Yeah, I was completely mortified by the actual design of the thing. PAD is good but there should be no bazinga “glory” aestheticized out of such a decision. It’s revolting.

… was the greatest proletarian revolution in history and led to almost totally equal redistribution among the peasantry.

How did I do

Must have been it! Thanks!

Do you think The Weird and Eerie is still an enjoyable read for someone who is only aware of like 1/4 of the works he discusses?

Ugh, that first sentence makes me pretty much incapable of even watching.

This looks really interesting, thanks.

A really great article actually, was it only ever the article and not a book? However, I got to say that there still seems to be a lot of anticommunist priming in nearly every sentence. And calling women in communist state positions advocating for liberation “cultural imperialists” is a little over the top. I forgot what it’s like to be in the weird in-between zone where you recognize socialism as a successful system that has already achieved great success for worker libration but still have to do the anticommunist song and dance to be “taken seriously”, maybe even from your own perspective yourself.

I didn’t even know this was in State and Rev, is it near the end? Is the critique regarding ex owners and all that?

I’ve read TANS and thought it was really nice and digestible too. I’ve been in the process of working through How the World Works for a couple years now as well, it’s great for when I have the time to focus on something a little more academic. Too bad Cockshott is such a reactionary shithead.

Honestly I thought the same. I was listening to S4A’s audiobook of it and even with all his asides adding in context it was a lot to take in. It is still really great and I still need to finish it.

I’ve been following their Instagram and damnnn it’s got me hyped to get involved when I’m back in the US next year. I really hope PSL hits the ground running immediately after the election and doesn’t lose any momentum.

I can’t even stand opening the link. I already know it’ll just be full of shit.

Hard agree. Too bad seeing that in '67 though.

He was literally a professional theologian and his beliefs were instrumental to his activist work. And when was this quote from? He became more and more fervently anti-capitalist as time went on and he realized that the United States was a “burning house” due to its broken economic system.

He spoke a few times saying that Communist states hadn’t aligned themselves to the same freedoms as America is supposed to, etc. etc. It’s pretty bread and butter appealing to red scare America rhetoric, and it’s much less anti Communist than almost anything else that was remotely mainstream from the time. So I say he gets a pass.

I would be curious.

Me too! Night train to Zurich. I did not shell out the €80 (one way!) for a little cot and will deeply regret my decision in 12 hours.

I’m irrationally bothered by her inability to write a series of adjectives correctly.

Somewhat misleading as there is an overall increase in private union jobs just not out competing job growth (is that counting gig jobs?):

The number of unionized workers in the private >sector increased by 191,000 to 7.4 million last >year. That includes workers at auto companies, >Las Vegas hotels and Hollywood studios, all of >whom went through high-profile contract >negotiations in 2023.

But the percent of unionized workers in the >private sector – 6% – remained unchanged from >the previous year, as unionization rates didn’t >keep pace with overall hiring.

I would agree with others in the thread that you went rather doomer not based on a whole lot. The left’s position is already worth being doomer about, but Walz doesn’t really worsen it beyond the work we already have in front of us.