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Alex Karp retreating to his 500-acre estate to accuse democratic socialists of trying to "gaslight" and "segregate" people is peak irony. A billionaire master of war whose company profits off mass devastation throwing this language at DSA reminds me of Hillary 2016.
In @thenation in print and online today with my coauthors asking: "How many self-described socialists really believe in a socialism after capitalism anymore?" thenation.com/article/societ…
If you're still "dirty break, we'll need a party of our own" like me, having Hakeem doing Hakeem things is good for the argument.
I'm all for society deciding that we should value leisure over more production, and doing so through the expansion of federal holidays.
But this is absurd. We don't need more federal holidays catering to specific religious or cultural identities. Just give us May Day instead.
Encouraging to see the public remain largely inoculated against the Hegseth school of chest-thumping militarism. The old jingoist playbook can't manufacture consent anymore.
This has been the establishment Democrat retort since 2016. Empty appeals to identity (with evidence based on vibes only).
CNN: Hakeem Jeffries criticizes the DSA over lack of diversity when crowd of its members chanted “you’re next” at Jeffries
“It was very interesting to me, as observed by others, that there was almost zero diversity in that crowd.”
edition.cnn.com/2026/11/08/p…
Tough time to say anything nice about CBS News, but this is the most substantive interview I've heard Trump give in years.
60 MINUTES REPORT: Ross Douthat interviews President Trump in his first sit-down interview since the 2026 midterm elections.
The wide-ranging conversation covered immigration and corruption, Iran and artificial intelligence, his potential successors and his own mortality. The interview begins with the election results.
Smart move from Zohran. AOC would be a great candidate. But if she doesn't run, the left lane should be filled by a trade union leader who can recement the left politics <--> working-class politics <--> redistribution association.
Scoop: Zohran Mamdani has been meeting privately with union leaders, urgently talking up the need for a labor-aligned or leftist candidate to run for president, people familiar with the talks tell me.
He's arguing that progressives can't afford to squander their midterm momentum.
Behind closed doors, Mamdani has also said he's uncertain whether AOC will launch a White House run, the sources said.
axios.com/2026/11/08/scoop-m…
This is a v good response to the "bourgeois democracy" question. On the second half, I'd foreground what "protecting minority opinion" actually means: guaranteeing baseline civil liberties and negative freedoms, our liberalism, while rejecting minorities the power to obstruct majoritarian will on everyday policy.
Folks have been asking MUG many questions. We love it. Keep 'em coming! @LukePickrell explains why "bourgeois democracy" is a fallacy & how our current republics obstruct working-class power. Future videos will cover our 7 Points of Unity. Find Luke's letters in @CosmonautMag
"Politics is downstream from culture" has nothing to do with Gramsci and everything to do a right-winger who read the Wikipedia entry for "hegemony" in 2007.
Victor Serge on the hope of 11/7/1917 to the rise of Stalinism. “Out of a magnificent workers’ victory we have seen the rise, on the basis of the socialist ownership of the means of production, of an inhuman regime, profoundly anti-socialist in the way it treats human beings.”
Wild that the son of America's foremost Gramsci translator just summarized his dad's life work by quoting Andrew Breitbart. The cultural turn claims another victim.
On 60 Minutes, Trump called Venezuela a "territory" and said the US had taken out billions of dollars from the country. Is that the foreign policy lesson he got from the midterms?
A perfect distillation of why workers moved on Tuesday. The more progressive politics are associated with working-class leaders like Jimmy Williams, as opposed to the alphabet soup of liberal NGOs, the better.
I love the DSA vs. CPC narrative. But otherwise, DSA sample small and Congressional candidates were running in strong blue districts with people angry about Trump and motivated to vote. We still have a lot of work to do in more rural areas to make socialists viable nationwide.
Looking forward to this event!
I'll be talking about how we can win ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with @sunraysunray, whose new book THE BLUEPRINT is essential reading for any progressive, in New York on 16 November.
🔗 Come and join us with @jacobin. Link below.
Hardly a fan overall, but every governor should take a stand against our horrific and arcane death penalty like Newsom.
I'm not against all forms of identity politics. I am against a European-style multiculturalism though.
I think there are two distinct approaches here: (1) organize around difference when necessary to achieve genuine equality in commonwealth, and (2) organize around difference in ways that reify those divisions, treating a harmonious "multiculturalism" as end in itself.
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