Captain Swing

"The Old world... is running up like parchment in the fire." Gerrard Winstanley

"It is up to us that every day of social childbirth have this grandeur and joy..." Communard Jules Valles, March 29, 1871

The world just screams and falls apart

"White genocide" has been a longstanding American myth, going back to the early Republic, when some of the new country's most famous names claimed that Native Americans needed to be exterminated because they had committed genocide against a lost (and fictitious) white race of Mound Builders.

@workingclasshistory.com just did two episodes on pirates with the great (historian) Marcus Rediker, go check it out!

Americans continue to know nothing about communism (except perhaps american communists and the cia)

Marx: "The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint ... etc., the more you save—the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. 1/2

Did they not notice how savagely the movement was repressed last year? Movements are organic and they ebb and flow, they change tactics in response to the shifting conjuncture. Also, yes, of course there still is a palestine movement in this country

The manuscript is beautiful

Clutching your pearls at this just makes you look like an out of touch nerd

Don't ignore trump but ignore this post. Who cares? Go build a movement and win

Liberals should stop piously hand-wringing over this. 1) it is funny. 2) fascists want to profane the holy. Look at how trump discusses the military. It's a sign of the times to be used for different ends since the church and the military suck anyways

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Thomas Paine

Value Theory for the End of the World Poet, communist, cat-lover, teacher, music critic, roadrunner, critical theorist, Marxist: though not necessarily in this order, Joshua Clover was all those things--and more. To me, however, he was fi...

“ 'And when everything is at an end give me your hand so that we may begin again from the beginning.' "

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Perhaps the most central contradiction of the moment is that we truly do have the means to provide a good life for everyone on earth. And a small class of people are fighting harder than ever to make that impossible

ultimately the question is not is Donald Trump popular but can you organize the anger against him in a way that matters

The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.”

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Who Governs the University? With authoritarian threats looming, our campus needs democracy.

Here my colleague Gabe Winant asks "Who governs the University?" We should all be asking this question. These institutions are landlords, healthcare providers, employers, police forces, and educators. They should be democratically governed.

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Trump is sticking with Hegseth because he can count on Hegseth to order American troops to fire on American citizens.

The White House doesn’t care about Garcia’s legal status because they’re not enforcing immigration law—they’re conducting ethnic cleansing.

They can’t justify their actions legally, but they don’t think they need to.

The dems may as well just start deporting legal residents without due process too. I mean how else will they show the electorate they also hate brown people?

"My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled; when the lords shall be no more masters than ourselves." John Ball, English Priest, leader of the 1381 peasant revolt

I have a solution. Along with fighting for the right to due process, how about also fighting for a decent and fulfilling life for everyone regardless of race. Getting rid of ICE, making it easier to become a citizen and to be in the country legally. Have an actual ethics and world worth fighting for

disabled people deserve to live fulfilling lives no matter their productivity to society

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

This take has been common & completely wrong. The lack of system redesign & even coherently discussing system redesign led us to this moment. If anything, what has been illustrated is the weakness of CB independence as a concept. It can't even protect payments! Will write about it in the next month

"To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice."

"No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."

Thanks Magna Carta. I like not having a god king.

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