What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

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Fight the Rich

Kshama Sawant

"I served as the only socialist on the Seattle City Council for ten years. In that decade, my council office led movements of working people to win historic victories, including the highest minimum wage in the country. I also saw firsthand how every part of the political establishment, led by big business and the Democratic Party, viciously opposed virtually every pro-worker piece of legislation we fought for. I saw how all the cogs of the capitalist machine — the establishment politicians, the courts, the police, the NGO leaders, and sadly many labor leaders — all work in concert together against the interests of workers.

I can tell you from my experience — and it is increasingly evident to working people — that this system is completely irredeemable, as are both U.S. political parties."

[Kshama Sawant is a revolutionary socialist, a founding member of Workers Strike Back, and a former Seattle City Councilmember who helped win the first $15/hour minimum wage in a major city and the Amazon Tax on wealthy corporations to fund affordable housing.]

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/27/fight-the-rich/

#ecosocialism #labormovement #seattle #USpolitics #capitalism #immigration #immigrantrights #medicareforall #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #peoplenotprofits

[continued]There are important differences between our epoch and that of the McCarthy period, but these can cut both ways. For one, the anticommunism of the 50s was actually made possible by white supremacy, the New Deal and the post-war boom. For another, despite the existence of the Soviet Union and a formally "bipolar" world, the U.S. was unquestionably the dominant military and economic power. We are in a period that starkly contrasts with the "American Century."

For one thing, we are in a state of economic decline and growing social polarization. For another, the Democratic Leadership Council put the nail in the coffin of Roosevelt's "liberal-labor alliance" in the late 80s, after a decade of bipartisan-supported "one-sided class warfare." The labor movement, has been further shredded by four more decades of the same and its own unwillingness and inability to undertake a frontal assault on racism and xenophobia.

MAGA demagogically claims that pandering to oppressive ideologies will restore economic ascendancy and wellbeing for the (white, male) masses. This is where any attempt to impose a witch-hunt cuts both ways. The economic leg is missing, a hegemonic bloc with labor as a junior partner is missing, leaving white supremacy. The ball is in our court.

https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-two-thirds-of-trumps-first-executive-orders-mirror-project-2025s-aims/

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“Some of the themes emerging are consistent: every #wildfire is accused of not being a wildfire at all but a planned attack for some sinister end. This serves two purposes: casting doubt on #climatechange & finding a politically useful target to pin a disaster on.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/los-angeles-fires-conspiracies/

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