was cold canvassing for a new labor project and am still baffled by someone responding to the pitch of "interested in organizing your workplace?" by saying "oh we already have someone doing that for us! no thanks!"
@mags_mclaugh She's unfortunately got a history in centrist dem politics but I'm hoping that was a professional choice driven by post Obama cynicism, will see what I can do
person in my program asked if I was getting food in between our classes today and when I said yes she said "great, I'll join you!" so I guess we're friends now.
Best part of reading the Noel Ignatiev compendium is how frequently the vulgar present understanding of his positions on racism and self activity of proletarians is actually those of the people he was arguing against at the time.
@magikarp424 my only objection was to your original tweet, which stated our communists weren't genocided (agree) and then that they switched sides peacefully (disagree, misses things like the well documented 60 years of state anti-communism prior and the impact of things like secret speech)
@magikarp424 I don't disagree with either of them, of course many radicals gave up on their politics because of LA or wages of whiteness. i question the political utility of dismissing the entirety of the real conditions facing the american communist movement, presently or in the past.
@Rizdeaux_Jones ALSO- the way it's taught in the movie is a pedagogical approach that was used to great success in soviet union and in revolutions. On surface seems connected to mechanical ways of thinking but it's not. Academics in the US have been influencd more by theorists than by organizers
my left-lib parents have both been very into Monitoring the Situation with trump two but they've completely diverged in media consumption so now i have a Podcast Dad and a Substack Mom. both are poorly informed but spiritually accurate - around 70% good, 30% bad
what are you even supposed to do man. I've spent my whole life governed by morons but at least their christofascism was restrained. now we just get a pig farming football player demanding more genocide.
Pillen was asked by a reporter how the order might affect Nebraskans who want to critique the government of Israel over the actions in the Middle East. Pillen recalled his trip to Israel with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
He continued his answer by saying “anybody that wants to stand up and talk about … the Palestinians, they’ve got to understand that those people are born to kill Jews and Christians. We have to stand up and deal with reality. It’s as simple as that.”
Raised beds aren't bad or anything but 80% of people would be better served by spending a quarter of the money on potatoes, compost, and a bunch of hay when making new garden beds
ME: fuck, this spreadsheet is going to be unreadable
ENENTARZI (Sumerian accountant whose soul is imprisoned in my Excel program): O great scribe, by the blessing of Nadu, perhaps a pivot table?
ME: hey thanks man
ENENTARZI: Truly this afterlife is a wondrous and blessed one
@Sarah_pdx oh I just remembered the rebecca karl history of china through the lens of Mao, have seen many comrades vouch for it, chapters 8/9 here: https://t.co/EwARnn0iAM
@Sarah_pdx his essay "The Sixties and Us", which you can find in "the idea of communism 3" is short on the history but does an excellent job of globally and politically contextualizing the political results of the movement.