I'm starting a thread in response to this person insisting Dave Chappelle's SNL monologue was not anti-Semitic. It's a partial critique but this is twitter. It will be 16 tweets long if it all fits properly, after this initial screen shot. I may also respond after in the thread. Starts with denouncing anti-semitism, but it’s a joke. He’s just instructing Kanye how “you buy yourself some time.” Because the threat of Jews cancelling you is real, is what he’s saying. 1/

If we do get to an era of post-capitalist communal living I hope the councils will be very good about the livability of buildings. "Little" things like sound insolation so you don't get ptsd from neighbors stomping upstairs or cranking their techno mixing over a full PA. Even when the noise is done without malice it can be extremely stressful. My current building is very good but when I lived in the Tenderloin there were major problems. Usually there is no one who will take it seriously or address it.

Matt Bruenig doesn't understand the distinction between what Marx wrote about the price of simple-labour-power and how wages are actually determined. Since his tweets are auto-deleted ever so often I supply the screenshots in the thread below.
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Doug Henwood + some of his friends have a record of being unable to sniff out bad faith actors. Heidi Matthews, Doug, and Ben Burgis (a few days ago!) are happy to go on the right wing Libertarian now more openly fascist Thaddeus Russell's show. They should have known better. 1/ Just a taste of some of who Russell feels the need to platform. 2/

Before Red Scare, Greenwald, Aimee Terese, Bruenigs, Chapo, Spiked, Catherine Liu, Elena Lange, Heartfield, Nagle, Lee Fang, and other weird right wing faux leftists, there was Larouche. He sold SDI to Reagan, worked with nazis, and wanted to be a paid agent of a security state. He had a physical army of reply guys and a a cult which attracted political analysts. They published a regular newsletter purporting to contain useful information pertaining to national security. Many government officials were conned or threatened by his confederacy of dunces.

Matt Taibbi's Thanksgiving review of Zinn's PHOTUS is atrocious. It's Zinn, he says, not previous generations of historians like the Dunning School or Cold War scribes like the ones Taibbi misses, who spin "fairy tales" for "3 year olds" who need "binary" good vs. bad stories. Zinn's book centers class struggle, women, indigenous, slaves, Blacks, socialists, anarchists, Civil Rights workers, etc. What a terrible crime. Taibbi's main analysis here is to call Zinn a libtard while celebrating the "Let's Go Brandon" spirit of the Founders/Constitution.

Bottom line: Even if you want to strip away all political context, Rittenhouse running around pointing his gun at people provoked the first shooting incident. Everything that followed was people trying to disarm an active shooter. Provoking/causing means no self-defense claim. And watching the video over and over of Rittenhouse pumping four shots into Rosenbaum, continuing to shoot as he crumples and even after he's down is very chilling. Kid thinks he's Seal Team Six killing al Qaeda. Doesn't look like self defense though.

Finished Ministry for the Future. It portrays a utopian outcome to a multi-tactic struggle against capitalist eco destruction. In a way the "shadow government" reminded me of Bakunin's "invisible pilots" similar to Leninist vanguardism, a cadre of professional revolutionaries. Robinson also can't seem to imagine a world without nation states, and waged labor and money are all part of the future. But the book presents one possible route to a "revolutionary" outcome brought about by different forces than past revolutions. Interesting to think about

Lonerbox makes 2 unsupportable assertions. 1. Rittenhouse's reason for being there is unconnected to white nationalist attacks on BLM/the Left. 2. That Rittenhouse was pushed from larper to killer in the instant he was "attacked." He had already menaced protesters with his gun. And these are the same transparently stupid and ahistorical arguments used by white nationalists/fascists/MAGA for the last five years. "How can the Proud Boys be white nationalists when they have Black members?" and so on.

Nagle's latest centers nationalism as "anti-imperialist" + cites the "COSMOPOLITAN journalist class" shaking in their boots at the Hungarian nationalist Eden Tucker visited + Trump's "rebel nationalism" challenge to the "Open Society" (Soros/Jews/Liberalism) of the decaying West. Nagle also blames cultural rot of once worthy empires, citing the teaching of "critical gender studies" art classes on Duchampn, + Lee Smith on the CIA giving viagra to warlords to rape boys, proving how out of touch elites are with _real_ Western values and white US workers.

This guy Heartfield is an anti-masker Covid Denialist who's been demanding full capitalist reopening for almost a year, promotes ruling class development, Right Libertarianism, and Nigel Farage, but CRT is bad because it's an attack on the working class. Predictable. Absurd. Anyone who's taught history knows curriculum/textbooks are not going to have your exact take on class analysis. Teachers supplement lessons with their own expertise. The post-left and Right hate the 1619 Project, but Marxists like Gerald Horne and Eric Foner generally like it.

3 documentaries that add up to a damning picture of the Trump regime and the Right in the US.

1. The Brink:Steve Bannon's world tour organizing dictators and fascists into a coordinated global force. They failed electorally but the xenophobic program gained ground. Q: Into the Storm: The three 8chan operators manipulate people to act on manufactured extreme Right conspiracies. They are presented as irony bro pranksters until you see the very real danger their tactics present on a large scale.

How to assimilate Marxism and make it serve reactionary, nationalist, bigoted, exclusionary, and anti-working class politics. A 9 part thread with pictures. 1. Dig up ideologies developed by shady ex-Leninists who’ve embraced Right-Libertarianism, nationalism, class collaboration, xenophobia, reformist capitalism, and use anti-”PC” rhetoric to base-build with reactionaries and far right parties, but pretend it’s Marxist.

Listening to Amber Frost interview Catherine Liu and not only am I LEARNING a lot about MatERialiSm, it's a SUPER FunnY show! They are the best!
soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-hou… Ha ha! Amber praises Dr. Spock (child rearing author) for restoring traditionalist working class techniques lost to suburbanization without realizing Liu's book trashes him for coddling PMC kids who went on to be spoiled "fascists" as she calls the entire 68 student movement.