The only way to guarantee working class dignity is through working class power.
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The only way to guarantee working class dignity is through working class power.
When we try to organize and grow capacity “in preparation for” a crisis, what this practically means is that we are organizing in response to smaller-level crises in ways that build our organizational capacity for larger crises.
thoughts on the important distinction between ‘material’ and ‘social’ properties and relations in Marxist analysis
Thoughts on identifying conservative disinformation and reactionary moral panics.
Fields of study in modern universities are results of history, as well as the job opportunities in the broader economy. How might a leftist university’s research areas and majors reflect leftist interests in what is socially valuable, rather than the capitalist interests in profit and market stability?
Rosa Luxemburg’s analysis of crises from chapter 2 of ‘Reform or Revolution’, similarities to the 2008 crisis, and general comments on characteristically Marxist methods of analyzing the economy.
Some quotes from Marx, and many quotes from Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution.
I watched Bo Burnham’s newest special. I finally confront my pessimism around the possibility of Left success.
Stray thoughts on the emphases I found helpful from anarchists and Marxist-Leninists—and why I am neither an anarchist nor a Marxist-Leninist.
I worry that many people on the left are too quick to leave democratic styles of organizing because they think it hasn’t been politically effective enough. Even if their experiences with ‘democratic’ organizations have been disappointing, I think we ought to be more rigorous and intentional about democracy before we compromise on it.
Common problems that can sink an organizing group: staying non-hierarchical for too long, and having too inflexible of a structure in response to changing circumstances.