charlescearl

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by charlescearl 3mo ago
“ Liberals, and Social Democrats in general, have this common belief that capitalism can be “reformed” to become more humane and acceptable to society, and that this can be done by the use of state power which can be acquired through electi
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by charlescearl 3mo ago
"“Destruction becomes the principal commodity produced by capital. Militarism will lead accumulation, which will theoretically demolish any limit to capital.” The Accumulation of Waste, Kadri, https://brill.com/displa
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by charlescearl 5mo ago
The very idea of “trusting” monopoly capitalism.
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by charlescearl 8mo ago
Further, the american government across several administrations imposed sanctions which led to premature death of Iranians, worsening conditions. It instigated the Iran/Iraq war carnage. It also bombed Iran contributing to civilian cas
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by charlescearl 8mo ago
Over the past 10 years have seen extended clips of the incident which actually align with CPC analysis of Tianamen square (if that’s what’s being referred to here). However, in deepseek, even asking for bibliography of prominent Marxist sch
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by charlescearl 8mo ago
“Thus, the Communist and Cultural Revolutions represent some of the most radical attempts in human history to eliminate the advantages of the elite, and to eradicate inequality in wealth and formal education.” http://davidyyang.c
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by charlescearl 9mo ago
“Private property” in the socialist sense is property which is used for production (note that socialist countries - Laos, Vietnam, USSR before the destruction of socialism - typically have 80%+ rates of home ownership). Collective control o
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by charlescearl 9mo ago
If you attend any “public” meeting of a government or quasi-state entity in the US (library board, energy regulation board, county board,…) it becomes clear that the state seeks to hide and shift accountability at every turn and is willing
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by charlescearl 9mo ago
The term “populist demagoguery” always calls to mind Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-work... "Yes, peasant associations
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by charlescearl 9mo ago
The evisceration of the pension system in the united states has created a class of those nearing retirement who will live in poverty. https://www.ncoa.org/article/addressing-the-nations-retireme... The result of “fisca
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by charlescearl 10mo ago
Ali Kadri’s The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction comes to mind https://lpeproject.org/events/the-accumulation-of-waste-a-po...
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by charlescearl 10mo ago
Jamestown Foundation was founded by former CIA director to support Soviet defectors and seems to have employed former employees. A 2021 FOIA request that the agency provide all records related to its interaction with the foundation was deni
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by charlescearl 11mo ago
- The excess deaths experienced by unhoused persons - The excess deaths of persons that live in in the so-called Cancer Alley https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-shocking-hazards-of-lo... - The persistent excess deat
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by charlescearl 11mo ago
On the ending of “DEI” (itself an eviscerated approach to addressing the minimal demands to address over two centuries of american slavery, indigenous genocide, patriarchal violence, anti-trans, anti-queer violence) as targeted death making
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by charlescearl 11mo ago
The uncritical, unfounded, white supremacist equivalence of the names of Global South heads of state that share nothing other than their inclusion in the never-ending spectacle of a collapsing and always fascist empire’s hitlist. I’m remind
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by charlescearl 1y ago
This amidst an unrelenting united states “embargo” - in another world this embargo would be called the crime against humanity that it is. I often think of this Logic article on Cuban information retrieval design. “ Informatics of the Oppres
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by charlescearl 1y ago
Passport revocation of Paul Robeson https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/selected-t... Passport revocation of W.E.B. DuBois https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/when-civil-r
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by charlescearl 1y ago
The american state was brought into existence and persists through unrelenting political violence - internal and external. The estimated 90% of Indigenous population that perished; persistent excess deqths of indigenous peoples https:&#x2F
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by charlescearl 1y ago
“The ease with which people can challenge authority significantly shapes how those in power behave” known in 19th century as “dictatorship of the proletariat”. The speed at which the so-called “authoritarian regime” ended lockdown the momen
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by charlescearl 1y ago
“Cuban information scientists didn’t just critique the limitations of traditional informatics, however. They also advanced a more critical approach to mathematical modeling, one that emphasized the social complexity and the historical conti
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by charlescearl 1y ago
Executive order criminalizing homelessness. The order comes on the day I witnessed police disappear an unhoused person
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by charlescearl 1y ago
With respect to the post’s discussion of “surveillance capitalism”, Braverman in Labor and Monopoly Capital (published 1974, https://archive.org/details/labormonopolycap00brav ) makes it clear that Capitalism (particula
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by charlescearl 1y ago
“I am proud of how mission-oriented our industry is as a whole; of course there will always be some mercenaries.” In the context of the decisions of largely East Asia born technical staff, can’t help but reflect on the role of actual wester
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by charlescearl 1y ago
The Black southeast is still in over the Soviet Union’s rates during the 1930s https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/LA.html . Racialized carceral warfare.
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by charlescearl 1y ago
Racists will always find a way to make ending racism “illegal” (they write those “laws”). Love how the US Civil Rights Acts and various emancipation clauses always contain loopholes to re-enslave folk. Like using civil rights law - mostly c
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by charlescearl 1y ago
Land back https://www.therednation.org/10-point-program/
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by charlescearl 1y ago
The united states has the world’s largest incarcerated population. It currently dwarfs the number incarcerated by the Soviet Union during the 1930s. The USA has the fifth highest incarceration rate on the planet. In the Southeast United Sta
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by charlescearl 2y ago
People always cite Parable of the Sower as proof of an inevitable dystopian collapse. They fail to then point out that Octavia Butler’s protagonists constructed Earthseed, a commune that stood in opposition to MAGA.
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by charlescearl 2y ago
At least 30% of seniors in the US are living precariously and that is likely to increase as SSA benefits are gutted. The statistics are even worse when disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender. https://www.ncoa.org/article&#
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by charlescearl 2y ago
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s In the Shadow of the Shadow State, which discusses the concept of the anti-state state. https://sfonline.barnard.edu/ruth-wilson-gilmore-in-the-shad...

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