Las Vegas DSA recently put out a good retrospective on their 2021 capture of the Nevada Democratic Party’s leadership positions. Unfortunately, a disappointing outcome, but good socialist analysis.
All in synthesis
Summarizing Marx’s analysis of the contradiction between ‘capitalist social relations’ and ‘the productive forces developed under capitalism’.
Not actually strange from the perspective of deontological ethics.
Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies - Part 4
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?
I describe how we might understand our ‘identity’ in the normative sense, through Wilfred Sellars’ framework from Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. I connect this to discussions of Kantian understandings of the sources of our obligations.
Some basic benefits and discussion around horizontal and democratic organizing structures.
I discuss and explain how I understand 'motivated reasoning’, and ways to avoid it.
An understanding of patterns of behaviors within institutions, taking notes from natural selection and the works of G.A. Cohen and Anwar Shaikh.
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.
Reflecting on what helps spontaneous movements successfully get over the initial hurdle of effort required to set up the structures and norms for effective organizing, my thoughts settled on three things…
Speed (in the Brain, on Social Media, and in Government)
Stray thoughts about how the speed of our decision-making can change the kinds of actions we end up taking.