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

I've been saying this

if the democrats manage to open up the money faucet and then not lose the house next year I will give Joe Biden one (1) credit for it

They should find a reason to justify a stimulus check next October. Actually use the legalized bribery strategy that could have kept Trump in office.

speak for yourself john yarmuth, when my family runs out of money they just print more money we call it familycoin

Everyone needs to spend big on their post-COVID (maybe) Halloween costume in 2022, here's $2k.

If the SPD forms a government after the German election, which polls think is pretty likely right now, you would have social democrat-led coalitions in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Germany

— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) September 13, 2021

Carbon tax, land value tax to pay for for UBI and high quality public housing.

What a king https://t.co/vWhEPoq18E pic.twitter.com/XzhAPJafmt

— big burgers, all-day breakfast and pies (@TribTowerViews) September 14, 2021

thats dope

the outsmarting and hacking of epik along with these developments has me feeling somewhat heartened lately. i like humans

Doubtful that a SPD led coalition in Germany can be counted as "left wing" tbh.

swedish & especially danish socdems are even worse, the danish ones have been full-on anti-immigration & anti-islam etc.

the actually decent socdem-left government in europe is portugal but no mention of that

Thread is “Left wing drift” not “left wing”

dunno if it even counts as drift tbh but not worth arguing

the actually decent socdem-left government in europe is portugal but no mention of that

Wouldn't actually dispute this but in terms of nomenclature it's a socialist led govt and the actual socdems haven't ruled out a coalition with the fascists.

yeah but that's just a quirk of portuguese politics, the actual socialists are the left bloc & pcp-pev, the socialist party is social democrats, and the socialist democratic party is (fairly unusually) conservatives. it's surely more common than not for a european "socialist party" to have been very ordinary social democrats for ages now.

Yeah I am aware, which is why I said nomenclature - it's because after the fall of the dicatorship no one wanted to seem right-wing so every party's name is to the left of its actual politics.

Always read the footnotes. Fed economist: "I leave aside the deeper concern that the primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an
apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order." https://t.co/9kphNPQ8La

— Danny Yadron (@dannyyadron) September 24, 2021

now to not leave it aside i guess

a remarkable referendum today: Berlin voters by a comfortable margin voted that the city should expropriate housing from large landlords (that have at least 3,000 units) & socialize those units.

Roughly 200,000 units fit that description.

— Taniel (@Taniel) September 26, 2021

The landlords are making memes y'all pic.twitter.com/7Y4b5XnCeY

— Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 (@kennedytcooper) September 24, 2021

Lol pretty sure those are memes from the Radical Centrist Instagram page, which is run by Brad Troemel.

Read that as Brad Toenail

He's an artist and social commentator, makes a fair amount of money off of his Patreon from my understanding.

He got shadow-banned on IG for a meme he made that mimicked an actual Biden ad that said, "Not his head, but his heart". A lot of people shared it thinking it was an actual Biden ad rather than a leftist shitpost.

Rutgers is offering a 6-week labor history class with three leading labor historians for $90. Seems like a really cool/fun course!

Register here: https://t.co/sYgEdGPFTf pic.twitter.com/NnHWr4orbI

— Chris Brooks (@chactivist) October 3, 2021

That's a good price and sounds like it could be fun!

Covering the strike wave https://theinsurgents.substack.com/p/ep-82-are-we-in-a-strikewave-ft-jonah

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item: saw a kid wearing a sleeveless shirt with a hammer and sickle on it at the gym yesterday

What's up with the Qiao Collective ties to the DSA, leading to the decision by the DSA International Committee not to condemn the forced dissolution of an independent Hong Kong Trade Union? I was thinking about reaching out to my local DSA but after that I'll pass. Got in touch with Food Not Bombs here instead.

...ok

Is there a better thread to discuss this in? I'd genuinely be interested in seeing the thoughts of other leftists here on the matter, it's something I've seen tearing up Twitter and other leftward forums but maybe I missed any discussion of that here, sorry.

Better than the last time you responded to me I guess.

really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts

― ingredience (map), Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:07 AM (one year ago)