Is the West Experiencing a Left-Wing Drift? (the international left politics activism, news, and strategy thread)

broadly moderate tech journalist, now columnist, calling for a general strike in the paper of record

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/general-strike.html

good, bring it on

I bought that book (on sale at Verso!) from Max’s review

Something big happened this morning. David Attenborough, speaking on BBC radio, pointed to capitalism as the main driver of ecological breakdown. The debate is beginning to shift. https://t.co/C2PX7k5y33

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) October 8, 2020

Makes a change from boring on about population I guess.

Taro Yamamoto is a politician and former actor who has been called Japan's Bernie Sanders. Recently his party Reiwa Shinsengumi have put out posters supporting universal basic income. Poster's translation is "Print fat stacks of money, hand that shit out to everyone" pic.twitter.com/fqe7IWGqbu

— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) June 9, 2020

The Biden Child Tax Credit boost is only for a year. They should make it permanent. The political hill wouldn’t be much higher and the benefits would be immense.

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) January 15, 2021

how many Americans have a Biden Child to claim credit for though??

hunter needs to get to work

milf hunter biden

Well it’s not like he didn’t _try_, from all reports

In Oval just now. pic.twitter.com/UY9yuE2HaX

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 3, 2021

what will the twitter and op-ed freaks find to complain about since he left the mittens at home

This page has a trigger warning for capitalism https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Hustlewave

stimmy

— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) March 19, 2021

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/racist-and-reprehensible-jewish-power-set-to-enter-israels-parliament

Bibi is quite possibly the worst person on earth

this doesn't seem like an example of left wing drift

it took them 4 elections in 2 years to elect a workable far-right coalition at least

Meir Kahane's vision of Israel has really won out

I don't know that they have elected a workable far-right coalition this time either. That phrase would accurately describe most of Bibi's governments in the last ten years, however.

this doesn't seem like an example of left wing drift

Indeed, I forgot the two threads had almost the same title, thought the right-wing one had come up recently and searched for 'west'. Doh!

this is supposed to be the good news thread!

There hasn’t been good news out of Israel since 1997

what happened in 1997?

Sorry, 95

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin

yeah his killers run the country now. it's bad!

Public feeling towards labor unions is more positive than in any year on record back over half a century, @electionstudies.

Public feeling towards big business is more negative than in any year on record.

The gap is bigger than any year on record. pic.twitter.com/5ouRoc9Si6

— Aaron Sojourner (@aaronsojourner) March 26, 2021

Here’s hoping

Has anybody been reading Andreas Malm’s recent books? Either _Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency:
WAR COMMUNISM IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY_ or the punchier titled _How to Blow Up a Pipeline_?

one reason it might be happening: the right aren't paying attention

f you are banging on about woke now, you are missing the big story: an economic transformation. Me @FT
on how the "woke brigade" is the latest in a long line of rightist "folk devils", and why it's now about "the economy, stupid" (and not just in the US) https://t.co/WJoHHv2Knj pic.twitter.com/RyppDiMVfZ

— Simon Kuper (@KuperSimon) April 16, 2021

(see also https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/22/the-great-pause-was-an-economic-revolution linked earlier in this thread)

only 47 per cent of 1,600 British respondents could even define gross domestic product

It’s clear a lot of centrist Dem economists are frustrated with the online / administration economists, and apparently many are afraid to speak up. A few thoughts on this...

— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) May 29, 2021

flopson come explain this goober to us

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economists are the fucking worst

We should raise taxes on the top 20% to fight inflation.

how fucking parochial is this discipline that these clowns have only recently started feeling intimidated by the "extreme left bernie sanders supporters" in their own ranks

there are endless ways in which these people are bullshit even by their own bullshit standards and stuff like this makes me think they know it deep down

https://www.thecut.com/2021/06/dating-apps-dismantling-capitalism.html

well that was a feel-good read

j/k

"Bolsonaro loses support amongst gamers, who have been some of his most loyal supporters since the beginning" https://t.co/1vhDHzuhlA

— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) July 18, 2021

https://wyrk.com/buffalo-city-council-considering-abolishing-buffalo-mayor-position/

I wonder if this has anything to do with a democratic socialist winning the primary...

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2021/7/19/22580472/child-tax-credit-biden-tiktok-memes

where's the check for people who already make too much money and have no kids huh???

tension in that article between the vox house style and the actual material things that - well, turns out they actually seem to matter a lot to people, who knew? can we do something to capture this effect for our purposes? of course there are these institutional obstacles which might as well be ontological preventing us from generalising from this very specific articulation so we are basically at an impasse where all we can do is say hey, cool new thing, what does this mean for the democratic party going forward

site:vox.com "class struggle" 38 results

why bernie lost, some zizek bullshit, inequality is problem but we're working on it, more why bernie lost...

"The federal government is not a family. And it's not a small business. And it's not a local government. And it's not a state government," @RepJohnYarmuth says at Rules Committee hearing. "We can spend whatever we need to spend in the interest of serving the American people."

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 23, 2021

(Chairman of the House Budget Committee)

jesus christ thank you