The capitalist ruling class uses propaganda, manipulation, and false promises to maintain control over the masses, just as the axe convinces the trees to vote for it despite the threat it poses. We need solidarity among the working class to counter and dismantle of hierarchical power structures that corrupt our minds and actions.
Can someone recommend environmental and ecological #economics literature from the moral perspective that the only relevant metric is #WildAnimalWelfare What economic policies would have the best impact in reducing wild animal suffering?
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Hello! I'm Avery Winters. I build software that gives people a reason to not hate their computers as much. I care a lot about robustness, performance, and preserving people's #privacy and freedom.
It never occurred to me that the online environment actually determines (naturally selects) the form of politics that take place here. It explains why everything is so hostile and ineffective and primarily based on pointless language policing and inconsequential drama.
Argentina is teetering on the brink of an unpredictable new political era this weekend with an erratic far-right populist known as “El Loco” (the Madman) the slight favourite to become president of South America’s second-largest economy in Sunday’s election.
The rare pseudo-leftist anarchist who also is an anti-masker & thus Eugenicist, @heretical_i has accounts on mastodon.cloud and kafeneio.social for those so inclined to block.
President-elect Bernardo Arevalo called Tuesday for the resignation of Guatemala's attorney general, after ballots were seized by prosecutors in another controversial raid.
"The coup plotters must resign," Arevalo said, naming three officials at the center of legal efforts that have targeted his Semilla (Seed) party: Attorney General Consuelo Porras, special prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche, and judge Fredy Orellana.
"They have deviated from their constitutional function of investigating and prosecuting, fully towards a clear coup d'etat in progress," Arevalo told a press conference.
Reminded deeply today of the subtle insidious racism of leftists and liberals.
So many in our communities are prone to believe that they've gotten rid of their racism, and instead fuel it by demanding ideological purity and by ignoring inconvenient truths.
When a minority group says something you're doing is racist, take a minute to stop and ask yourself what you might not be seeing. And if you really can't find anything, ask for more information (but try to figure it out for yourself first, it's both polite and good exercise).
The Bay View massacre was the result of a strike held on May 4, 1886, by 7,000 building-trades workers and 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding the enforcement of an eight-hour work day.
By Monday, May 3, the number of participants had increased to over 14,000 workers who gathered at the Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill in Bay View. They were met by 250 National Guardsmen under order from Republican Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk. The strikers had shut down every business in the city except the North Chicago Rolling Mills in Bay View. The guardsmen's orders were that, if the strikers were to enter the Mills, they should shoot to kill. But when the captain received the order it had a different meaning: he ordered his men to pick out a man and shoot to kill when the order was given. Workers camped in the nearby fields and the Kosciuszko Militia arrived by May 4. Early the next day the crowd, which by this time contained children, approached the mill and were fired upon. Seven people died as a result, including a thirteen-year-old boy. Several more were injured during the protest. Several contradictory newspaper accounts described other possible casualties, but the count of seven deaths is substantiated by specific names (Frank Kunkel, Frank Nowarczyk, John Marsh, Robert Erdman, Johann Zazka, Martin Jankowiak, and Michael Ruchalski).
Leftists must stop building their #identity around being Leftists.
Identity is primary to the human experience and will always be protected. If 'the revolution' or whatever society you advocate for were to occur that identity would be obliterated because Leftists largely understand themselves in relation to #Capitalism ie the dominant mode. As such they will take any and all action required protect that identity.
This particularly applies to whites because their identity is generally speaking far more fragmented than those who have cultural, community based, or ancestral identities and mythologies (ie collective stories) to reinforce other aspects of their identity.
Feels awkward, but I'll make an #introduction post anyway, maybe I can find some folks to follow -
I'm a philosopher living in Jerusalem, and I also try to spend some of my time in activism, mainly but not exclusively anti-occupation/anti-apartheid activism.
My philosophy work is mainly in metaethics and philosophy of perception. I'm working on a co-written book on moral perception at the moment.
I also am trying to dabble a bit in making anarchism respectable in analytic political philosophy. I'm not an anarchist, but some of my best friends...etc.
Follow me for posts begging for help with philosophy, as well as Israel/Palestine stuff and some random leftist stuff. ok bye!