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#marxism

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Orion Ussner kidder

I did some reading on #PostScarcity a few months ago, in the context of science fiction but also #Marxism and in #anarchism.

The conclusion I came to, as someone who's spent some time with medieval and early modern European history, is that we've had sufficient resources to keep everyone fed and housed for at least centuries.

The problem is not technological. It's a wealth-distribution system developed and dominated by the people who have most of the wealth and want to keep it.

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MikeDunnAuthor

That's all we've ever been allowed to teach. And the repression started well before Trump was elected.

Good luck teaching anything even remotely supportive of the Arab or Muslim experience. Forget anything that even mentions the word Palestine. And that's in the "liberal" San Francisco Bay Area.

There are already other places in the U.S., like Florida, where you can be fired simply for saying the word "Gay."

And who remembers hearing anything in school about Marx, socialism, anarchism, that wasn't completely negative? Anything about MLK's support of labor unions and opposition to the Vietnam War? General Strikes? The Tulsa pogrom? The Battle of Blair Mountain or the Great Train Strike of 1877 (the 2 largest insurrections and 2 largest labor uprisings in the U.S. since the Civil War)???

Dozens of books banned from school libraries and from the curriculum.

a dadderall writes: teacher: your child won't stop yelling "this is bourgeois propaganda" in social studies me: have you tried not teaching bourgeois propaganda Posted by Guillotines For A Better America, who add: That's all they'll be allowed to teach under this regime...
#workingclass#LaborHistory#union
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Hägringar

»Events have demonstrated with tragic clearness that the moment the working class allows the fascist wave to sweep over it, a long period of slavery and impotence begins – a long period during which socialist, even democratic, ideas are not merely erased from the pediments of public monuments and libraries but, what is much more serious, are rooted out of human minds. (1/2)

#marxism#antifascism#fascism
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micchiato 🍉

“when one examines the realities of the Russian #economy and society today (ignoring the ideological trappings of ‘Russian #Marxism’) and compares these with the realities of the American economy and society (ignoring the ideologies of liberal welfare #capitalism) the emerging picture is one of basic similarity …. But if we focus upon either the ideologies of ruling classes or upon the underproductiveness of workers under repressive social relations we end up either focusing solely upon Russian ideology ala the Sovietologists of the Rand Corporation and the State Department or in ‘comprehending’ the Russian- and then the Chinese rulers as having to do as they do because of the ‘backwardness’ of the workers”
— George Rawick (1967)
#history #economics #politics
marxists.org/archive/rawick/19

www.marxists.orgToward a New History of Slavery in the U.S. by George Rawick 1967
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The Dialectical Communist 🇵🇸🇾🇪

Capitalism is cursed - Karl Marx

Modern capitalist society with its relations of production, of exchange and property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. (Karl Marx)

#capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #marx #karlmarx #quotes #wizards #spells #fantasy

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Preston Maness ☭

@SeanAloysiusOBrien "During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."

*Parenti intensifies...*

Frame from the famous "Yellow Parenti" lecture in 1986, a poor recording of a lecture Parenti gave that has a distinct yellow tinge to it. Here, Parenti is gesturing strongly with his hand, eyes wide and eyebrows raised as he speaks emphatically. Can watch it here: https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-lecture-1986-yellow-parenti
#socialism#communism#anarchism
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History April 16, 1994: Ralph Ellison died on this day. Ellison was a member of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his book, The Invisible Man. He was friends with Langston Hughes and Richard Wright. He became active in the Communist Party, as did many of his peers. But he became disillusioned with them during World War II when he felt they became reformist. He wrote The Invisible Man during this era (published in 1952), in part, as a response their betrayal. But the book also looks at the relationship between black identity and Marxism, the reformism of Booker T. Washington, and issues of individuality and personal identity.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ralphellison #Harlem #marxism #racism #communism #fiction #literature #books #author #writer #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

First-edition dust jacket cover of Invisible Man (1952) by the American author Ralph Ellison. By Dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Published by Random House. - Scan via Heritage Auctions. Cropped from the original image., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91795404
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