The Red Plebeian
I’m crying.
hahahahaha
I have returned to tumblr after my long absence (of like 3 days) merely so as to reblog this
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Am I the only one that thinks when they are looking at a perfectly balanced out Excel spreadsheet which calculates out a highly complex real-world variable, that they are looking at the face of god? Or at least the closest Microsoft Office equivalent
I’m going to be taking a break from social media. I’m going to put this account on ice for a whole. See ya
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Register today for your last chance to get the early-bird discount!
Millions of people have come to the understanding that capitalism is no longer working. From extreme weather caused by climate change and the relentless drive to slash workers’ living standards to the epidemic of police brutality, the signs of a society in crisis are all around us. The question isn’t whether society has run amok; the question is what to do about it.
The Socialism 2013 conference will bring together hundreds of activists from across the U.S., and around the world, to tackle the many discussions and debates that confront anyone interested in changing the world. How can women’s liberation and LGBT equality be won? What will it take to win real justice for immigrant workers? Can organized labor make a comeback? What lessons can be learned from the revolutions shaking the Middle East? Why is Marxism relevant today?
Featured speakers include teachers on the front lines of the fight to defend public education, anti-racist fighters against police brutality and the New Jim Crow, trade unionists, Marxist authors, radical historians, and much more. Start making your plans to attend.
Visit WeAreMany.org to view and listen to all of the meetings from last year’s conference!
For more information about the Socialism 2013 conference, email info@socialismconference.org, and someone will get back to you.
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There is going to be a big meeting just for social media people at the conference, so you all should come!
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Socialism 2013 will have a whole range of lectures and series on a wide range of topics, designed to offer both ideas about strategies in our movements as well as theory to guide the fight for a better future. Here are some examples of the series and topics we will be offering:
Art, culture and sports
Ernst Fisher and the “Necessity of Art”
“9.5 Theses on Art and Class”
Verdi, opera, and revolution
Marxist theory of Halloween
“The Edifice Complex”: How the rich and powerful shape the world
Out of the closet and onto the court: The historic importance of Jason Collins
Black Marxism Reconfigured: African American writers and Communism in the Crucible of the Cold War
Working-class literature in the U.S.
The politics of Raymond Williams: Marxism and literatureAsia and Asian Americans
Asian Americans: The myth of the model minority
North Korea in the crosshairs
Class and social struggles in the new IndiaBlack history and politics
The abolitionists
Hubert Harrison and CLR James on socialism and Black liberation
Poverty pulls the trigger: The roots of urban violence
Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement
The political economy of racism
Communists and the fight against racism in the 1930sCapitalism and crisis
Introduction to Marxist economics
The Marxist theory of crisis
Keynesianism: Capitalism with a human face?
How neoliberalism survived the crisis
Austerity USA: The working class today
Global slump: The world economy since the Great RecessionCivil liberties under assault
Islamophobia and the “New Atheists”
Obama’s war on civil libertiesClass and class inequality
The rich man’s burden: The subversion of democracy by the ultra-rich
101 Changemakers
Housing is a human right: The history of public housingClassics of Marxism
Trotsky on the united front
Lenin on self-determination
Frederick Engels, the family, and social reproduction
The relevance of the Communist Manifesto today
Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital
Leon Trotsky’s History of the Russian RevolutionThe criminal injustice system
Standing up to police brutality
The school to prison pipeline
How we fight the racist prison systemEducation
The schools our children deserve
More than a score: The fight against standardized testing
The fight for teachers’ unionsThe environment in crisis
Marx’s ecology: The centrality of ecological concerns to Marxism
Imperialism and the ecological crisis: An historical perspective
The new environmental movement
Why we need an Ecosocialist RevolutionHistory of working-class radicalism
Red Dawn: The impact of the Russian Revolution on the United States
When workers occupied: The CIO sit-down strikes
What is syndicalism?Immigration and immigrant rights
The new Juan Crow: “Reform” and the criminalization of immigrants
Marxism, borders, and the historic fight against deportationImperialism
The real “Pirates of the Caribbean”
Mali and the new imperial scramble for Africa
“Accumulation by dispossession:” A critique
The Marxist theory of imperialism and its critics
Marxism and postcolonial theory
U.S. imperialism’s “pivot to Asia”
The making of global capitalism
Drones, special forces, and bases: Obama’s new imperial strategy
Vietnam: Kill anything that movesIntroduction to Marxism
Marxism and organization: Why we need a revolutionary party
What do socialists say about violence and nonviolence?
Socialism from below: The necessity of self-emancipation
How does consciousness change?
Did Lenin lead to Stalin?
The future socialist societyLatin America
Venezuela after Chávez
The drug war in Latin AmericaNative American history
The Seminole Wars: How slaves and natives revolted against empire
Native resistance in the 21st century: From Idle No More to the Keystone XL PipelineNeither Washington nor Moscow: The politics of International Socialism
The legacy of International Socialism
The history of the ISOOppression and liberation
Roundtable: Capitalism, disability, and disability rights
A history of disability rights activismOrganizing as a socialist
How to build an ISO branch
High school organizingStruggle in the Middle East
U.S. imperialism in the Middle East after the Arab Spring
The new movement against Israeli apartheid
The struggle for Palestine
Israel, Zionism, and imperialism
What happened to the Egyptian Revolution?Questions in Marxist theory
Marxism and class
Political Marxism: A debate
Lenin and the debate on “Leninism”
Is there a future for social democracy?
Understanding base and superstructure
Marxism and morality
Heroes and crowds: The role of the individual in history
What do Marxists say about religion?
Planning vs. the market: The case for socialist planning
Hegel’s influence on Marx: What is the dialectic and do we need it today?
What do Marxists say about postmodernism?
Leninism vs. Zinovievism
The early Comintern’s efforts to build mass worker’s parties
Marxism and democracy
Be the change you want to see? A critique of prefigurative politics
Permanent revolutionRevolutions and revolutionaries
Paul Levi and the German socialist movement
Louise Michel and the Paris Commune
Clara Zetkin
Lucy Parsons: An American revolutionary
The Spanish Civil War
A first-rate, second-rate man: Lincoln and the Civil WarScience and society
The use and abuse of statistics
Sexism and the food and diet industrySexuality and socialism
The fight against transgender oppression
Delusions of gender: How difference is constructed
Sex and sexuality in Soviet Russia
Queer liberation or LGBT rights? Sexuality, reform, and revolutionThe labor movement today
Why unions still matter
From WalMart to Wendy’s: New low-wage workers’ struggles
The future of unions in the U.S.
The new fightback in auto
The fight to save the Post Office
Anatomy of a victory: How the Chicago teachers won their strike
Critical conditions: Unions vs. the health care giantsU.S. politics
From the New Deal to the Grand Bargain: The poverty of U.S. liberalism
Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel’s war on Chicago’s 99%
Profits against people: The privatization of our citiesWomen’s liberation
The backlash against women: Sexuality and capitalism today
The personal and the political: The feminist movement and literature
Lise Vogel and social reproduction theory
Marxism and women’s liberation
Women, work, and austerity today
Black feminism and intersectionality
The fight against sexual assault
Race, class and the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s
The political economy of violence against womenWorld in struggle
Golden Dawn and the far right in Europe
Greece and the struggle against austerity in Europe
Perspectives for the leftOnes I wanna go to most in italics
One I really want to got to in Bold.
Suffice is to say, we got a problem. Too many great talks, too little time
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Register today for your last chance to get the early-bird discount!
Millions of people have come to the understanding that capitalism is no longer working. From extreme weather caused by climate change and the relentless drive to slash workers’ living standards to the epidemic of police brutality, the signs of a society in crisis are all around us. The question isn’t whether society has run amok; the question is what to do about it.
The Socialism 2013 conference will bring together hundreds of activists from across the U.S., and around the world, to tackle the many discussions and debates that confront anyone interested in changing the world. How can women’s liberation and LGBT equality be won? What will it take to win real justice for immigrant workers? Can organized labor make a comeback? What lessons can be learned from the revolutions shaking the Middle East? Why is Marxism relevant today?
Featured speakers include teachers on the front lines of the fight to defend public education, anti-racist fighters against police brutality and the New Jim Crow, trade unionists, Marxist authors, radical historians, and much more. Start making your plans to attend.
Visit WeAreMany.org to view and listen to all of the meetings from last year’s conference!
For more information about the Socialism 2013 conference, email info@socialismconference.org, and someone will get back to you.
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I’m looking at using a pseudonym for all my future writing. Got a few ideas so far:
Simon Hall
Corie Zweigman
Kyle Matzpen
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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Who is going to Socialism 2013? Who has gone to past Socialism Conferences? What were your favorite moments of those Socialisms?
Today is the last day for early-bird discounted registration: http://www.socialismconference.org/
I’ve to 3 so far and I’m really psyched for this one! To be at a place with literally thousands of other socialist activists, from all across the country, engaged in every manner of struggle you can think of. Not to mention the radical and socialist speakers who come in from around the world. Its fantastic. The breadth and depth of ideas being discussed is hugely enlightening, its pretty much impossible to not walk away with so much to think about.
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One thing…that shouldn’t be up for debate is whether or not we should be as prepared as possible for inevitable weather events like tornadoes…there’s an increasing chance that we will not be thanks to the manufactured crisis known as sequestration…sequestration includes an 8.2 percent cut to the National Weather Service. According to the organization representing weather service employees, that means there is “no way for the agency to maintain around-the-clock operations at its 122 forecasting offices” and also means “people are going to be overworked, they’re going to be tired, they’re going to miss warnings.”
more.
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James Erickson: Political Economy Illustrated, 1958
Very ’50s in the worst ways (only white dudes are workers, apparently), but still kind of cool
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