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This isn't a war on drugs; It's a war on oil!
#Venezuela #Maduro #Socialism

A friend of mine, who I'm pretty sure is left-leaning (meaning, in the US at least, a Democrat) asked me:
"Isn't democratic socialism different from actual socialism?"
Ohhh, where do we begin! But the good thing is, people are asking these questions... Not just straight up condemning "socialism" because of the name.
#USPOL

When people say "it's socialism for the rich, but rugged capitalism for the poor" I always want to correct them. "Socialism for the rich" is not socialism at all. That's just capitalism. That's the definition of the capitalist state: a committee that manages the collective interest of the whole bourgeoisie.

For no reason, has anyone played this?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1261760/Democratic_Socialism_Simulator/

By the magat definition:
Opening a city grocery store in a food desert is "socialism."
Peddling Trump wine at a government store at a military base is "free enterprise."

What's especially interesting, and dangerous to capitalism, is that there are a lot of opportunities that come out of this.
Corporations are destroying everything. We actually don't need them. We can build mutual aid networks, guerilla gardening, library socialism... When we stop with consumerism, we can find the joy in actually living, creating, being a creative human rather than simply a consumer. With a bit of momentum we can bend the system to our will. With enough momentum we can shatter it completely and free ourselves from this trap.
Things can go a lot of different ways. I'm excited to see how things go.
Edit:
I'm specifically excited about this...
https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/about-mutual-aid
This is cool. This is really fucking cool.

https://mastodon.social/@arcticleo/115510312695653216
“Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”

If you don’t already know, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist and I’m tired of people thinking that means I’m some authoritarian commie pretending to be leftist. I don’t bootlick party lines or worship dead strongmen. Centralized power rots no matter what color the flag is.
Hear me out, I’ve read actual labor history, I know what labor power means. We build our politics on horizontal organizing and direct action, not on some bureaucrat ordering purges in the name of the people. Real socialism …

The mainstream media said voters wouldn’t go for him
and they said “socialism won’t sell.”
But on the streets of New York, people were done listening to conventional wisdom.
All throughout Manhattan and from East Harlem to Queens, voters told us the same thing:
they’re tired of the old guard, the empty promises, and a system that serves the wealthy instead of the working class.

Mainstream media tried to scare Mamdami voters with socialism—it didn’t work!
TRNN was on the ground in New York City on election day speaking to voters.

Donald Trump Is a Commie (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-the-real-commie-mamdani-sanders-democratic-socialism
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p82#a251103p82

"Zohran Mamdani is not a symbol of socialism, or communism as Trump says, those boogeymen which fill the hearts of many Americans with terror. He’s something more powerful than that. His cry is: we don’t have to do things like we used to do. Everything can change. And it’s a message of hope that can resonate everywhere"
https://

Empire State Of Mind
Why Mamdani’s win is bigger than the Big Apple

🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
#politics

Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.

I'm starting to suspect that Trump is going to dumb his way into socialism and get some accidental wins. If he weren't outwardly racist and cruel, I'd take more of a “wait and see" approach. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115662009320916894

Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @…

Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South
Learn how Yugoslavia forged a unique path between East and West.

'Commie' Trump’s 'national socialism' will make 'America wind up like China': analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-socialist-china/

Tony Romm of the New York Times shows just how out of touch they are. They think that a narrower victory in New York City then in New Jersey is somehow a mandate for their extreme agenda? I don’t want Trumpen America any more but socialism is not going to fly in most of America

I wish NYC all the socialism it can get.

Low income people don't save, they spend.
The real recipients of welfare are corporations.
Not just through sales, but also because welfare payments are wage subsidies.
The ghost of Keynes is standing over his grave shouting "I fucking told you so!!"
https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/1154914425

Deniz Opal (@selzero@syzito.xyz)
Attached: 1 image This is just. Chef's. Kiss. The US political system is going to restart "socialism" welfare. Not because people will starve. But because the economy will collapse. Low income people don't save, they spend. The real recipients of welfare are corporations. Not just through sales, but also because welfare payments are wage subsidies. The ghost of Keynes is standing over his grave shouting "I fucking told you so!!" https://www.supermarketnews.com/food-accessibility/walmar…

Hey Chomsky stans, saw this on Twitter, have fun with it, I guess.
#Anarchism #Socialism #Epstein

Bennett argues that there is a distinctive Green political philosophy, distinct from but sharing many characteristics with socialism.
In my view the claim is problematic, as I explain in this review.
‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review | Steady State Manchester

‘Change Everything’, Natalie Bennett’s Green Philosophy, a review
Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society (second edition, 2025). by Natalie Bennett. Wilton Square Books, £10.99. Former Green Party leader and peer, Natalie Bennett has ou…

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...

86 Democrats Condemn Socialism as Zohran Mamdani Meets With Trump (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/203531/list-86-democrats-condemn-socialism-zohran-mamdani-trump-meeting
http://www.memeorandum.com/251121/p128#a251121p128

Protests erupted nationwide as the U.S. attacks Venezuela and kidnaps President Maduro and his wife.
San Francisco was no exception.
As the recent days of rain let up for a grateful pause, activists of all ages from the Answer coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Democratic Socialists of American, Revolutionary International Youth, Refuse Fascism, and just people with home made signs rallied at Powell and Market.
They then marched down Market Street to …

Protests Throughout as U.S. Attacks Venezuela to Grab Country's Oil : Indybay
Blatant criminality characterized by NY Times as "some in Washington are concerned."

The American Democratic Party, and the concept of "Democratic Socialism" within the US, comes largely from an authoritarian political tradition where the state offers services in exchange for the population allowing elites to continue parasitize the system. Then it is critical for Liberals to consume and destroy popular mutual aid, because real mutual aid undermines their carrot.
Democrats tend to imagine that anarchists want to destroy "all the good things" that governments do. The reality is that we want to build those good things ourselves so that we can reject the offer of those same good things, less well managed, with all the bad things attached.
Anarchists want to build pro-social systems (what if we didn't *need* snap, but just made sure everyone was fed?) while eliminating anti-social ones (do we really *need* to kidnap children, or could we just kind of stop doing that?).

Didn't realize Katie Wilson identified as a socialist! Cool. https://komonews.c…

Mayor-elect Katie Wilson urges unity, community, collective responsibility in Seattle
Seattle's new Mayor-elect Katie Wilson is set to address the public regarding her election and upcoming role as mayor on Thursday afternoon.

The Sewer Socialism of Zohran Mamdani (E. J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/opinion/mamdani-nyc-mayor-sewer-socialism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p24#a251016p24

"The idea of the council system is intimately intergrown with Socialism and is unthinkable without it; dictatorship, however, has nothing whatever in common with Socialism, and at best can only lead to the most barren of state capitalism."
-- Rudolf Rocker
#Socialism #Anarchism

The more Marx I read, the fewer my personal possessions become, and at this rate I’ll be collectivizing my furniture with the proletariat by next week.
#Communism #Socialism #Marxism …

The paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html

I joined Labour 3 times.Never again.
"Questions arise for members of the Labour Party. Why would one join a party where being a member means only paying subs and having no voice? Why would one join a party which is itself host to the enemies not only of socialism but of mild social democratic reform? Why would anyone on the left join an organisation that required you to battle the party bureaucracy before you could battle the true political opposition?"

"Socialism will be free, or it will not be at all."
-- Rudolf Rocker
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #Socialism

the two most exciting people I have met today have been @… and Avi Lewis.
Currently checking out the Lewis campaign stop then headed down to see Tanille at the South Coast event.
#socialism #democraticsocoalist #greenDP #ndp

What is #capitalism?
#Socialism

Capitalism is great! You work to earn the right to starve..... wait a minute......
#Satire #Capitalism #AntiCapitalism

People should have a damn place to live, food to eat, and clothes to wear without having to bleed for it.
But no, capitalism makes you pay just to exist, turning human needs into profit and calling it freedom.
#Socialism #Capitalism

Compared to what I usually read, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital is a much longer and more demanding work, both in length and in conceptual depth.
#KarlMarx #Marxism #Socialism

It’s not that I’m mad, it’s just frustrating when people tell me that everything I’ve read about anarchism is a lie and that what I believe isn’t real.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #Socialism

New York City is preparing to welcome its Mayor-elect
#Zohran #Mamdani, a democratic socialist and member of the New York City #Democratic #Socialists

“Mayor for the Masses”: Can the Democratic Socialist Movement That Elected Mamdani Keep Its Momentum?
New York City is preparing to welcome Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, into office as mayor. Ahead of the highly anticipated inauguration, we sit down with NYC-DSA’s co-chair Grace Mausser to discuss the goals of the incoming administration and next steps for the volunteer-powered campaign apparatus that helped propel Mamdani to City Hall. “Just getting a mayor into office, while impressive and very exciting, is not eno…

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #Communism

Part of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol

#Anarchism #Syndicalism #Socialism #Humor