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“ Liberals, and Social Democrats in general, have this common belief that capitalism can be “reformed” to become more humane and acceptable to society, and that this can be done by…

"“Destruction becomes the principal commodity produced by capital. Militarism will lead accumulation, which will theoretically demolish any limit to capital.” The Accumulation of W…

The very idea of “trusting” monopoly capitalism.

Further, the american government across several administrations imposed sanctions which led to premature death of Iranians, worsening conditions. It instigated the Iran/Iraq war ca…

Over the past 10 years have seen extended clips of the incident which actually align with CPC analysis of Tianamen square (if that’s what’s being referred to here). However, in dee…

“Thus, the Communist and Cultural Revolutions represent some of the most radical attempts in human history to eliminate the advantages of the elite, and to eradicate inequality in …

“Private property” in the socialist sense is property which is used for production (note that socialist countries - Laos, Vietnam, USSR before the destruction of socialism - typica…

If you attend any “public” meeting of a government or quasi-state entity in the US (library board, energy regulation board, county board,…) it becomes clear that the state seeks to…

The term “populist demagoguery” always calls to mind Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-work... "Ye…

The evisceration of the pension system in the united states has created a class of those nearing retirement who will live in poverty. https://www.ncoa.org/article/addressing-the-na…

Ali Kadri’s The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction comes to mind https://lpeproject.org/events/the-accumulation-of-waste-a-po...

Jamestown Foundation was founded by former CIA director to support Soviet defectors and seems to have employed former employees. A 2021 FOIA request that the agency provide all rec…

- The excess deaths experienced by unhoused persons - The excess deaths of persons that live in in the so-called Cancer Alley https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-shocking-hazards…

On the ending of “DEI” (itself an eviscerated approach to addressing the minimal demands to address over two centuries of american slavery, indigenous genocide, patriarchal violenc…

The uncritical, unfounded, white supremacist equivalence of the names of Global South heads of state that share nothing other than their inclusion in the never-ending spectacle of …

This amidst an unrelenting united states “embargo” - in another world this embargo would be called the crime against humanity that it is. I often think of this Logic article on Cub…

Passport revocation of Paul Robeson https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/selected-t... Passport revocation of W.E.B. DuBois https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/when-…

The american state was brought into existence and persists through unrelenting political violence - internal and external. The estimated 90% of Indigenous population that perished;…

“The ease with which people can challenge authority significantly shapes how those in power behave” known in 19th century as “dictatorship of the proletariat”. The speed at which t…

“Cuban information scientists didn’t just critique the limitations of traditional informatics, however. They also advanced a more critical approach to mathematical modeling, one th…

Executive order criminalizing homelessness. The order comes on the day I witnessed police disappear an unhoused person

With respect to the post’s discussion of “surveillance capitalism”, Braverman in Labor and Monopoly Capital (published 1974, https://archive.org/details/labormonopolycap00brav ) ma…

“I am proud of how mission-oriented our industry is as a whole; of course there will always be some mercenaries.” In the context of the decisions of largely East Asia born technica…

The Black southeast is still in over the Soviet Union’s rates during the 1930s https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/LA.html . Racialized carceral warfare.

Racists will always find a way to make ending racism “illegal” (they write those “laws”). Love how the US Civil Rights Acts and various emancipation clauses always contain loophole…