Inspired by this post.
I haven’t gotten involved in the “anti-racism” discussion, and, really, I’m still not. I am replying to my good friend Will Shetterly’s comments on it, because I am a Red, and we Reds have a tradition of saving our vitriol for those who come closest to agreeing with us. I am doing [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
To Will: Class and anti-racism
March 7th, 2010 · 36 Comments
By request, the song mentioned in the previous post
December 12th, 2009 · 8 Comments
Not terribly proud of this one, but here it is. I think the formatting is a bit screwy, so the changes don’t actually go where they appear to.
Never Trust A Bureaucrat
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Negotiations broke down over benefits and pay.
B7 E
We put it to a vote and went out the sixth [...]
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One of the high points of my life
December 12th, 2009 · 17 Comments
I don’t know why I feel like telling this story now, but I do; it’s the story of a moment–an instant–in my life that I look back on with intense pleasure.
It was the winter of 1990, and I had left the Party some years before, but still considered myself a sympathizer. In International Falls, there [...]
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SF writer Peter Watts beaten and arrested at US Border
December 11th, 2009 · 17 Comments
You can start your link hunt here if you haven’t seen this yet.
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I added my name
December 9th, 2009 · 5 Comments
When Cory Doctorow and Neil Gaiman both say to sign it, I’m inclined to sign it, so I did.
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On Health Care
October 21st, 2009 · 54 Comments
The Nobel Prize discussion quite reasonably morphed into a health care discussion. So, if anyone wants to continue that, here’s a place to do so. My position is as follows:
For purposes of this discussion, “profit” refers to money that comes from appropriating the labor of others (”exploitation” in the strict economic sense). If a company [...]
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The Nobel Peace Prize, forsooth
October 10th, 2009 · 28 Comments
As I mentioned on Twitter, giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize would be like if the 1907 committee had given the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Mary Mallon. It would be interesting to have some documentary filmmaker speak to the Afghan and Pakistani civilians who have lost family members and get their reactions to Obama’s [...]
On Roman Polanski
October 3rd, 2009 · 89 Comments
All right, this is getting to be too much. I ignored it when a friend warned me not to “defend rapists” on her LJ for linking to an article (See sidebar for the link.) Now another friend has signed a petition calling for this 76-year old man to “receive justice.” The cynicism is appalling.
There many [...]
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Some Minneapolis History
August 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment
The World Socialist Web Site has just finished a four-part article on the 1938 general driver’s strike in Minneapolis. It’s quite good. It can be found here.
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On the anti-racism discussion
June 8th, 2009 · 51 Comments
It seems to me that many LWPs when discussing AR with POCs and other LWPS (not to mention RSs) sound as they’ve gotten so LiA that they are CI. Is it necessary to be OttPoA in order to discuss AR? Does it really help to become LiA to the point where you sound like a [...]