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by charlescearl 2y ago
Here is a list of Soviet nobel prize laureates, courtesy of Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_Nobel_laurea... . There are several in the sciences up to the year 1978. I’m sure that many were comm
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by charlescearl 3y ago
The bitter irony of Georgia attorney general filing RICO charges against forest defenders for the act of “mutual aid”. This is what mutual aid is - a community actively working together to address the neglect of the state.
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Ed Mead's Warden Game(waprisonhistory.org)
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by charlescearl 3y ago
Ed Mead, founder of the George Jackson Brigade and a former political prisoner, recently passed away. Mead designed the Warden Game in 1987 to “help players understand the contradictions of prison life in an age of mass incarceration”
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by charlescearl 3y ago
I can testify that most of the enslavers did not perish during the Civil War - my great grandfather’s family - most likely from Angola/Congo and brought via Charleston - was enslaved in a small farm along the route taken by Sherman. Hi
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by charlescearl 3y ago
The post also brought to mind Frantz Fanon https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frantz-fanon/ who was directly involved in the Algerian anti-colonial struggle.
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by charlescearl 4y ago
In the context of the u.s. system of capitalism, "non-profit" does not equate to "non-capitalist". The institutions still serve capital (if we look to Marx's conception of capital as a process) -- at the very least,
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by charlescearl 4y ago
Some references to the long history of class struggle in California include Ruth Wilson Gilmore, The Golden Gulag https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242012/golden-gulag Huey P Newton (co-founder of the Black Pant
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by charlescearl 4y ago
All history has a political agenda. “Non-partisan” itself serves to further the legitimacy of Western academia, itself born in service to colonial and neo-colonial projects. The work of Sylvia Wynter, Ngugi wa Thiong o, Edward Said, Walter
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by charlescearl 4y ago
N.B. despite London being a “diverse” city, racialization permeates, even among the elites. Pop culture commentaries — the Meghan & Harry Netflix documentary; the popular Man Like Mobeen series — as indicators of wider problems. Would t
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by charlescearl 4y ago
Instead of wasting resources punishing arbitrary capitalists (the next Wells CEO is no doubt biding its time), the state should seize some portion of the bank's operations and use them for the creation of operationally resourced public
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by charlescearl 4y ago
The title is an erasure of the minoritized workers who've been exploited in labeling and curation and moderation who've been raising concerns; it's an erasure of the many who've been raising concerns about the misogyny a
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by charlescearl 4y ago
Links for legal defense appreciated.
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by charlescearl 4y ago
The criminalization of the unhoused, as well as the policies that create unhoused people go far beyond private prisons. As Ruth Gilmore and other abolitionists have meticulously detailed over decades, governments on all levels have helped b
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by charlescearl 4y ago
The racial disparities cut across class. The most famous example being the complications that Serena Williams experienced during delivery https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/1/11/16879984/serena-wil.
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by charlescearl 4y ago
> I understand a key part of communism is you and your family own nothing As I understand, a key part is coming to the realization you and your family have already been robbed (or evicted to go back to your example), and then to ask what
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by charlescearl 4y ago
References to the racialization of property in the united states. The issue is not simply who has a right to a own home, but who has a right to housing. - The History Wars and Property Law: Conquest and Slavery as Foundational to the Field,
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by charlescearl 4y ago
The financialization of housing is unethical. Elora Lee Raymond at Georgia Tech continues to document and research the devastation in Atlanta — evictions of tenants, the resulting increase in deplorable rental options, the destruction of th
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by charlescearl 4y ago
Global status of abortion access as of 2021 https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/WA...
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by charlescearl 4y ago
Elite Capture https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture is a short book but gives some good ways of thinking about these and other processes as a systems problem. Also addresses how “elite” can span multi
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by charlescearl 4y ago
There’s also David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles http://davidharvey.org/2022/01/new-podcast-david-harveys-ant... There are of course many Marxist podcasts, but i find it interesting that Harvey’s always atte
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by charlescearl 4y ago
Instead of asking for a return to a time when many of us in the us did not enjoy the right to vote, have have access to education, proper sanitation, access to healthcare (even compared to the current situation), we could just significantly
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by charlescearl 4y ago
If the elders and families on the periphery can’t catch a break at capitalism’s expense in PRC then we are done. > Doesn’t business ear enough money from the food I order that they need to rob me on drinks as well? Exactly!
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by charlescearl 4y ago
It might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but there are already movements that are pushing back against many of the ways in which AI is used to curtail human existence. That is, people are already organizing against AI as deployed to
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by charlescearl 4y ago
From the review of Dr. Suzy Kim’s “Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950”: “The anglophone archive on the DPRK is a bleak record of imperialist slander, replete with the most lurid and theatrical tales of passively sufferi
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by charlescearl 4y ago
On reading Graeber’s The Dawn of Everthing, it becomes clear that “we” (humanity in most places we’ve lived on earth) have made what approximates socialism (broadly construed), work, at scale, for probably most of our existence. In addition
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by charlescearl 4y ago
No. Having lived in places that are now called “food deserts”, having relatives in places called food deserts, they are called that because healthy food — fresh veggies are NOT AVAIALABLE and you have to schlep to get alternatives. The most
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by charlescearl 4y ago
In the last couple of months, two readings stay with me on challenging the notion that math/science are things that only “certain kinds of men” do (more a gendered stance in the u.s. than eastern europe / asia). The first is The D
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by charlescearl 5y ago
Most of the Black people in my section of the u.s. were stolen from Congo/Angola. To be precise, those of us whose ancestors came through Charleston, SC enroute to other areas in the southeast. The devastation upon thriving, sustainabl
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by charlescearl 5y ago
No let’s not ignore the loss of over 1 million lives. Borders are still contested, with several wars having been fought, the scale of the disaster dwarfs Vietnam.

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