Naomi Klein about her new book DoppelgƤnger on Death Panel:
[https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/reflections-w-naomi-klein-091423]
On democracy now:
[https://truthout.org/video/naomi-klein-only-a-robust-organized-left-can-defeat-conspiracy-culture/]
At the #Socialism2023 conference:
[huh? video was set to private ;(]
These last few days i have been watching some of the videos from #Socialism2023. Some of it was interesting, like the panel on carceral sanity. But most of it was trying to sell books. And then there was Naomi Klein, who in one sentence said she still believed in the Green New Deal and Bernie Sanders, in other words reformist or #greenwashing stuff, and in the next seemed to say that we need an insurrection!? Uhm. And oh, she was also selling her latest book (which i will read, it sounds quite relevant).
I am definitely not a socialist.
But. The conference had a state of the art #COVID19-policy. And comparing this to some recent anarchist conferences and festivals, like the superspreader #Anarchy2023 for instance, made me despair yet again.
It has to be stated again and again, the #anarchist scene has glamorously failed and keeps failing during the ongoing pandemic and is therefore not the scene to be involved in as we enter the age of the pandemics.
Yes, COVID is not the last pandemic, far from it. In fact, COVID has even weakened our immune systems in such a fundamental way, that it opened the door even wider for future pandemics.
The ableist even eugenic turn i had to witness and even experience among people claiming to believe in #anarchy has been the biggest disappointment in my life. So far.
Get a fucking grip.
Let us build robust and radical communal care structures.
Mutual aid needs to be a praxis or fuck off.
Abolish cops, psychiatry, the state, the family.
It is hard to admit, since she turned into a liberal reformist in recent years, but i am really looking forward to the new book by Naomi Klein. She does have a great sense for the zeitgeist, this is an awesome topic.
Resisting Carceral Sanism
From #Socialism2023 conference (with excellent #Covid19-safety policy!), with Beatrice Adler-Bolton (death panel) Liat Ben-Moshe (anarchist disability justice and abolition activist) and Leah Harris (mad and disabled writer).
Is anyone at #Socialism2023 in #Chicago? The in-person speaker schedule looked great. I wasnāt as inspired by the virtual conference program, but Iāll take another look: it starts tomorrow. More #socialists are considering ānon-reformist reformsā, such as #PublicBanking and #ParticipatoryBudgeting and even āgasp! ā #Cooperatives. Cheers to the #SolidarityEconomy and all the ways we can do #PeopleCare and #FutureCare and #EarthCare. #Love #BoundlessRegenerativeCulture #permaculture
Is anyone going to the #Socialism conference in #Chicago in the first week of #September? I'll be there if I can figure out a place to stay there, I have friends there and in Columbus and Detroit.
I've never been to a big #leftwing conference, what are good things to experience. Also open to #tourist things, I was last in Chicago in 2009 and was sick for most of it.
Stealing from the homeless is fascism.
#fucktherepubliklanparty
#fucktheusa
#noexploitation
#deathtoimperialism
#stoptrump
#deathtofascism
Nobody is a failure.
The capitalist system is designed to fail.
The party of the working class, minorities, and the environment has officially become the party of neo-cons. This is the main reason I'm not a democrat anymore. The dnc has prioritized a $858 billion dollar defense budget funding imperialism instead of social protections, and environmental sustainability.
Meanwhile the republican party is as far right as ever, and having a civil war over trumpism/neo-fascism and Goldwateresque conservativism.
That's why I'm a firm believer in the Democratic Socialists of America, Socialist Alternative, and the IWW. The US needs a new real left to bring it back to social democracy, and ultimately to the sustainable path of socialism.
The capitalist system teaches us to view each other as objects that are to be used and disposed of for our own benefit.
When in reality no human is a tool, and all have value no matter what they have financially.
In a socialist society the focus is on need, and collective well being for all of humanity.
" From each according to their ability, to each according to their need .",was the hallmark of ancient human society.
We must return. #socialism2023
Focusing production on human need rather than a sales goal is instantly more efficient.
It also reduces waste because the focus of production is on human need instead of a guess.
This also winds of being much easier on the environment, and less trashy.
