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What you're saying now is what you would be saying in 1933.
A renaissance woman trying to start a renaissance www.daphnelawless.com
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Why the fuck was I blocked for this? I was *criticising* the sectarian leftists
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Worse or better than Xelennials watching Trumpers dance to "Killing In The Name Of"?
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Actions like this help *persuade* them to support abolition, because they see that pro-abolition forces are the ones fighting Trump
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All the evidence suggests that this guy was a "wannabe" mercenary who hung around the tough guys in the Congo but wasn't a "professional" himself
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In a lot of ways, the Trump years have been the 80s on fast-forward
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It's been going 90 years. Old Man Trotsky tore his hair out over what it did in Germany.
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something something sour apple tree
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New Zealander here. Although I'm a red republican, I have to agree that the UK is not fucked because of the monarchy. It's fucked because it's the UK. An ex-empire ruled by bitterness and run by reactionary media cliques who actively try to dismantle their country rather than lose control of it.
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I'm not a big fan of Jodi Dean, but her idea that "the Party" is there to "maintain" the mood of the masses in between mass actions makes sense. What will hold the mood of No Kings and turn into political power?
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Marxists would explain it as the outcome of the crisis of Fordist capitalism and its replacement by neoliberalism over those decades. And that we're going through a similar process with the crisis of neoliberalism - hopefully it will not be replaced permanently by Trumpism or Xi Jinping Thought.
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This is the case as well. A lot of people keen to mention that mass protests do nothing on their own (cf 2003). But they radicalise the normies, and make the activists feel less alone. That is worth it. bsky.app/profile/kill...
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simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/18/...
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but then also the people who staffed the Reagan Revolution
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The Boomers aren't the ones who kind of like the fascism but only tone it down a bit, please. That's GenX.
(source: am GenX)
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Dude, you're being sucked in by a Polite Disagreement Bot
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Check it out though, the centrist scolds are JUST as salty as the tankie scolds. Some people just don't WANT normies to have a good time doing politics
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"Donald Trump, on the bass! He wrote this!"
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They hate his aesthetics but they LOVE his lib owning. If he came out with a MAGA Che beret they'd buy that shit in droves
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Hegseth's got that "sacked in the morning" look you become familiar with from football coaches
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WE'LL HANG PETE HEGSETH FROM A SOUR APPLE TREE
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Look at my leftists dawg, if they're still in Trump 2.0 saying Obama was a fascist we are NEVER getting out of fascism
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milk went up my nose for the first one
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This is clearly a knowing callback to the similar sign re: Hilary from 2017
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Well, as to the last bit, I did say REVOLUTIONARY groups lol
I was disappointed to hear anarchists saying "gee, we should have brought some zines and pamphlets to introduce ourselves to normies". That's why tankies and Trots used to Sell The Paper but y'all made hilarious jokes about that
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California über alles
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Sectarianism is when the hamsick crew and the Cheney crowd refuse to march together.
Opportunism is when they pretend that there's not a real difference between them.
So: what forces are mobilising to offer a real, implementable, Post-Trump Program which might actually fix the causes of Trump?
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...marches alongside other anti-fascist forces, while proclaiming a real plan for What Next.
In retrospect, this is also why the 2000s anti-capitalist movement and Occupy, with its "One no, many yesses" slogan and its proud refusal to offer an alternative program, went nowhere.
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The popular front, as a mass movement AGAINST fascism, fractures when the next step of offering an alternative comes up, because the most conservative part of the coalition (with the big donors/capital) imposes a veto.
Contrast this to the UNITED Front: a coalition with a program for change...
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When people cheers about the Harris campaign being a "popular front", I had the same sick foreboding. You can't mobilize masses just to defend the status quo. Well, you can mobilize them for a mass peaceful protest, which ain't nothing. But not for actually putting stuff on the line.
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Basically: the working masses were anti-fascists but wanted something better than the liberal Republic. The elitists (and their shitty Stalinist allies) decided they had to crush the revolution to win the war. Spoiler: they didn't.
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The Cheney guys and the hamsick crew want precisely opposite visions for America when Trump is dead, exiled or behind bars. And that will become more of a problem the more Trump is threatened.
Again, I beg y'all to read Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell on how Spanish anti-fascism ate itself.
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¡Viva la Quinta brigarda!
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Forgot the link bsky.app/profile/opin...
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"Political ZIRP" is an excellent concept, but we might take a parallel to the 60s and call it "political full employment". When people have a lot, they demand more, and then those demands become irrelevant when the tide goes out.
Expanding, confident capitalism is good for building the Left.
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Just like democracy, rule of law is fake, and also we will miss it very very much when it’s gone.
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Let's hope the protests actually do something this time, huh
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There were two waves of post-60s socialist org collapse; one early 80s after Maoist China was lost; one early 90s after the USSR was lost. The post-Seattle generation of orgs, which were defined exclusively anti-neoliberal, can't fight rising fascism because it uses so many of the same words