Worker Movement

Educating future members of the working class is our best hope. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=69

Extracting resources for use by the imperial core has traditionally required the enactment of acute violence, but through recent advancements in exploitation, chronic violence has become the preferred method.

The debt ceiling spectacle obscures the complexity of competently investing in public infrastructure.

COVID-19 deaths are no laughing matter, but it will happen when ethical systems defer to the free market.

People vote based on material conditions, and when material conditions don't improve, you get to vote again later!

AOC's accrual of national publicity has diverted campaign resources that should be spent on local causes.

Conspiracy theories are to America, as 9/11 is to imperialism. https://www.nist.gov/el/final-reports-nist-world-trade-center-disaster-investigation

Technological advancement benefits the ruling class, but when there is an issue in the supply chain, the working class is punished.

For the vast majority of Americans (including us), nothing changed on 9/11, but it would change the future.

Both neoliberal parties are advocating for Herd Immunity as a strategy rather than an objective.

The US Supreme Court allowed Texas' anti-abortion legislation, SB8, to take effect and they ended the CDC's eviction moratorium citing a lack of authority in 361(a). https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a24_8759.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a23_ap6c.pdf

Vaccine durability is waning along with the inoculation rate, but corporations stand ready to keep you safe if it helps their profits. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02261-8 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1

The American automotive industry is a jobs program that doesn't benefit the working class.

Extremism is a consequence of foreign interference with self-determination.

Imperialism without colonization is foreign occupation.

Twitter needs more users, Google wants to pay workers less based on where they work and job qualifications are biased towards class interests.

When an industry's rate of growth declines, the industry's rate of worker exploitation must increase to compensate.

The cost of covid mutating will be borne by the working class, not the ruling class.

The new eviction moratorium is intended to preserve the for-profit housing system. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/Signed-CDC-Eviction-Order.pdf

The exploitation of Olympic athletes forced capital to pretend to care about mental health.

Discussion on the exploitive nature of the Olympics and why NBC only airs swimming on prime-time.

Fight Capitalism by growing your own food. You can grow your own tomatoes for under $20 anywhere in the USA.

The US is ready and willing to run propaganda campaigns against foreign countries, but they're unwilling to convince US citizens to take a vaccine.

When your cause of death is being poor, you're a statistic. https://www.multco.us/multnomah-county/news/preliminary-review-heat-wave-deaths-shows-most-were-older-lived-alone-had-no

If the government doesn't regulate corporations, who is accountable when a building literally collapses? https://www.wfla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2021/06/8777-collins-ave-structural-field-survey-report.pdf

Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers April 12, 2021.

Absolving renters debt is a bailout for capital, whereas preserving student debt is beneficial to capital. We also discuss the Democratic Theater Company's For the People Act.

George Floyd's murderer is sentenced and the Mayor of Minneapolis hires a private police force using coronavirus pandemic emergency authority. https://mn.gov/msgc-stat/documents/Guidelines/2020/2020StandardSentencingGuidelinesGrid.pdf https://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/MCRO_27-CR-20-12646_Sentencing-Order_2021-06-25_20210625145755.pdf

The sooner you understand worker exploitation, the sooner you can do something about it.

Doing something easy multiple times is more profitable than doing something hard once.

We take a trip down memory lane exploring our political past while expanding on our theory of local electoralism.

The unintended consequences of increasing the minimum wage. https://www.irp.wisc.edu/resources/how-is-poverty-measured/

Capital doesn't care about your health, but they'd prefer if you're vaccinated.

The Obama Foundation held a forum on May 26, 2021 to discuss the progress (or lack thereof) towards racial justice. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-201500033/pdf/DCPD-201500033.pdf

Attacking capital requires a sophisticated game plan.

Capital hasn't defined the new steady state, but it's going to be exploitive.

Imperialism is normal. Political theater is normal. Exploiting workers is normal.

When people hold a corporation hostage that's a problem, but when people are held hostage by a corporation that's capitalism.

The distinction between conservative and neoliberal policy is imaginary, but the suffering from acute and chronic violence is real. #theory https://www.pnas.org/content/118/20/e2013637118

Institutions of capital perpetuate modern slave labor with success measured in unemployment and inflation.

When privatized infrastructure is incompetently managed, exploited labor can't serve the ruling class.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota wrote an academic paper illustrating that the Linux Kernel is vulnerable to exploitation. Then while defending their institution, capital proved their conclusion. https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf

A merger of state and corporate power occurs under Neoliberalism and perpetuates chronic violence. #theory

Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers April 9, 2021. https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf

The 2020 Census Apportionment Results were released on Monday and mark the start of the once-every-ten-year redistricting process. Federal districts are often the focus, but new state level boundaries are most important in securing worker power.

The CDC's Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System just isn't good enough. https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html

The verdict in the trial of George Floyd's murderer is discussed.

Approaching herd immunity and reaching herd immunity are very different concepts.

Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers April 7-8, 2021.

Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers April 5-6, 2021.

Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers March 31 through April 2, 2021.