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We distinguish "personal unfairness",
-- the view that one’s own economic situation is unfair,
from "social unfairness",
-- the view that the economic situation of others in society is unfair.
Uncertainties associated with the transition to a globalized knowledge economy heighten people’s feelings of personal unfairness
Feelings of personal unfairness increase support for the "populist right"
and feelings about social unfairn…

Left-Wing Populism vs. Right-Wing Populism - What's the Difference? | This vs. That
What's the difference between Left-Wing Populism and Right-Wing Populism? Left-wing populism and right-wing populism are both political movements that aim to...

I just updated my reading guide, “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” again!
I want it to be a curated path from beginner-friendly intros to deeper theory and real-world examples, enjoy!
Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wu…

Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads on X in 2024, down from £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86

'They're Getting Tender About a Church Service': Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Defends Left-Wing Agitators Who Stormed Minnesota Church (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/theyre-getting-tender-about-a-church-service-minnesota-ag-keith-ellison-defends-left-wing-agitators-who-stormed-minnesota-church/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p122#a260120p122

Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86

Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics,
and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.
For years, Jewish Republicans often denied that the right had a serious problem with antisemitism,
pointing instead to anti-Jewish bigotry on the left and celebrating President Trump’s support for Israel.
But now that problem is staring them directly in the face.
Tensions over antisemitism in…

Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis
Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.

Left-wing candidate Andrea Egan beats Starmer ally to lead Unison - BBC News
#UKPol

Left-wing candidate Andrea Egan beats Starmer ally to lead Unison
Andrea Egan, who was expelled from Labour three years ago, replaces Unison's current general secretary Christina McAnea.

35,000 homes without power in Berlin for days after 'left-wing activists' attack power lines | World News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/35-000-homes-without-power-in-berlin-for-days-after-left-wing-activists-attack-power-lines-13490546
' "It is unacceptable that once again clearly left-wing extremists have attacked our power grid and thereby endangered human lives," Mr Wegner said.'
Het is bijna nog meer onbestaanbaar dat een stroomuitval van zoveel mensen zo lang kan duren. ... 😇

🤦🏽 The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
#politics

The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
The Dutch elections were a victory for liberal centrists and a defeat for the anti-immigration Geert Wilders. Yet with the overall right-wing vote stronger than ever, there’s little reason for celebration.

Glad to hear the Director of the BBC is resigning in disgrace at their utter failure to ensure a 2026 series of Doctor Who. Any DG that can't even arrange for ten episodes of Doctor Who is clearly incompetent and unsuited to the...
Wait? It was nothing to do with Doctor Who? It was about Political Bias?
They think he was too left wing?
Hahhhahaa. Hahhaa. 🤣 😆
Too left wing.
😆
Stop it, you're killing me.
🤣
#bbc #bias

On my Linktree, I’ve kept the link to @…, and the video on revolutionary syndicalism, and thus have moved all my recommended reading to my new document titled "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading".
📚 Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading:

Left Engine of UPS Cargo Plane Detached From the Wing, Official Says - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/ups-cargo-plane-crash-kentucky-left-engine-detached-2025-11

JD Vance Breaks Down The Latest On The Trump Administration's Crackdown On Left-Wing Violence (Harold Hutchison/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2026/01/06/jd-vance-breaks-down-the-latest-on-the-trump-administrations-crackdown-on-left-wing-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p122#a260106p122

I have autism, and I tend to forget things quite often. That’s part of why I’m currently reading Rudolf Rocker – Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice for the fifth time.
If you’d like to read it too, you can find it in my “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” document, which I’ll keep updating over time with new books, media, and resources.
Docs:

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

I’ve moved my “Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading” to my personal website.
It’s styled to look a lot like Google Docs, that was intentional, regardless, it’s hosted in a more private, self-controlled space.
⭐ Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html ⭐<…

Updated my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" Phase 2!
Added two solid EZLN Zapatista documents, one peer-reviewed journal article, and another field studies on their autonomous governance & education projects!
Happy reading: https://docs.google.com/docu…

House Republicans held a hearing Wednesday broadcasting long-standing conservative allegations of a left-wing bias in the small, prestigious Truman Scholarship program.
Witnesses called by the GOP said the winners disproportionately espouse causes such as promoting racial justice and fighting climate change
—and wind up working for Democrats and left-leaning organizations
—while few recipients profess interest in conservative aims.
But rather than counter the allegations…

House Republicans Accuse Truman Scholarship of Liberal Bias
Republicans held a hearing airing accusations that the prestigious program heavily favors left-leaning candidates. No one from the scholarship foundation was invited.

Haymarket Books has ebooks on sale for $2 until Nov. 7. Some of my favorite books published by them are:
Abolish Rent: on the potential of tenant organizing
Let This Radicalize You: a guide to activism over the long haul
No Cop City, No Cop World: lessons from Atlanta's Cop City fight
Perfect Victims: unpacks anti-Palestinian narratives you may not realize you've internalized

Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe that collective study plays a crucial role in sustaining engaged, effective, and durable left-wing organizations and communities. To that end, we aim to make our books accessible to anyone who might find them valuable. Until Friday, November 7th, ALL Haymarket ebooks are 80% Off. That means …

They Are Globalizing the Intifada -- For years, the left wing has been chanting "globalize the intifada." (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/12/15/they-are-globalizing-the-intifada-n3809879
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p36#a251215p36

Having begun reading "Post-Scarcity Anarchism" by Murray Bookchin, I might add it to my "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading" doc.
📄 Reading list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8…

Leavitt urges Democrats to grab a coffee with an ICE officer before blowing up at 'left-wing hack' reporter (Mabinty Quarshie/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4419943/karoline-leavitt-democrats-coffee-ice-officer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p130#a260115p130

I couldn’t find a clear guide, so I put together my own “Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading.”
Thought it might help others getting started on this path.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8/ed…

Bad news from America.
In Honduras the left's candidate has been defeated, bringing an end to a progressive term.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/trump-cries-foul-over-technical-tie-in-honduras-pr…

Trump cries foul over ‘technical tie’ in Honduras presidential race
The latest vote count has Trump’s favoured right-wing candidate Nasry Asfura just 515 ballots ahead of his rival.

If you’re new around here, I maintain an “Intro to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading” list, which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJXJn-KbXfsQi3uHE5EYYzQcbD8/edit?tab=t.0
There’s also a mirror availabl…

Google says my "Entry to Left Wing Anarchist Reading" doc is getting a ton of traffic lately. Not sure where to check the exact stats, but here's the link if you wanna dive in.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WuGnU7O_0eyjf9caYJX…

It is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”

This MAGA politician's disturbing rant shows a party hellbent on hurting its own
“It is hard to watch other states and cities across our nation leap toward socialism… Let’s keep our state moving forward by always rejecting the falsehoods sold by the radical left.” — Secretary of State Kris Warner, Facebook post, November 5, 2025. Although I should be accustomed to it, it is alw...

If you follow me and identify as a Marxist-Leninist, it’s worth understanding that we stand on very different sides of the socialist tradition. It’s time to read and learn, my friend. Marxist-Leninists have a long history of opposing anarchists, especially anarcho-syndicalists.
Docs: https://

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I purposely made my “Entry to Left‑Wing Anarchist Reading” page look almost exactly like a Google Doc, just so the normies wouldn’t freak out and bounce the second they open it.

https://midtsveen.codeberg.page/resources.html