W.E.B. Du Bois, born on this day in 1868, was a seminal American intellectual, author, and socialist and civil rights activist who co-founded both the Niagra Movement and the NAACP. Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and, after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University.
Du Bois was a prolific author notable for his polemics against racism. Among his works are "The Souls of Black Folk", a collection of essays, and "Black Reconstruction in America", which challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that black people were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction Era. Du Bois was also a Pan-Africanist and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to fight for the independence of African colonies from European powers.
Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life. Because of this, he was spied upon by the U.S. government, who eventually indicted him for acting as an agent of a foreign state while advocating for nuclear disarmament. Notably, the NAACP did not support Du Bois during his trial, which ultimately failed to convict him.
Nevertheless, he chose to leave the US behind him and emigrated to Ghana, at the invitation of President Kwame Nkrumah, where he spent the rest of his life. He died on the eve of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, on August 27, 1963 in Accra, Ghana.
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." - W.E.B. Du Bois
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every day i become more of an unironic luddite
Nothing made me more of a luddite than doing software development professionally. All computers should be burned.
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growing up on the internet in late 90's i thought all of this shit would be fast, simple easy, private, decentralized, secure. BOY WAS I FUCKING WRONG. i used to be into so much of this, so excited to see what it would be, and now its a heaping pile of nuclear trash that should be forcibly disconnected permanently. the damage it makes does not make up for the good things it does. honestly, cell phones should've had their own internet and the real internet would still be irc, wholesome guest books from people who genuinely loved the internet and looking at websites, and phpbb forums.
its turned me into a probably future misanthrope and a luddite. fuck computers.
100% agree. The internet, full of so much promise, was a mistake and needs to be turned off. Check out the Gemini protocol . Remaking the internet into what it should be—no Javascript, no tracking, just cool text-based "capsules" made and hosted by real people who want to share cool stuff. My site is gemini://voidpoems.voyage, best aggregator is gemini://medusae.space/. Love the project, join us on the smol web comrade.
I feel this, and it makes me really sad bc under communism automation would be such an awesome thing but under capitalism.... yikes
Same especially as I realized that all technology the general public gets its hands on has been screened for military and intelligence use beforehand.
I remember my first hint of radicalization being watching a Star Trek TNG episode where some capitalist from a few hundred years ago froze himself and then got thawed on board the Enterprise. He was such a dick about stuff, like one thing was that he kept using the onboard comms to make disruptive announcements. And then Picard said cut that shit out, and he said something like "But you don't have any locks on them..." And Picard said, I don't need to people know to only use it in emergencies. He also went on a bit about how money wasn't important anymore, that the goal of life was self-development and exploration.
I remember thinking, "Damn, the technology is cool but I just want the mass social culture from Star Trek."