Right wingers love Sowell tho

Civility should be liberalism and they should be cheering it on to eat socialists in the second panel

Big artists are performing clowns for monopoly capitalists.

o7

Fun etymological fact: very long ago, tyranny used to refer to an autocratic leader that issued a debt jubilee, generally in response to a peasant uprising. A debt jubilee is where most or all debts are declared invalid, a clean debt slate for society, and was generally necessary to keep society functioning. The mini revolution that appointed the tyrant would be short-lived and the prior systen would more or less remain in place, just with cancelled debts.

The NYPD’s total budget is over $10 billion. They pull from other line items for things like buildings and benefits.

The NYPD budget would make it something like the third largest military if compared to countries’ military budgets. The NYPD’s main purpose is to protect capital which, per “stop and frisk” and similarly racist policies, are intended to harass minority groups. If there is a safety issue where minutes matter, they are only hours away. If a shop window gets broken they’ll be there immediately.

Organizing a socialist movement doesn’t happen online.

Why are you still replying when you have nothing to say? Just be honest and run. I’ll help you: I’ll just ignore your next reply.

PS it’s, “touch grass”.

They wanted to be Reddit again and boy are they still trying to do that.

This is already in blue cities they just use it against BLM and pro-Palestine organizers.

You’re typing out the words “lol” and “I’m literally laughing out loud” on a keyboard or phone, cognitive dissonance carefully avoided, hoping that by repeating yourself and ignoring what has been said to you, you can get away from this conversation purely on vibes.

You are running away and trying to taunt in bad faith while doing it. Go ahead, bravely run away, nobody is stopping you.

Coward

You mean the tiny group that served some free meals in a few cities and got wiped out by the police?

I mean the communists that organized within black communities, fed children, protected their communities from racist cops, and did so well enough that they were targeted not just by the local police but by the FBI and other parts of the “national security” apparatus, including Reagan. Their former members are still often active and passing down valuable lessons to young people just learning, which you could also be if you learned to have some humility and honesty.

Note how far we have drifted from the things I’ve actually said, as you do not have actual convictions you can defend, just lazy reactionary talking points to help you avoid thinking challenging thoughts.

The one that had a leader [Eldrige Cleaver] who considered rape as a political act?

Rape can very much be a political act. US soldiers doing so systematically in Vietnam, for example.

But every political formation will have individuals with wrong opinions or worse. And if you are organizing with the marginalized, you will be organizing with ex-cons. I’m not sure what you think is accomplished by this tidbit. Cleaver was quite open about this part of his past and renounced it.

Later in this comment you refer to Obama. How many children did Obama kill with a stroke of the pen and a cynical line and how does this compare to the viplences of a teenage Cleaver? How much has Obama renounced and how many years did he serve in prison for the act?

Meanwhile Obama’s ACA gave health coverage to 45 million people.

The ACA is primarily an individual mandate to buy a massively overpriced product from the insurance industry. It also included a limited Medicaid expansion that was quickly eaten up by inflation and wage growth (but not real wage growth). Insurance costs still rose, just less quickly than they were otherwise expected to. This is what you consider to be a major material win? Slightly slower rates of growth in picking workers’ pockets? What an amazing gift!

I’ll stick with the people who actually get things done.

What do you mean stick with? What part do you play in any of that? The ACA was a response to uncontrolled spiraling of healthcare costs that, among other things, make US workers entirely uncompetitive and only serves to create debt. The ACA was a Republican plan that forces people to buy companies’ products. You are not the force at work here and you are not on any team aside from the exploited.

Whete do you factor into any of that?

You ever heard of the Black Panthers?

The British

Do you think you’re doing something else?

Yes, we should definitely not have something like Sweden or the old New Deal.

I think you need to refamiliarize yourself with what I said, as this is not it.

We should let children grow up in poverty, let old people suffer, and let the planet burn while we sit around discussing Trotsky and the Second International in hopes that the revolution will come.

I said something that is the exact opposite of sitting around, actually. Do your best to read a little more carefully before sharing opinions.

iirc de La Cruz got less than 100,000 votes.

And?

Great quote and book!

Socialism is always about recreating a ruling class: it is to make the working class into the ruling class.

There is no practical alternative to this. Imagine trying the only way: to immediately end class relations. You’ve won the revolution. Your ideological brethren are in power and the Great Workers’ Council is going forward with your plan. How are you going to force people to end class relations? Won’t it require a state? Who is enforcing the end of relations? If someone buys up an extra-big plot of land and starts charging tenants rent, reinventing semi-feudal relations, who is going to stop them? And what are you going to do about the bourgeoisie who still exist, especially those overseas, and are working against you to reopen your country for exploitation?

All of these basic realities require a state. And you cannot simply end all class relations instantaneously, as the wider public will not all agree with you ideologically. Unless you plan extreme forms of oppression for the entire population, you will need to deal with the remnants of various class relations in various forms, engaging, ideally, in a process that will whittle them away. That entire process will be recreating a ruling class, i.e. the working class, to impose this process on the other classes.