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"To overcome legal cynicism, there is a need to defend and uphold the original revolutionary and natural function of the law, which is the only way to disarm our opponents of their own legal cynicism."
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“Instead, socialism was conflated with its historical opponent: a conflation that Mamdani’s campaign and its left-wing cheerleaders continue today.”
"Today, even the talk of a “dirty break,” which — despite its regressed character and questionable premises — registered at least some awareness of the need to organize a politically independent force for socialism, seems to have vanished."
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"Pirates are not principally a moral problem. They are what happens when the state trains people to do a thing and then declines to hire them to do that thing." - @BMStudebaker
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Patrick continued that “you need to be critical towards that elite class so that you can improve the social organization of your country. And so,” he expressed, “that is sort of what the New Right is becoming.” @NikosMohammadi
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"They do not see themselves as working class, because no one says they are. America says nothing about them, because they, their families, and the community colleges they attend are invisible."
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"So, you know, let the kids have their AI; what’s already there. Distributed consciousness classrooms. Boilers and flat roofs. More to the point, let the teachers use AI . . . Let Claude, happy-go-lucky engine of reification, go to school"
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Why did Chicago's most powerful union and the "Left" support the most punitive school COVID policy in America?
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"If, under American law, Mangione could be deemed not guilty because he killed a man who led an organization that, in the opinion of many, was unduly exploiting society, who would not live in fear of being killed?"
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"Protect your time. Protect your mind. Protect your spirit. Don’t throw yourself into a machine that survives by wearing people out. You don’t owe that to anyone — not even "the working class," if such a thing still exists in coherent form."
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"The culture now favors… the MAGA-esque. That necessitates a sort of MAGA Leftism… and to appear genuine, to be articulated by an anti-Trumper progressive like Mamdani."
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"As I found when activists tried to redefine “racism,” while much of their target audience went along with it unaware of the bait-and-switch, many went the other way and became racists. This was an entirely predictable result." @JosephJakeKlein @wtblacksheep
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"In short, we must earn the right to be socialists. None of us have it to begin with. We are by default capitalists — capitalist politicians. Do we wish to remain as such? We must begin again." A call from @ccutrone1970
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"Perhaps, though, the U.S. may yet head in an even more Hamiltonian direction than contemporary China. For example, China is lifting capital controls while the U.S. considers reimposing them, suggesting that Hamiltonian central management of finance is returning to America."
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"Capitalism continues, and until it is seen and comprehended, people will only continue to see structural racism, pedophile conspiracies, and cultural conflict..."
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"Just ask any antitrust economist. Or any energy economist who knows a thing or two about Enron. Or anyone with a background in finance who remembers the disaster of subprime mortgage markets." @jondavidchurch on his long-standing debate with @BenBurgis
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