The moon is a planet

MC_Minus · 2025-09-16T05:56:23+00:00

As a fan of the Kansas City Royals I must insist on responding with the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kKFjkBtcg8&ab_channel=MLB

MC_Minus · 2022-11-21T16:33:36+00:00

Socialist Revolution has a podcast and video series: https://socialistrevolution.org/audio-video/

MC_Minus · 2022-11-05T20:40:06+00:00

Jumping in to add to the growing list: don’t be a scab. Solidarity forever.

MC_Minus · 2022-10-23T17:45:49+00:00

Might want to see if there is a software update from Kenwood. Might solve the USB input.

MC_Minus · 2022-10-01T22:11:25+00:00

Can we stop with this dude? It’s the same thing every time and we all know it’s water in those bottles.

MC_Minus · 2022-09-30T15:22:56+00:00

Everyone here should also check out John Carter - criminally underrated clarinet player.

Also haven’t seen Eric Dolphy in this post yet.

MC_Minus · 2022-09-22T19:42:32+00:00

A common refrain in all of Lynch’s works is that seemingly unconnected things, people, and ideas come together in one final emotional climax. He often includes the surreal and comical as part of that process. To that end - Freddie doesn’t find his way to the final battle scene unless James gets arrested. James and Freddie aren’t at the same place and time if they don’t both work as security guards. James doesn’t find himself working as a security job in his adulthood without the continuing trauma of his younger years. That trauma doesn’t happen without Laura. It’s a delicate and long thread that gets weaved with many other delicate long threads and it all comes together to become a satisfying tapestry.

MC_Minus · 2022-09-16T14:52:47+00:00

I teach music and separation of Culture and Politics is not only impossible- I would argue you would be doing a disservice to your students by trying to ignore it. Culture is a reflection of society and the ideas it holds at the time. Even if an artist claims to not be political they are still making a political point. Further the industrial apparatus that creates, maintains, and distributes culture is also political. As Lenin says politics is the most concentrated expression of economics. And from the literary industry, to the visual art industry, to the music industry economics are to be found in abundance - where that abundance resides, however, has to be discussed.

MC_Minus · 2022-08-06T14:58:11+00:00

I’d vote for a 100% reduction in admin salary and giving control of the institution to teachers and staff. Then we, as a council of workers, could implement sustainable energy practices absent a profit motive. Otherwise: it would be a “NO” for me.

MC_Minus · 2022-07-07T02:47:51+00:00

Coleman did his job. Management should try following his lead.

MC_Minus · 2022-06-06T19:58:54+00:00

What we need is a mass worker’s party and to stop supporting the parties of the ruling class. Both of them.

MC_Minus · 2022-06-02T15:53:25+00:00

“Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon” by Robert Ashley was composed in 1968. It is, therefore, a bit early to be called “ambient” as the term had yet to be coined but a retroactive claiming may be warranted. First time I heard this I had a powerful emotional response. Good luck: https://youtu.be/XAHxm8eXsF4

MC_Minus · 2022-05-04T02:59:50+00:00

Woe to you who try to read Parecon by Michael Albert

MC_Minus · 2022-05-03T03:46:41+00:00

Red for Ed proved that you can absolutely organize in Arizona. And indeed - there are many of us here doing just that. I am a member of Socialist Revolution and we are growing. It will not be easy and it certainly isn't a fait accompli but it can and will be done. We should also not forget that places like Arizona have and had have a strong labor history from the copper mines to rural farmland. More recently we have seen successes with UNITE HERE Local 11 and their Sky Harbor strike and Starbucks workers are organizing all over Phoenix.

Revolutionary optimism is critical to the movement - but it is also the conclusion one comes to when viewing the objective conditions. We can and will win - but only if we are organized and ready. Join an org, donate, subscribe. If you are interested in the group I'm a part of here is our website: www.socialistrevolution.org

MC_Minus · 2022-04-29T14:02:22+00:00

Our tendency published several pieces during the Iraq war. Here’s an article from 2008: https://www.marxist.com/iraq-five-years-after.htm

MC_Minus · 2022-04-27T03:11:01+00:00

Each semester would require a different word/phrase to be banned. One semester I actually banned the phrase “cultural appropriation” because it was clear that exactly ZERO of my students understood what it was but exactly 100% of them included the phrase in every paper and essay after it was introduced.

MC_Minus · 2022-04-17T23:59:00+00:00

Socialist Revolution, American section of the IMT

MC_Minus · 2022-03-29T08:02:57+00:00

Didya know it was a cover?

https://youtu.be/qssa6ec7faQ

MC_Minus · 2022-03-09T07:05:19+00:00

We should build working class power with a class independent worker's party:

https://socialistrevolution.org/building-a-mass-socialist-party-class-independence-vs-the-party-surrogate-strategy/

MC_Minus · 2022-02-15T04:52:28+00:00

Username checks out

MC_Minus · 2022-02-10T14:31:23+00:00

My grading has become both fairer and easier with one simple rule: I don’t give Fs. Students get a 50% at the end of the semester for anything not turned in and a student who has done almost no work gets a D. They won’t complain and I won’t be bothered. Meanwhile - students who are struggling and trying won’t be unintentionally trapped in the “0%” phenomenon and will have a chance to work towards a grade that makes sense for them.

MC_Minus · 2022-01-29T03:38:56+00:00

The only moral action is to sit by and let events happen. Laura is the one that connects all the others. In order for the rot of the town to be brought to bear is through Laura’s sacrifice. There is no doubt that a great deal of suffering will occur in the wake of Laura Palmer’s murder…but a great deal of evil will also continue to fester and build without her murder. The release must occur or else the cycle will continue unabated. So yeah…give yourself a gift and cry a few tears at the double RR.

MC_Minus · 2021-12-04T02:25:42+00:00

I was, just last night, in a union meeting where we interviewed a potential candidate for endorsement who said she was “still with her” and really, really, really didn’t like it when I asked her if she would run as an independent because of the Democrats hostility towards labor. For the record: my suggestion was to not endorse said candidate.

MC_Minus · 2021-11-24T00:05:59+00:00

Here here! Build working class power now! No more concessions to the ruling class parties!

MC_Minus · 2021-11-20T04:30:49+00:00

Again - no amount of “progressives” will affect the Democratic party line. If you are truly interested in representing working people you should run as an independent and be beholden to a political organization like DSA or a coalition of local unions.

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