Defenders of capitalism never stop talking about how it's "the most efficient way* of distributing needed this, services, and resources across society and that's simply never been true
The point of capitalism is to enrich capitalists. That's no way to sustain a functioning society, and you see that *waves arms wildly* eeeeeverywhereq
And here come the capitalism stans. Like Steinbeck wrote, most Americans don't question the inequalities of capitalism, because they simply see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires
Muting now. Scream into the void, Scrooge McDuck
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Halder was a Lost-Causer, too. And, just like in the 19th century, the US government embraced a pernicious myth because it was politically convenient for powerful whites.
Halder's Wikipedia entry actually does a good job detailing his postwar rehabilitation by, among others, the US goddamn army. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hal…
The dilemma of any educational developer:
Them-we would like development opportunities
Me-ok, cool. That's my jam. *creates a year's worth of programming*
Them-*don't attend any programs*
--Time passes--
Them-why aren't you offering development opportunities
Me:
Them: last year was awful I can't think about doing anything else right now there was just so much work
Me: for real. I'm there with you
Them: hey why didn't you do any development workshops last year
Me:
Me: let me know what I can do to support. I can come to dept meetings, connect u with resources, consult, do a workshop, whatevs
Them: *crickets*
Them: *more crickets*
Me: OK, I guess I'll do some talks for these other people who asked me to
Them: why did u abandon us
Me:
Waiting to see the cardiologist, and let me tell you there's no more enjoyable way to spend the afternoon than in a waiting room with a bunch of old dudes who are using their phones on speaker to both make calls and watch right wing YouTube
"you may have a leaky heart valve"
This explains why I get out of breath from like... walking and stuff, apparently
By any objective standard, this is sociopathic behavior. But it's treated as a purely political horse race, a simple matter of which party is 'winning', instead of a completely unhinged willingness to literally risk kids' lives to serve GOP dogma.
How big a difference is there, really, between our antimask/antivax Right and the actual practice of human sacrifice?
The mortal fear shown by these patriarchal white supremacists just underscores how important antiracist teaching really is. They know Fred Hampton was right when he said "you can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution.” But they're gonna try like hell anyway.
We are in the midst of what I think is a revolutionary reconfiguration of the ways in which History is envisaged, contemplated, and confronted. Those who see History as national celebration and dogma are being challenged in the public sphere on a larger scale than ever before.
The questions of who gets to speak, whose history is "important," and how to confront complicated, conflicted, and violent pasts are widely discussed in historical scholarship. But the fruits of those discussions are now in the public sphere as never before, I think.
The only other republic in the Americas when Haiti won its independence in 1804 was the US-which reacted to this event by slapping an economic embargo on the new nation bc the slaveholder-dominated federal government was afraid enslaved ppl in the US would follow Haiti's example
Out of all the newly-independent nations in the Americas during the Age of Revolutions, Haiti was the one that most fully embodied the ideals of revolutionary liberty and universal freedom. So of course it became a pariah in the hemisphere, esp when it came to the US.
For the US, slaveholders' interests trumped supporting an actual republic founded on similar ideals to the ones possessed by the US's (mostly slaveholding) revolutionary elite. We didn't even diplomatically recognize Haiti until 1862. The US army occupied Haiti from 1915-34!