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Truth.

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2024/12/12
21:59 UTC

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100% a setup

like the assassin wore gloves, what fingerprints at the scene did place find?

10 Comments
2024/12/12
21:45 UTC

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Help us bring back free busing to Colorado prisons! Mitra, like many others, relied on the Barn-a-Bus program to visit her son at Arkansas Valley Prison. When the program shut its doors in 2020, she was unable to see her son.

For families with incarcerated loved ones, the barriers to accessing visits are an additional form of punishment.

This holiday season, the PSL connected with the people behind Barn-a-Bus and revived this program for a limited run of free prison busing for holiday family visits.

We need your help to bring back regular free and low-cost busing to Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility! Donate, Share, and help us bring back this vital program to our community!

Help us bring back free busing to Colorado prisons! Donate Via Venmo or Cashapp: @LiberationDenver

1 Comment
2024/12/12
21:08 UTC

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Any books that talk about why people are reactionary?

I'm just trying to get some insight

4 Comments
2024/12/12
21:06 UTC

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Looking for Friends

Hi ! I've really wanted to have an internet friendship where you can discuss stuff , vent to someone and exchange ideas etc . I've tried on other forums but it got ruined everything i said I was a Socialist. Most of them think I'm some sort of maniac for thinking that way even if i say thats its alright that they think otherwise . So I wanted to post it here . Amongst people who share my interests. So if someone wanna start a chat about really any topic at all , vent , propose ideas , talk about your quirky ideas or just have a nice talk I'll try to do my best to be a supportive friend . If it's important I'm from Germany , male , 16 years old .

1 Comment
2024/12/12
19:10 UTC

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Does anyone know good non-capitalist clothing brands?

I know multiple socialist/communist/arnachist brands that have good quality and ethical "merch". But what l am searching for are basically normal brands, that don't sell merch but rather normal, good looking clothes that are just not exploiting there laborers or the planet in any way. If you know what I mean I'd be thankful for every help!

2 Comments
2024/12/12
18:40 UTC

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"Why they want to ban TikTok"

Artist: Jesse Welles

17 Comments
2024/12/12
18:26 UTC

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Neoliberalism, Distilled

Hi socialism reddit community. I'm a leftist organizer and writer who just launched a series called "distilling leftist jargon." The first piece in this series is an explainer of neoliberalism, how it functions globally/individually, and how you can hold a conversation about it.

You can read the piece here.

I'm sure most of us in this community know what neoliberalism is, but it is a challenging term to distill, in part because of the how expansive its grip has become. I also occasionally see a gap in ability/willingness to explain this concept with others. Being able to effectively communicate what neoliberalism is, and a leftist critique, is paramount to building a stronger socialist movement and dismantle capitalism.

Appreciate you all!

If you enjoy this piece and want to support my writing, you can subscribe to my weekly newsletter. (it's free!)

1 Comment
2024/12/12
18:08 UTC

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The Democrats failed, Trump won, and the billionaires are preparing to unleash their far-right agenda. But the people are fighting back! The complete bankruptcy of the Democratic Party and its inability to stop the etxreme-right has never been clearer.

It is time once and for all to jettison its misleadership and build an independent movement accountable to no one other than the working class.

Whether you’re a longtime organizer or new to the struggle, join us to discuss how we got here, organizing conditions under Trump, and what is to be done in the coming months.

📅 Friday, December 14 ⏰ 6:30 P.M. 📍 @chicagoliberationcenter (2712 W. Cermak Rd.)

https://pslweb.org/

1 Comment
2024/12/12
18:02 UTC

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Join us this FRIDAY from 7am-10am as we flyer Starbucks customers with information about the union and how they can support it!

📅 Friday, December 13, 7:00-10:00am 📍Starbucks @ 615 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

2 Comments
2024/12/12
17:49 UTC

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Please sign this petition demanding that US Shipping Company Maersk Stop sending weapons to Israel!

For anyone interested, please sign this petition from the Palestinian Youth Movement demanding that US shipping company Maersk stop sending weapons to Israel!

https://www.maskoffmaersk.com/petition-1

10 Comments
2024/12/12
16:37 UTC

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Gaza is the heart of humanity, and those that attack it, whether directly or through supporting child killers, are it's enemies

1 Comment
2024/12/12
15:33 UTC

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thoughts on blanquism

i rarely ever hear any conversations about blanquism by contemporary socialists. what is the general consensus (from reading about the ideology im going to assume negative). do blanquists even exist today?

3 Comments
2024/12/12
12:58 UTC

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We need to take this opportunity to make conservatives realize what privatization does.

They are mad about healthcare. Good. Now let’s open their eyes to what else privatization is to be blamed for.

Social security, for example. If it is privatized like they all want, a fat cat will be on top earning a multimillion dollar salary for no reason deciding that you didn’t actually work hard enough to “earn” your social security payments. You will reach 67 (or whatever the retirement age will be) and that fat cat can deny your retirement. You’ve paid into social security your life, and you won’t receive it. This is their nightmare, this is what the conservatives have been saying for decades - that social security will not be there when they retire. Well, privatization is exactly how that will come to be.

Privatized education? Some fat cat deciding your child doesn’t get to have books this year because they “aren’t necessary for learning.”

Maybe, just maybe, if they can wrap their heads around this, public ownership of the means of production won’t be too far of a leap for them.

Edit: Liberals, too.

7 Comments
2024/12/12
11:55 UTC

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CIA Officer explains why the U.S. destabilized Cuba: “Cuba has more doctors and more teachers per capita than any other country in the world … and it’s all state-supported which means people don’t have to put money out for medical care … It’s a very bad example for the United States.”

20 Comments
2024/12/12
10:20 UTC

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Anyone know of any materialist / Marxist analyses of Eastern Roman history (“Byzantium”) in English?

It’s such an underrated part of history in the West and coming from a Greek background I’d like be interested something about it from a left perspective. While it was an empire, it really breaks a lot of conceptions of the typical Eurocentric view.

It’s interesting to me how this area of the world goes from being viewed by westerners as “European” to “Oriental” depending on the circumstance. Or how Greek nationalism / identity conflicts with this period of “Greek” history.

My Greek (Romanika?) isn’t strong enough to read something like this so English is preferable (signomi, yiayia)

Thanks in advance.

(And I’ve read Orientalism which isn’t Eastern Rome focused but does touch on a lot of the viewpoints westerners have had on Eastern Rome)

2 Comments
2024/12/12
06:55 UTC

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The possibly near-sighted focus on healthcare

I feel like socialists aren't connecting the profit motives of healthcare to a holistic, economic view. It's very similar to what liberals do. They focus on a single issue, disregard its systemic origins, and thereby in complete equivalence, leave it unfixed. They don't actually change society, whether or not its for a benevolent cause of healthcare, or an incentive to destroy profit. That's literally just democratic party policy(as in, government spending in the healthcare sector, i,e,, deprivitization), it's not anything special. The only way is to add actual Marxist implications to this, in a broader critique of profit in our entire society. How does this affect other necessities, like food or housing? How is this profit motive related to our mode of production? How can we abolish it, and what do we replace it with?

What do you think?

14 Comments
2024/12/12
05:37 UTC

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Bertrand Russell on his meeting with Vladimir Lenin in 1920

1 Comment
2024/12/12
00:49 UTC

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Myth: USSR dissolved due to inefficiency

25 Comments
2024/12/12
00:28 UTC

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Something seems off

I know this is not something new to say as it seems to be the general consensus surrounding Luigi Mangione, he most likely is a patsy. Like how could Altoona police see him in the McDonald's with the same bag with the gun he used and a manifesto? It doesn't make sense. Like unless he had a second bag at another location, picked it up, and then left NYC, then there's no way they found him with the same bag right? It didn't look like there was a second bag on the bike with him, and it doesn't seem that preplanned that the assassin would have a second bag somewhere else to pick up. Plus the manifesto doesn't even sit right, I just get off vibes from this whole thing.

24 Comments
2024/12/11
23:26 UTC

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