Asking the simple question, “why are so many more Americans homeless now than they were in the 1940’s-70’s” yields many productive follow up questions which one may follow if not content with simple answers…
The last time the US significantly reduced homelessness was in the 1940’s due to a combination of 3 factors: 1. A militant and organized working class forcing massive concessions and redistribution of economic resources toward public goods and safety nets…
@TheRealVarnVlog Most Americans never having experienced the feeling of being able to easily walk or transit to where they need to go an underrated obstacle to socialism imo
@dbessner@dbessner somewhat relatedly, if in town and free this Thursday our final Red May event of the month is this book talk on the Mets, baseball, and class politics in NYC. Would be great to meet you there!
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@redf0undation It’s just wishcasting but to me the more interesting question is how much Lincoln was reading Marx’s NY Daily Tribune articles during the civil war? It was probably often! Marx didn’t need private correspondence to communicate with him, he had a huge platform!
@redf0undation It’s just wishcasting but to me the more interesting question is how much Lincoln was reading Marx’s NY Daily Tribune articles during the civil war? It was probably often! Marx didn’t need private correspondence to communicate with him, he had a huge platform!
The Brookings Institution, sometimes ranked the most influential think tank in the world, laying out plainly in 2009 how "international criticism and Iranian retaliation" could be "deflected away from the United States and onto Israel."
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Yes, supply of most goods under capitalism is either artificially constrained or overproduced due to “fake”, illogical, and often destructive market demands. This does not mean the relationship between them has no impact on price, even under communism! Marx would roll his eyes.
Yes, supply of most goods under capitalism is either artificially constrained or overproduced due to “fake”, illogical, and often destructive market demands. This does not mean the relationship between them has no impact on price, even under communism! Marx would roll his eyes.
Leave it to @BootsRiley to explain dia-mat via a kitschy gadget that either accelerates contradictions or deconstructs them and then becomes a vehicle for international worker uprising, while also giving new meaning to the phrase “best head ever” :)
@TheRealVarnVlog Im sure if we atomize and divide the working class even further and stop hindering Capital so much things will just naturally turn around at some point. I think that’s in Hegel