Robert Raymond

community-oriented societies don't use phrases like "earn a living" because people naturally understand the need to contribute to society. it's only under capitalism, where your life's goal is to generate surplus value for some faceless asshole, where you'll hear an abominable phrase like that

the US's war on mexico is yet another example of the empire's dying last breaths. morena is not even a socialist party, but even a mildly progressive government is too much for the great satan to stomach

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
mexico pt. 1: a socialist introduction w/ cecilia guerrero

true—it's also not even about that as much as it's just how social production works under the system that this person supports

your morning coffee is nothing more than a long chain of social labor by real human beings whose needs, at every single moment, shape your experience and allow you to even have a morning coffee to begin with. please remove your head from your ass and realize there's more to the world than just you

who unpacked it and put it on the grocery store shelves? who brewed it for you? who delivered it to your door via an app? who rang it up for you? who maintained the roads that you drove on to get it? the sidewalks? who built the cafe? who laid the bricks? who made them? who mined the clay and shale?

so cool and edgy! quick question though: who grew the coffee you drank? who picked the berries? who shipped and delivered it? who packaged it? who ensured it was safe for consumption? who sold it to you?

if you live in a county where you can form a legal union but your employer isn't required to sign a contract then you actually don't have a right to form a union in any meaningful sense

NEW EP josh poe and tara raghuveer join us to discuss why the rent is so damn high and why organizing tenants is a necessary piece of the solution

people in the US are delusional exactly because the media they consume makes them so. watching legacy media actors behind a desk performing the "news" spinning wild narratives which are affronts to reality day after day would melt anybody's brain

NEXT WEEK:
from the frontlines: tenant organizing w/ josh poe and tara raghuveer

but hey, if you make it the full 50 years you'll be able to live out your last years in poverty in a slum that YOU own 👍 america baby

it gets even better because most modern houses are built cheap and fast and have a lifespan shorter than your mortgage duration so you'll be paying for it even after it's uninhabitable. problem solved

a 50 year mortgage is actually a great solution to the housing crisis because instead of giving your landlord $3000/mo for the rest of your life you are giving it to a bank PLUS interest

NEW PATREON EP we are joined by the one and only john smith to discuss his groundbreaking book and a lifetime of anti-imperialist struggle through thought and action

how do you record a podcast if you're living in your car

didn't you kill the California universal healthcare bill Ro?

there could literally not be a better time in history for us on the left to reach out to progressive liberals and show them that there is an alternative—that the democratic party is their enemy and is just as subservient to capital as republicans are

right on the heels of overwhelming victories giving them a clear mandate to continue fighting, party leadership caves asking eight members who are not up for reelection this cycle to take the fall and vote yes. it's not just that the democratic party isn't our "friend" — it's much worse than that

not surprising: the democrats are going to cave on the government shutdown and your healthcare costs are going to skyrocket. make no mistake, this is a conscious decision by the party to punish you for mamdani and to remind you of your place

and not a single one of those voting yes are up for reelection this cycle

if you still think that the problem is a "king" and not this entire system than you're choosing to keep your eyes closed

billionaires shouldn't exist

capitalism: ok here's a trillionaire then

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON: imperialism in the twenty-first century w/ john smith

that's where the affordable rent part comes in

what's most wild to me about mamdani is that he's proposing the most basic policies—free transit, affordable rent and daycare are so deeply not radical. if nothing it's an insight into how far right the democratic establishment has gone after decades of lesser-evil voting

do we think mamdani would have won if kamala somehow hadn't lost? I sincerely don't.

NEW EP yueren zhang joins us to take a deep dive into mao and the political philosophy of maoism, exploring key events in chinese history along the way and presenting a critique of china from a maoist perspective

"Israel and Taiwan are bases of operation for Imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective." – Mao Zedong, 1965

it's such a wild coincidence that all the countries doing things that require a US war of intervention just happen to have massive amounts of oil beneath them