Yes you are right I wandered off the og comment a bit. I'm just sick of being surrounded by this monstrous society when I know that there's nothing fated or determined about how shitty it is ,and sometimes I feel insane knowing that two German guys 150 years ago proved mathematically both how shitty it is, and how it could be transformed utterly by the same people mired in the shit. And here we are still pushing that boulder up the mountain. But what else are we gonna do?

I want to clear up that I am not absolving their efforts , I don't mean to absolve whatever effects democratic volunteers have on the Gazan genocide. However I think if you are talking people with direct culpability, there are much more useful targets than doorknockers or phonebankers. Media companies, arms manufacturers, AIPAC, Zionist lobbyists, democratic and Republican politicians and their major bankrollers are more accurate for a party to form a political target/program around.

I don't think the bulk of democrat volunteers are directly complicit in Gazan genocide, their bosses/party officials/bureaucrats/bourgeois donors are the ones with the hands on the levers.

I understand the sentiment but this is a bit misanthropic

If he is becoming an alcoholic you may need to consider cutting this poor man's cable line

I'm not totally sure what biden is trying to say in the quote honestly. I'm sure he tried his best.

I assume people who harvest rubber from the trees

Always enjoy a new Michael Roberts post

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Actually I think buh is Cormac McCarthy

It's from blood Meridian

I don't hate him. To be generous, you could say his stance wrt the Soviet Union rhetorically useful. I do think there are other historians sympathetic to the Soviet Union that are more rigorous than him, Moshe Lewin or Domenico Losurdo for instance.

In my amateur political opinion, unless Die Linke seriously purges the reformist and squishier elements represented by the likes of Klaus Lederer I think they'll be perennially unpopular, caught between what should be their radical roots and the nascent liberalism infiltrating the party.

I skimmed their party program and the biggest impression I get is that it's soft and non explicit in their goal to eliminate capitalism, much reformist talk and none of revolution or workers' democracy. Let's be clear : at this current political moment, this rhetoric sucks ass and does nothing to galvanise workers. It's unfortunate that Wagenknecht is sorta beating them to the punch on this kind of transformation albeit I don't think she is a radical, maybe more chauvinist from what I've heard.

As an aside, personally I've always hated the branding of "democratic" socialism. I understand why socialists thought they had to use it but to me socialism is already the democratic choice, it brings democracy to the site of production not just government elections. To use democratic socialism seems redundant at best and cowardly at worst.

I like Michael Roberts the most in that he's probably the one I've read the most of lately. The book he wrote with Carchedi was quite good i thought especially the parts touching on "AI" and automation.

At what point in the history of the roman empire did the Praetorian guard fall apart?

Sorry we just don't like politicians who enable genocide

Notable previous employment: she worked for a lawfirm hired by Chevron in the Donzinger case.

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Shadow employs dialectics

It is, Rosetta Stone is a pen name of his.

It was definitely initiated from the top down I would say. But at the end of the day, whatever mass strikes, work actions, and army mutinies occured were not enough to stop Yeltsin and the west from dissolving the SU into what it is now.

I don't want to mean this as blaming the average Soviet citizen but the fact is; whether from apathy with the old system, or naive hope that westernising would bring prosperity, or being outgunned by Yeltsins military, they and their organisations were sadly unable to defend the Soviet republics. All communists need to take sober lessons here. If it is the first task of the workers' party to instill a revolutionary spirit in the working class, the second and even harder one must be to convert that spirit into a mass commitment to the socialist project.