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First off, war and governance are completely different. War is about killing the other side and capturing territory. Governance is about obedience, which is much harder. If they came at us with tanks, bombs, etc., many workers would die, and many others would leave, so the wages of the remaining workers would have to go up.

The other thing is, this century will not be like the last. IMO the most important difference will be the mass-migration of networked workers who can keep in touch with friends/family back home in real time from whereever they work. This will give labor organizing a multinational dimension.

Every immigrant worker is an ambassador for labor. Capitalistic climate destruction will cause hundreds of millions of people to leave their home countries. That means multinational labor will confront multinational capital. Imagine strikes that span continents, that cover every stage of production, from agriculture and extraction to light and heavy industry to information work.

J Sakai's Lies About William Z Foster In Settlers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Sakai is right. This notion that Black workers are being manipulated by the ruling class against white workers is white supremacist propaganda that goes back to the post-Civil-War reconstruction period. W. E. B. DuBois writes about this in Black Reconstruction in America. Foster is using Klan rhetoric.

They know little of the race problem in industry who declare that is can be settled merely by the unions opening their doors to the negroes. It is much more complex than that...

Bullshit. The solution was full and total desegregation. The only thing "complex" was the white supremacy of the white settler labor aristocracy.

ETA: Calling something a lie is more than just disagreeing with it. It's claiming a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts. Sakai used a direct quote from Foster's own work, then put it in the context of post-Civil-War white supremacy. Even if you disagree, where's the lie?

The Soviets won the Space Race. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

First Asian person in space
First Black person in space

She doesn't follow Maduro. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Holy shit he just murdered her the way she murdered Rosa!

Eviction, but we're super polite about it. in c/[email protected]

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Chad Parenti, PhD

Looks/acts exactly like Michael, but D E S T R O Y S that broken mic.