IDZ

Working class revolutionary socialist. Bus driver, teacher, and parent. "No Class No Family" thesis (2019); "A Separate Star" essays (2023); "Un" poems (2022).

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Recent book length publications:

Red Braid Alliance, "A Separate Star: Politics & Strategy..." https://t.co/Ad7UsWceI8

"Un: Poems" https://t.co/bj2RMfxnA3

"No Class No Family: Women's resistance... in Vancouver's last brothel district, 1911-14" https://t.co/9XyI1XuXsz

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@christoaivalis Seriously? World Cup is a capitalist investment bonanza brokered by Canadian national chauvinists and funded with a billion dollars in public spending during a time of austerity budgeting for public goods

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@kmunro_econ That's a beautiful sweater

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Quite the contortions in Geese: DSA should back a Democrat for president because she’ll fail and that will disillusion the masses… in the direction of socialism… meanwhile we’ll take over the Democrat Party… and THEN break from it (and found an independent socialist party?)

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@n_hold @pkgandakin I think there’s little or no value to abstract litigations (which all have these charged backdrops of personal stakes and justifications of a priori political positions) of who and who is not “working class”. Who cares!

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@n_hold @pkgandakin I think these discussions should be more concrete and historical, more about what class layers and fractions have strategic centrality in class struggle today and why/how socialists can get involved and support those developments in the humble ways we’re able

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@yiskaschwizzle Can you elaborate?

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@pkgandakin Concretely, I think that professors can contribute to the struggle to develop autonomous organization amongst bus drivers, but I am not interested in organizing profs as a particular Class layer.

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@pkgandakin I’m saying the opposite of what you’re alleging here I think

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@pkgandakin I think it’s helps more to understand or emphasize the social differences between these layers. And I am both a college instructor and a bus driver, so I have a sense of the different tasks for socialist in each terrain.

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@pkgandakin Maybe we’re talking at different levels of abstraction. What do we gain by considering profs as part of the same class layer as bus drivers?

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@pkgandakin Yes there are two hard classes, objectively, “purely”. But I thought you all were Gramscians. Such “pure” capitalism does not exist.

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@pkgandakin I don’t understand this point

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@pkgandakin I’m not exaggerating. Your claim is flattening out power laden social differences

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@pkgandakin It’s structural reductionism to say that profs are WC because they don’t own the means of production. This obscures the real political and strategic problems at hand for socialism

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@pkgandakin And there is a meaningful difference between those administrators whose social professional role is disciplining workers and workers themselves

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@pkgandakin It’s a major, I think fundamental weakness of the left today that our social base is more in these administrative layers than in the class

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@pkgandakin For socialists, it’s necessary to pay attention to such social operations of class and class power to understand the *disciplinary* role these administrative layers play *against* workers, and to not mistake their utterances as those of the class itself

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@pkgandakin The claim that professors are unproblematic part of the working class is to refuse the social totality of class and its reproduction, through which capital affords a socially administrative, middling role to such salaried professionals as profs, lawyers, judges, etc