"As Palestinians reckon with the genocide being inflicted on them and their prospects for national liberation, it does them a disservice to flatten their political diversity and complex ongoing debates."
È uscito il n.22 di #Jacobin Italia Una storia italiana. Il 27 marzo di trent'anni fa la vittoria di Silvio #Berlusconi inaugurava la Seconda Repubblica, durata poi un ventennio. Si trova in libreria e si può anche acquistare online. nelle immagini copertina e sommario #1994#sinistra#letture@macfranc@mcp_
Today in Labor History February 12, 1889: Antonín Dvořák's Jakobín premiered at the National Theater in Prague. The three-act opera was one of Dvořák's peasant operas. Marie Červinková-Riegrová wrote the libretto, based on the story "At the Ducal Court," by Alois Jirásek. In the story, the Count disowns his son, Bohuš, for his alleged ties with the French Revolutionaries known as Jacobins.
"The article ("A Defense of Sweden's #Pandemic Response") was written by Daniel Johansson, whom #Jacobin identifies as “a political adviser to the Swedish Minister of Social and Health Affairs from 2019 to 2022,” i.e., an individual directly implicated in implementing the Swedish government’s policies of mass infection and death during the first three years of the pandemic." #COVID
Chicago Is Considering Opening a Municipal Grocery Store
Led by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store.
To combat food deserts in Chicago, the city government is considering opening up a municipal grocery store. The Wall Street Journal recently had a piece about this initiative. In it, Joe Barrett tells the stories of a municipal grocery store in Erie, Kansas, which last year was $123,000 in the red and a municipal grocery store in St Paul, Kansas, which is profitable and has been in operation for sixteen years.
Similar municipal grocery stores exist elsewhere in the country, including in Baldwin, Florida, which was profiled in the Washington Post four years ago. In each case, a generally conservative rural municipality opens up a grocery store because nobody else would and because they feared that not having a grocery store could result in a death spiral of depopulation.
"Tomorrow, 75,000 health care workers are set to strike at hundreds of Kaiser facilities across several states in the largest such strike in US history. Their primary grievance is low staffing levels, which unions say are hurting patients and workers alike."
Today in Labor History September 5, 1794: Radical democrat priest Jacques Roux was arrested in France. He had preached for a classless society and became a leader of the revolutionary far-left during the French Revolution. He argued for full economic equality among all people. He demanded food for anyone who needed it and called on the wealthy to be executed if they hoarded it. His radicalism helped turned the sans-culottes against the more conservative Jacobins. Rather than allow the revolutionary court to execute him he stabbed himself to death in prison.
📦 ✊🏽 "Beschäftigte von #Amazon protestieren in #Berlin gegen Überwachung am Arbeitsplatz und für einen Tarifvertrag. Ihre Aktion fügt sich ein in den globalen Kampf gegen den Milliardenkonzern."
Seventy years ago this week, the US and the #UK in a largely [#CIA-led operation] overthrew the Iranian leader Mohammad #Mossadegh, who had fought back against British imperialism by nationalizing the oil company now known as #BP. The UK has yet to acknowledge its role in this travesty.”
"Mit ihrer Forderung nach Preiskontrollen sorgte die Ökonomin schon 2021 für Aufsehen. Jetzt hat sie Studien nachgelegt, die zeigen, dass Unternehmensprofite die Inflation antreiben – und Mainstream-Ökonomen drehen am Rad."
Even if we were to free ourselves from the capitalist work ethic and provide everyone with a universal basic income, our society would still require some amount of socially necessary labor. Socialists should strive to reimagine work, not eliminate it.
Rosa Luxemburg kapitalist küreselleşmenin yıkıcılığını önceden görmüştü | Peter Hudis
"#RosaLuxemburg'un SermayeBirikimi adlı eseri, kapitalizmin bugün Küresel Güney olarak adlandırdığımız coğrafyada yarattığı tahribatı anlatıyordu. Günümüzün sosyalist ve çevreci eylemcileri Luxemburg'un dünya sistemi anlayışından çok önemli dersler çıkarabilirler."
#Germany is the "world champion in remembrance," celebrated for its post-#Holocaust policies of ensuring that every German never forgot what had been done in their names, and in holding themselves and future generations accountable for the Nazis' crimes.
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Today, the far right is surging around Europe, with the rot spreading from Hungary and Poland to Italy and France. In an interview with #Jacobin's #DavidBroder, #TommasoSpeccher a researcher based in Berlin, explores the failure of Germany's storied memory:
I was supposed to be on vacation, and while I didn't do any blogging for a month, that didn't mean that I stopped looking at my distraction rectangle and making a list of things I wanted to write about. Consequentially, the link backlog is massive, so it's time to declare bankruptcy with another #linkdump:
Writing for #Jacobin, #AlexNPress profiles Conover and interviews him about the strike, under the excellent headline, "Adam Pickets Everything." Conover is characteristically funny, smart, and incisive - do read:
"The natural response is to look back on the euphoric triumphs of, say, the sans-culottes in the streets of Paris, and despair at our comparative failure to puncture the political status quo. But to do so is to fall victim to one of those retrospective optical illusions with which history is constantly presenting us. For if the present moment feels like a Thermidor, it’s because the original Thermidor — the definitive end of the radical phase of the French Revolution, which was followed by years of repression, popular apathy and de-mobilization, the destruction of the revolutionary Republic itself, and eventually the restoration of the very Bourbon monarchy that the Paris crowds had brought down decades earlier — felt a lot like the present."
"The 'calm down' set fancy themselves professional and sober-minded, a tasteful levee protecting the marvel of our civilization from the uninformed and hysterical masses.
"The 'calm down' person’s business is the business as usual.
"They defend the status quo with a practiced rueful resignation: 'Believe me, I wish things were different too, but it’s just the way things are.' Only 'the way things are' is on an historic and murderous losing streak.
"They love to second guess the 'strategies' of those who are trying to actively change or challenge the 'way things are.'
“'Isn’t that kind of approach counterproductive? the 'calm down' type will ask...
"When you express alarm about how rapidly the climate is warming, the 'calm down' crowd will correct you with the most remedial facts. They believe that for you to be so bothered when they are not, there must be a fundamental misunderstanding on your part."
A lot of people don't know the difference between capitalism and ... having markets and shopping and little coops and companies in non-super-essential economic sectors that operate independently.
Markets existed before capitalism and will exist after.
@TruthSandwich@futurebird Those are both arguable; a few people calling themselves socialist would say that lacking wage labor potentially makes coops anticapitalist, like the #jacobin guy.
And planned economies have worked sometimes (like for electricity or your local library or even mass spamming apartment blocks); its not a stretch to say someone might come up with one that would work better in more cases at some point.