According to a recent Gallup Poll, 49% of Americans 18-35 have a favorable view of socialism. Where do you stand? Are you a socialist – even though you may not even realize it? QUIZ hereand post the results in the comments
“… “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.
“It’s the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” Kalmus continued. “World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don’t get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point.” …”
Corporate media will not cover the climate crisis.
“…The terms "Capitalism” and “Capitalistic Production” are political catchwords. They were invented by socialists, not to extend knowledge, but to carp, to criticize, to condemn. Today, they have only to be uttered to conjure up a picture of the relentless exploitation of wage-slaves by the pitiless rich. They are scarcely ever used save to imply a disease in the body-politic.
From a scientific point of view, they are so obscure and ambiguous that they have no value whatever. Their users agree only in this, that they indicate the characteristics of the modern economic system. But wherein these characteristics consist is always a matter of dispute.
Their use, therefore, is entirely pernicious, and the proposal to extrude them altogether from economic terminology, and to leave them to the matadors of popular agitation, deserves serious consideration…“
“While there is not enough ecological or even physical space on Earth for everyone to enjoy private luxury, there is enough to provide everyone with public luxury: magnificent parks, hospitals, swimming pools, art galleries, tennis courts and transport systems, playgrounds and community centres. We should each have our own small domains – private sufficiency – but when we want to spread our wings, we could do so without seizing resources from other people.”
Homes used to be for eating and sleeping, with general hobby-interest activities being outside, in public. Playing indoors was limited to inhospitable climates–winter (but not all of winter), during storms, days when it’s too hot to safely run around.
We slowly shifted that, and capitalistic businesses jumped on the opportunity to insist your home needed to contain every possible amenity you might need to access. Your kids need a full playset in your yard, not one at the park three blocks away. You need a workshop of your own, not the town community center. You need a washing machine (of your own; can’t share one with the family next door) and a dryer because you can’t hang things up outside.
If you like swimming, you need your own pool, not one shared with the community. Fifteen thousand gallons of water for one family to sometimes swim for a few hours a week during summer. Multiplied by several families in the neighborhood, of course. Can’t be sharing that kind of resource.
You need an extensive private movie, games, and music collection; can’t just have a robust library that caters to the local community interests. Can’t just acquire a few favorites, especially anything obscure, and borrow popular movies and books–and production companies make sure of that by refusing to let libraries own digital content. Instead, they often “license” it and eventually it expires, so you can’t count on the library having something you saw last year. Better buy a copy for yourself. But not share it with friends, of course. They’ll need to buy their own copy.
And of course, we allllll need to pay for our own internet, sometimes several times over (every phone in the house & the house itself might have separate accounts) instead of the city providing internet as a basic utility. Internet companies fight hard against municipal internet plans.
If you see that Amazon is a great place to work, you know it was an article paid for by Amazon.
amazon has 1.3 million worldwide employees according to a quick google search. approximately 1000 injuries per 10000 employes - aka one-tenth of all the people who work full time in amazon warehouses.
aconservative estimate would probably put the amount injured at 100,000 people. ONE HUNDRED FUCKING THOUSAND PEOPLE.
I’m not opposed to the Etsy strike but I think people have forgotten that a true strike doesn’t end until some sort of resolution has been made. The Kellogg’s strike, for example, didn’t have an announced end date. The workers were on strike indefinitely until certain conditions were met.
I worry that giving such a clear, hard end date to the Etsy strike is probably just sending the message to Etsy that their profits will dip for a week and then go right back to normal.
I get that a lot of people can’t afford to close their shops for even a week, but as a union member with the IWW, I really think the first step really should be to organize under a freelance artists’ union so there can be shit like a strike fund, clear communication, and clear demands coming from a centralized force.
IDK, I’m not the most educated person in the world, so maybe I’m off-base, but from where I’m standing, the constant calls for a “general strike” that are really just a planned protest,not a true strike, feel like they’re kind of kneecapping actual strike efforts at times.
I was catching up on my TikTok feed this morning and came across a video talking about the strike organizers “coming up with ways to support people during the strike.”
That’s…not something you should be figuring out afteryou call for a strike. That’s like the first thing you figure out, before you even thinkabout calling for a strike.
Babies don’t forget there’s an Etsy boycott from April 11-18 to protest the higher service fees recently instated for shop owners despite the fact that the company reported record profits last year. Etsy is usually one of my go-tos but I am absolutely going to stay off for the week. Without its vendors (many of whom are independent artists/creators) Etsy is literally nothing, and if these new policies are undermining their ability to stay on the site without risking their financial stability then they 100% deserve our support. No Etsy this week!!!
Prime example of racists co-opting progressive language to pass their bigotry off as something else
liberalism and white feminism have always led down this path.
We don’t have riots in Houston, but the moment someone comes for our Slabs…
The feminist language is pretense. What these people really care about is property values.
The same type of people move into African American neighborhoods and try to use noise ordinances against the loud church services on Sunday mornings. They move into white working class suburbs and try to get laws passed to stop the shade tree mechanics from having more than two vehicles parked in their front yards. They move to the country and bring nuisance lawsuits against farmers over the noises and smells and dust that are an inescapable part of farming.
All with the goal of making the area more attractive to the upper middle class who will pay more so that they, the new arrivals, will get more for their place when they go to sell.
This is the kind of behavior you get when market forces trump community.
