austerity agenda of capitalism.

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@chorizanthe Don't forget spreadsheets. Some of our members are true masters of the spreadsheet.

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@Giovann87561995 @DanMKervick But it's also an acknowledgement that we don't have the exact outcome in mind, because it will take experimentation. The general principle is worker democracy, but there might be different forms of socialism, if it's actually democratic.

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@Giovann87561995 @DanMKervick It's just a not very precise way of saying economic democracy, which is what we all want, right? A workers' republic of sorts?