Tag: leftism

solacekames:

solacekames:

solacekames:

The promised/threatened podcast is coming into shape! I did a great interview with a guest tonight. What I’m going to do is combine that with just me talking for a few minutes about leftist cults and how to avoid them. I’ve been meaning to do a post on that for a while anyway. 

OK I have it done! I’m going to publish it on Monday but would anyone like to listen to it before then and tell me if there are any horrible problems with it? If so let me know and I’ll give you the MP3 download link. It’s way longer than I thought it would be at an hour, but I underestimated how labor intensive it is to edit down audio.

Thank you so much @rush-keating who checked it out and gave me some great feedback!

I uploaded the first episode to libsyn and I’ll update here when it shows on iTunes and Stitcher and so on. 

If things go well I’ll eventually set up a Patreon to cover the costs of the libsyn hosting (only $5 a month) plus the cost of doing transcripts, which I really need to be doing for Deaf/HOH folks. I can’t do that now, but if I can keep a regular podcast going, I’m going to commit to transcripts. I don’t ever want to run ads though… ugh, I hate them.

If folks are interested, the podcast is called Not Safe for Weebs.

In the end, aren’t Labor organizing and Unions just lame reformism because they want to put some temporary band aid on the problems of capitalism instead of systemic fixes and in the end won’t lead to Revolution.

pricklypearsmane:

pelkoja:

I agree unions won’t lead to revolution. Doesn’t mean they’re useless under capitalism though

Think its safe to say that u crossed the line into Extremely Online Leftism when you ask if organized labor and community/leftist organizing is ‘lame reformism’ because you’re so busy w/ sectarianism & writing Revolution fanfiction that you ignore millions of people who need help with labor/housing/healthcare/prison/immigration/environmental justice right now because it won’t directly lead to “The Revolution” that you’re not prepared for and may not happen for a long, long time (and none of us know what it may even look like)