Tom Wojcik
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Affable! Ox-like! A worker of the world! Jovial brute. An irregular in the army of the Lord. @DSA_Intl_Comm (Steering Committee).
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Holy smokes, Greek protestors are setting the American embassy in Athens on fire.
🔥 ATHENES 🔥
L'ambassade américaine vient d’être attaquée à coup de cocktail molotov lors d'une manif
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Sorry the Warren people are getting death threats. My buddy gets death threats every other Monday when his insurance company says if he can’t pay his bills, he’ll stop getting insulin.
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May regret posting this, but I’m nearly certain that people are turning into socialists because of the deteriorating conditions of our society, not Bernie.
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It’s not a bone structure thing, they probably just want an American audience to see Fidel as a skeevy creep, like James Franco, not amicable and heroic, like Pedro Pascal.
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The American Left desperately needs an education on SPECTACLE.
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What strikes me is the utter lack of public enthusiasm for the billionaire space race. For most working people, NASA (a public institution) felt like we were going forward together. This feels like we’re being left behind.
"Best day ever!" Jeff Bezos and three others successfully land after a flight by a Blue Origin rocket to space 🚀
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With respect, you could not ask for a more centrist West Wing ass group than WCK, who by all accounts took every reasonable measure to play by IDF rules, and were butchered anyway. Mainstream media darlings for Democrats, massacred. What sane liberal is backing Israel right now?
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Evo just called out Elon Musk by name as one of the main forces behind the lithium coup.
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Gonna be fun when all the online people try their hand at canvassing and discover every third person has incoherent, problematic opinions.
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Stumbled upon the find of the century, the complete works of Lenin (thirty-eight volumes) collecting dust in a Chicago antique shop. They will be well loved!
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Just be a communist. I’m so exhausted with incrementalism in the American left. Be a Marxist, read Lenin, it isn’t hard.
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I just want every American to know that it's not that weird or scary to be a communist, and that it is, in the international context, a fairly standard political identity. Many people have been communists, many people are communists. And slowly we're realizing this.
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Biden is keeping Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, which was a last minute Trump maneuver. In terms of a Cuba policy, there is currently zero distinctions between Trump and Biden.
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Working class has everything to do with your relationship to labor. Don’t own capital? Have to sell your labor for a wage? Working class. Boom, saved everyone three days of discourse.
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It does stink to hear about small, interesting places being trashed. But how many black small businesses or working class hotspots have been destroyed so capitalists can build a Hard Rock Cafe? How many beautiful places were destroyed by gentrification? This is never discussed.
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In case you weren’t aware, The Summit of the Americas has been an abject disaster for the US State Department.
President Alberto Fernández: "Cuba is bearing an embargo which is over six decades old imposed during the years of the cold war and Venezuela is bearing another.."
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Are we ready to admit Bojack Horseman wasn’t that interesting? Have we healed?
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They were arrested for resisting a genocidal war machine.
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Both are bad! One kills 43,000 a year, can you guess which one?
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Bernie was exceptional because he was one of the first mainstream voices to even elude to what everyone was thinking. It wasn’t political guile or charisma, or that he was a Democrat or an Independent.
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Someone is flying a GDR flag down the street, what is happening?
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We are largely unified in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, yet the overemphasis on holding Putin accountable (where we have absolutely no influence) and an underemphasis on de-escalating NATO intervention (where we have some influence) confuses me.
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The Jack Ryan show definitely began production back when the coup was being coordinated, assuming it would still be in motion by the time production wrapped, but the coup blew up in their face, so now all they have is a stupid TV show, which is kinda funny. Fuck John Krasinski.
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When I was in Iowa, literally the second door I knocked was a working class lady who loved socialism, believed women shouldn’t be president, and was caucusing for Buttigieg. That’s the American public.
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“The US doesn’t have a Left.” Yes we do. It’s you. Get to work.
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Cuban medical mission providing the Abdala vaccine to Venezuelans, the newly developed Cuban vaccine.
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Chicago has had its villains, but there has never been a more miserable, freakish, fish-eyed, stone cold weirdo than Lori Lightfoot. It’s like she came out of the river.
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I would politely suggest that socialists seek to create an internal culture that isn't dogshit and demoralizing all the time. A culture that is actually a relief for working people to be a part of, not a gauntlet of humiliation.
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Not to read too deep into this, but Pedro Pascal is a superstar who would make Fidel look like a superstar. Aside from that, he’s a Latin American progressive who publicly endorsed Boric. That creates, uh, problems.
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Reading Lenin right now, and my favorite passage is when he tells socialists to shut the fuck up for one second and let facts roll in before making tweets that are gonna make you look like an asshole in five minutes.
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The “people are Bad, it’s best that humanity goes extinct” crowd won’t be so fucking smug when they watch their mothers starve, or see children die slow and hideous deaths from ancient plagues that crawled out of the permafrost. Fuck your misanthropy, I want to live.
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I’m not fucking around, but I have begun to measure DSA power only in extremely material, logistic terms. Can DSA get a person a job? Can DSA get someone a hotel room? Can a DSA chapter knock on one hundred doors in a day? One thousand? Could we rent an office? Buy a house?
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It is December 25th, 1991, and I am a Polish third camp socialist. I’m watching the Soviet flag being lowered over the Kremlin on TV. I cast a warm, knowing grin. Now that the Soviet Union is gone, I can’t friggin wait for the real socialism to begin. 1992 is gonna be so epic.
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The prudes and fuddy-duddies will think showing up with a hundred red flags and an elephant is gauche, but you know what the guy on the street will think? "Man, they can get an elephant."
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BLM had the best Cuba statement in response to the last week, no question. It should be considered the pragmatic, centrist progressive position.
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How does this translate into better organizing? I don’t know. I’m merely stating an observation.
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Hey, update: I do definitely regret posting this. I get that it’s a little both, I was speaking broadly. The fear I was trying to articulate was that we shouldn’t falsely correlate people rushing to socialism because of Bernie’s specific strategies.
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Rumsfeld died, we’re all celebrating in Venezuela with Chavista militants, lol eat shit Rummy.
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Why are people upset? It means the momentum and demand and urgency for socialism still exists! They didn’t destroy the heart! Rejoice!
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The most jarring illumination that I‘ve learned in my time here, which our Chavista comrades tell us regularly, is that Venezuela is a capitalist country, with a strong private sector, which is constantly at war with the socialist public sector and socialist grassroots projects.
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Can’t believe Zack Snyder got you all to watch a bad movie twice.
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I appreciate this good faith critique from comrade Abrams, and look forward to hashing it out at Convention.
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Eugenics was science. The atom bomb is science, and so was the Tuskegee syphilis study. Scientists design and maintain fracking rigs. Science itself contains no morality, so what is the science in service of? What world order does it advance?
Anybody else read this first bullet point and immediately burst into tears of relief? No? Just me? That’s cool.
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Online fascists always call me fat. Yeah I’m fat, I love it. I love being fat and tall and gregarious, big personality, walking around Chicago with my big long coat like a Pritzker. Everybody likes me and no one fucks with me, it’s sick.
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We’ve all endured this kind of mysticism for too long, I think.
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AOC messaging on Chile and Allende is highly constructive, and very savvy. It's an excellent place to begin (begin!) the conversation with liberals on Latin America, and to hook newbies on the concept of socialist internationalism. Two big thumbs up from this guy.
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If you are a communist and you’ve truly embraced that bourgeois elections are a sham, voting is a minor act. Angela Davis is coming from a framework in which voting has such little value that you might as well be going to the grocery store. To liberals it’s everything.
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We’re approaching one million dead. If mask mandates and common sense measures against COVID are unconstitutional, then the Constitution is obsolete. If the US government cannot be mobilized to protect us from a pandemic, then why does it exist?
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Mainstream liberals obviously don't care about Palestinian children, but they do care about late night talkshow guests. Remember when IDF targeted AP News offices in Gaza! Utter spinelessness, total self-loathing, even in defense of their own institutions. I'm shocked.
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Every year, DSA should allocate resources towards making one good standing member shredded like Kumail Nanjiani.
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Two neoliberal powers (US-led NATO and Putin’s Russia) brawling for control. Who loses? The working class. No to Russian invasion. No to US military escalation. No to war.
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The cannons are aimed at DSA because we are a fighting socialist organization that dares to imagine a world beyond Israeli apartheid, and gets results. We will continue to debate tactics and strategies and language. We will not apologize for our position against apartheid.
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DSA has officially sent its very first delegation to Cuba.
The USA deploys the most bombs and weapons around the world
Cuba deploys the most doctors and nurses
DSA deployed us.
#DSAHealthcareDelegation
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There is no significant anarcho-syndicalist faction in Cuba. This is video game-speak.
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Getting mobbed by centrists is like getting swarmed by a group of flightless birds. Just the most impotent, pearl clutching creeps imaginable. I have zero respect for your moral calculus, I have nothing but contempt for you all. My heart rate isn't even elevating, get fucked.
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DSA made 200k calls for a ceasefire. DSA chapters across the country have been involved in Palestine protests, people have been arrested. IC leadership wanted good faith integration! C'mon.
At convention, DSA National voted against upholding anti-Zionism. We won’t allow our organizing horizons to be limited to electoral tailism or forced out of step with the Palestinian grassroots. We will now broaden our organizing terrain beyond the limitations of DSA.
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Mfs think they’re better than Lenin and the others. You’re not. You’re not smarter, you’re not braver, you’re not more coherent. You’re not gonna rebrand socialism, you’re not gonna make it softer or safer. C’mon.
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Seems like part of a coordinated red scare tactics to disarm legitimate criticism of NATO, to me.
Pseudo-leftists — sometimes called “tankies,” a name deriving from an earlier generation of Western leftists who backed the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 — also defend Russia’s behavior today.
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Cuba has consistently and without exception stood with the American people against their oppressors.
Remember this solidarity.
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One of the finest leaders ever produced in this hemisphere.
Fidel Castro possessed more insight, intellect and sincere compassion than every single one of the Western politicians who slandered and demonised him for *decades* on end.
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Solidarity with the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) as they brave these fascist attacks.
In the state of Tripura, India, the offices of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M)
@cpimspeak
was attacked by members of the BJP, the party of the right-wing Indian PM Narendra Modi, on September 8th. (+)
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Cannot believe the speed at which Israel (and the US by extension) is losing credibility over Gaza. Feels empire shattering.
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I’m in Guatemala, and a stray dog just attacked me. I was taken to a standard, public hospital. Within an hour I received consultation and treatment for rabies. I was completely terrified about my insurance, the cost.
It is completely free. All four treatments.
#Medicare4All
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To visualize, this is Evo (Bolivia’s first indigenous president). And this is Luis Camacho, one of the principle opposition leaders. Same as it ever was.
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If I survive this, I am dedicating my life to destroying capitalism.
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They never ever say we need big, strong unions.
Speaker Pelosi: "I say to my Republican friends, take back your party. The country needs a big, strong Republican Party. And I say that as a leader in the Democratic Party... Don't have it be a cult of personality on the extreme, extreme, extreme right."
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It’s not the Cuban Revolution, but it aspires to be like Cuba. And to be frank, if socialists in America ever come to power through electoral channels, it’s quite likely we’d encounter many of the same contradictions in battling the wealthy elements of our society.
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Jeez, it seems like, regardless of a Sanders victory or defeat, DSA has established a national infrastructure of anti-capitalists. I wonder what someone might do with that kinda network? 🤔
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Three years of planning, over a year of organizing. 44 delegates. 3 electeds. 500 lbs. of medical supplies, plus ten+ bags of school supplies, delivered to the Cuban people.
DSA has just advanced one of the most positive developments towards US-Cuba normalization in years.
This week, DSA sent a multi-tendency delegation of forty-four organizers (including six members of our NPC) to Havana. This fact-finding delegation represented various national working groups, national and local leadership, elected officials, and rank and file membership. 1/7
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At the Bernie office, my canvassing buddy is a seventy year old professional bridge player from Washington who’s living out of his van until the Caucus. What a fucking movement.
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DSA should develop a national strategy to recruit native Spanish speakers while also developing Spanish education programs for its non-Spanish speaking membership. Both projects strengthen our organization. I do not see these concepts to be in any way contradictory.
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Told the nurse at this Naperville doctor’s office that I was in Venezuela, expecting a negative reaction. She starts telling me about the history of US intervention in Latin America, economic exploitation, and empire. She says she can’t wait for the world to change.
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“We are trying to break out of the hell that is capitalism.” This is a direct quote from one of the comuneros. Venezuela is a capitalist society, a capitalist economy, containing strong bubbles of socialism in government and in the barrios. It is a society in transition.
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Who could have lived a life of luxury. Instead he spent every nickel he had, used every privilege he was given, to make ferocious sacred war on capitalism in the name of Cuba’s working poor. Which included expropriating his family’s own property. He was a hero.
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What is a refrigerator, if not a conspiracy of parts and objects interacting with each other in a predictable pattern?
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People say shit like this but still put PhD in their Twitter bio, lol
On this day two years ago I received my Ph.D and I'm here to tell you, you don't need one
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This quote, from the Soviet exhibit a few years back at the Art Institute, quite literally changed my life.
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Wanna get around the academic quagmire? The endless debates, the pearl clutching? Looking for an out? Here’s your out. I give you permission to be a communist and feel wonderful.
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Remember when Castro killed a million people over fifty years? Oh wait, that’s how many civilians the Iraq War killed in eighteen years.
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This should be a bigger story.
Around $24 billion of Venezuelan public money has been looted, and the Trump administration has used at least $601 million of it to construct a militarized wall on the US-Mexico border.
@BenjaminNorton
explores the extensive foreign pillaging of Venezuela
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