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Jack 🌻🍻

3 months

My latest for @DemSocialists ' Democratic Left is on the Palestinian liberation encampments and the generative connections between the labor, student, and socialist/anti-imperialist movements.

Linking Up Struggles - Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)

In workplaces and on campus, organizers are coming together to fight for Palestinian liberation.

www.dsausa.org

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@jlundqui

4 months

@redstarcaucus This is a very reasonable set of expectations

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@jlundqui

2 years

WEB Du Bois' Black Reconstruction is required reading for US socialists Post-Civil War Reconstruction was "one of the most extraordinary experiments of Marxism:" an unfinished one, w/ lessons still relevant today MUGster Nate and I wrote a short primer:

A Brief Moment in the Sun: The Forgotten Revolutionary History of Black Reconstruction - Democratic...

The slave went free, stood a brief moment in the sun, then moved back again toward slavery. — W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction W. E. B. Du Bois was a founder of the NAACP, the first Black man to...

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@jlundqui

2 years

Each crisis that emerges from a DSA elected’s compromised position only makes more clear the flaws of the insider strategy and the need for a different approach: one that centers organizing, agitating + educating the working class around a socialist program.

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@jlundqui

2 years

From a locked comrade: “Socialist elex are powerful when they act as a bloc against class enemies like LaSalle+Hochul. They forced elex like Jeffries+Velazquez to show their true colors+polarized trade unions against Hochul. It’s a great model for independent political action.”

Jabari Brisport

@JabariBrisport

2 years

Committee just voted NO on LaSalle!! Dem supermajority in the State Senate doesn’t need to tolerate @GovKathyHochul acting like a Republican – on judge nominations or in the upcoming budget negotiations.

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@jlundqui

1 year

pet peeve - using the term "organizing" to describe lobbying electeds organizing to me means building DSA + independent working class organizations. its not "organizing coworkers" when a socialist elected convinces a liberal politician to bloc with DSA on this or that priority!

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@jlundqui

2 years

"Any member of Congress who votes yes on the tentative agreement is siding with billionaires and forcing a contract on rail workers” Every member of the squad except Tlaib voted on the tentative agreement to shut down the strike. What are we doing here??

DSA

@DemSocialists

2 years

"DSA calls on Biden and Congress to force the billionaire railroad bosses to accept workers’ demands. Short of that, railroad workers must not be denied the right to strike. 1/11

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@jlundqui

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1. POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE 2. PROGRAMMATIC UNITY 3. ELECTORAL DISCIPLINE 4. NATIONWIDE STRUGGLE 5. FIGHT THE IMPERIAL POLICE STATE 6. FIGHT THE CONSTITUTION 7. DEMAND A NEW REPUBLIC

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@jlundqui

11 months

Bureaucratic centralist orgs have tons of institutional problems, AND they contain some of the most advanced socialists in the country. DSA should try to win these rank and filers to our org/program, but this entails collab and good faith criticism, NOT outright dismissal.

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@jlundqui

2 years

Kind of boggles the mind how so many “serious Marxists” have ended up to the right of your everyday liberal-progressive on social issues like policing… Opposition to the cops and criminal legal system is now a mainstream position in America! Get with the program!

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@jlundqui

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Pet peeve - deploying a distorted brand of “materialism” (ripped straight from the mainstream social sciences) to make apologetics for opportunist realpolitik

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@jlundqui

2 years

Wish Democratic Left was more than one page, and more focused on DSA political work and strategic discussion? You're not alone! 60 ppl have already cosigned this reso for a DSA Editorial Board, and over half are ready to volunteer. Let's make it happen!

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@jlundqui

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TABLEGATE

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@jlundqui

1 year

Hmmmm, I dunno, maybe the immediate action you could take is pledge to support BDS and not vote for Israeli military funding? Is that too much to ask for??

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.

@JamaalBowmanNY

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In January alone, Israeli authorities demolished 132 Palestinian structures. Horrific to see worshippers beaten during Ramadan at one of the holiest sites. This incites—not ends—violence. We can’t use taxpayer dollars for these actions. Immediate and urgent action is needed.

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@jlundqui

2 years

The strange circularity of crusades against “wreckers” in socialist orgs is that, in the act of purging the organization of wreckers, you split the org and become the wrecker yourself… We need programmatic unity and freedom to criticize, not self-fulfilling calls to witch-hunt.

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@jlundqui

11 months

@thenation Mass vanguard party here we come!

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@jlundqui

1 year

Sam and other critics have read our NEC amendment. They know MUG’s position is not immediate expulsion; it’s to call electeds in. This straw man helps them avoid the actual question - what we do when electeds support the cops+the war machine, and damage our movement in doing so.

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@jlundqui

2 years

DSA stop calling everyone you disagree with ultras until you define your terms challenge

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@jlundqui

2 years

Abolish the Supreme Court, abolish the Senate, and demand a democratic constitution! Fight, fight, fight - abortions are a human right!

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@jlundqui

1 year

Lots of socialists out there view the working class as too busy to think abt politics, or too fragile to handle criticism. But how can we build a fighting majority for Democratic Socialism if we don't engage people honestly, as protagonists in the story of their self-liberation?

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@jlundqui

1 year

Pre-order the book people are calling: “The Social-Democrat Manifesto” “The doctrine of fascism” “The Little Blue Book” “Finally…a book for only the most dedicated of losers” “i wish this was a psyop” “so hyped for this” - Donald Parkinson

Home | Cosmonaut, Inc.

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Cosmonaut ☭

@CosmonautMag

1 year

🚨New book alert!🚨 Cosmonaut Press presents a collection of writings from @MarxistUnityDSA , featuring MUG documents, 20 essays by MUG members, and a preface by @donaldp1917 . Pre-order now at , or find MUG at DSA Convention for advance discounted copies!

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@jlundqui

2 years

The use of the harm reduction framework outside public health has had a negative effect on political discourse It's meaning has extended from an alternative to carceral drug policy to justify myriad compromised, reformist-opportunist politics. And denies the working class agency

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@jlundqui

2 years

i mean this is partially bc banksy art kinda sucks

Trung Phan

@TrungTPhan

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One of my favorite Banksy stunts: the artist set up an indiscreet booth in New York run by a random person. No one realized it was real Banksy art and — over 7 hours — only three people bought for a total of $420.

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@jlundqui

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Common mistake - socialists' economistic obsession with "winning material gains" obscures the central importance of class politics (building class consciousness around a socialist program, merging the activated forces of the working class with the forces of socialism, etc.)

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@jlundqui

2 years

Just got elected union chapter delegate 🤩 in a completely uncontested race 😞

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@jlundqui

2 years

Second round of @MarxistUnityDSA members were just admitted 🥳 Caucus size doubled📈 Principled partyist forces in DSA going 🆙 DSA for a democratic constitution 🔜 Stoked to continue building with even more inspiring comrades 💪🤝

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@jlundqui

2 years

Pretty compelling evidence that the strategy of Democratic Party realignment is a dead end. "After the Progressive Slate won the election, it was discovered that the vestiges of the famed 'Reid Machine'...flipped a kill switch that effectively gutted the party infrastructure"

je suis Kara 🎡🇵🇸

@karrrazuniga

2 years

Clarifying our position and relationship with the NV State Democratic Party two years after a slate of DSA-members were elected to the board. TLDR: DSA shouldn’t be wasting its time or resources with the Dem Party.

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@jlundqui

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@HanginOutOnline “A national DSA endorsement comes with a serious commitment to the movement for Palestine and our collective socialist project...To build a socialist movement that’s capable of defeating capitalism, we must demand more from leaders in our movement.” 💯

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@jlundqui

6 months

At the People’s Forum today: NYC-DSA public sector worker town hall Vijay Prashad class on Marx+Ntl Liberation MUG-NYC meeting Me, back of the room, on a call talking proportional representation, third parties and the battle for democracy Socialism is alive and well in NYC!!

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@jlundqui

2 years

To my best friend and the love of my life, @e__e__p__ : you bring light and beauty to everything you touch ❤️ You’ve changed my life forever and I can’t wait to see where we go next! (Or where she goes, really - Erin’s the rising star, I’m just happily along for the ride..)

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@jlundqui

2 years

@illapaNYC Please be concrete - who are you talking about? What do you suggest we do? IMO, more spaces for productive political discussion is a good start; more suppression of speech and moves to expel people would be a step in the wrong direction (in most situations I’m aware of).

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@jlundqui

2 years

🚨SOCIALIST CAUCUS ALERT🚨 First time in almost a hundred years!!

Dan Shafer

@DanRShafer

2 years

Joint release from new state representatives Darrin Madison (10th District) and Ryan Clancy (19th District), both of Milwaukee: 'Wisconsin Socialist Caucus Formed for the First Time since 1931'

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@jlundqui

2 years

My latest in @CosmonautMag is about socialist agitation, a key to how we merge w/ the masses and win campaigns. Socialists should always aim to publicly expose the cruel and corrupt reality of capitalism, even when it may seem inconvenient! 🧵1/3

When We Fight, We Win!: For an Agitational Socialist Electoral Strategy - Cosmonaut

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@jlundqui

2 years

Perfect size for a socialist caucus...

NYC-DSA 🌹

@nycDSA

2 years

Eight socialists go to Albany…

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@jlundqui

1 year

All the expulsion talk just serves to obscure what is a simple, crucial point: a) socialist elex represent our mvmt on the biggest stages, b) when they vote to support cops, the war machine, or strikebreaking, our mvmt is weakened, which c) is why we fight for discipline now!

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@jlundqui

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UNITY IN ACTION, FREEDOM OF CRITICISM Socialists are stronger when we fight together, in lock step. But we’ll never be in lock step w/o robust democratic deliberation. Democracy isn’t just a vote. No way around it, democracy requires open discussion and freedom of information.

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@jlundqui

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In 1970, the Black Panthers held a Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention. ~10k activists from the Black, Asian American, Chicano, American Indian, Anti-war, Women's Liberation, and Gay Liberation mvmts were there! Anyone know more abt this?

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@jlundqui

2 years

In the 90s, my parents (neither of them socialists) attended mass protests against the Gulf War. Growing up in Berkeley, anti-war sentiment was everywhere. War rages on, but the left is divided, w/ no mass anti-war mvmt to speak of. What a disgrace. We must act to change that!

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@jlundqui

2 years

DSA needs true Democratic Centralism - programmatic unity, empowered central leaders who are elected+accountable to the rank and file thru freedom of information+speech NOT more Bureaucratic Centralism - political dominance of “full-timers” through purges+suppression of speech

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@jlundqui

2 years

Bowman + BDS, Salazar + the Trust, the Squad + defense budgets (sadly too commonplace to be crises) - these positions all make DSA weaker because they distort our socialist message and make it harder to organize with other socialists and activated segments of the working class.

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@jlundqui

10 months

4 books that had a major influence on your thought

the artist formerly known as mateba

@NewSweezyite

10 months

Not particularly unique but I love em

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@jlundqui

1 year

We’re bringing Trotskyism (newspapers, fun hats) BACK this summer at the DSA convention

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@jlundqui

2 years

@ZohranKMamdani 💯 seems like it may be time for socialists to let go of (or clarify their relationship to, at the very least) the “progressive” label for something more distinctively descriptive

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@jlundqui

2 years

I get the logic for a Hochul/WFP defensive vote, but IMO there’s dissonance of: 1) voting no on the 1234 plan to move NYC-DSA towards an independent party, and 2) supporting the WFP’s efforts to keep their own party line Genuine question - do ppl think WFP shld be DSA’s party?

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@jlundqui

1 year

Big shouts out @CliffConnolly @LukePickrell and the rest of the bulletin crew for making this shit happen; big shouts out to all the MUG delegates who flyered all day during convention and wrote excellent articles afterwards. Y’all inspire me every day! We Demand the Future!

Marxist Unity Group

@MarxistUnityDSA

1 year

Sunday Edition of Marxist Unity's Convention Bulletin is LIVE

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@jlundqui

1 year

Last meeting yesterday with this @MarxistUnityNYC organizing committee ❤️‍🔥 I’m honored to have played a small part in organizing this faction of dedicated, intelligent, radical and kind-hearted comrades. Thankfully a new OC means big things coming for the MUG NYC cell!! 🔜👀

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@jlundqui

2 years

Seems like textbook bureaucratic centralism to me - the dominance of what Macnair calls “full-timers” through bureaucratic maneuvers and censorship of political speech

jenbo ✨🚩

@irockgnomes

2 years

This NPC has wasted its term hunting for “wreckers,” punishing members, ignoring complaints about grievances, and stacking campaigns and committees with their friends and caucus-mates while blocking good-faith attempts to collaborate that come from outside their circles.

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@jlundqui

1 year

Now is the time for DSA's National Political Committee to engage DSA's congressional electeds on this issue, to encourage them to vote NO on military aid to Israel, and to lend our support for those socialists in office fighting to block funding to the Israeli war machine!

Marxist Unity Group

@MarxistUnityDSA

1 year

This is a joint statement with our comrades in Red Star on the uprising in Palestine and our work on the National Political Committee.

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@jlundqui

2 years

3 more important things from nyc-dsa-con than prayer-gate 1.TTR2 passes+1234 fails, both 60/40 split. Clear line b/w Eco/SMC anti-party, B&R/Emerge/MUG pro-party fractions 2.BIG labor+base-building wins 3.Conventions halved, censorship reso passes w/o debate, town halls tabled

Parker 🍻📘

@centristmarxist

2 years

Not that there aren’t parts of the ‘culture war’ that socialists should have a stake in (as the vanguard of all the oppressed too), but there are definitely more interesting and important things to debate coming out of the nyc convention!

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@jlundqui

3 months

Immigration discourse in this country is becoming more and more fascistic. And the left doesn’t seem to have a strong response. Genuinely disturbing stuff, what a concerning sign for the future of this country.

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@jlundqui

1 year

What’s going on in DSA-LA?? Someone’s gotta remind these electeds that socialists don’t vote for cop $$$

Jon peltz

@JonnyPeltz

1 year

Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez was the lone vote at City Council today against taking money from a food aid fund to give to expand an LAPD cadet program in North Hollywood. CM's Soto-Martínez and Raman voted to re-allocate the money:

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@jlundqui

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“Fight the constitution, demand a new republic” doesn’t just mean constitutional assembly The (winning!) fight for 13/14/15 amendments wasn’t just parliamentary, it was a mass mvmt of abolition-democracy touching all aspects of society w/ a critique of the entire existing state

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@jlundqui

2 years

@aaronnarraph Concretely, the Democratic Party is a network of consultants and politicos funded in large part by finance and tech capital, aimed at a) satisfying those donors, and b) winning the votes of whiter more educated Americans. No amount of wishcasting gets around that structural fact.

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@jlundqui

11 months

There is no path to a mass vanguard party (read: no path to socialism) that does not lead through the existing left. No way around all these orgs, tendencies and movements; only through!

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@jlundqui

2 years

DSA needs democratic centralism, not bureaucratic centralism. This means that, for centralization to be effective, it must be built through organizational democracy, predicated on unity along a democratically-determined program and strategy, and grounded in trust.

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@jlundqui

2 years

2022’s NYC-DSA convention was host to some important politics: 💪labor ✊independent working class organization 👯membership drive 🤑tax the rich 2.0 Partyism or liquidation? Democratic or bureaucratic centralism? Read my report-back for this and more!

Which way, NYC-DSA? - Cosmonaut

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Cosmonaut ☭

@CosmonautMag

2 years

Partyism or Liquidationism? Bureaucratic Centralism or Democratic Centralism? Campaigns for what, how, and why? Jack L reports back on NYC-DSA’s 2022 Chapter Convention.

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@jlundqui

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DSA elex Nithya Raman+Hugo Soto-Martínez were dead wrong to support LAPD budget increases! They could learn from Cori Bush+Zohran Mamdani, who joined workers in militant action and won material gains. On the need for red lines+democratic accountability:

Socialists Don't Vote for Cop Budgets - Socialist Forum

An argument in favor of the “Towards a Party-Like Electoral Strategy” resolution for the upcoming national convention.

socialistforum.dsausa.org

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@jlundqui

2 years

🚨Jacobin Economism Alert🚨 These are the only references to gentrification and displacement in the whole piece…“YIMBYs” are either totally naive to the history of anti-displacement class struggle, or worse, they think their economic policies can supersede class struggle

Jacobin

@jacobin

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The “YIMBY” movement, which advocates expanded housing supply, includes many free-market boosters. But many YIMBYs have moved left in recent years.

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@DaShaunLH

Marxist Unity Group

@MarxistUnityDSA

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"That's an ass backwards approach to public safety!" MUG comrade @CliffConnolly speaks against Cop City in Atlanta and brings down the house. (1/2) #StopCopCity

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@jlundqui

2 years

Just don’t ask them what they think about Israel!

Greg Casar

@GregCasar

2 years

Just two guys getting sworn into Congress tomorrow. @MaxwellFrostFL

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Very proud of this essay Isaac and I wrote. At it's core, our critique is that two central ideas of the “policy feedback” strategy are incorrect: that reforms necessarily lead to class organization and that socialists should aim to legitimize the bourgeois state.

Cosmonaut ☭

@CosmonautMag

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With a focus on the recent organizing work of NYC-DSA, Isaac KD and Jack L critique the notion of a “policy feedback” loop as the guiding element of DSA’s legislative strategy, and provide an alternative framework for engaging with reform campaigns.

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@jlundqui

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fr tho, my 2023 DSA highlights: 🤠pass ed board+elect @donaldp1917 📝publish a daily convention bulletin (lots of exclusive content, some 🔥 on antimilitarism + the battle for democracy: ) ❤️‍🔥learning from all the WICKedly talented @MarxistUnityDSA peeps

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@jlundqui

2 months

Cardi B says No Votes for Genocide!!!

Pop Crave

@PopCrave

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Cardi B calls for a ceasefire in Gaza before she endorses someone for President: “I want a ceasefire. I want a peaceful treaty between Palestine and Israel. I want a peaceful treaty. I want innocent people to stop dying, that’s all I want. If that can happen, I’ll support

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Erin’s tryna convince me (again) that I should buy her a taxidermy mouse for Christmas

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@jlundqui

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@graceleefornyc Who is we? You're super rich and take big money from Trump supporters...not to mention your husband's ties to the Panama papers. You're acting like you're aligned w/ the working class when you're rly in the ruling class. @illapa4NY is the working class champion we need!

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@jlundqui

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Great indicator of bar vibes is fountain soda price $4 or more: bad vibes, total rip-off. If you're charging this much it better be from a can or a bottle! $1-3: fair enough... Free: the correct price for a fountain soda. A sign of impeccable good vibes. We're all friends here

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@jlundqui

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Looking to tmrw's big march on Washington for Palestinian liberation, I can't help but think of the 2011 Oakland general strike that radicalized 16 yold me Marching 10s of thousands strong to shut down that port was when I realized a better world is possible if we fight together

Left in the Bay

@leftinthebay

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Thousands converged on the port, where they blocked vehicles with barricades and their bodies, and climbed atop trucks and other equipment. One participant described experiencing "a collective joy that is beyond words." Most longshore workers greeted the marchers very warmly

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@jlundqui

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@prouns_ good for political education too! panthers distributing their paper were required to read the whole thing so they could talk with people about what was in it

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@jlundqui

1 year

The left needs to do more ceremonial burnings…burn the slaveholder’s constitution, your slumlord’s eviction notice, etc “I shall treat all such laws with contempt. I shall trample them under my feet, as an outrage on humanity, and an insult to God.” (Free-Soiler Charles Durkee)

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

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The members of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048. Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up the debt, canceling it all.

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When the dust settles, a segment of the left will forgive AOC’s transgressions because, to them, proximity to the AOCs of the world is power. There’s gotta be a limit to the number of times AOC turns her back to the left’s program but I don’t think we’re there yet.

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@jlundqui

2 years

How can socialists expand our base outside of Central and North Brooklyn, building more organized, militant formations of socialists and members of the working class across the city? This is a key strategic question facing NYC's socialists today.

Neal Meyer

@nealmeyer

2 years

This map of the NY governor's race results is instructive. Really shows where the core of New York City's nascent progressive/left-wing coalition lives right now. Jumaane Williams won (in green) where @nycDSA has won and Bernie did best. (Source: )

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@jlundqui

1 year

Socialists don’t vote for war budgets!! Love to see this

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

@RepRashida

1 year

I could not vote to pass another record-breaking $886 billion Pentagon budget with extreme provisions that gut abortion access, target trans servicemembers, and fuel climate change, but I'm grateful my colleagues supported my amendment to raise awareness about suicide prevention.

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@elliotrlewis

Salt of the Earth (1954 film) - Wikipedia

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@jlundqui

1 year

@IsaacBarleycorn Do none of these people follow what’s been going on within the UK left the last 5 years?? It’s like the exact same playbook

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@jlundqui

4 months

Shit’s been popping off in my local recently. Members are mobilizing around ceasefire and divestment, while local leadership have stonewalled our efforts at every turn. But we’re just getting started in our fight for Palestinian liberation and rank and file democracy!

Duncan Freeman

@deefreemank

4 months

NEW: Two members of DC37 Local 375 were kicked out of a virtual membership meeting in May for asking questions about pension investments in Israeli bonds. Members say that 375's president Mike Troman has been silencing their speech on Gaza for months.

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@jlundqui

2 years

Poetic moment outside the Latvian wedding smoking and a man comes up to me and says “can I steal your loneliness for a moment?”

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@jlundqui

1 year

UPDATE: we are now over 300 signatures on our DSA Editorial Board resolution! Next stop: the convention floor! What a great way to kick off the weekend! Cheers to you all! (Now, on to our 6 other resos.. )

Jack 🌻🍻

@jlundqui

2 years

Wish Democratic Left was more than one page, and more focused on DSA political work and strategic discussion? You're not alone! 60 ppl have already cosigned this reso for a DSA Editorial Board, and over half are ready to volunteer. Let's make it happen!

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@jlundqui

2 years

@escargotpro_ If horse-trading politics inside halls of power aren’t understood by members (or by the public), that’s a problem we should fix. Exposing the undemocracy of our political system helps raise consciousness and allows “all cooks to govern” - both important principles for socialists.

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@jlundqui

2 years

Downplaying the importance of the squad’s strikebreaking vote seems like a form of economism: socialists’ parliamentary strategy is a tremendously important part of how we build a militant labor movement Labor movements need socialist politics, too!

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@jlundqui

2 years

Wrote this on coalitions, which are important in DSA’s fight against reaction and for electoral power. In coalition, socialists must resist class-collaborationism while supporting class independence, freedom of criticism, and socialist unity through difference and democracy! 1/3

Cosmonaut ☭

@CosmonautMag

2 years

How should socialists engage in coalitional politics? Jack L draws conclusions based on historical lessons and recent experiences in the housing struggle.

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@jlundqui

2 years

@alex_lee No, that would be Marxism, and the history of the working class’ struggle for decent housing. Socialists really need to bring more class consciousness to these kinds of policy issues - the housing market (and the government) has had the US working class fucked up for a while!

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@jlundqui

2 years

We’ll have to wait until the budget votes to see how this one plays out, but losing members of a dem party caucus seems worthwhile if it can build more unity around the left bloc’s program and strategic goals

Chris Sommerfeldt

@C_Sommerfeldt

2 years

INBOX: The City Council’s new Progressive Caucus has 20 members — down from 35. The 15 who left didn’t want to sign new statement of principles that says members must fight to “reduce the size and scope of the NYPD.” From earlier this week:

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@jlundqui

1 year

“heavy into the transgender world”

@Spiffl

1 year

Readers added context they thought people might want to know That man is wearing cargo shorts

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@jlundqui

11 months

“..MUG members must push for the merger of socialism and the workers’ movement. On the one hand, this means convincing activists outside of DSA about the importance of joining DSA; on the other hand, this means fighting within DSA to make it an organization worth joining..”

Marxist Unity Group

@MarxistUnityDSA

11 months

Perspectives of MUG - Adopted by Marxist Unity Group at the November 2023 congress.

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@jlundqui

1 year

@hangry__eyes This month: LA-DSA councilmembers voted for cop $$, MDC-DSA councilmember endorsed tough-on-crime leg, and a Boston legislator rage-quit DSA. +NYC-DSA elex voted no on city/state budgets while winning BPRA+increasing their bloc. But this has little relation to class politics?

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@jlundqui

2 years

Socialist electeds shld build consciousness + organization by exposing + agitating around backroom betrayals! Very sharp article from @BeccaRoskill + @prageruydsa , taking some cues from Lenin: political struggle unites the working class across industries! Every cook can govern!

The Call

@socialistcall

2 years

In legislative fights, as in union negotiations, closed-door negotiations are the status quo but often stand in the way of building independent working-class power. What can socialists in office learn from militant unionists’ strategy of open bargaining?

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@jlundqui

2 years

The emphasis on the specific tactical Q of “shld we run on the Dem Party ballot line?” often works to distract us from more important questions abt party-building and socialists’ relationship to liberal-left coalitions that come up all the time in politics. Questions like these:

Nick French

@nickfrenchnyc

2 years

From Lenin to the Swedish soc dems, leftists have long recognized the need for class alliances and coalitions. The question is: who is at the core of your project and leading it? Who sets the agenda?

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@jlundqui

2 years

So proud of @e__e__p__ for graduating Pratt with a fabulous poetry manuscript under her belt - STILL, or PERPETUAL ADORATION 🧊✨✨ Can’t wait to see what’s next ❤️

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@jlundqui

9 months

Most importantly, I also proposed to the love of my life ❤️ (and adopted an adorable cat) I have no doubt 2024 gonna be even better than 2023. Happy new years, and bless you all!

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@jlundqui

8 months

DSA bf PSL gf and they fight all the time

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@jlundqui

1 year

@MikeConnollyMA @CambridgeDay Ultimatum?? Nothing else to discuss?? This is a shameful, plainly self-serving distortion of the facts vis a vis Boston DSA’s democratic process. FOH

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@jlundqui

10 months

“Mass politics” is a confusing phrase to me. Does it mean reaching the masses through elections and broad coalitions, by meeting the masses where they’re at (in their workplaces/homes etc), both, neither? My sense is that the goals are the same but the theories of change differ.

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@jlundqui

1 year

@atldemsoc Big shouts out @CliffConnolly !!!

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@jlundqui

2 years

Finally found my new preworkout!

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@jlundqui

2 years

NYC Public Sector Rank + File gathering this morning to come up with contract demands: Living wages, union democracy, tax the rich to fund public services for all, ending privatization and racist/carceral austerity, building an independent worker’s party to make the bosses pay!!

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@jlundqui

2 years

Keep public sector retiree healthcare intact! Keep the code! No amendments to 12-126!!

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@jlundqui

2 years

Apologetics for strike-breaking socialist electeds are just a defense for liquidating socialist politics+principles. Many progressives and workers got it wrong. Socialists shouldn't tail that wrong decision! @centristmarxist is on the money here, in his piece for @weekly_worker

Marxist Unity Group

@MarxistUnityDSA

2 years

MUG member @centristmarxist wrote for @Weekly_Worker on party-building strategy in the US:

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@jlundqui

2 years

My younger brother…this is what a real Bernie bro looks like

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@jlundqui

2 years

If we want to build a fighting mass movement for socialism, we’re gonna need many more principled, intransigent oppositional leaders like Malcolm X - NOT more Democrat Defenders™

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

@AfricanArchives

3 years

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." —Malcolm X

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@jlundqui

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Family portrait

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