More NYT:
Unable to Meet the Deductible or the Doctor
Down with Obamacare!
For free, quality health care for all!
Or at least employer-paid Cadillac plans!
Pretty Vive le Galt!ish article from Rolling Stone of all places:
(although #8 made me bristle* and I'm not quite sure I agree with, or even understand, #5)
(*although it did lead me to this one in Der Spiegel: Homesick for a Dictatorship: Majority of Eastern Germans Feel Life Better under Communism
We've already got the Stasi, might as well get the jobs, health care, and twice the rate of female orgasm!
For workers revolution!!!)
More NYT:
Unable to Meet the Deductible or the Doctor
Down with Obamacare!
For free, quality health care for all!
Or at least employer-paid Cadillac plans!
You know Gobbo, you are starting to make more sense as time goes by. I just had to forgo a biopsy because of the $570 co-pay. Here's hoping I don't roll a 1 on that cancer d100 >.<
Royal Commission union witch hunt given extension Our conservative government has not been able to find the dirt its looking for extends Royal Commission in hope of finding something..... anything to justify the money it spent and the attack on the unions.
Even the SMH thinks its a bit fishy Unions royal commission extension reveals true motivations
Morally broken system?? Capitalism has nothing to do with morals. It is an economic system, not a life style.
Au contraire; it absolutely Is a lifestyle, at least as seen in practice.The drive to profit is the constant, all-consuming goal of capitalism. And thanks to our past in the Cold War, our society in America has embraced this agenda as a moral imperative; profit before all else.
Now the problem with the core of your argument is that economic systems are not detached from people. It's amazing how economics classes will strive and haul to pretend that there are no people involved at any level, that it's all pure theory, and that only "Homo economicus' - the perfectly rationally self-interested person - exists at all.
This of course is absolutely untrue, and underlines why economics is really just astrology for math nerds. People are not only intimately tied to economies, but economies are made entirely out of people. Thus an amoral economic system is the same as an immoral economic system, at least in how it impacts those people. Capitalism (at least, modern, as-practiced capitalism) only cares that profit is being made, it pays no attention to the costs behind that profit. so, good job Nike forhtir quarterly gains; slave labor in indonesia, what are you talking about?
It's worth noting htat modern, as-practiced capitalism is VERY different from the capitalism spoken of by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations - what he describes in there is actually closer to an idealized socialist state, than the wild west "capitalism" of today.
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Comrade Curtin--'S true; I make a lot of sense. Sorry to hear about that shiznit in the PM. To dust off one of my old slogans, "If you don't hate your boss, you're a stooge of the plutocracy!"
Comrade Dwarf--Thank you for the links.
Citizen Scootalol--Just to let you know that there is a big jump in time in the thread between the post you're responding to (three years ago, I think) and when I relaunched the Red Menace thread (last month).
I'll be back with some shameless socialist self-promotion in a bit...
From Ferguson: Socialist Alternative: The Whole System is Guilty: How Socialists Fight Systemic Racism
From Minneapolis: Airport Workers Spark Wage Raises
From Seattle: Jess Spear & J. Glenn Evans: Panorama Apartment Evictions
(Comrades, if you live in Washington state, please consider voting for Comrade Spear)
If you're in Boston this Saturday, come meet Comrade Anklebiter and shut down Newbury Street!
If you're in Boston next Tuesday, well you won't meet Comrade Anklebiter because he will be at work, but you can demonstrate with my comrades for abortion rights...in Ireland!
Spare me a day sometime this coming month for some gaming. Goblin does not live by protest alone....
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Yes, we also require pickles and [bubble bubble bubble].
Comrade Dwarf,
Can't believe I didn't brag about this before, but I was going through my Facebook feed and thought of a question you asked a while back concerning aboriginal rights. Pretty awesome right-wing article attacking Comrade Kshama and Seattle in general:
I don't know what socialism is since it gets tossed around so much that its meaning might as well be what this thread seems to be (the joke where somebody says comrades)
[Enters a frothing rage and pulls out a knife]
Die, horse, die!!!!
Comrade Dwarf,
Can't believe I didn't brag about this before, but I was going through my Facebook feed and thought of a question you asked a while back concerning aboriginal rights. Pretty awesome right-wing article attacking Comrade Kshama and Seattle in general:
Ha the author of that article is a total bell-end.
Good on Seattle.
The Sharing Economy’s ‘First Strike’: Uber Drivers Turn Off the App
Karen Lewis’ Replacement at the CTU Has a Message for Rahm Emanuel
Commie watchers take note, Brother Sharkey is (was?) a Cliffite, who weren't tankies, not even a little bit.
And, finally, one that makes me proud of my half-paisano heritage:
Never mined: Italian worker plays hooky for 35 years, receives full pension
For the right to be lazy!
Vive le Galt!!!
Engels > Marx.
That depends whether you go for length or breadth, beard-wise.
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Engels > Marx.
I will give you Engels is > Zeppo but Groucho has it all over Engels... ;-)
Latest post in the Books thread made me wanna Ancient Rome politroll, but I didn't. Instead, I looked up an old pamphlet that may or may not stand up historically speaking, I wouldn't know. Haven't read it in a long time.
Two Pages from Roman History by Daniel De Leon
Another one that caught my eye by the same authour and may go with Comrade Longears' recent readings in Cocteau:
Also, if the "Two Pages" is to be believed, the phrase "Labor faker" was originally "Labor fakir" which, according to wikipedia, is a Sufi ascetic. Which doesn't make much sense to me, but maybe I should actually re-read the pamphlet instead of skimming it.
For a limited time only, the blurb of Barbara Ehrenreich plugging CounterPunch has been replaced by photos of Henry Kissinger eating his own boogers!
Donate to CounterPunch today!
(Lead story, Comrade Dwarf is about how the CIA ousted your boy Gough.)
While mucking about on the Newbury Street Shutdown page, I found another Cliffite:
The Complaint Jar Runneth Over
Hundreds of citizens are waiting—and waiting—for the Boston Police Department to respond to allegations of wrongdoing. Will they ever get answers?
Or ex-Cliffite, anyway. I met him a couple of days before Occupy Boston. He might have been part of that Renewal Faction they expelled this past year though...
A video from Comrade Dwarf
One + one + one + one + one = One
U-nion! U-nion! U-nion!
Omar the Arab Trade Union Field Rep once had an online affair with an Australian woman who, under his tutelage, went from being a functionary at an NGO to being a functionary with an Australian union (don't recall which one.) She came over to visit the US for a month and we got to talking and, according to her, the laws and regulations shackling labor are even stronger in Australia than in the United States, hard as that may be to believe.
Have the Socialist Party split, then, or is that a new group? Or a new name for the old one?Anyway, as far as I know, that's still the Britishiznoid CWI. Haven't heard of any splits over on this side of the pond.
So, I don't think this is news, but apparently, the Britishiznoid CWI section has implemented its own devo-max and the Scottish branches are now the Socialist Party Scotland and the rest are the Socialist Party of England and Wales, which, predictably, our left opponents (probably not just them) refer to as "SPEW".
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Fairness at Fairpoint: Thank You to All Our Friends
I had heard the picket lines had already come down, but now I guess I should drive up to Manchester.
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MI5 spied on Eric Hobsbawn and Christopher Hill for years and years
Not really a surprise, given MI5's suspicion of more or less anyone remotely pinkish, but a fairly interesting article nonetheless.
1) Reminds me I need to read The World Turned Upside Down like I said I was gonna all that time ago.
2) I never realized Comrade Hobsbawm was so ugly.
3) Maybe the MI5 should have been concentrating on Cambridge? Hmmm? Hmmm?
Vive le Kim Philby!
4) "The surveillance intruded into the targets’ relationships. Hobsbawm is recorded in 1952 as having 'difficulties with his [first] wife, who,' an MI5 officer noted, 'does not consider him to be a fervent enough Communist'." Why can't I meet women like that?
More DDR Nostalgia:
Why Did East Germany Go Under?
Which I enjoyed, but, uh, what about the Uprising of '53?
"After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts.
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?"
Thank you, Comrade Brecht.
When I saw the headline for the article it read:
Without Lucrative Market, Potential Ebola Vaccine Was Shelved for Years
But when I click on it the title is:
Ebola Vaccine, Ready for Test, Sat on the Shelf
I'm not sure if that's because I accessed the article through a forum devoted to internet hipster douchebaggery or a feature of NYT clickbait.
Also, I'm kinda surprised the paper of record hasn't thrown up a paywall yet. They usedta, if I read too many articles per month.
Two more on Fairpoint:
Local news: Waterville, Augusta FairPoint employees say they’re in it for long haul
Leftie news: FairPoint Workers Strike against Wall Street “Wolves”
I am torn between class solidarity and anti-dog hatred.
More local news: FairPoint accuses striking employees of slowing down jobs
"Tuesday the company is accusing striking employees of intimidating replacement workers."
Oh, the poor little scabbies are being yelled at by the big bad union thugs? Oh, boo hoo!
[Throws rocks at scabs]
Vive le Galt!
(Lead story, Comrade Dwarf is about how the CIA ousted your boy Gough.)
No longer the lead story, but I wanted to bookmark it for posterity:
The forgotten coup - how America and Britain crushed the government of their 'ally', Australia
Anyone know anything about this Pilger guy? Seems like I shoulda known he was a filmmaker and not just some dude who wrote for CP.
Try his reportage-collection Hidden Agenda (at least that's what its Swedish title would be translated as). Some 500 pages of excellent left-wing railing against the state of things. (Obviously there's the occasional swing-and-miss because that's what happens when you rail, but all in all I'd say most of his points are well laid-out.)
Yes Pilger is a mostly good left wing reporter.
I don't think British and U.S. Involvement in the Dismissal is as extensive as he claims, I do think they were opportunists in application of diplomatic pressure and back room reassurances.
If you're in Boston this Saturday, come meet Comrade Anklebiter and shut down Newbury Street!We want freedom, freedom
All these racist-ass cops,
We don't need 'em, need 'em
I also ran into a dude named Frank who was one of the first commies I ever met back in 1994 when I went down to South Boston for an anti-fascist mobilization. He was waving a hammer-and-sickle flag and getting yelled at by Southie bigots.
He's in Workers World now, except he is no longer a man. I had seen pictures of her before, so I knew she had transitioned, but I still wasn't prepared for when she told me her name was "Bunny."
Tinfoil hat time - Primeminister Harrold Holt the CIA or the Chinese?
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I am unfamiliar with the tale of Prime Minister Holt beyond the wikipedia page I just skimmed, but I think that he, Lord Lucan and D.B. Cooper were all in it together.
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5:45 Live Extra: Fairpoint Strike - Extended Interview 10/24/14
Strikers continue to target FairPoint owners
Turns out there's a picket line in my town, but there's only ever been five strikers on the line. We're trying to see if we can organize student-labor solidarity at UMass Lowell, but I have to admit my fervent communism has been a bit dulled by the arrival in town of Ariel the Sexy Roller Derby Chick for her annual visit.
Spoilered for hawt and steamy goblin love:
"I won't f#$$ you in your car, Doodlebug, but I'll make out with you in this alley."
Most exciting thing I've heard all year.
Goblins get to third base in the streets!
Was idly googling the internet and found myself on Ariel the Sexy Roller Derby Chick's roller derby team page.
I can't believe she never told me the name of her team's name was The Berkeley Resistance!
Of course, 's all bullshiznit. She's an Obamabot.
And it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do to her what Obama has been doing to the country for the last six years.
(Thank you, Citizen Konigsberg.)
Finally got around to reading Bunny's comrades' paper and I am happy to report:
Two down, two to go!
Solidarity Day 6 in Boston: Hundreds demand ‘Drop the charges’ in anti-union frame-up
An injury to one is an injury to all! Pack the courts! Drop the charges! Reinstate the School Bus 4!
For tankie-led unions everywhere!
Vive le Galt!!!
Semi-repost from the Good Tunez thread because it still makes me mad:
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*And, no, I didn't realize she was white either, until I posted this video. From wikipedia:
"In response to the success of her single, she received threats from white supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, and retired from performance soon after.[1] She remained out of music and lived in Gainesville for the next 25 years.
"In 1993, rap group Salt-n-Pepa sampled "What a Man" for their hit single "Whatta Man", which was a massive hit. In the wake of the single's success, Lyndell began performing again, and in 2003, at the opening of the Stax Museum, she performed "What a Man" live for the first time ever."
F!!%in' 'Merica.
Best example of the racial and class biases of liberal feminism that I'm likely to see this week:
You won’t believe how many times this woman gets harassed in 10 hours.
The Problem With That Catcalling Video
For women's liberation through socialist revolution!
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From Carolette De Sapphire's The Termagent and the Teamster (Olympia Press, 1949)
"Oh!"
Clara gasped in surprise and outrage as Gobleon's muscular, work-hardened arms clasped her in a grip as adamantine as his commitment to class struggle. She gazed angrily up at his bright red eyes, seeing her own dewy, blushing countenance reflected in them, topped by an impish mop of bouncing yellow curls. She thought of struggling, first against his arrogantly male claspings, then against the surging tide of purple passion that was welling up inside her! A tsunami of overwhelming emotion gushed and eddied about her, bewildering her delicate senses and whirling her mind about in a dizzy pirouette! It was too much!
Oh, Gobleon!, she thought "Oh, Gov Doodlovitch Anklestein!, then, in a trembling voice she stammered
"I won't f**k you in your car, but I will make out with you in this alley"
And her surrender was complete
Romance is not dead.
Did she keep her skates on?
That was pretty f@~&ing hawt, Limey. I can't wait to forward it to her.
And, no. :(
Local 31167 Holds Informational Picket at Union Leader-sponsored Granite State Debates
You can't spell CRUEL without UL!
Vive le Galt!
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Columbus Day arbitrarily renamed by Socialist Seattle
You rabble-rousing Red! Now I've got a site in my browser history where the top 'Read next:' link is an article about whether Michelle Obama was born a man. I think I lost more than one of my precious few IQ points just looking at that article.
If you liked that one, Usagi-san, you'll love this:
EDIT: Although, actually, it looks like there's a problem with the link through the link. Hmmm...
Don't have any good articles at hand, but apparently they had some kind of revolution in Burkina-Faso.
[Falls on knees and looks imploringly to the sky]
Oh please let this be the start of the international proletarian socialist revolution, I swear, I'll do more paper sales, just please let this be the start of the international proletarian socialist revolution...
Nah the current president tried to hold on to power and after opposition parties held general strikes the Army suggested that the pres resign. The Army are now in control and they will stay that way until the "Constitution is restored" .... Whatever that means.
Damnit.
One from the New Left archives:
RAPE, RACISM, AND THE WHITE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT:
AN ANSWER TO SUSAN BROWNMILLER
Ms. Brownmiller's discussion of the lynching of Emmett Till is justly infamous in commie circles, but I didn't know she waxed equally disgusting about the Scottsboro Boys. I guess I should probably read Against Our Will some day, but I don't know if my stomach could take it.