Also selling a house doesn't change its value, the new mortgage is going to be virtually the same as rent (banks issue mortgages in relation to expected rents), and will likely be turned around to rent anyway.

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"One lesson from Texas history is that repression was so severe because resistance was so daunting-a lesson to keep in mind as this century unfolds"

Every monarchy in the world today is a protectorate of the British or Americans.

I'm not kidding.

Yes

Also, his conservatorship over his father is suspect.

No it's not. Wages in the Imperialist countries are buffed by super-exploitation of the global South.

The amount of resources Americans use means that they are condensing into a "middle class" above the 3rd world nations workers and below the Imperial Bourgeoisie.

Spending most if not all of your paycheck does not mean you aren't "middle class" (petty bourg or labor aristocrat). You were never meant to be able to accumulate wealth, the bourgs want you to consume it and for them to get it in their balance sheets at the end of the day because you bought goods and services from their property. If you are accumulating significant wealth that can't be wiped out due to crises (ex: getting very ill, medical costs), you are certainly not exploited. If you are consuming more labor than you put out, but break even on paper, you're still not exploited (Imperialist wages).

This is why Economism (and accompanying social democracy) is dead end politics that is incapable of handling national contradictions that Imperialism feeds on.

As well, the top 80% of income brackets have been getting increased wealth and income, since the end of WW2.

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this is similarly the current SK government's stance on getting called out for their sexism: "we can't be sexist, look at Afghanistan, that's sexism"

Both "Blacks" and "African American" have problems for identifying the new world peoples of African descent and are Liberal distortions. "Blacks" because people-ness is not denoted simply by color (mulatto question), and has been weaponized on behalf of Colonizers (see: DR vs Haiti). "African American" because the latter half simply denotes citizenship and which only became standard after the civil rights era (which prior excluded us from full citizenship, and it still does today...). Contestations for the first half come from two directions: assimilating into "Americanism" and self-distancing from the colonial struggle in Africa, and recognizing that the new world is our home. Neither term is sufficient and both have Liberal/Imperialist distortions. When I speak historically I use the term US Negroes, or Mainland Negroes. Many Black radicals adopted the term New Afrikan (which I also use) to denote our roots in Africa, but our belonging to the so-called new world. Distancing ourselves either from Africa or our new home brings Imperialist distortions to our self-identity, and are a product of Assimilationism that Haywood was predicting.

For a comparison. The Dominican Republic should not be seen as a nation-people, even though they largely speak another language than Haitians under the Haitian state. The Dominican Republic is a European occupation of Haiti, and all of the island's Indigenous inhabitants (whether native or African) belong to the Haitian nation of peoples. The DR survives as an empire backed apartheid state, that necessarily privileges lighter skinned Haitians and discriminates darker skinned Haitians to maintain a buffer for the European settlers and monopolies. In the Haitian state, race ideology is abolished and white and mixed/other background individuals are all considered Blacks, and the Whites are the Imperialist classes that seek to dominate Haiti.

the so-called "nordic model"

the "socialist colonies" of the PNW

The only segment of the US working class that is difficult to describe as a labor aristocracy (in NAFTA states) is being shredded to pieces.

This segment of the working class should be the focus of organization in the core. The rest should only be organized secondarily, as their interests align with Imperialism too much.

“UM ACKCHYUALLY capitalism isnt capitalism, and it has always existed capitalism is actually just markets.”

where was this said

if u wanna be that guy and call things other than what they are, feel free, but i personally try not to engage with such people, yeah spirituality is a thing i dont care about it, i care about religion i was talking about religion not merely myths or spirituality but religion if u want to call those things religion i cant stop u and i dont really have anything to say to u.

They are definitely religions, you're perpetuating the Colonial concept that religion has to look like the Abrahamic ones to be considered legitimate. The religions of Indigenous American communities were outlawed and then brought back under Freedom of Religion. American hysteria against the Ghost Dance religion culminated in multiple massacres, most infamous the Wounded Knee Massacre. So the Colonizers consider them religions (now, after trying to prohibit them), the followers of these religions consider them as such.

Uhh nah, religions likely existed before the sexual division of labor aka proto-Patriarchy into slave-economies aka Patriarchy.

Religions since time-immemorial are built around myths to explain relationships to food production and healthcare. An example of this would be the First Foods and Longhouse religions of the PNW that explain a calendar, how to recognize ecological disturbances, and how to manage salmon runs.

More exists in the world than Eurasia.

no they aren't, religions just exist under class society, like any mass movement there is a struggle to be had

"Paganism" isn't a thing in itself, it means not Abrahamic. The Norse peoples worshiped the Norse Religion. Modern "Paganism" inherently identifies itself in anti-Christianity (and anti-Judaism, anti-Islam) terms instead of as the tribal religions they are cosplaying as things in themselves. It's a form of "noble s*vage" anti-Modernity, which is why it fits so well into Nazism. They don't understand what non-Christian Germanic society was like or how it worked because they only understand it through the narrative of White Supremacy/Christian Modernity that paints the Vikings as violence obsessed primitives (sound familiar?) that were the type that sacked Rome and gave Christian/Roman kingdoms trouble.

Studying historical societies scientifically is a totally different thing that these people aren't doing.

Because wages are high and the more high wage workers the higher rents will generally be

Capitalist class wants to break even with the labor aristocracy. "Luxury" or "good neighborhood" rents, which drive up rents in proximity (and across the metro eventually), are used to get as much out of that big paycheck as possible.

If your city is attracting a lot of 6 figure jobs your housing costs are gonna jump, why? Because that was the purpose of the city "attracting" such jobs through, first "slum clearance" (oppressed removal) -- then subsidies for things like hospitals and tech (or university expansion) to bring in workers that don't mind paying thousands in rent so that the propertied classes can make a lot of money.

Even a new Amazon facility because, while the jobs aren't 6 figures, they are usually much better paying than minimum wage and will also raise rents in the lower sector as the community now has more money flowing through it so the petty bourgs and capitalists want to get those dollars at the end of the month and raise the cost of living to reap all that new cash.

There's more to be said about how these high wages are funded and the clue is in the number of workers in the periphery with impoverished conditions making clothes and gadgets for 1/10th to 1/100th of US minimum wage and where post-Soviet resource wealth is going.

I think it's best for the whole piece to be taken in to discuss the current party ecosystem within the Anglo settler states, PSL is in the section on revisionist and Trot orgs as its structure and issues are similar to the CPUSA. USU views FRSO as a potentially better org at least ideologically, even though it is a "pre-party" formation rather than a true party like PSL.

In my opinion, PSL has wealth that allows it, at least right now, to better serve organizers. However, the ideological development of the mass and leadership of the PSL is very lacking (and deeply Americanist), which is a crit you'll see from myself and Chunka Luta Network members a lot (some are in PSL too). PSL has money to do things that FRSO just doesn't right now since it is not a party organization at this time, so actions are coming out of the expenses of individuals. If FRSO's ideological development had the resources of PSL and CPUSA the movement in the Imperial Core would be a lot more interesting.

https://unity-struggle-unity.org/unity-prospectus/

Yeah I guess it's just one folk etymology of many but the explanation is a Portuguese sailor who called it "Ouve água" (hear water) because they heard the river from far away

blessed be

cell cooperation

It wouldn't be called cooperation if that system itself didn't have contradictions like cells sacrificing themselves to clot blood, overriding their self interest to remain alive. Cells are also marked for death and if they break that system they can bring down the whole structure (cancer, auto immune disorders). Cells have to balance their self interests with their communal interests and that contradiction creates a higher level of organization than the simple parts (cooperation).

Another, more basic contradiction is requiring energy to be alive because living (action) requires energy, so we always need to be using energy to find energy (it takes energy to produce and consume food). If we don't get enough energy to sustain ourselves we waste away into death.