Saturday, May 29, 2021

If the U.S. government’s propaganda is correct that the current crisis is due to Maduro’s mismanagement and corruption, then illegal and inhumane sanctions would not be needed to dislodge the “regime.”

In the Smithy of His Soul: A Steel Worker and Scholar ~~ PETER LINEBAUGH

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/30/in-the-smithy-of-his-soul-a-steel-worker-scholar/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Lucy Parsons, Woman of Will

https://archive.iww.org/history/biography/LucyParsons/1/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

The Fight to Abolish the Police Is the Fight to Abolish Capitalism ~~ Carmin Maffea

https://www.leftvoice.org/the-fight-to-abolish-the-police-is-the-fight-to-abolish-capitalism

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

175 Years of border invasions: The anniversary of the U.S. war on Mexico and the roots of northward migration ~~ David Vine

https://mronline.org/2021/04/24/175-years-of-border-invasions-the-anniversary-of-the-u-s-war-on-mexico-and-the-roots-of-northward-migration/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Decolonization or Extinction: Indigenous Red Deal Lays Out Plan to Save the Earth ~~ Democracy NOW

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/4/22/the_red_deal_book

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Nearly 250 years after land theft, Madawaska Nation wins settlement in Canada ~~ Ted Kelly

https://www.workers.org/2021/04/55887/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Following the Chauvin verdict: Stay in the streets! Abolish the police!

https://www.workers.org/2021/04/55929/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

"Cold-Blooded Murder": Chicago Police Officer Shot 13-Year-Old Adam Toledo with His Hands in the Air ~~ Democracy Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6diwqz8H8-0

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

Racial Oppression Will Not be Overcome Under Capitalism ~~ PAUL STREET

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/16/racial-oppression-will-not-be-overcome-under-capitalism/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Points of Unity ~~ Black Rose Anarchist Federation

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/black-rose-anarchist-federation-points-of-unity

~~ posted for Collectivist who requested this introduction be included: Although I am an ecological socialist, not an anarchist, I post this for two reasons, 1) anarchists are revolutionary comrades 2) to generate discussion . .. Collectivist ~~

Mr. Anonymous and the Not-So-Spontaneous Birth of the Libertarian "Movement" ~~ Anaxarchos (Marxist, labor organizer, writer, researcher)

http://www.thebellforum.net/Bell2/www.thebellforum.com/contentaff6.html?r=14-Not-So-Spontaneous-Birth-of-the-Libertarian-Movement

and

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0812/S00378/mr-anonymous-the-libertarian-movement.htm

The Rise of Right-wing Libertarianism Since the 1950s ~~ CHRIS WRIGHT

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/09/the-rise-of-right-wing-libertarianism-since-the-1950s/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

‘Make this a new period of working class challenge’

https://www.workers.org/2021/04/55814/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

The Marxist View of the State ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2009/03/06/marxist-view-of-the-state

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Building Communities of Solidarity ~~ Bill Fletcher and Fernando E. Gapasin, and Bill Gallegos

https://monthlyreview.org/2021/04/01/building-communities-of-solidarity/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On ~~ Erica X Eisen

https://portside.org/2021-04-03/other-nuremberg-trials-seventy-five-years

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Georgia’s New Voting Law Is Rife With Hidden Horrors ~~ Greg Palast

https://truthout.org/articles/georgias-new-voting-law-is-rife-with-hidden-horrors/

~~posted for collectivist ~~

Cult Capitalism ~~ Lyra Walsh Fuchs

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/cult-capitalism?utm_source=Dissent+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d74d310e61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_22_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a1e9be80de-d74d310e61-102327940

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Comparisons of China and the U.S. in Their Roles as Global Hegemons ~~ dmorista

~~ Written by dmorista ~~

Culture of Violence ~~ LAURA FLANDERS

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/29/culture-of-violence/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

To Win Significant, Long-Term Change in America, We Need Class Struggle ~~ NICK FRENCH

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/biden-stimulus-american-rescue-plan-welfare-class-struggle/?fbclid=IwAR2NONMCj1BS7YxWgIrJdodddM4HjoJaOf1DO9uGJeCfi8z3kmuCfJiI9ZA

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

How China is building a non-imperialist model of international development ~~ Michael Dunford

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/how-china-is-building-a-non-imperialist-model-of-international-development

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

Who are the 10 Biggest Pandemic Profiteers? ~~ CHUCK COLLINS

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/25/who-are-the-10-biggest-pandemic-profiteers/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

For over a century and a half: Chinese workers abused and superexploited in U.S. ~~ Jim McMahan

https://www.workers.org/2021/03/55287/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Amazon Hires Off-Duty Cops to Harass Workers, the Press, and Supporters ~~ Madeleine Freeman

https://www.leftvoice.org/amazon-hires-off-duty-cops-to-harass-workers-the-press-and-supporters

Bessemer, Alabama’s police chief has confirmed that off-duty officers have been hired by Amazon to act as “security” for the BHM1 facility in the middle of a historic and intense union drive. Two Left Voice reporters who were recently expelled from Amazon’s premises by the cops: report from the ground.

Backstabber Biden Denying At Least 30 Million Desperately Poor Pensioners Our Promised $1400 Stipends, Confirming Democrats' Continued Function as Republican Fifth Column

In Yet Another Epic Betrayal, Forcible-Disarmament-Fanatic Joe Has Sneakily Renewed His Opposition to Legalized Marijuana -- Probably to Radically Intensify Prosecutions of Otherwise Lawful Gun Owners

THANKS TO A pair of sources -- The Stand, Washington State Labor Council's excellent on-line daily, plus a much-appreciated news tip from fellow journalist William Boardman -- we now have our clearest-yet sense of the hatred and contempt that unites the "Democratic" (sic) and Republican parties in the ecogenocidal solidarity of their Neoliberal (Neonazi) war against U.S. Working Families and the global Working Class in general:

The Stand tells us President Joseph Biden's ongoing "bipartisan" collaboration with the Trumpists who have sabotaged the Social Security Administration and the VA is the reason at least 40 million of us may not get our $1400 "stimulus" checks until 31 December -- if even then.
And Mr. Boardman's tip -- for which again my gratitude -- tells us the Biden Regime is already betraying the huge majorities of the imperial homeland's adult citizens who stupidly believed the Democrats' Big Lie a Biden/Harris victory would legalize marijuana.

These are among the most damning proofs yet the "Democratic" (sic) Party has reverted to its post-JFK function as the Republican Party's Neoliberal (Neonazi) Fifth Column.

And, of course, the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine, the world's first privately owned, for-profit version of Josef Goebbels' infamous Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, is protecting the Democrats by suppressing the story -- or at the very least, sugar-coating it with the nauseatingly fecal propaganda routinely excreted in service to the Moronic Majority's cult of mandatory optimism.

Again demonstrating our fatal lack of a genuine Left, nearly all the so-called "alternative" media is doing likewise.

Hence our two courageous sources have provided genuinely revealing information:

Firstly. as you probably know, many Republicans and at least a few of their "Democratic" (sic) Fifth Column co-conspirators sadistically wanted to deny -- say again DENY-- stimulus checks to any of us whose sole sources of income are the murderously miserly welfare, Social Security or veterans' stipends that define us as unexploitable for profit, too impoverished to be liable for income taxes and therefore -- in the merciless Ayn Randified eyes of our Neoliberal Masters -- as "life unworthy of life."¹

Why withhold the money? Obviously, it's another aspect of our Masters' Final Solution to the problem of overpopulation by those of us who are hopelessly poor: the longer we are denied our $1400, the more acute our anxiety. More of us will therefore sicken and die -- which of course leaves more money for the Empire's Neoliberal (Neonazi) owners and their political marionettes.

Moreover the Democrats and their Republican co-conspirators have sneakily given the SS and VA bureaucracies until 31 December 2021 to make the payments² -- obviously to further maximize the Covid19 death toll.³

Secondly, apropos the "Democratic" (sic) Party's resumption of opposition to legalized marijuana, as an analytically minded member of the Second Amendment community's hard-Left faction, I saw this coming years ago. The fact marijuana is legal prescription medicine in a growing number of states is federally meaningless -- and as Biden now demonstrates, so it shall remain.

Why? Because any firearms owner who merely draws a breath of air containing marijuana smoke will urine-test positive for drug use and is therefore subject not only to confiscatory forcible disarmament, but to ten years' slave labor on the for-profit prisoner plantations that despite Biden's deceptions continue to expand, amassing profits comparable to those extracted by antebellum slave owners.

Hence anyone who believed Biden/Harris would legalize pot or end for-profit prison slavery was either hopelessly naive or more typically a member of the Moronic Majority, a useful idiot brainwarped by the Ruling Class and thus totally oblivious to the fact our Masters intend to completely disarm us -- to reduce us literally to mandatory pacifism and compulsory victimhood -- the latest expression of their fear our hopelessly dumbed-down brains might someday figure out how to foment a (real) revolution.

Doubt me? Note that some forcible-disarmament fanatics are already calling for mandatory monthly drug tests and annual psych evaluations for all firearms owners -- millions more dollars for the for-profit medical predators, with firearms ownership by us poor folk permanently prohibited by these proposed additional costs.

Thirdly, behind his cloak of Big Lies, disinformation and euphemisms, Biden is obviously just another example of "change we can believe in," different from the Trumpite version mainly in the extent to which Biden hides Neoliberalism's Neonazi agenda -- Trump's premature disclosures of which separated our Masters into at least two mutually hostile factions and ensured Trump's loss in last November's election.⁵

How then did the "Democratic" (sic) Party become the Republican Fifth Column it is today? My journalistic guess is the Democrats were terminally compromised by their collaboration with the Republicans in the murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the still furiously controversial deceptions necessary to hide the Ruling Class coup of 22 November 1963 -- its reality since proven by the now-irremediable (boiled-frog) imposition of Neoliberal Neonazism.⁴

Perhaps the most pivotal lesson I've been taught by Moron Nation is that investigative journalism is utterly pointless -- that too many of whatever small percentage of the population has retained the ability to read with comprehension has also been reduced to such submissive moral imbecility they are genetically incapable of feeling the empathy or concerns essential to humanitarian action.

In other words, in the psychological sense -- regardless of race or gender -- they are already naught but slaves.

All of which thrusts me ever closer to concluding there truly is no hope for us -- not for ourselves, our nation, our species, our Mother Earth.
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¹"Life Unworthy of Life" is the English translation of the phrase by which the German Nazis condemned elderly or disabled people to death for being unprofitable -- an ultimate example of the criminalization of poverty that has become so popular amongst U.S. politicians.

²HR1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, is among the most infuriatingly censored legislative packages ever enacted by Congress, which is why most of us remain unaware its Ayn-Rand-minded authors gave the federal bureaucracy nearly a year -- specifically until 31 December 2021 -- to send us our $1400 relief payments. Scroll to Page 137, "Timing and Manner of Payments...No refund or credit shall be made or allowed under this subsection after December 31, 2021." This is the most outrageously tolerant approval of bureaucratic obstructionism I have ever encountered.

³Apropos the viciously extended disbursement deadline, I turn 81 on 30 March; even fully vaccinated -- I go off quarantine at midnight -- my comorbidities may not let me live long enough to see the now indefinitely delayed $1400 -- and the same applies to anyone like me. Obviously, this is no accident; its potentially deadly anxieties are precisely what our Masters intend -- another atrocity in their ever-more-lethal criminalization of poverty.

⁴Though it is seldom recognized as such, neoliberalism is the most toxic variant of Nazism to emerge thus far. Note the identical, might-makes-right ethos of absolute moral imbecility promulgated both by Hitler in Mein Kampf and by Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged. Indeed, Neoliberalism's submit-to-capitalism-or-die mandate expresses the same submit-to-the-übermenschen-or-die ruthlessness of Nazism's German founders; the differences between the two are thus more illusory than real. Rather than requiring an individual tyrant, Neoliberalism crowns the corporate aristocracy as our species' divinely ordained, absolute-power ruler; building on Josef Goebbels' methodological foundation, it achieves its intended tyrannies by the most compelling psychological warfare ever unleashed against our species and -- cunningly exploiting the induced ignorance of Moron Nation -- by other methods far more readily concealable than the German Nazi agenda of military conquests, death camps and Zyklon B. It does so by glorifying Ayn Rand's sociopathy and by weaponizing disaster, pollution and disease to eradicate the few remnants of democratic process and reduce the Working Class to inescapable forms of modern slavery. Given the many variants of fascism that have reduced what was originally a proper noun to a lower-case generic, I propose doing likewise with Nazism. This gives us neonazism (or nazism) as more emotionally accurate description of what we now label "fascism," its lower-case forms the correct spelling for all "nazi" references save to the Third Reich's N.S.D.A.P., the original Nazi Party, which should of course still be capitalized accordingly.

⁵Is Trump down for the proverbial count? I fear not. I have no doubt whatever non-nazified historians might abide in the future -- that is, if we somehow manage to seize ourselves a future -- will define the nazis' 6 January 2021 uprising as eerily equivalent to Hitler's 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch. Obviously I cannot predict what measures the U.S. nazis will next attempt. But I am absolutely certain we the people of these helplessly (dis)United States no longer collectively possess the empathy, integrity, knowledge, skill, determination, solidarity-- and most of all the titanium-ovaried, brass-testicled courage -- necessary to defeat (any) nazi onslaught. We saw these requisites demonstrated by the Soviet people, as many as 43 million of whom died saving us all from Hitler and his allies, but alas I cannot imagine such capability in the present-day United States. Goddess grant this time my usually accurate pessimism is flat out wrong.

LB/27 March 2021

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Thursday, March 25, 2021

One Night in Miami (A Film Review by Collectivist)

One Night in Miami (A Film Review by Collectivist)

An Honest History of Texas Begins and Ends With White Supremacy ~~ Casey Michel

https://newrepublic.com/article/161685/texas-1836-project-white-supremacy?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campa

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

8M: For a revolutionary feminism, which is not a cover photo but a struggle against all exploitation ~~ Cecilia Zemudio

https://mronline.org/2021/03/16/8m-for-a-revolutionary-feminism-which-is-not-a-cover-photo-but-a-struggle-against-all-exploitation/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Rising Food Prices and War ~~ Thom Hartmann and Richard Wolff

https://www.rdwolff.com/thom_hartmann_rising_food_prices_could_bring_world_war

What Does Critique Do? — On the Critical Predation of China

https://www.qiaocollective.com/en/articles/what-does-critique-do

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Anti-Asian racism never stopped being an outgrowth of U.S. imperialism ~~ Danny Haiphong

https://mronline.org/2021/03/11/anti-asian-racism-never-stopped-being-an-outgrowth-of-u-s-imperialism/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Capitalism and Healthcare: The Con of “Nonprofit” Hospitals ~~ Merrily Mazza

https://www.leftvoice.org/capitalism-and-healthcare-the-con-of-nonprofit-

Nonprofit hospitals operate under the guise of “charity” in order to avoid paying taxes. Capitalist healthcare cannot safeguard public health — but a nationalized system under democratic, worker control can.

The Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is ~~ Frank Hyman

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill-news/chn-opinion/article135987178.html

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

OVER 350 GROUPS URGE PRESIDENT BIDEN TO STOP THE LINE 3 PIPELINE

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Is Trumpism Fascism? ~~ Paul Street

https://theanalysis.news/interviews/is-trumpism-fascism-paul-street/

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

THE SIEGE OF THE CAPITOL: ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROBERT MERCER ~~ Alex Constantine

https://constantinereport.com/the-siege-of-the-capitol-all-roads-lead-to-robert-mercer/

~~ article recommended by dreamjoehill2 and Introduction by dmorista ~~

Women Used to Dominate the Beer Industry – until the Witch Accusations Started Pouring in ~~ Laken Brooks

https://portside.org/2021-03-07/women-used-dominate-beer-industry-until-witch-accusations-started-pouring

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Up until the 1500s, brewing was primarily women’s work – that is, until a smear campaign accused women brewers of being witches.

Dossier No. 38: Uncovering the crisis: Care work in the time of Coronavirus

https://mronline.org/2021/03/07/dossier-no-38-uncovering-the-crisis-care-work-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem. ~~ Jon Jetter

https://www.blackagendareport.com/open-letter-chris-hedges-racism-not-cancel-culture-problem

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

LABOR Amazon Launches Anti-Union Website to Derail Alabama Union Drive ~~ Lauren Kaori Gurley

https://portside.org/2021-01-19/amazon-launches-anti-union-website-derail-alabama-union-drive

Ruling Class Joe and the Essence of American Politics ~~ PAUL STREET

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/03/ruling-class-joe-and-the-essence-of-american-politics/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

Is the United States Heading for a Rural Insurgency?

https://www.justsecurity.org/72681/is-the-united-states-heading-for-a-rural-insurgency/

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

How Poor Black Lives Matter to U.S. Capitalism Today: Reflections on “The New Jim Crow” ~~ Paul Street

https://www.blackagendareport.com/poor_black_lives_matter_to_capitalism_new_jim_crow

The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black lumpen proletariat and turning it into a largely inert, deindustrialized profit-source whose 'value added' comes mainly from the mere fact of its captive existence.”

Far-right accelerationists hope to spark the next U.S. civil war ~~ Greg Huffman

https://www.facingsouth.org/2021/02/far-right-accelerationists-hope-spark-next-us-civil-war

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

How Real Nazis Came to the Americas: the Recruitment of Klaus Barbie ~~ JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/26/how-real-nazis-came-to-the-americas-the-recruitment-of-klaus-barbie/

~~ posted for dreamjoehill2 ~~

Biden Continues in His Predecessors Time Honored Tradition of Imperialist War Mongering

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/26/unconstitutional-us-airstrikes-on-syria-draw-strong-criticism

First US military action under Biden draws criticism

Yet Another Capitalist Debacle: This Time in Texas ~~ dmorista

Yet Another Capitalist Failure in Texas

~~ Written by dmorista ~~

Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears ~~ Edward Ball; Photographs by Wayne Lawrence

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

Build New Infrastructure for a Broader Movement

https://portside.org/2021-02-22/build-new-infrastructure-broader-movement

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

Texans exorbitant electricity bills after winter storm and His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752

~~ Two related articles posted for dmorista ~~

Don't blame a lack of education — QAnon proves privileged white people are losing their minds too ~~ AMANDA MARCOTTE

https://www.salon.com/2021/02/04/dont-blame-a-lack-of-education--qanon-proves-privileged-white-people-are-losing-their-minds-too/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

Can We Exit This Road to Ruin? ~~ Craig Collins

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-02-16/can-we-exit-this-road-to-ruin/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

Limbaugh’s Legacy: Normalizing Hate for Profit ~~ ANTHONY DIMAGGIO

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/19/limbaughs-legacy-normalizing-hate-for-profit/

With Covid Delays, You May Die Waiting for Disability Benefits ~~ BOBBI DEMPSEY

https://inthesetimes.com/article/covid-delays-disability-benefits-social-security-insurance

Corporate profit, electricity deregulation and the disaster in Texas. ~~ Patrick Martin

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/18/pers-f18.html

~~ posted for dmorista ~~

We Must Fight the System, Not Each Other ~~ Elaheh Farmand

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/14/we-must-fight-system-not-each-other?amp

~posted for Collectivist ~~

No Color-Blind Road to Socialism in the U.S. ~~ Danny Haiphong

https://www.laprogressive.com/a-racist-and-imperialist-state/~~

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

The Centers of Global Capitalism Are Migrating Away From the U.S., Europe and Japan ~~ RICHARD D. WOLFF

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/15/the-centers-of-global-capitalism-are-migrating-away-from-the-u-s-europe-and-japan/

Lets Talk about Sex

http://spunk.org/library/sex/sp001711.html

~~~ Now I have your attention... hehe - The left is about freeing people from exploitation and oppression; having control over lives and work... Control over one's life also needs to include control over our own bodies and sexuality. This is the best part of this article: "We have produced this article to get the juices flowing. We don't want to control or put people's lives on guilt trips, like so many others - we do want to fight for a world where sex, like every other arena of our lives, is healthy, free of unnecessary confusion, and controlled by us, not the powers that be.", newestbeginning ~~~

The country where liberty is a statue. ~~ Vijay Prashad

https://mronline.org/2021/01/15/the-country-where-liberty-is-a-statue/

“The Pitfalls of Liberalism”, by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael

https://unableunwilling.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/the-pitfalls-of-liberalism-by-stokely-carmichael-kwame-ture/

(NB note - I would like to draw attention to the fantastic discussion of violence in this piece)

On Trump’s Next Absurd Acquittal BY PAUL STREET

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/10/on-trumps-next-absurd-acquittal/

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

The Only Place Where Black People Did Not Revolt is in the Pages of Capitalist Historians: Black History Month on Left Voice ~~

https://www.leftvoice.org/the-only-place-where-black-people-did-not-revolt-is-in-the-pages-of-capitalist-historians-black-history-month-on-left-voice

Classs Struggle in the Biden Era ~~ Jimena Vergara and James Dennis Hoff

https://www.leftvoice.org/class-struggle-in-the-biden-era

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE. . .Part 2. ~~Collectivist

~~ Written by Collectivist ~~

GM 1937, Amazon 2021: Which side are you on? ~~ Martha Grevatt

https://www.workers.org/2021/02/54228/

Bessemer, Alabama, sitting on the outskirts of Birmingham and with a population of 26,500 — about 75% African American — has become a central focus for the entire class struggle.

NYPD Deploys Counter Terrorism Unit To Protect Wall Street in Response To Gamestop Protests ~~ Alan Macleod

https://www.mintpressnews.com/nypd-deploys-counter-terrorism-unit-protect-wall-street-in-response-gamestop-protests/274996/

How Capitalism and Racism Support Each Other ~~ Richard Wolff

https://www.democracyatwork.info/how_capitalism_and_racism_support_each_other

The Assassination of Fred Hampton: New Documents Reveal Involvement of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/79160/the-assassination-of-fred-hampton-new-documents-reveal-involvement-of-fbi-director-j-edgar.html

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ! ~~collectivist

~~Written by collectivist ~~

Misrepresenting the Left: We Are Not Liberals ~~ Ron Jacobs

https://dissidentvoice.org/2010/04/misrepresenting-the-left-we-are-not-liberals/

Lerro on the Need for Ritual: a Pivotal Work, Dare We Heed It ~~ Loren Bliss

By LOREN BLISS
Dispatches from Dystopia

The U.S. Economy Excels at One Thing: Producing Massive Inequality ~~ RICHARD D. WOLFF

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/29/the-u-s-economy-excels-at-one-thing-producing-massive-inequality/

Against Loving Your Job ~~ Sarah Jaffe

https://inthesetimes.com/article/alienated-labor-capitalism-jobs-work

“We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will.”

Alienation in capitalist society ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2003-2/467/467_09_Alienation.php

(From the Meaning of Marxism)

THE TERM "alienation" in normal usage refers to a feeling of separateness, of being alone and apart from others. For Marx, alienation was not a feeling or a mental condition, but an economic and social condition of class society--in particular, capitalist society.

If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. The

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Nonprofit hospitals operate under the guise of “charity” in order to avoid paying taxes. Capitalist healthcare cannot safeguard public health — but a nationalized system under democratic, worker control can.

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America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South

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