Chad McCullough
@cmccullough@polymaths.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I am done listening to Democrats blame the person that didn't vote or the third-party voters for all the problems in this country. Your party sucks, Democrats, and it's time to you grow up and realize that. Fix your party and stop blaming everyone else for the problems in this country. There were better choices in this past election but instead of voting for the better option, like every election, you chose to support a corporate, genocide supporter, and then blame everyone else when Trump was elected.

Honestly, I don't care what you think of me. Send all the hate you want. I've been a socialist for more than 30 years and 100% unapologetic about my political choices. Maybe one of these days you'll grow up and come to the realization that Democrats are corporate politicians and care more about their corporate, rich, donors than they care about you.

#socialism #democrats
Chad McCullough
@cmccullough@polymaths.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I am done listening to Democrats blame the person that didn't vote or the third-party voters for all the problems in this country. Your party sucks, Democrats, and it's time to you grow up and realize that. Fix your party and stop blaming everyone else for the problems in this country. There were better choices in this past election but instead of voting for the better option, like every election, you chose to support a corporate, genocide supporter, and then blame everyone else when Trump was elected.

Honestly, I don't care what you think of me. Send all the hate you want. I've been a socialist for more than 30 years and 100% unapologetic about my political choices. Maybe one of these days you'll grow up and come to the realization that Democrats are corporate politicians and care more about their corporate, rich, donors than they care about you.

#socialism #democrats
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"Apart from their endorsement of Karl Marx’s fettering thesis near the end of the book, Abundance is clearly not a socialist text. It is a manifesto for a broad tent of liberals and centrists, aimed in part at what the authors call “the pathologies of the modern left.” We share concern about these pathologies, but argue the solution is not a retreat from the Left — it is, if anything, a more full-throated socialist politics. Here we can reassert some of those fundamental socialist arguments.

First, socialists understand that the main barrier to abundance is not bottlenecks or the Groups, but capitalism. “Supply-side liberalism” can sometimes rely on a naive neoclassical assumption: supply goes up, price goes down, and voilà — abundance! But this theory ignores the fact that there are very powerful class forces with a vested interest in maintaining artificial scarcity of key goods to maintain their profits. Landlords and real estate developers, for example, do not have an interest in an “abundance” of housing because it would collapse the price of the commodity they wish to sell for a profit. The history of energy is likewise a history of cartels — from the Seven Sisters to OPEC — whose prime goal is withholding supply to maintain prices, rents, and profits for owners. And this only mentions class interests in the sectors covered by Klein and Thompson, to say nothing of the larger political economy that, as Joe Weisenthal notes, “has too much riding on a perpetual rise in the value of financial assets.”"

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/klein-thompson-abundance-liberalism-socialism/

#Abundance#Socialism#Bureaucracy#Capitalism#Inequality
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"Apart from their endorsement of Karl Marx’s fettering thesis near the end of the book, Abundance is clearly not a socialist text. It is a manifesto for a broad tent of liberals and centrists, aimed in part at what the authors call “the pathologies of the modern left.” We share concern about these pathologies, but argue the solution is not a retreat from the Left — it is, if anything, a more full-throated socialist politics. Here we can reassert some of those fundamental socialist arguments.

First, socialists understand that the main barrier to abundance is not bottlenecks or the Groups, but capitalism. “Supply-side liberalism” can sometimes rely on a naive neoclassical assumption: supply goes up, price goes down, and voilà — abundance! But this theory ignores the fact that there are very powerful class forces with a vested interest in maintaining artificial scarcity of key goods to maintain their profits. Landlords and real estate developers, for example, do not have an interest in an “abundance” of housing because it would collapse the price of the commodity they wish to sell for a profit. The history of energy is likewise a history of cartels — from the Seven Sisters to OPEC — whose prime goal is withholding supply to maintain prices, rents, and profits for owners. And this only mentions class interests in the sectors covered by Klein and Thompson, to say nothing of the larger political economy that, as Joe Weisenthal notes, “has too much riding on a perpetual rise in the value of financial assets.”"

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/klein-thompson-abundance-liberalism-socialism/

#Abundance#Socialism#Bureaucracy#Capitalism#Inequality

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MikeDunnAuthor
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Today in Labor History July 29, 1962: British aristocrat and fascist leader, Oswald Mosely, was beaten by antifascists in London’s east end. Even after police began to escort him away, activists from the antifascist 62 Group (AKA 62 Committee), led by Jewish, communist, and black activists, were able to pelt him with eggs, fruit and rocks. He later called a rally, which the activists successfully disrupted with shouts of “down with fascists.” The only people arrested were antifascist activists.

62 Group disrupted fascist meetings throughout the early to mid-60s, beating up or attacking fascists whenever they had the chance, much like the Jewish antifascist 43 Group did in the 1940s. As a result, they were able to significantly reduce the power and effectiveness of the fascists in the 1960s.

Mosely had been a Labor MP and junior minister from 1918-1931. As the leader of the British Union of Fascists, publicly supported antisemitism and tried to form alliances with Mussolini and Hitler. During the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, antifascist demonstrators including unions, anarchists, socialists, communists, liberals and Jews, prevented the BUF from marching through the East End of London. During World War Two, Moseley and his wife were imprisoned as threats to the national security.

Mosely is portrayed in numerous works of fiction, including the television series, The Peaky Blinders. He is portrayed in Pink Floyd’s the wall; Aldous Huxley’s 1928 novel, Point Counter Point; HG Wells's 1939 novel The Holy Terror; PG Wodehouse's Jeeves series; and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #oswaldmosely #fascism #antifascism #london #antisemitism #anarchism #communism #socialism #racism #books #novel #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon
MikeDunnAuthor
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Today in Labor History July 29, 1962: British aristocrat and fascist leader, Oswald Mosely, was beaten by antifascists in London’s east end. Even after police began to escort him away, activists from the antifascist 62 Group (AKA 62 Committee), led by Jewish, communist, and black activists, were able to pelt him with eggs, fruit and rocks. He later called a rally, which the activists successfully disrupted with shouts of “down with fascists.” The only people arrested were antifascist activists.

62 Group disrupted fascist meetings throughout the early to mid-60s, beating up or attacking fascists whenever they had the chance, much like the Jewish antifascist 43 Group did in the 1940s. As a result, they were able to significantly reduce the power and effectiveness of the fascists in the 1960s.

Mosely had been a Labor MP and junior minister from 1918-1931. As the leader of the British Union of Fascists, publicly supported antisemitism and tried to form alliances with Mussolini and Hitler. During the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, antifascist demonstrators including unions, anarchists, socialists, communists, liberals and Jews, prevented the BUF from marching through the East End of London. During World War Two, Moseley and his wife were imprisoned as threats to the national security.

Mosely is portrayed in numerous works of fiction, including the television series, The Peaky Blinders. He is portrayed in Pink Floyd’s the wall; Aldous Huxley’s 1928 novel, Point Counter Point; HG Wells's 1939 novel The Holy Terror; PG Wodehouse's Jeeves series; and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #oswaldmosely #fascism #antifascism #london #antisemitism #anarchism #communism #socialism #racism #books #novel #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon
Geoff Berner
@Geoffberner@zeroes.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Hey! Heard about what's going on in Honduras lately? I bet you haven't seen it on the news! Why? Cause the socialists are running the place, and they're popular. Right now, they've got a PUBLIC HEALTH MASK MANDATE going on! We CAN have nice things. #WearAMask #maskup #CovidIsNotOver #socialismhttps://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/honduras-mandates-face-masks-again-respiratory-illnesses-spike-2025-07-25/
Geoff Berner
@Geoffberner@zeroes.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Hey! Heard about what's going on in Honduras lately? I bet you haven't seen it on the news! Why? Cause the socialists are running the place, and they're popular. Right now, they've got a PUBLIC HEALTH MASK MANDATE going on! We CAN have nice things. #WearAMask #maskup #CovidIsNotOver #socialismhttps://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/honduras-mandates-face-masks-again-respiratory-illnesses-spike-2025-07-25/
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

It’s very revealing how casually liberals spit out populist as an insult. The derogatory use of the word unmasks their real conviction that majority rule is only admirable when the majority thinks like them. Strip away the varnish and their ideal is not democracy at all, but a stewardship by the enlightened elites who keep the unwashed masses at bay.

#liberalism #socialism