In this letter to Geese Magazine, Zhao Levi (@aspectofmelinoe) makes the case for an “anti-AI manifesto” that targets the AI industry and aims ultimately at utilizing the technology positively under a socialist economy. Criticizing tendencies sympathetic to rationalism and pre-existing movements addressing AI within Geese and 1000 Means, he urges that the AI issue is one that must be articulated from a bold, communist perspective.
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This period is the greatest historical development in American Marxism since the 1930s. Now double it and give it to the next decade!
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To ignore the issue of policing in favor of “abolition or nothing” is to let corrupt departments and police unions run rampant. Now is the time to build organic consensus around Zohran firing Commissioner Tisch and disbanding the SRG. Not as a pie-in-the-sky demand, but as a process of further engagement with the city’s social and political life to give this campaign real teeth. This is a very serious and nuanced socialist analysis of policing dynamics and a blueprint for potential radical intervention in the NYPD by @andersleehere that I’m not sure many on the left are ready to hear—but they must.
Is Mayor Mamdani at a crossroads between his progressive vision and a conservative police force? In an era where retaining Commissioner Tisch has frustrated his base, a deep look at history suggests a way forward. Anders J. Lee (@andersleehere) examines the legacy of reformer Charles Gain and the appointment of Sheriff Edwin Raymond to argue that true change is still possible. Could this be the moment to challenge the NYPD's power?
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In this essay, John Henry asks us to sit with this contradiction and ask ourselves whether we are comfortable with the fact that we can only recognize inhumane violence when it happens at home.
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"Socialist" critics of prison abolition are so vociferous in their attacks because prison abolition requires the destruction of the bourgeois state, repression of the capitalist class, and transition to socialism and communism. They don't want to do any of that any more.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day may be the best Spider-Man movie of the MCU era. Matthew J. Hunter (@MattHunterMCR) doesn't dispute that. The problem is the factory. This iteration is already obsolete, a placeholder for the reboot Feige has announced, and the film's own villain - a government-corporate outfit that experiments on the powered and treats people as disposable assets - is just the studio's logic, one that profits from Spider-Man's image. Anti-union campaigns, mass VFX layoffs, a content pipeline that reduces cinema to content. A well-made product doesn't excuse the factory that made it.
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Geesecast #05 - Cassie Pritchard
The Geesecast talks shop about unions, cancel culture, AI, and more with Cassie Pritchard (@hecubian_devil)!
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As DSA moves quickly into the zeitgeist, millions of people are realizing everything is political and a better world is possible. It's a shame new play Chapter Meeting, centering around a dramatic all-night DSA meeting, didn't seem to get the message.
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