I've been leafing through my copy. The layout is TERRIBLE, real flashbacks to my time spent editing the uni paper. The news section feels almost like an internal newsletter for the Labour left, but the articles are interesting - Wendy Liu from the NS on Silicon Valley is one I enjoyed.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
the layout really is unbelievably bad
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
Nomiki Konst braves it:
Tucker Carlson: "Volume is not the same as an argument" Nomiki Konst: "You don't like opinionated women do you?" pic.twitter.com/zzSOz8sOM5— Contemptor (@TheContemptor) December 6, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 6 December 2018 08:11 (five years ago) link
has anyone made a joke about the left experiencing a west wing drift? no I did not search the thread, I refuse
― gbx, Thursday, 6 December 2018 08:19 (five years ago) link
have we talked about this yet?
Join the Progressive Internationalhttps://t.co/3RW9MXHqWF pic.twitter.com/o4zgiUoSHH— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) December 1, 2018
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
i'm interested
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
saw a number of center-left'ers in the US complaining that the video only features "white men as progressive leaders" which tells me everything i need to know about what these people think about mass politics
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
I was just listening to his live interview on The Dig where he mentions that. I feel like I need a little more info on what the concept is than just, here is a website, join.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
I see a certain mr. Texas just interviewed him as well
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
international cooperation between leftists seems more vital than ever, i really hope this gains some momentum (no corbyn pun intended)
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
― resident hack (Simon H.), Thursday, December 6, 2018 7:28 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
im sitting here like 'george strait interviewed this guy??'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
i thought this was a great, well-considered piece that knocks down critiques of antifa from the far left:
Antifa’s critics are correct to note that this is not the Weimar era, but they don’t offer any alternative explanations or responses to today’s developments. The street battles of 2017 had their origins in our own time. Trump’s election was part of a sequence of victories for right-populist and “illiberal” authoritarians in Britain, Russia, India, Turkey, Hungary, Italy, Colombia, and the Philippines. Militarizing borders in the face of global trade and immigration, removing all obstacles to capital in the form of unions or regulation, and attacking minority groups and women, this political wave shares enough with historical fascism that some call it “late fascism” or “post-fascism.” While there is no fully revolutionary wave to which this phenomenon responds, it has emerged in response to the Arab Spring, Occupy, Black Lives Matter and other social movements. The Trumpian emphasis on “law and order,” in particular, refers to the riots of Ferguson and Baltimore. These movements and the rightwing “illiberal” reaction to them gesture, respectively, toward revolution or dictatorship–a polarization strengthened by capitalist stagnation and ecological breakdown.Through this more global, structural analysis, antifa must reckon with its own weakness. Why are they doxing memesters and punching college Republicans while ICE stalks courthouses, police brutality is celebrated, social spending is slashed, and the bourgeoisie pushes us towards climate armageddon? This argument cuts both ways, inasmuch as antifa can always ask what, by comparison, the doubters have done. By accomplishing their short-term goal of creating a material force against street-level fascists, antifa have demonstrated a capacity and willingness to take on those tasks commensurate with their abilities. Can anything similar be claimed by the partisans of party building and radical syndicalism? Nonetheless, we still have to question how these short-term goals bring us closer to the revolution that might end fascism once and for all.
Through this more global, structural analysis, antifa must reckon with its own weakness. Why are they doxing memesters and punching college Republicans while ICE stalks courthouses, police brutality is celebrated, social spending is slashed, and the bourgeoisie pushes us towards climate armageddon? This argument cuts both ways, inasmuch as antifa can always ask what, by comparison, the doubters have done. By accomplishing their short-term goal of creating a material force against street-level fascists, antifa have demonstrated a capacity and willingness to take on those tasks commensurate with their abilities. Can anything similar be claimed by the partisans of party building and radical syndicalism? Nonetheless, we still have to question how these short-term goals bring us closer to the revolution that might end fascism once and for all.
https://communemag.com/anti-anti-antifa/
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
By accomplishing their short-term goal of creating a material force against street-level fascists, antifa have demonstrated a capacity and willingness to take on those tasks commensurate with their abilities. Can anything similar be claimed by the partisans of party building and radical syndicalism?
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 6 December 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
promoted tweet in my TL:
Life expectancy for the less wealthy has fallen, see how Inclusive Capitalism could reverse this trend here: https://t.co/xeDNpSe8S5 pic.twitter.com/NWtRTMsRw9— Legal & General (@landg_uk) December 3, 2018
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 December 2018 11:51 (five years ago) link
capitalism has failed the poor! the answer? capitalism!
― sir that’s my emotional support tapeworm (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 7 December 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
lmao love this latest rebrand, surely this will be the one that sticks
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
Why are they doxing memesters and punching college Republicans while ICE stalks courthouses, police brutality is celebrated,
errr...I can think of a few reasons
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 7 December 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
i mean the author's kinda strawmanning deliberately there right, it's practically sotto voce
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 December 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
wHy ArE tHeY dOxXiNg MeMeStErs
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 December 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
just saw a picture of Bhaskar's "Socialist Manifesto" book and died of mortification
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 7 December 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
Haha, mine too
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 8 December 2018 04:04 (five years ago) link
very legal and very general
― macropuente (map), Saturday, 8 December 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
hamno...........................today i say hamyes
https://splinternews.com/bernie-dont-run-1830983072
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
Here is what Bernie Sanders should do: endorse a Democratic presidential candidate who will best carry on his own ideas. I don’t really give a damn who it is. Warren, or Kamala Harris, or Sherrod Brown,
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
has there been a decent profile of sherrod brown somewhere
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
yeah i think he's picking bad names out of the hat but the thrust of 'i am legitimately afraid of democratic politics coming apart at the seams if we have a 2016 10x' is one i agree with
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
yeah, Bernie's lack of a clear political heir who's anywhere near as interested in building a robust international left is my only hesitancy with respect to Nolan's sentiment here
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
buddy can we worry about the international left in maybe the next election cycle after this one
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
I know you're technically the international left but one thing at a time ffs
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― technically the international left but one (darraghmac), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
yes, if there’s one thing we have wrt to building an international left coalition, it’s time - and lots of it
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
I think the point might be that there isn't much use in an intl left coalition of parties that aren't in power
― rob, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
I mean like "will convene the Fourth International" is just not realistically on my list of requests for a nominee for president of the United godforsaken States in 2020, I'd happily accept a whole lot less
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
sure, best not to try at all and instead offer a limp centrist alternative that offers no solutions to crippling systemic problems, that’s definitely not a strategy that had all but doomed the planet xp
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
when one of the two or three most popular and consistently, broadly liked politicians in the country wants to do this very thing, it's really not that huge a demand
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
lol I am not arguing for centrism...those aren't the only two options here! I just more or less agree with Nolan's take
maybe a more constructive and sincere way to put this: Simon, what the hell can we (not that I can vote) do in Canada to establish an intl left?
― rob, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
that's a very good question that would be easier to answer if we had any elected representatives who cared at all about doing that. (I did join the NDP just to vote for Ashton, but she went nowhere.) I think in many ways we're actually more politically backwards than the US tb, it says a lot that many younger Cdn leftists I've spoken to were spurred on by Sanders or Corbyn, and seemingly none by...any Canadian figures
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-46510776 Anti-Deportation protestors found guilty.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
ugh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
their offences (‘offences’) carry a maximum sentence of life in prison btw
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
yeah i think he's picking bad names out of the hat but the thrust of 'i am legitimately afraid of democratic politics coming apart at the seams if we have a 2016 10x' is one i agree with― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, December 10, 2018 1:33 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, December 10, 2018 1:33 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
word. i know people say it's going to be a brokered convention and it's never a brokered convention, but didn't something about the primary setup change to increase the likelihood of this in 2020? something like california giving their delegates proportionally?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
superdelegates were effectively abolished, is that maybe what you're thinking of
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
great critical view on the GND
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21632/green-new-deal-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-cooperation-jackson-capital?fbclid=IwAR0tMIFumEGsgDJnu1CQ6mePX13lHioPM4HOBAccvXXUKKHAkPf1OMHbllE
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
democrats are genetically incapable of passing/producing anything better than "green capitalism" and all the interventions in the world won't change that
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
i suspect cooperation jackson would quibble with you about what's possible
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
loved this last piece:
Sarah: To what extent were front-lines environmental justice groups consulted about the Green New Deal?Kali: As an individual I was not consulted, but I think it’s a two-way street, because I also didn’t do much to help her get elected. The natural inclination is you’re going to listen to the folks who support you. The political trade off, whether we like it or not, is that you listen to those who put skin in the game to help you. That’s a reality we need to start with. Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reaches out, we have an obligation to tap her on her shoulder and say some of these ideas are terrible, here’s why, here are alternatives, here are examples of what the alternative looks like in practice—you can elevate them and use them as a model. That’s our task on the left—to intervene in that particular way. It’s not a question of whether or not she will listen: She’s an elected official, and we have move her to listen through the force of our organizing initiatives. We have to struggle with her to make sure she votes in the broadest interests possible, since she’s trying to lead this on a national level.
Kali: As an individual I was not consulted, but I think it’s a two-way street, because I also didn’t do much to help her get elected. The natural inclination is you’re going to listen to the folks who support you. The political trade off, whether we like it or not, is that you listen to those who put skin in the game to help you. That’s a reality we need to start with. Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reaches out, we have an obligation to tap her on her shoulder and say some of these ideas are terrible, here’s why, here are alternatives, here are examples of what the alternative looks like in practice—you can elevate them and use them as a model. That’s our task on the left—to intervene in that particular way. It’s not a question of whether or not she will listen: She’s an elected official, and we have move her to listen through the force of our organizing initiatives. We have to struggle with her to make sure she votes in the broadest interests possible, since she’s trying to lead this on a national level.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
also i hadn't seen this posted in here, really valuable comparative look at the competing approaches to changing medicare in the house that left me pleasantly surprised with where the CAP draft approach lands:
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18103087/democrats-universal-health-care-sanders-jayapal
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
perhaps my political imagination is simply too limited, but I am loath to disregard the fact that they have produced anticapitalist legislation precisely zero times xxp
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
you can absolutely pressure them to do better and that's a laudable and worthwhile goal but at the end of the day they are capitalists
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
I don’t think anybody “is” a capitalist
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link