If you take someone with conservative values and you give them a quality education, they become a moderate. If you take someone with progressive values and give them an education they become a socialist very liberal. If you give someone with moderate values an education, they become an MBA. Education selects against conservatives because conservative politics come from ignorance and magical thinking.
Honestly, I think that the ability to "not present" is a cis male experience. How would you feel if there was intense pressure on you to wear makeup and clothes that look good all the time. If every time you put on your hoody, people asked you if you were sick.
IME, he's solid on the anthropology, so he can be your guy on ancient baking. Just don't let him be your guy on revolution.
can i get a Mao sandwich hold the Deng, with some of those Graeber fries
Throw in the Situationist International and Midnight Notes and this is just my politics
I agree, they are, but Graeber's the type of dude to prioritize making a playful argument over making a rigorous one. Debt has a whole chapter arguing that Muslim banking is better than European Banking because it obeys Abrahamic usury laws. He then included a footnote basically saying "I know it's still capitalist, I mostly wrote this chapter to troll evangelicals."
Like, he has brilliant insights, but not necessarily brilliant analysis. Take him as a supplement to your theory, not your main meal.
He is, read Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value.
This analysis isn't wrong, it's just partial. There's stuff like labor exploitation, gendered hyperexploitation, etc. But there's also something where desirable jobs have less bargaining power because the labor pool is flooded (Firefighters are an example of this). Graeber's argument is a non-structural articulation of the same phenomena. In the case of teachers, the amount we pay them is very much a decision made fairly arbitrarily. It's mostly a matter of public investment, the decisions around which are massively over-determined to the point where you do have to talk about things like subconscious decision-making and cultural values.
If your issue is with taking the subconscious into account in your analysis, then you're putting yourself in opposition to incredibly influential Marxists like Adorno.
So, when you see these kinds of articles, they're usually the result of some really savvy organizing.
Union staff will develop relationships with reporters, and then when they need a story like this, they'll media train a few workers or consumers, put together a fact sheet so that a reporter can pump out an article quickly, and then turn this over to a journalist who turns it into an article rather than do their own research.
It's a way of leveraging journalists' position as workers with quotas and limited time.
The reason unions go after companies like Starbucks or REI is because of their progressive image. They tend to attract union-friendly employees, and have a brand that's very vulnerable to these kinds of media attacks. When they do what every single company does and union bust, it ends up biting them in the ass. I
Yeah, you're only allowed to care about important things. All media is banned except for post war italian cinema reflecting on fascism and revolution
The moral here is that you should steal the plagiarist's videos and pass them off as your own.
I don't believe in cops, bosses, or politicians. Some call that Anarchism, I call it having a heart that fucking beats.
It could have been a 30 minute expose, but instead, he pulled out a folder full of receipts and just started reading them verbatim into the camera.
Small timers who own a bunch of houses. Failsons who got daddy's apartment but never put any work into it since it's basically a free money machine.
The bartenders I know ask for cash if possible, don't report their tips, and then photoshop their paystubs to reflect their actual income when they apply for rentals.
When I die, it'll be of something hypertension-related from living in the suburbs. Cremate me and throw my ashes on a car-brained urban planner.
Palestinians have asked people to wear them. It is a symbol of solidarity, don't let your fear of accidentally being a little bit symbolically racist stop you from showing solidarity.
It's to have a less compulsive relationship to my phone. What I ended up doing was setting a 5 minuet timer on Chrome, setting it to black and white, and switching to a text-only UI.
I want a phone where I can't go on the internet or read the news, just communicate with people I actually know in real life. Is there any way I can make this happen?
Javier Milei has said that Argentina has non-negotiable' sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
Turning the global conflict meter and looking back at the audience like a contestant on the price is right
Unless Biden drastically reverses course on Palestine, Muslims will not turn out for him on Election Day—critical voters in key swing states—and Democrats only have themselves to blame.
Former democratic party activists are organizing Muslims and Arab-Americans in Swing states to vote against Biden with the demand that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.
I'll allow them a little bit of electoralism this time.
I've seen a lot of posts on this site that are leaning into anti semetic tropes while criticizing Israel. I want to point it out so that folks can recognize it.
First, because I have to say it:
Israel is a colonial outpost of the United States. It was created by Britain and inherited by the US. The US gives Israel ~3,000,000,000 USD in aid every year. As a colony, it should be the goal of every socialist to destroy it, just as we seek the destruction of the US, Northern Ireland, South Korea, Canada, the Phillipine state, etc.
But! Israel is also a safe haven for Jews. This is seperable from the colonial nature of the state. Israel could have been created in Germany or Siberia or frankly Florida for that matter (in fact, annexing Florida to create a new state of Israel is what I mean when i refer to "the one state solution"). In many ways, the US with its civil rights act serves the same purpose, and in fact, most Jews live in the US.
Many of us had ancestors in Germany or Poland during the holocaust who did not stick around after the war. They saw Israel as their best shot at safety in the wake of the holocaust. Many Israelis are liberals, hoping to vote out Likud, stop supporting settlements, and negotiate palestinian statehood. These people are advocating half measures, sure, but they are not our enemies.
So I wanted to point out some anti-semetic tropes I've seen on this website and call them out so you can recognize them.
Conflating Jews in Israel with Zionists.
This can be done through omission. If you aren't clear whether you're talking about jews or a specific institution (for example, the I"D"F or the settlements or Likud), many people will read your statement as being about Jews. Be careful with the word "they"
erasing the ambivalent position of jews within colonialism / conflating jewishness with whiteness
The zionist entity is not a Jewish colonial project, but an Anglo colonial project. It was created by the British and now is funded by the US Americans. Jews are an oppressed minority whose oppression is leveraged against other oppressed peoples. Similarly to how the US uses Kurds to Balkanize Iraq or The Hmong to wage counterinsurgency in Laos, it's uses Jews to destabilize the Levant.
Outside of the US, jews are largely understood as a racial group and oppressed on that basis. Especially in the Arab world where the Islamic hyper nationalism has gained ground in response to colonialism and been funded further by colonialists to their own ends (google "the safari club" or "Israel funds Hamas")
Blood Libel
This one is the assertion that Jews are uniquely bloodthirsty / murder non Jewish children. The classic example of this myth that people are familiar with is Runplestiltskin.
It is true that the IDF under the direction of Likud and the US state is murdering many Gazans, the majority of whom are children. but! be careful to specify. When people talk about "jews" or "israelis" generally as perpetuating the murder of children, they are engaging in the blood libel trope. Again, be careful with the word "they" and specify which entities you're talking about.
calling for ethnic cleansing
Okay, wtf ya'll. It's not jews as an ethnicity that are oppressing Palestinians, it is US imperial power. Jews have always lived in Palestine and the occupation only began in the 40s as part of a British initiative.
Jews will always be part of a palestinian state, and frankly need protections as ethnic and religious minorities. We do not seek the expulsion of Jews from Palestine, but their integration into it as citizens.
Jews are safe in the US not because its a colonial state but because of civil rights protections and generational wealth. If we can create civil rights protections in Palestine and a social safety net (ideally communism but I'll settle for social democracy), then jews will be safe in Palestine.
Jewish control of America / protocols of the elders of zion
America controls Israel and not vice versa. APEC is not a cabal brainwashing otherwise Nobel Christian politicians. US politicians support Israel because they're colonial politicians and Israel is our colony. APEC exists because lobbying is how power is exercised in the US, but if we had patronage instead, APEC' functions would be carried our by a governor or an ambassador or whatever.
conclusion
Recognize the role of the US empire in Palestinian oppression. Recognize that jews are in an ambivalent racial category and are an oppressed people. Be specific when criticizing Israeli colonialism. Name who you're criticizing, is it the settlements? The IDF? Likud? The US military Industrial Complex? Stop calling for ethnic cleansing of jews if you've been doing that. Don't equate jewishness with whiteness / the Nazis. White people are white people, the US is the Nazis.
They've complained the last few days that thr GOP has voted against funding the border and the pentagon. It's for the wrong reasons, but that is absolutely a good thing. Democratic propaganda machine is swinging hard right.
The border thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/16p9di5/its_all_the_democrats_fault_i_vote_against/
Since June, a ongoing blockade organized in Eugene, Oregon has sought to block the eviction of Candice King and her family, successfully stopping an eviction attempt by police in July. On September 11th, the courts moved to evict King's neighbors, who were standing in solidarity with the rent strike...
Housing is a human right. This is what decomoddification from the bottom up looks like.
A letter from a man housed in MCF-Stillwater details some of the retaliation that prisoners are facing after a protest over lockdowns and living conditions.
Till every cage is empty.
The free and shared goods economy is creating community resilience and alternatives to trash culture for millions of people.
From a prefigurative perspective, this is socializing 7.5 million people to participate in a communist economy. It can't happen without toppling the capitalists, but it's a neccesary step.
Report on the current campaign to free Epona Rose in so-called Flagstaff, Arizona. For more information on how to support this campaign, go here. Flagstaff, AZ — On the morning of August 11th, Epona Rose was attacked in downtown Kinłani/Flagstaff, Arizona by a group of three men while two or more wa...
Fuck the cops. Fuck the courts. Empty the cages. Trans Liberation.
picture only semi-related.
I just got in an argument with my boyfriend. I said I don't feel joy very often. He said that means I'm depressed. I was like, no, I feel content pretty often, it's just joy that's rare.
Like, I'll feel joy at a good concert or on top of a mountain or on psychedelics or another department joins the union at work, but it's like a sometimes thing. I don't just like go around life feeling joy at work or at home or whatever.
Like, i'll feel happy or content when I'm with friends or when I drink the perfect amount of coffee, or playing guitar, but joy is special.
Is this a temperament thing? am I depressed? Do we mean different things by joy? What's going on here?
He's got this idea that if society is saying "all war is good, all glory to the victors" then people will respond with a discourse that says the opposite, like "all war is bad, woe to the victors" and only after move to "there are some just wars"
I think he brings it up talking about the Mo-ists in Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value and brings it up again (maybe not by name) talking about west coast people and whether they forage fish or acorns in Dawn of Everything
Libs are getting banned too fast. They should get a little time to demonstrate whether or not they're here in good faith, and a little time to get dunked on if they're not.
Let us play with our food before we eat it.
In the latest development in an ongoing saga of tenants struggling with landlords in an Eugene neighborhood, protestors have gone to the property management company's offices.
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I know it's /r/worldnews but Jesus fucking christ.
Most "fashion advice" is catered to either rich people looking to waste money, or midwesterners white collar workers trying to fit in at the office.
But if you go out in public, no one dresses like that. They're wearing a lot of canvas, denim and plaid, lots of face piercings and tattoos, hoodies and beanies. On the fancier end, you'll see oversized flannel jackers and dad sneakers. On older people it's a lot of carhartt and Patagonia.
Out in the suburbs younger people wear athleisure, and older people wear cargo shorts and t shirts.
But when you look at style guides it's like "your guide to chinos and blazers" but only the most obnoxious finance and tech bros wear that shit.
Where do you find style guides for normal people?
Just thinking we need fashion advice relevant to this site's core demographic.
I'm Serious. Tell me to wear dickies, put cigarette lighter heads on my hat, and scribble on my black vans in white out.
Johnson on Wednesday said he would defer to elected Local School Councils at individual schools, who are responsible for voting on whether to keep officers.
Yet again the social democrat pivots right once in government. Crazy how this keeps happening. It's almost like we need revolutionary change which electoral institutions cannot offer, even when staffed by committed abolitionists.
Malatesta is the anarchist who most clearly differentiates anarchists from marxists, while recognizing what works: specifically anarchist orgs, participation in unions, working-class self defense. He invented modern anti fascism. Guy doesn't get enough credit.
Anyways, in this one, he calls for anarchist participation in the trade union movement as anarchists. He argues that while unions are a prerequisite for revolution, they are an insufficient organ for it.
While the Italian anarchist revolutions in the 30s and 50s ultimately failed, they came closer than revolutions in anywhere in post-war Europe besides France and Spain, and should be recognized as an essential part of our revolutionary heritage. Who's to say if the Partisan movement would have been a quarter as strong without them.
A constitutional crisis in Oregon loomed Monday as Republicans resumed a walkout to deny the Senate a quorum, stalling any votes in the chamber and shutting off the flow of
Nobody wants to work anymore, but Oregon's willing to do something about it.
God bless the Soviet State of Oregon
Nagarjuna [he/him] @hexbear.net We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.