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Self Crit 1

This is the self criticism that made me start a wordpress blog: What’s even the poing of studying Marx and History and Lenin and all this theory? What difference does it even make? All that’s going to happen is I’m going to die with all this shit in my head. I can understand and communicate basic to fairly complex Marxist concepts. Nobody cares. Other Marxists just assume you should know this…

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The concerted, deliberate and blatant attacks on the Democratic nature of Democratic Socialism. 

This writing is a little all over the place. I was agitated about some articles I had read that were linked to a comrade in my local DSA chapter. It was a stressful week, and my paranoia was running hot. I try to lead with my principles and affiliations first.  I think this could be misconstrued as promotion, and in a way it is. It is a promotion of class politics first, Marxism second, and…

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East Palestine Ohio Rail Disaster

Written after the rail disaster in E Palestine. Columbus DSA actually issued a statement while I was writing this. The Columbus Ohio chapter of Reform & Revolution caucus calls on Columbus DSA to issue a statement about the tragic act of ecological devastation inflicted on the flora, fauna, and working people in East Palestine, Ohio. A train carrying large amounts of toxic chemicals derailed,…

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The Function of the Police

This excerpt from Farrell Dobbs’s Teamster Rebellion is something I have saved in mulitple places for easy access. Much of this is standard fare for revolutionary socialists in our views of police. But Dobbs isn’t just trashing cops for fun. The fisrt two sentences of the second paragraph contain a clue as to the material limitations that police departments have when fulfilling their primary…

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Another Dialectics Post

I actually have probably like five or six attempts at writing an article on dialectics that all seem to start the same way: Dialectics is important but I think leftists don’t really understand it. And then I spend forever trying to make up something about the origins of dialectics, taking one through the history starting with fucking Socrates. It’s like at some point I became infected with a…

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False Solidarity

This was written in response to incidents of white supremacists attempting to co-opt the Palestinian Solidarity movement in the wake of the Oct.7. 2023 smashing of the Gaza border wall. We condemn anti-semites who have mobilized a campaign of terror disguised as Palestinian support. We recognize this for what it is: a foil to push their hateful agenda in a cowardly attempt to increase their…

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Notes on The Communist Manifesto by a beginner socialist

These notes come from my new member studies from when I was joining Reform & Revolution caucus of DSA 1. What do Marx and Engels mean by bourgeoisie and proletariat?  By socialism and communism?  The bourgeoisie and proletariat are the two classes created by the class antagonisms of capitalism. The bourgeoisie are the owners and primary beneficiaries of the system of capital accumulation; and…

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Militancy notes

These notes were made for a presentation I gave to my local DSA chapter on militancy. I don’t actually define it here, I was leaving it open for discussion, but I tried to give the topic as much consideration and cover as many angles as possible during the presentation. Militancy is a word that one hears in almost every arena of organizing. It’s recognizable, but often we struggle to define what…

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Socialist Leadership from the perspective of a beginning organizer

These notes were created for a discussion with some comrades from the School of Marxist Fundamentals Discord group, that actually never materialized. At the time I felt pretty strongly that this was my role as a “leader” in a socialist org, however since then I have had a change of heart because of the strong impression left on me by reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere, and a mental…

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Analysis on Race and Class by a beginner socialist

These are study notes for the Article Race, Class and Marxism which was part of my educational entrance into Reform & Revolution caucus of DSA. Much of it has a loose structure, and hopefully soon I can edit it so that it reads more clearly. KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR 2011 Damn will def be recommending this article. > … any serious discussion about Black liberation has to take up not only a…

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Ta'Kiya

This was written the day after the fatal shooting of Ta’Kiya Young: Say Her Name. After a week of stall tactics, the Columbus Police department released the police body cam footage of the brutal slaying of a pregnant mother of two, by officers of Blendon Township police department, in Front of a Kroger. After the shooting, police were quick to get it on record that she was involved in a…

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The Transitional Method to a beginning socialist

These are notes that I likely wrote when learning about the Transitional Program as a part of introductory education for joining Reform & Revolution Caucus of DSA: Transitional Program The minimum demands are social democratic demands that are possible with the bourgeoisie in power.  Maximum demands are full communism, a progressive state by and for the workers Transitional demands are…

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Struggle and Conditions

There is a struggle among many who fight against the system to bring forth a better world. The narrow social categories that for so long have dominated our lives have been rocked to their foundations. This most recent class society of forced competition and deadly consequences for non-participation, has ruled for half of a millennia. Quietly creeping across European ledgers for hundreds of years,…

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Note on Simulation and Simulacra

Is this an excerpt of Baudrillard or my thoughts on it? From “Simulacra and Simulation” by Jean Baudrillard.The idea that the unconscious exists as a sort of primal nostalgia for when we as humans roamed the land is fascinating. It adds a layer of awareness to many of the contradictions present in society. Baudrillard was very concerned with layers, as society is a function of human desire…

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Ideology is everywhere

The strongest position is the most debatable position We’re forced to endlessly debate the moral grounds which characterizes the most tragically banal details of human existence, while most of the world’s people live in inflicted poverty, hopelessness, and destitution. Millions have to endure the hypocrisy of being told that you will be welcomed if you become part of the group. Yet that group…

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Freedom is always freedom of the one who thinks differently.

In German the title of Luxemburg polemic is “The Russian Revolution” with the famous quote “Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for members of a party – no matter how numerous they may be – is not freedom. Freedom is always freedom of the one who thinks differently. Not because of the fanaticism of “justice”, but because all the instructing, healing and purifying of political…

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Vaccines and Meta critique

This is a message I received from my wife: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/04/1242264274/siblings-science-identical-twin-brothers-autism-spectrum This is fascinating! It truly makes me wonder if people’s claims about vaccines are not completely unwarranted. Apparently something can happen after conception or even in early childhood that changes the course of a person’s…

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