Probably? That’s a guarantee

… was the greatest proletarian revolution in history and led to almost totally equal redistribution among the peasantry.

How did I do

Must have been it! Thanks!

Do you think The Weird and Eerie is still an enjoyable read for someone who is only aware of like 1/4 of the works he discusses?

Ugh, that first sentence makes me pretty much incapable of even watching.

This looks really interesting, thanks.

A really great article actually, was it only ever the article and not a book? However, I got to say that there still seems to be a lot of anticommunist priming in nearly every sentence. And calling women in communist state positions advocating for liberation “cultural imperialists” is a little over the top. I forgot what it’s like to be in the weird in-between zone where you recognize socialism as a successful system that has already achieved great success for worker libration but still have to do the anticommunist song and dance to be “taken seriously”, maybe even from your own perspective yourself.

I didn’t even know this was in State and Rev, is it near the end? Is the critique regarding ex owners and all that?

I’ve read TANS and thought it was really nice and digestible too. I’ve been in the process of working through How the World Works for a couple years now as well, it’s great for when I have the time to focus on something a little more academic. Too bad Cockshott is such a reactionary shithead.

Honestly I thought the same. I was listening to S4A’s audiobook of it and even with all his asides adding in context it was a lot to take in. It is still really great and I still need to finish it.

I’ve been following their Instagram and damnnn it’s got me hyped to get involved when I’m back in the US next year. I really hope PSL hits the ground running immediately after the election and doesn’t lose any momentum.

I can’t even stand opening the link. I already know it’ll just be full of shit.

Me too! Night train to Zurich. I did not shell out the €80 (one way!) for a little cot and will deeply regret my decision in 12 hours.

I’m irrationally bothered by her inability to write a series of adjectives correctly.

Somewhat misleading as there is an overall increase in private union jobs just not out competing job growth (is that counting gig jobs?):

The number of unionized workers in the private >sector increased by 191,000 to 7.4 million last >year. That includes workers at auto companies, >Las Vegas hotels and Hollywood studios, all of >whom went through high-profile contract >negotiations in 2023.

But the percent of unionized workers in the >private sector – 6% – remained unchanged from >the previous year, as unionization rates didn’t >keep pace with overall hiring.

I would agree with others in the thread that you went rather doomer not based on a whole lot. The left’s position is already worth being doomer about, but Walz doesn’t really worsen it beyond the work we already have in front of us.

Source? I thought the last few years had been the highest for labor action in decades. Maybe all the gig jobs are just doing too much damage.

You think this destroys all the labor momentum?

I hear you but I think the party’s goal is still sustained growth which may at some point enable state chapters to start running serious local campaigns. I’m not a member however though I plan to begin the process once I’m back in the states next year.

However some of our other comrades who do work with them have said that there is not much money spent on the campaigns, there is just the volunteer time to get the signatures and of course whatever events Claudia and Karina partake in (but these double as general socialist agit prop so I’m sure you’d agree they aren’t a waste of time either). I’ll agree though that the rhetoric could use a little tweaking because “we now have a path to over 270 electoral college votes” probably seems like a delusionally optimistic statement to many from the outside. But that’s small change in the grand scheme of the party’s goals and activities.

Let’s hope that at some point we can start getting socialists on county boards of supervisors’ and fuck up landlord’s lives on a direct level.

Why the snark? I do think it would be useful to have a very clear national and detailed program of what leftists would actually do in the US to bring about our goals. How will we accomplish universal health care using the infrastructure that already exists? How will we house everyone? What is the timeline for the green energy transition. Maybe it’s silly to say that no one has written something like this since there are certainly many documents on the green new deal, and Bernie did publish several Medicare for all bills. But I’m sure we all agree that leaving these fleshed out plans to the succdems is not what we want.

Perhaps also you would point out that without a massline workers party in the US, random platforms are likely to be lost and aren’t even worth writing out because there isn’t a movement ready to coalesce around it. But a very clear and well- detailed vision for the future can also be helpful for getting people in board with such a peoples movement. Whereas MAGA has this national movement behind Trump so it has been worth their time.

For example I have a friend who works in housing law and wants to write what a housing for all municipal code would look like in his county. I’m trying to encourage him to join and org and work on something like that in the background while also fighting for tenants unions, etc. But if he were to pen a plan about exactly the best and fastest way to control housing in his area, where the Board of supervisors plays a role, etc etc, that can only be a help for local socialist organizing.