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Harry Cleaver

@harrycleaver.bsky.social

ex-economist, retired professor, Autonomist Marxist, Zeroworker, anti-capitalist, pro-Wilderness, pro-all-sentient-beings, pro-commons, For details: https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/

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"spilled onto the world"? Better: spread, systematically by capitalists who deploy all those emotions to divide & control those who might otherwise unite against them, refusing to be exploited & live in continuing states of alienation from each other & the Earth.

09.03.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's what FBI agents used to say to each other when attending meetings of the Communist Party of the United States in the 1950s. OR, among agents of various COINTELPRO agencies when attending meetings of supposed New Left groups in the 1960s.

09.03.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tim, that would be the pattern. Destroying infrastructure began at least in WWII, planned by the OSS, continued with carpet bombing of Vietnamese irrigation systems & Iraqi systems of all kinds. These are wars on people, not on a regime.

08.03.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"performative religiosity and piety"? Pretty much SOP every Sunday in the world of White Christian Nationalists.

08.03.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL, pretty common in every patriarchal society, including capitalism. Instead of abandoning it, like royalty & titles, they instrumentalized it & have repeatedly tried to reshape it to fit their needs. FORTUNATELY, women have resisted & won concessions - that some are now rolling back.

08.03.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, for ONCE Aaron merely reports, rather than burdening us with a video of Trump's mouthings! Good move.

08.03.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL, is there anyone, anywhere who ever doubted this?

08.03.2026 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Israel Gives β€˜Mass Expulsion Order’ to 200,000 Civilians in South Lebanon. First they stole most of Palestine from Palestinians (included Jews), now the Zionists are taking the rest of it & a huge piece of Lebanon. For what? Greater Israel! www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...

04.03.2026 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No, not "madness" but what you get when you elect a greedy con-man, who lies like he breathes and is easily bought off by Zionists out to carve Greater Israel out of other people's lands.

03.03.2026 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice words, but our only REAL "rights" are those we seize through our struggles. Given that the current form of government denies real democracy & imposes policies denying life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness, the only question is HOW to overthrow it & establish something better.

03.03.2026 10:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dumb shits! You support a Putin-Hitler wannabe, this is what you get: not only fascism at home but the desire to build a Czarist-Empire/thousand-year-Reich! Endlessly greedy, he's easily bought by Zionists who are out to carve out "Greater Israel" from the ruins of other people's lands.

03.03.2026 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not just party over country, but the interests of those who fund them over those of their constituents. But then, it was set up that was and is operating normally.

02.03.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sad to see the AFT reinforcing the view of American education as nothing more than "career readiness", i.e., accepting discipline from teachers today so you'll accept it from bosses in the labor market. Gone is the old illusion that schooling was for citizenship & learning cultural legacies.

02.03.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If only ALL payoffs were on film! Most pass unseen, under the table. We could use a generalization of the service provided by AIPAC Tracker www.trackaipac.com

02.03.2026 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Much as I like Larson, skunks get almost as bad an undeserved rap as wolves.

02.03.2026 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump may not know what he's doing, or why, but his handlers do, paid off by Zionists to do their bidding. www.trackaipac.com

02.03.2026 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let us not forget, they have STILL not solved the problem of the radioactive wastes produced by nuclear power plants! Where are they putting it in the UK?

02.03.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It ain't "their" atrocities but rather those of the fascists making & implementing policy. Moreover, they were not put there by a "vast majority" but only by a slim majority of those who bothered to vote.

02.03.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Take a good luck folks. This is only the beginning of the concentration camps these fascists will build if they aren't stopped.

02.03.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All true, but no insight into the gender/cultural values that regularly produce the road rage prototypical in this film. The violence is not inherent in inanimate vehicles but in the men who drive them, shaped by the gender politics of capitalist patriarchy.

02.03.2026 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wishful thinking that is complicit with Apple's systematic planned obsolescence that continues year after year to profit from people's gullibility & cultural pressures to HAVE "the latest thing". 😑 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned...

28.02.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where does this phony religious shit come from? Read Katherine Stewart's book MONEY, LIES & GOD (2025) to find out!

28.02.2026 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The ONLY reason to watch ANYTHING on networks controlled by fascists is to monitor their lies to figure out how to counter them. Countering, however, requires counter-outlets & sources, like Democracy Docket, so sign up & support financially as many as your income allows.

28.02.2026 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alt CDC & other Alt-govt agencies are terrific responses to the current fascist administration's efforts to deny us information important to our lives. May they proliferate!

28.02.2026 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NB: Foreign Affairs is the oldest journal of elite foreign policy makers, produced by the Council on Foreign Relations. It has long been one of the few venues where those mostly behind-closed-door elites share their views & debates with the rest of the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign...

28.02.2026 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice! But don't call it "hiking", like Thoreau, call it "sauntering". www.thoreau-online.org/walking.html

26.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Cowards"? WAY too generous! They are COMPLICIT because they plan to profit, just like the German capitalists who supported the Nazis in their rise to power & during their consolidation, attacking not only political opponents but unions & their workers' communities.

26.02.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Should be on every network"? Of course, but those networks whose managers will refuse to air it, are all bought off by Zionist money, just like the politicians & corporate CEO's who'll ignore it and continue to cover up Zionist crimes, including genocide. They've been doing it since 1948.

26.02.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The unfeeling, cruel treatment of sentients/sapients as nothing more than another means of production (like machines, water, or metal ore) is prototypically capitalist behavior. This includes, of course, humans - viewed by economists, handmaidens of capitalism, as "human capital".

26.02.2026 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's make it clear, Epstein's behavior is just one, well-financed example of common behavior among racist, misogynic White Christian Nationalists who want to replace our pseudo-democracy by a "Christian"Theocracy run by men. If you doubt it, read Katherine's book MONEY, LIES & GOD.

23.02.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0