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What did the middle class mean to your parents vs. what it means to you now?
#DisappearingMiddle #ClassStruggle #1bluebass

“A Class in Plain Sight, Treated as If It’s Invisible: The Working Class Today.”

Millions who keep society running are spoken of as stereotypes, if at all. This essay calls out the erasure — and demands we see the people behind the labor.👇

https://proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/initial-thoughts-on-the-working-class/#more-4945

#WorkingClass
#WorkingClassVoices
#LaborMovement
#WorkersRights
#UnionStrong
#SolidarityForever
#ClassStruggle
#MediaBias
#MediaNarratives
#PoliticalAnalysis
#PowerAndPolitics
#EconJustice
#SocialJustice

“The System’s Not Perfect, But…”

My latest post is a critique of the myth that liberal capitalism is the best solution we have. If the system keeps failing the many, maybe it’s time to imagine something new.

https://proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/the-system%c2%90%c2%90%c2%90s-not-perfect-but/

#ClassStruggle #Capitalism #EndOfHistory #SocialJustice #Marxism #NoamChomsky #History #Philosophy

Today we will all get fired because of union busting!

Our boss will be remembered on the gulag list.

Perfect timing to lose employment :(

I hate this country most paragraphs in our labour law are only there for social peace and to protect capital. No real revisions since the 19th century and the state approved unions here are not just class traitors but fulfil a corporatist roll by working for the bosses.

I will be branded as the agitator and it will be hard to find work again, so if someone can help out somehow me and my coworkers would need a bit of solidarity right now <3

#union #unity #classstruggle #ClassWars #revolution #communism #MutualAidRequest #law #work #workerExploitation #workingclass #jobs #journalism

Request for Comments 23B: Anarchist Networking Opportunities

novaTopFlex is actively researching potential anarchist communities, collectives, and co-ops throughout Vermont and much of the Berkshires and Pioneer Valley, attempting to connect with anticapitalist and degrowth-oriented communities across the region. While capitalist society often deems such arrangements impossible, research has consistently shown that businesses along the U.S. 7 corridor may suffice for anarchist networking and activism. Along Route 7 in western Vermont and throughout the […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/request-for-comments-23b-anarchist-networking-opportunities/

"Which side are you on?" The famous american socialist song has been rewritten by John Reiman to reflect the global struggles against dictatorships and fascism in Iran, Ukraine, Syria, Palestine, and Myanmar. #facism #democracy #unions #classstruggle #farright #socialism

https://youtu .be/XY5Y2MYSKoA?si=Pk-C8dXokqGLYTsE

Pluralistic: The enshittification of labor (07 Nov 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/07/postwar-social-contract/

"In pretty much all of tonight’s elections, voters spoke with one voice: they don’t feel like they can afford the good life. And the reason Democrats were able to capitalize on that message is because they ran campaigns about it — emphasizing things like power bill hikes in Georgia and health care and housing costs in places like New York City and Virginia.

The Republicans, on the other hand, were stuck with the unenviable task of defending the Trump administration, which has presided over a decidedly mediocre economy. But some Republicans tried to deflect from the issue altogether.
(...)
We’ve heard for years that we are entering an era of post-economic voting. The culture war is all that matters now. People are voting expressively to affirm their identities or put down someone else’s.

While you can’t deny that this is a real factor in politics, it’s simply not true that people don’t care about whether they can put food on the table or afford a roof over their head. In the end, it’s still the economy, stupid."

https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-2025-election-proves-that-the

#USA #Democrats #DemocraticParty #CultureWars #ClassWarfare #ClassStruggle #Inequality

Why class matters most and why that doesn’t mean ignoring identity 👇📚

https://theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/why-class-matters-most-and-why-that-doesnt-mean-ignoring-identity/

#read #interestingread #classstruggle

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'At its 2025 convention, the DSA voted to support Palestinian resistance, […] affirming the right of return, Jerusalem as the capital. […] The resolution also declared that endorsing Zionist positions such as “Israel has a right to defend itself” could be an expellable offense. Delegates also passed a resolution titled “Labor for an Arms Embargo” with over 80 percent support.

'At the same time, the convention showed an organization pulled in two directions — responding to the shifts in consciousness around Palestinian liberation, yet being tethered to a strategy that operates within the limits set by the Democratic Party. For instance, the convention voted down a resolution for a single secular Palestinian state, and turned away from formal alignment with BDS — positions that would have placed DSA too openly against the politics of the Democratic Party. Yet in contradiction, they also passed new rules requiring candidates to support BDS and cut ties with Zionist lobbies — an uneasy compromise that captures both the break and its limits.'

Maryam Alaniz: https://www.leftvoice.org/the-dsa-voted-against-zionism-but-will-it-break-from-the-democrats/

#TheSquad #DSA #antiImperialism #antiZionism #USA #US #USPolitics #USPol #establishment #DemocraticParty #Mamdani #Bowman #BDS #LeftVoice #classStruggle #socialism #NYC #AOC #USLeft #leftists #socialists #Tlaib #RashidaTlaib #DemocraticPrimaries #resolutions #Democrats

We call the wealthy The Elite, which is a horrifically inaccurate name as they are not better than anyone else and are in many ways worse. What should we call them instead?

#ClassStruggle #Trump #Epstein #Wealth #Poverty #WritersCoffeeClub #PennedPossibilities

"n his memoir, A Life Beyond Boundaries, the political scientist Benedict Anderson referred to his “more intelligent, slightly younger” brother. He had reason to be proud too. Perry Anderson was well known for his writings on the modern state, while Benedict was celebrated for his writings on nationalism.

Their chosen fields reflected their life experiences. As children, their lives were regularly uprooted, moving from China to California, Colorado, and Ireland, before they won scholarships to Eton, the famous English boarding school. They felt like outsiders. As adults, detachment served them well in studying those political constructs — states and nations — that usually instill sentiments of devotion and belonging in their peoples.

At Eton, the Anderson brothers were looked down upon by their wealthy contemporaries. Yet they and other scholarship-funded students also looked down upon their wealthy peers. Both groups were “snobbish,” as Benedict put it, though perhaps not equally so, given the social freedoms afforded to the ultrawealthy.

At home over breaks and in the summer, Perry Anderson read for hour after hour. There was time enough for all six volumes of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Later Anderson’s own writings would take on a similarly ambitious scale. He studied big ideas over centuries and continents.

Commentaries on Anderson sometimes describe his style of writing as “Olympian.” He used the terms “complex totality” and “totalization” to characterize what he was seeking to do. However we phrase it, it is clear that Anderson from a young age sought to understand history in terms of the interconnections, whether harmonious or conflictual, among the various parts of the whole. Furthermore Anderson believed history should be useful for activists in his own time."

https://jacobin.com/2025/09/perry-anderson-state-capitalism-history

#History #Marxism #Capitalism #ClassStruggle #Europe

A recent study shows elite political discourse in Western democracies is getting more toxic — especially around migration, LGBTQ+ rights, and identity.
Ironically, toxicity drops during elections. That’s how normalized it’s become.

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22411

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #CultureWar #ElonMusk #ToxicPolitics #PoliticalDecay #LGBTQ #ClassStruggle

✊ “Mamdani’s campaign is up against capitalist headwinds — but with class struggle, we can win our demands.”

All of the left needs to show solidarity with Zohran Mamdani.
This fight isn’t just about what we want — it’s about what we need.

🔗 https://www.leftvoice.org/mamdanis-campaign-is-up-against-capitalist-headwinds-but-with-class-struggle-we-can-win-our-demands/

#Solidarity #ClassStruggle #Socialism #LeftUnity #Mamdani #Organize #DSA #NYPolitics

Now imagine what the #workingclass could do if we stole, like, a dozen of these tanks... #Revolution2025 #ClassWar #ClassStruggle #Socialism

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:brwww2is5xf7ufyjij2eecp7/post/3lyxq2t73vs2g

This was obviously inspired by the historical persecution of Jewish people, but could just as easily apply to critics of Zionism within the Jewish community today, or LGBT people in Trump's USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh7d-g_uVMg&list=RDwh7d-g_uVMg

#DanielKahn #InnerEmigration #zionism #bundism #Doikayt #persecution #resistance #classstruggle #culture #klezmer #folkpunk #jewishpunk #punk