#leftism is the future

[jasontoddsmommyissues]

This whole Kamala Harris debacle has shown me how many leftist talking points are coming from privileged people whose only connection to politics is the (usually surface level) theory they’ve looked up.

[whereserpentswalk]

There will come a time, when our cities still stand, and their rulers are dead. When the cold take shelter from the winter sky in office buildings that have ceased to serve a purpose, and the old werehouses will be used for festivals, for people who wont have to wake up early for work the next day. And beautiful train tracks will roll over long abandoned highways. And the soft December snow will fall on an oil pipline, long abandoned and beyond use, that failed to burn it away, and a family of wolves will take shelter below the steel tube, not knowing what it was. And two girls will kiss, in the abandoned church of a god who hated them, a god who hasn't been worshipped in this city in living memory, and they'll say a soft prayer to Artemis, as they fall asleep below of broken statue of christ. And one day so many evils of the world, will be nothing more then a bad memory.

[itsbansheebitch]

May 1st, 2028 - General Strike

Potential Demands (Still being worked on by unions):

Healthcare for All

Climate Action

Housing Issues

Contact your local unions and ask if they will be participating in the 2028 General Strike! Urge them to add Climate Action to their list of demands!

Talk to your neighbors about tenant unions!

I, myself will be talking with farmers in my area about pushing politicians to give cash to farmers who put carbon back in the ground. Farming isn't just harvesting crops, it's also carbon management. We'll also be pushing for industrial farms to be heavily fined based on their use of toxic chemicals, water waste, and carbon emissions. I'm calling it the Cash for Carbon Initiative. It literally funds itself. Feel free to talk to farmers in your area about it. We need to end corporate welfare and support our communities.

My targets with be Chevron and Bayer (Monsanto fused with them). It's time to get them out of our state.

[fallonturing]

DO NOT SIGN UP FOR A PROTEST ONLINE. DO NOT GIVE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WHEN PLANNING TO DO THINGS THAT INVITE STATE VIOLENCE. SIGN UP LISTS FOR PROTESTS ALWAYS END UP AS HONEYPOTS FOR THE COPS, EVEN IF THEY DON'T START THAT WAY.

DO NOT GIVE THE FEDS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND TELL THEM YOU'RE GONNA START SOME SHIT IN THE STREETS. LEARN BASIC OPSEC

THIS HAS BEEN A PSA FROM YOUR FRIENDLY LOCAL LEFTIST.

[pretentious-ravioli]

[wanderingmind867]

Only way I'd accept money being a thing is if we stopped caring about things about debt and the deficit. Out of money? Just print more! Stop imposing consequences through debt! Debt is a social construct! Get rid of debt, and money would be at least slightly more tolerable. I'd still prefer it be abolished, but I'd take a heavy devaluation of money over what we've got now! Nothing can be worse than what we've got now!

[headingtowardsdirt]

Things i think will be better under communism: episode 2, being wrong

People seem to be pretty encouraging in the modern day. That seems like a good thing, but I think it's partially a symptom of and reaction to a fear of failure. Not only for ourselves but for our fellow proletarian.

There's this idea that many of us have grown up with that we must always do right and should hide our failures when they occur. If we don't, we'll suffer consequences and lose privileges or get fired and become homeless. So to counteract that, I think, we've begun applying the golden rule to any interaction regarding someone's livelihood or passion. Because we don't wish harm upon them, whether it be from loss of work or loss of outlet for stress. It speaks to our kind nature but also can be seen as a reaction to an unjust system.

In a world where our value isn't tied to our work, it would be very easy to give a more critical examination to the quality of a product or a process. If someone isn't at risk of losing her housing, food, or healthcare when her employment changes, it's much easier to accept critique as a learning opportunity instead of as a threat. Even if the lesson is that he's in the wrong line of work, he still has the security to be able to leave and find something more suitable to her skills.

You often see that with people who are secure in their positions. Gracefully accepting criticism as a chance to continue to improve outcomes and experiences. I want everyone to be able to chase that kind of confidence in their work.

[loves-manifested]

Protests all over Ohio coming up! Let’s get loud and be heard and demand change!

We cannot let this injustice towards our country and people go without a fight!!

[whereserpentswalk]

We've created a world where people crunch numbers and do manual labor so that the robots will have free time to chat and sing.

[titleknown]

I will say, at least in the US context, I think the key challenge for leftists is not to convince people that things are currently shit; that's the easy part; rather it's to convince people that leftists can change things for the better before they fucking die.

Like, I am convinced that thing suck and electoral politics is a screaming nightmare vortex. You do not have to convince me any further to get me on board with your political program.

I am not convinced that any of you will do anything to make anything better until me or the friends I care about are either in the ground or for it to be too late for it to help any of us, the hopes and dreams it could have saved shattered to pieces.

[troythecatfish]

[winston-vandelay]

Introduction

Hello world! I'm Cordell AKA Cordiesel AKA Chef Boy R Diesel AKA Winston Vandelay AKA Prank Costanza. I'm a Baltimore based black polymath. Among other things, I'm an electrical engineer, writer of comic books, amateur film and poetry, powerlifting athlete, Foodie, home chef, amateur mixologist, event organizer, and philosopher. I believe in Black empowerment, feminism, socialism, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights, and freedom for oppressed people throughout the world.

In creating this blog, I hope to be more involved in the struggle for a more just world, as well as to find a way to better express myself and my more creative and avant garde beliefs.

I appreciate you joining me on this journey and look forward to interacting with you!

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[against-forms-recognizable]

Okay, so, here's the thing, here's where a lot of my anarchism comes from.

Let's go all the way back, back to where humans came from, the ancestral environment. In the ancestral environment, when we're all hunter gatherers, sometimes there's scarcity. And when there's scarcity, it's who you know and the nature of those relationships which determines whether or not you survive. So, being a social animal, the degree to which you manipulate the social environment is a huge factor in that.

A lot of the ways we do this are through social structures, phantasms. We have a lot of them floating around; gender, morality, honor, justice, family. These are all things that don't actually exist materially. They only exist as a linking of concepts, a constellation of ideas that we reify into a system. And we use these to control each other, to create a social environment that is more suitable to getting our needs met. They form the bedrock of our civilization and society.

We enforce these structures most often by methods of social correction; isolation, harassment, bullying, and so on, to make people get with the program. And when that fails sometimes there is violent coercion, in modern times usually by the body that maintains a monopoly on violence and violent coercion, the state.

But because these things don't actually exist materially, they are flexible. We can add or remove stars from these constellations while maintaining mostly the same recognizable shape and other people still recognize it and might not even realize we changed it at all. And we all do this, all the time, generally unconsciously, in ways that favor us. This is where identity politics comes from, right? All of the toxicity within it. Everyone is trying to weaponize these structures to extract material benefit from the social environment by reshaping these relations to be more favorable to them.

But these abstractions are largely the way we make sense of the world. It's the foundation of language and cognition and communication. So anything we do together will always result in people playing these games with each other, defecting in this grand prisoner's dilemma.

This applies to communism, too - I think every communist has started out well-meaning, the marxist-leninists included. The thing is that we are fundamentally unable to participate in society without trying to turn it to our benefit, it is hard-wired into us, we are so good at it that we don't even realize when we are doing it. And it applies to anarcho-communism, as well, even in the absence of a coercive state people can still accrue soft social power and utilize that to create a social hierarchy - even a simple reading of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, which posits a flawed anarcho-communist utopia, reveals it as an investigation into how even if you start out with true believers, applying it on a society wide level will result in the vast majority of people talking the talk without walking the walk.

So, at present, because I don't really see a way out of this, my anarchism is mostly formulated as a critical orientation at these structures which create hierarchy and domination, a toolbox of critique that we can use to break them down, a continual process that must be adhered to as everyone will always be trying to build new ones up. Conscious deconstruction, of our unconscious constructions. This doesn't mean I don't think things can be better, that I don't think a positive social project is possible. I just don't know how to get there, right now, with a method I'm sure won't just end up making things worse.

[wiserebeltiger]

Bernie Sanders could turn out to be the socialist Barry Goldwater.

In the long term, the left may win out, because people want healthcare and affordable housing. That or we could all be living in Amazon pods in 20 years.

[maeve-visla]

We have to have happiness to fight back. Being miserable and giving up what we love is how they win. It’s literally key to their strategy

Feeling rough lately.