8/ The longer politicians cling to the simulation the more it disintegrates. This gives a strange set of incentives where they must tell the public increasingly fictional stories rather than adjust their messaging. In essence, politicians are stuck inside their own simulation as…
final page of the Intro to Hellworld is a description of a "you" drowning in pigshit, "the fluid pour[ing] into your skull."
"Like everything I tell you here, this is not fiction. It really happened. It is happening now."
Free Gifts by @alybatt is a remarkable, important work of sophisticated Marxist theory informed by spectacularly detailed analysis of our actually-existing capitalist world—and beautifully written at that. It’s about nature but also everything. Wow. Convo this fall @thedigradio.
Recommend this new @jacobin piece by @Matthuber78@Leigh_Phillips@fredstaffordcs as a key intervention on abundance. Private market interests hinder abundance, as does an NGO-govt-legal bureaucracy. Class struggle must overcome both for a plentiful future to prevail.
@ValueHao My favorite part of history museums are when they have a corner dedicated to the cultural revolution and they talk about the “erroneous class struggle line”
@EmptyMaterial I've visited 1,000 companies across the world, carrying with me my favorite microscope. I saw it. The value particles..... They're real.
Jeremy Kessler's 'The Problem of Authoritarianism in Marxist Legal Thought' presents five moments of the Marxist encounter with the question of authoritarianism
1. Marx & Engels
2. Lenin & Luxemburg
3. Pashukanis & Stuchka
4. Neumann & Bloch
5. Poulantzas & the Neue Marx-Lektüre
India’s manufacturing dream hits a demographic wall.
Young workers resist factory life due to low pay, harsh routines, and better gig options.
Unless labour housing, skilling, and dignity of work are addressed, the farm-to-factory shift will remain stuck in theory.
this week is the anniversary of the St. Louis Commune
The 1877 railroad strike was one of the biggest labor actions in US history, and in St. Louis, a multi-racial worker coalition briefly controlled the city
Shell and other fossil-fuel companies have abandoned the Science Based Targets initiative—a six-year-long attempt to define a global, corporate “net zero” emissions strategy—after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields.
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