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"Building power" has become the buzz phrase of reformists to justify any opportunism.Completely missing the absence of any increased influence of our SIO in their legislative caucuses, dramatic rise in awareness or popularity of DSA among the working class, or huge member growth.

& we certainly can’t expect much from the Chicago media in terms of direct frank questions re this hilariously transparent decision to continue to trot out there the least valuable hitter in MLB

Damn this musta been just before the Sox chose the worst player in MLB and sent Elko back to AAA bc they can’t admit that Andrew Vaughn is cooked

This is the one

I'm going to an event with colleagues Friday where we can all pick one beloved poem to read aloud and I did not have a hard time choosing. This one. wendy trevino

Sakai’s Settlers’ acct of whiteness doesn’t reckon w anything like Lorde’s “that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics” which complicates the purity he demands from race, basically inverting standpoint episte

April 21, 2022, over a year prior to the current escalation.

I have this debate w a comrade all the time, how much of DSA's democratic socialist org is actually democratic socialist and believe in the solely parliamentary or "democratic" road to socialism Rather than populated w folks that just like "democracy" & a common sense socialism

“Your state’s housing abundance chapter” ???

few words are as beautiful as “we are overwhelmed” coming from a police chief

"People often say, “Riots aren’t revolutions.” That’s true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot." -- Joshua Clover

“nearly universal convention of riot prime..that shortly after it bursts forth it divides into two impulses..the first..drawn ineluctably toward some version of respectability politics and generally toward the moral suasion of passive civil disobedience and nonviolence in general

in Everything for Everyone the account of the revolutions that bring abt international communism is based in part on the crumbling of the imperial core of the US in mid 2040s in response to war with Iran and a reinstitution of the draft

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1) The mass vs cadre org dichotomy does more to mystify stakes, means & ends than clarify in these kind of debates The marxist mass poltical org intervention in the early 1900s was formalizing & operationalizing the “cadre” form of leadership within the mass political org

A binary where the question maker has so mutilated one of the options that there is no doubt what is to be selected The definition of a strawman argument

Sectarianism vs reformism A binary that’s mutilated one of the options such that there is no doubt what is to be selected Is it sectarian to represent a political perspective that no one actually endorses