As the class war intensifies, the basic logic of capitalism manifests itself with brutal clarity: We have to maximize profit and power even though we know we are racing to suicide by destroying the environment that sustains life, not sparing ourselves and our families. Trump supporters near the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, More
...the classic definition of socialism is public ownership of the means of production, an agenda item not on any imaginable American political horizon. In another sense, though, the charge is historically accurate because, both here and abroad, significant advances in health and welfare have often been spearheaded by socialist parties.
"The debate over Critical Race Theory will not resolve the contradictions that ensure Black Americans make less than sixty cents for every white American dollar , the U.S. military receives trillions to bomb Black and brown people abroad, and racist New Cold War tropes continue to be recycled to justify policies...
"The real existing conflict in Syria today is not between Bachar al Assad and 65 exiled intellectuals. Proclaiming “support” for Westernized intellectual opponents of Assad is totally irrelevant to the existing situation. "
Naomi Klein talks about capitalism and COVID-19 and about Bernie Sanders: what he has accomplished and what comes next for people who support his programs and ideas.
"MAINSTREAM MEDIA is more afraid of socialism than it is of COVID-19. "How the mainstream media manufactures consent to the programs for the corporations instead of for the people of the United States.
Trump is failing the people he conned.
...the walls that separate those who are hungry for an egalitarian world are thinner than they imagine.
Socialist US gov-funded regime-change activists?
What does cultural Marxism mean for the far right?
A truly democratic United States would not destroy other countries and would do better by its own people. The migrant caravan and fear of it are proof of failure on both counts.
"Antifa is not a recipe for changing all of society," Mark Bray, author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," tells Chris Hedges in a recent episode of "On Contact." "It's a politics aimed at self-defense around a specific threat," Bray says.
