Latin America/US/World historian, adjunct prof, writer, martial artist (BJJ purple belt & nak muay). Lover of books, movies, combat sports. Hater of fascism.
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Alright baby, lets do it: a thread on fiction for socialists to check out. I'll start w/ literary fic, then get to genre fic.
First: one of the great American novels, possibly my favorite. Follows the Joads, who represent the dignity of working ppl during the Great Depression.
I say this w/ love and pride, but it is funny to me that during the Chicana/o Movement we were like "hey, the Black Panthers are cool as fuck, why don't we just copy & paste" and made the Brown Berets
As a socialist, I don't think capitalism & democracy can truly coexist. I don't think the US in particular has ever had meaningful democracy. But even if you use the standard of liberal bourgeois democracy, I think you can only really say the US was a democracy from 1965 to 2010.
Incredible movie. Another Korean story about the harms of modern capitalism, but also a lot more than that. It follows 2 couples, a rich one & a struggling, working class one. A great character study that is partially about class, but also deeper human struggles. A must-see!
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Faltando 4 dias para a eleição, Lula realiza o maior ato político da história de Belo Horizonte (MG).
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The US-backed right-wing narco-dictatorship in Ecuador has arrested presidential candidate Luisa González, from the leftist Correísta movement, on fabricated charges.
This came after Ecuador's narco-regime banned the main left-wing opposition party.
Ecuador is run by dictator Daniel Noboa, the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch, and a close ally of Donald Trump.
It has been admitted even by some mainstream Western media outlets that the Noboa family is deeply involved in cocaine trafficking, and works closely with organized crime networks.
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I am deeply fascinated by the modern right's insistence that "the elite" is a category that does not actually include the ultra wealthy who dominate society and dictate many of its laws, and is instead made up of socialist teachers, anti-genocide protestors, and "woke" baristas.
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Republican pollsters: Our Epstein coverup is killing us, need to do something to show we’re not defending pedophile rapists.
JD Vance: These children are liars.
Vance: "And now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because, guess what? Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar."
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Court records and 1978 reports confirm Amy Acton's stepfather was arrested and charged with raping her at age 12; he fled Ohio before trial and was declared a fugitive. Her brother has corroborated the events. Vivek and Vance are siding with abusers over a victim.
cincinnati.com/story/news/pol…
forbes.com/sites/saradorn…
mediaite.com/media/news/ram…
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the problem isn’t that they got her mom to attack her, it’s that they got her mom to attack her in defense of her dead pedophile husband, ben
Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad is apparently unprecedented. It would be just awful to activate all the members of a politician’s family to attack them…as the Democrats did with every member of RFK’s family.
youtube.com/watch?v=ww9fTNrW…
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Acton's mother has been estranged from her daughter for 48 years because she sided with her husband (Acton's stepfather) when Acton reported that her stepfather had sexually assaulted her. That is different than RFK Jr.'s family, whose criticism of RFK Jr is focused on policy. dispatch.com/story/news/loc…
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Today marks 100 years since socialist luminary and union agitator Eugene V. Debs died.
Debs’s life and work was inspired by an unwavering belief that a more just and free world was possible, and that it would be created through class struggle.
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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
—Martin Luther King
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theres this idea in the media that if netanyahu loses his election that israel is going to become acceptable to support again, as he is singularly the problem. but if you look into the election you find out every single opposition party is casting him as "too weak on palestine"
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The world's richest oligarch is funding far-right politicians across the planet.
These far-right movements are not "populist", by definition, when they are bankrolled by billionaire plutocrats.
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Samora Machel, killed on this day in 1986. 🇲🇿
Maurice Bishop, killed on this day in 1983. 🇬🇩
Both of them martyrs of the global struggle for socialism and against colonialism, apartheid and white supremacy.
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The Paris Massacre took place on this day in 1961. More than 100 Algerians were killed by police during a pro-independence demonstration: jacobin.com/2015/11/paris-at…
