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21 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
What if from now on we called it crapitalism?
You know, like a rebrand. Capitalism... sounds so lofty. But Crapitalism? Yuck! Nobody wants it! Get that shit outta here it stinky. Just one letter folks.
I'm like an expert in branding so
I should turn this thread into a jacobin strategy piece

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22 Oct
Honest thread. I find myself being more snarky and sarcastic the past few weeks. And I realize it's because it's hard to hold the heaviness of this moment. We're in a very serious situation as a nation—a crossroads with huge stakes.
I am both hopeful and terrified to think about the range of possibilities for what might transpire over the next two or more weeks in our country. No one knows what will happen. But we know that we can't be passive. No one is coming to save us. It's on people like us to step up.
I feel so blessed to be able to be in a struggle for a better world with so many amazing people. I feel as proud of what we have done together as I feel discouraged by what we have not been able to do.
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22 Oct
I want Joe Biden to be the kind of President who hands this back to Amtrak and says, “Ok good start, now give me a proposal with twice as many lines built in half the time.”
“How we gonna pay for it? C’mon man, we’re gonna make Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay their fucking taxes.”
“That’s OUR money they’re hoarding, you know that, don’t you? Workers produced that wealth and they’re just sucking it up like blood-thirsty mosquitos. Well, that’s not gonna continue—not under a Joe Biden Presidency.”
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19 Aug
The US Green Party is completely unserious about winning or building working-class political power and should not be encouraged by serious leftists. Don't @ me
I understand the appeal for people who, like me, are deeply disillusioned—if we ever harbored illusions—with the Democratic Party in its current state. I voted Green in the past. More thoughts:
You want to get to a destination.

You see a van full of folks who say they're going there too.

But you lift the hood and there's no engine.

That's what I see when I look at the US Green Party.

I'm not questioning the commitment of the folks in the van. The van is the problem.
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30 May
There are moments when all the organizing experience in the world doesn't matter much. There are moments that are much bigger than the organizations we've labored to build. There are moments when people who have never been involved pour into the streets, seemingly from nowhere.
I always remember something my mentor Max Elbaum told me (not an exact quote here, but this is the gist of it):

If you can fully control the political force that you're helping to unleash, then it is far too small.
Seeing Gen Zers, black, brown, and white, turn out in the hundreds today in Lancaster City—having spread the word organically through social media—showing up with righteous anger and ready to take the streets, is one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen in my hometown.
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16 May
It’s tempting to cling to a narrative about the formidable power & consolidation of the Establishment, the bias of the punditry, the stacking of the deck—because it’s all true.

But the truth is the Sanders campaign came within reach—within the ground gained or lost by maneuver.
The lessons to be gleaned from Bernie 2020 have very little to do with the power, consolidation, and shittiness of the Dem Party’s old guard. We already knew that, there’s little more to learn.

The big lessons pertain to our own ability and capacity to persuade and to maneuver.
The Democratic Party Establishment isn’t going to get less shitty on its own. The factor that can change in the months and years ahead is the subjective factor: the leaders, organizations, and movements we build to challenge them and wrest the helm.
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29 Feb
"Activism" is a relatively new word. Its rise in usage corresponded with the rise of neoliberalism and its ethos of individualism. Activism tends to be an activity of individual self-selectors, usually from the top 10-20% of the economic spectrum.

Activism ≠ organizing. Image
The lesson is never “The forces we’re up against are just too powerful.”

Facing tough odds against formidably powerful opponents is the nature of insurgent struggle.

It is the duty of insurgent leaders to study the terrain and learn how to win.
The question is not whether or not to polarize, but how to polarize strategically. Political challengers strategically polarize along a "bottom vs top" axis that frames their forces as majoritarian, their agenda as common sense, and their opponents as greedy elites at the top.
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