Comrade Motopu reviews Steve D'Arcy's engaging new book _Frege and Fascism_ which meticulously makes the case that the "father of analytical philosophy" was a committed fascist. Highly readable! https://libcom.org/article/frege-and-fascism-review

Sorry, tankies. While it's true the USA is the biggest enabler of Israeli state genocide against Palestinians, it's also true that Chinese capitalists are helping to construct illegal settlements in Palestine, with the knowledge and collaboration of China's government. https://lausancollective.com/2025/china-aiding-israeli-settlement/

A brief timeline and overview of the ongoing L.A. anti-ICE protests from crimethinc over at libcom. https://libcom.org/article/los-angeles-stands-ice

Just a quick write up of some basic thoughts on the L.A. anti-ICE riots and would love thoughts from Mastodon friends on the situation.

Twitter is a good place to watch the current hysterical MAGA propaganda narrative form in real time. Currently the L.A. anti-ICE riots are for them, of course, justification that MAGA was right all along, that Trump defends America, and that the left and immigrants are all terrorists. Key word usage in tweets include

1. "Insurrection": This turns the tables on the January 6th attempted coup by overturning of a legal election. The Right has negated and inverted January 6th to being not a coup or an insurrection, but a peaceful protest and a day of love and patriotism against tyranny. Much of the Left has downplayed and mocked any focus on January 6th as "mere liberalism" and "resistance lib" shit that shows how out of touch the liberals (by which they usually mean the Democratic Party) are by insisting on attempting any legal path to either punishing or even putting in the historical record the flagrantly fascist attempted coup by Trump and his far Right extremist anti-democracy backers.

Trump wants to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act to use the US military to attack cities that go against his illegal deportations and other Executive Orders.

2. "Invasion": Using this word not only mobilizes racist violence and the full force of the US state against mostly non-white immigrants from south of the border, but also enables Trump to carry out mass deportations of anyone he chooses, while suspending Habeas Corpus (the right to be brought before a court to determine the legality or non of your detention). Here the faux legal justification is the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law last used horrifically to intern Japanese Americans during WWII. There is no war, but Trump's lawyers can make a case to the Supreme Court in the hopes they will allow him to carry on with illegal deportations, or failing that, give cover to Trump should he decide to flaut court rulings and proceed with illegal deportations.

3. "Terrorism": This is a term that usually means violence against non-combatants to coerce them into accepting a political outcome. So the downtrodden population of Los Angeles resisting ICE agents in combat gear who are carrying out mass detainments and deportations that are known to be illegal and at the very least completely Draconian specifically to punish brown people hardly qualifies as terrorism.

By now we're so far away from the actual humanity of the issue and the ways in which national borders exist as punitive mechanisms to separate people into categories, some with rights, others with fewer or no rights, some as citizens, some not, some as fully human, others as aliens. Never mind the process of state propaganda that demonizes and dehumanizes immigrants as non-human predators that poison the national blood.

And yes, nation states are themselves mechanisms of class rule and control over labor. That's why it's important for the Right, many centrists, and some of the Social Democrat pro-borders Left to never allow "non-native" workers to organize, unionize, etc. This creates a second tier and beyond of more exploitable workers who can be used to threaten "native" workers. You step out of line and there are people below you who will work for less. The solution to that problem is not stronger borders, it's no borders and organize everyone along class lines.

Jonathan Joss was murdered, defending his husband, by a homophobe who had instigated a two year campaign of hate against them

https://consequence.net/2025/06/king-of-the-hill-voice-actor-jonathan-joss-was-victim-of-hate-crime-husband-says/

#JonathanJoss #LGBTQIA #HateCrime #USPOL #SanAntonioTX

Lefty Hooligan outlines some of the history of "affinity groups" in revolutionary organizing. He reflects on their advantages over larger or more formal parties and on their limits.

https://leftyhooligan.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/affinity-groups-lefty-hooligan-whats-left-june-2025/

This is the expression Mike Johnson will have when he explains why the slavery question is now up to the states again.

This is a nice surprise. The Anarchist Library posted my extermely critical review of Amber Frost's _Dirtbag_. I like that they generated footnotes for all the embedded links.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/comrade-motopu-dirtbag-s-nostalgia-for-the-old-working-class

"The possibility that fascism historically rears its head as a set of articulated demands before it turns to the “praxis” of violence was always discounted in these arguments; such critics would have proclaimed Hitler not a fascist after the Beer Hall Putsch, since it failed."
https://s-usih.org/2025/05/the-wolves-came-richard-steigmann-gall-on-daniel-steinmetz-jenkinss-did-it-happen-here-perspectives-on-fascism-and-america/

Three Arrows returns after two years with a powerful overview of the two pronged attack from Trump/Musk on Democracy. The two projects are demonizing non-white people, immigrants, and other vulnerable communities for deportation or stripping them of rights, and then extending that to anyone the regime does not like. Secondly, the attack on the structures of government itself, partly to cut any costs associated with basic social infrastructure that keeps people alive and or thriving, but also to remove democratic input from anyone but the new King in determining policy. https://youtu.be/6skuCiLCjRA?si=zEHKjAcPXF9ecIld

Lenin said that “every cook can govern.” The MAGA inversion is "every kook can govern” and it’s now fully realized.
--Comrade Motopu
MAGA tourists provide a useful cross section of Trump's base from across the US and Comrade Motopu is there to report back on what they say.

Click this url to go to article: https://libcom.org/article/reflections-tesla-protest-waikiki

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PBS Frontline report from AC Thompson and James Bandler on the Terrorgram Network of fascist accelerationists who radicalize people to commit mass violence. Some previously thought to be lone wolves were actually groomed by Terrorgram Collective members. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram/

A few thoughts on MAGA madness from Comrade Motopu over on libcom. https://libcom.org/article/reflections-tesla-protest-waikiki

Hands Off Hawaii rally 04-05-2025
😂😎

A key problem with the 'logic' behind the disability welfare cuts - that disabled people are better off in work - is that disabled people often have higher costs to participate in work (from personal support to specialised tech) *and* the TUC notes, they are also paid less; the disability pay gap is around 20%

Being paid less, but with higher costs, means for many disabled going to work will (often) make them worse off

But Starmer & Reeves don't care about that!

#disability #politics
h/t FT

@MarvClowder Ha ha! I could tell you were being friendly about it, but I kinda thought should make it better.

@MarvClowder I was trying to quickly frame it for older American readers like me to indicate it was the national broadcasting, which actually is not what npr is so I changed it to just (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) to indicate the nature of the source.

Short article from CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corporation) on how the United Auto Workers support for Trump Tariffs is seen as throwing the Canadian auto workers under the bus, even as it is understood as a naive attempt to undo the devastation of "free trade." Article gives a good intro to how the UAW and CAW were one union which only split in the 1980s as US unions began to appease manufacturers and bosses more, in exchange for job security at the time, in the face of increasing foreign competition. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/uaw-trump-tariffs-canada-unifor-why-1.7483459