Koshy Abraham

[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon.

It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all.

It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people.

The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…”

Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class.

The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed.

Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement.

Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him.

In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus.

For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media.

Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role.

The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council.

I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

https://t.co/pDHSOYG0ZK

“At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app.
“While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@TheOmniLiberal tons of 'nonprofit' entities (especially hospital systems) wherein officers and admins get paid millions yet the entities pay no taxes because of this loophole.
yes mate, they are making money

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@lhfang @matthewstoller 😆 dems ran a neocon/zionist policy for decades. used to read your content seriously, you've become extremely hacky since your Twitter files "revelations". was Libya invaded to appease gays? 🤣

[Alabama Revolutionary🌹✊🏾 @TerrellLeftist]

@ZohranKMamdani @KathyHochul You're backbome missing or something @ZohranKMamdani

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@ZohranKMamdani @KathyHochul Hochul is giving leverage to the hospitals with state aid and travel nurse clearance. You have done very little other than appearing at rallies. Please do better and put pressure on Hochul to actually act in solidarity with working people.

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@lhfang maga is rudderless and meaningless thus easily subsumed by cult of personality and neocon liberalism when that personality deems it good.
the left is principled. that's the contrast

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@DrJBhattacharya private healthcare is a scam and you're a disingenuous fool if you think otherwise. collectivism/socialism does not equal authoritian communism. most people are no longer huffing Ayn rand's farts as steadfastly as you and your audience.

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@mtaibbi matt's schtick of conflating demsocialism with authoritarian communism continues unabated, fueled by his dumb ayn rand loving new audience

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@jazzanchovy rising sun? long shot

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@colorblindk1d @grousecobba @ThomasSowell Incorrect, private healthcare lobby (pharm/insurance/hospital) controls congress. Your second statement is nonsensical, I adhere to principles/ideas, not people or companies. Libertarianism is fantasy, Elon is just its latest huckster.

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@rachelkonrad @ThomasSowell They might be, but 'fed subsidies saved the company' isn't a reality most Sowell/Musk fans will readily accept. The point of the original post was to distract from that reality and justify an absurd compensation package. Explains why Musk himself retweeted, that busy little bee.

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@grousecobba @colorblindk1d @ThomasSowell Leaving the future to any private entity that prioritizes profit over everything is absurd. This is why healthcare sucks and we're always losing a war the public is weary to even wage. Elon is essentially a defense contractor, thinking he's more altruistic than LM is nonsense.

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@grousecobba @colorblindk1d @ThomasSowell likewise, it was called NASA. the metaphorical aerospace sundae of which space x is a mere sprinkle in re actual developments. private entities always piggy back off public research.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

The biggest scam we’ve seen is Elon Musk, the wealthiest man alive worth $677 billion, pretending to be a self-made billionaire when he’d be worth ZERO without $38 billion in corporate welfare and a workforce he ruthlessly exploits.

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@colorblindk1d @ThomasSowell Correct, they were all bailed out and/or subsidized. Only one, however, has a sycophantic fan base that pretends it's a libertarian success story; the initial contention of this thread.

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@0d3num @ThomasSowell @grok looks like they got saved by the fed a year later, not Elon's couch surfing antics. Or do you suppose the cost savings from operation couch surf pushed them into black? 😆

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@lotsofbrandz @ThomasSowell would Tesla have survived without subsidies?
the implication of the original post is that Tesla is a libertarian success story. It is nothing of the sort, dumbass.

[Koshy Abraham @realkoshy]

@Franko93703189 @ThomasSowell found the slop lover