... the specific things Marx said or thought. Also, a funny thing: I'd say politically we are now closer to Marx's time (crisis of a globalized liberalism, absence of disciplined mass parties, etc) than to the other variants, so classical Marxism in many ways is more coherent for us than the...
that's how you get endless lionization of "small business" regardless of whether those businesses actually do anything economically productive. the smallness, the "decentralization" is the actual point itself. this localism fetish pervades every aspect of our politics
he did not want anarchist communes. he did not want mom and pop shops. he *fucking hated* the petite bourgeoisie — way more than he did the high bourgeoisie, whom he saw as necessary and, in their way, deserving of the respect and adversary gives to a worthy foe. he wanted something all-encompassing
marx wanted capitalism to go into overdrive. he wanted massive corporations. he wanted unfathomably large/efficient economies of scale that would create endless abundance. he wanted this machine of hyper-concentrated economic power to come into being - and *then* be seized and run by the proletariat
The Big Beautiful Blackpill is that it was the neoconservative warmongers holding back the worst of Trump during his first regime, and his new cabinet of anti-war populists have cut him loose for reasons of [Judge_Holden_Ultimate_Trade.txt]
what the rurals want is to be given everything they ask for and told that they’re better than the city dwellers and that’s why they deserve it, and while individual dems can run campaigns on it, it’s not a national party responsibility to back them up
this was the IRA, which every senate democrat voted for and every senate republican voted against
Hegseth mocking rules of engagement as woke though...
I don’t think that’s true because our Secretary of Defense, excuse me, War literally said on live television how refreshing and cool it was to have an ally who didn’t abide by targeting restrictions.
The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks with reporters. (AP / Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
AOC: “That’s one reason he must be removed from office - if the Epstein files have such a hold on Trump & this admin that they are willing to plunge us & risk world war in order to save themselves politically - that is the definition of someone who cant make objective decisions for the American ppl”
What aura lol? The one where he “honors the legacy of Charlie Kirk“? Or the Bide-esque ”we must repair the soul of the nation”? Naw he’s a massive fraud
🚨NEWS in @PunchbowlNews MIDDAY SIX HOUSE DEMOCRATS are supporting an alternate War Powers Resolution that says Trump has to stop U.S. hostilities within 30 DAYS unless Congress authorizes the war. This signals a discomfort with the @RoKhanna resolution among House Dems. The Dems on this measure: @RepJoshG @RepJimmyPanetta @RepCuellar @GregLandsman @RepGolden and @RepJimCosta
It's almost certainly true that a lot of House Democrats are quietly in favor of destabilizing Iran (because just about all of them in DC are stupid on MENA) but six members out of two hundred plus isn't really good evidence. These guys are all AIPAC's little favorites.
The guy who doesn‘t want to abolish ICE and consistently bends over to every Republican he invites over to his podcast?
Tweet from Lakshya Jain: James Talarico is going to need a WAR of D+6 in order to beat Ken Paxton, if that's who he faces. I can't stress enough how tough that is. Even Fetterman vs Oz didn't get a candidate effect of that magnitude. Paxton has to be one of the worst candidates of all time to lose this race.
This post really solidified how pointless talking about political WAR is to me.
We're in the process of some pretty Earth shattering political shifts, particularly with Hispanic voters. The idea that right now we can easily map what a needed WAR score would be seems ludicrous.
In other words, proles, pmcs and precariats.
so far the coalition aoc will likely rely on should she run in 2028 has a pretty solid track record
Eric's takeaway: Mamdani's coalition is in many ways the perfect blend of Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential coalition of non-college-educated voters, Latino voters and men alongside Warren's coalition of college-educated white voters. In the end, those disparate factions failed to beat the normal vote that catapults a Democrat to the nomination: majority support from the African American community. That bolstered Joe Biden in 2020. But a fusion of these disparate coalitions might give progressives a foot in the door and–more importantly–convince Black voters they can win.
FWIW, I wrote this when Zohran Mamdani won in November: The way for progressives to win is to fuse Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential base of well-educated white urban dwellers with Bernie Sanders's coalition of working-class Hispanics (particularly Latino men) and Asian Americans.
Also regarding the preferences of donors it should be noted that this is a guy who has expressed views just as left wing as Mamdani on the issue but he largely flew under the radar, just a handful of pro-Israel outlets were ringing the alarm. He got both moderate and left wing endorsements.
First major presidential contender to do so...*unless you count AOC.
And at least AOC actually means it.
In a battle between Jasmine Crockett and the Atlantic magazine I will side with Jasmine Crockett every time despite voting for Talarico
anthropic's current run rate beats openai's 2025 whole year rate. openai has of course grown too, but it seems clear that anthropic can definitely catch them here if they have not already.
greetings from twitter
OH NO THEY'RE GONNA DESTROY CNN
You mean the "news" network that integrated an online political gambling site into their programs and turned every segment into Crossfire? Oh fuck. How will we ever recover
anthropic is a public benefit corporation created primarily by the extremely ideological rationalists who started to leave OpenAI when it stopped being a nonprofit
When socialism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the pursuit of global unipolarity.
Just like republicans realize that American hegemony is incompatible with their politics & existence, the left will realize why France was the perfect polity to end feudalism.
I understand why things happened at the dachau coal yard as they did
As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.
the first strains of what would develop into the country's various pro-immigrant political factions generally coalescing behind the Democratic Party appeared in the damn Jacksonian era
