This is my first, but hopefully not my last contribution to the historiography of Norwegian labour history. The article discusses the use of history in two of the Norwegian Labour Partys manifestos.
#LabourHistory
#HistoryOfSocialism
While it wasn’t the result we hoped for, I’d like to thank every resident of Islington North who cast their vote for me. That was a huge act of faith in me, and I’ll always be grateful.
To each and every person who knocked on doors, stuffed envelopes, delivered leaflets, or
From the Socialist International, we proudly support
@KamalaHarris
in her candidacy for the upcoming November 5th elections. We are confident she will make history as the first woman President of the United States.
Desde la Internacional Socialista, apoyamos con orgullo a
To those who argue that service workers should get shit all in wages, well look at the profits of the companies they work for, that's what their labor produced, ergo their wages should reflect that.
Dude is essentially arguing for a mixed economy under a christian theocracy. A third position if you will. Guys like Hinkle are closer to Gustav Noske than they are Lenin.
@BernieSanders
From an outside perspective (non-american), it seems to be the case in USA that you have a perfectly normal conservative party, and then there is the Republican party.
@AnarchoCorvidae
How about free housing, free utilities and a decent wage. If you spend 8 hours a day doing something as mind numbing as scooping ice cream you deserve to live large.
BREAKING:
The US military has announced a 10-nation coalition against Yemeni Houthis in the Red Sea.
Only one Arab country, Bahrain, is part of the coalition.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE rejected the US proposal to join.
I garuntee you every socialist leader you admire took care of their own health. As Mao said, to civilize the mind we must also make savage the body.
There’s no way Che, Sankara, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Kim Il Sung, etc. would have been able to theorize, organize, & fight the way
In a rational society, these things would be public and free at the point of use:
- Housing.
- Electricity.
- Internet.
- Health Care.
- Mental Care.
- Dental Care.
- Medicines.
- Education (All levels).
- Child Care.
- Public transportation.
- Passports.
- Libraries.
- Museums.
If you call yourself a communist, and your idea of communism is a mixed capitalist economy under a one party dictatorship, there are better terms to describe your position.
@jk_rowling
@suzanne_moore
So are you a marxist communist now Rowling?
Will you aid in the struggle of the proletariat to seize political power, and the expropriation of the private property and capital of the bourgeoisie (yours included) that follows?
The fact that
@VaushV
lives rent free and blasts death metal after hours in the heads of a large portion of left Twitter, provides me with several belly laughs every day.
Let’s get our facts straight:
#NATO
is a defensive Alliance, aiming to safeguard its member nations.
Check out
@NATO
website for facts on NATO - Russia relations:
#WeAreNATO
🧵 The American Communist Party will not rely on the dues of people ‘paying their way into heaven,’ but on party collectives getting to WORK.
Haz Al-Din on the ACP’s social entrepreneurship and enterprises
I'm really just an old fashioned socialist who likes:
1. Universal public services free at the point of use.
2. Representative democracy.
3. Public ownership of business, land, natural resources, and banks.
4. Human rights.
5. Democracy at the work place.
6. Labour unions.
@NerudistPoet
It's so funny that Marx in chapter 1 of Grundrisse mocks the "one dude on an island" thinking of bourgeois economists, it's like he knew the most annoying people would make that as their premise for their shit thought experiments 100+ years later.
Love them or hate them, but these two men revitalized the left in the West. If they where the leaders of their countries now, things would be very different. Alas they are not, but the struggle for a better world continues.
@ContraPoints
The newest and most revolutionary thing to tweet is that taxing the rich is just DNC policy and has nothing to do with socialism apparantly.
@calebmaupin
It goes both ways. Yes «wokeness» does not help create proletarian unity, but social reactionary positions like anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage divides the proletariat by telling women and gay proletarians that their issues are not as important. Solidarity must go both ways.
Communism is really about elevating human civilization to a higher level, just like the bourgeois revolutions elevated it in the 18th and 19th century, leaving the feudal order behind.
Why do you insist on the stagnation of the motion of human civilization?
Resisting Communism isn't a part-time endeavor. It's forever. The same corruption that informs Communism is taught about in Genesis 3 and 4. It's humanity's perpetual war. Every generation must win it again. We are where we are now because we thought we could stop fighting.
@1922Roman
Even though you are a Fascist, and we are therefor ideological enemies, I don't want to see you or any other person kill themself. Stay with the living, and may I add reconsider your politics.
Twitter right now:
Center-leftists: Stop the Israeli attack on Gaza, ceasfire now.
Yemeni Houthis: Ogey, we are going to put up a blocade to stop shipments to Israel.
Center-leftists: Nooo not like that 😭
@theskyvvitch
I don't loose sleep over it, but when I see someone Tweet some blanket statement about hating all white straight cis-men, I file it under "annoying performative liberalism."
@alfbridgessmith
Marx literaly says man creates religion, meaning he did see it as fiction, not truth. Marx was denied an academic position because of him being a strident atheist.
@guillotinebarbi
Campism is a hell of a drug.
That said one don't need to hate China, but atleast be real about what China is, a national developmental project using a form of mixed economy capitalism.
Russia in 1917 = A backward semi-feudal agrarian country.
Russia in 1961 = Is the second most powerfull country on earth, and sends the first human being out in space.
Every single time I see a Marxism poster at the University of Queensland I will rip it down
Fuck tankies and fuck the Trotskyist terror group known as Socialist Alternative
MAGA-Communism is the logical conclusion of ML (Stalinism). If you are into socialism because you jerk off to the most fascistoid aspects of the 20th century ML regimes, meaning military parades, one party dictatorships, strong men in uniform, executions, etc...👇
It's almost like if Putin is a nationalistic right wing conservative, with more in common with someone like Jordan Peterson, than with Marx or Lenin. Must be shocking to some I guess.
Putin should stfu about Lenin & stop throwing shade at Marxism.
If Lenin was immortal the USSR probably wouldn’t have collapsed & Russia wouldn’t be in their current situation.
Save your anger for Yeltsin & the traitors of socialism who sold Russia out to the West!
Feel like pissing off 75% of left Twitter:
Socialism can only be fully realized trough democracy, and only trough socialism can democracy be fully realized.
Todays hot take.
Western socialists should absolutly not beat the NATO war drum, and we should oppose with every fiber of our being any military involment by NATO in the Ukraine situation. Time to not repeate the mistake of many socialists in the lead up to WW1.
1) I doubt this qoute is real.
2) WTF is up with the people in the comments saying based? It's almost like they want socialists to be percieved as unhinged and genocidal.
Not a Leninist myself, but Drew you are nothing compared to the man Lenin was (and neither am I tbf), a true mover of history, a man of both theory and of realpolitical skill.