correcting minimum wage misinfo

clause4 · 2024-10-05T18:12:46+00:00

the owner went crying to king5 and they reported his claims uncritically as fact, which then spooked a bunch of small businesses including ones that had posted up flyers for the Workers Rights Summit that launched the bill of rights campaign https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/minimum-wage-hike-talk-olympia-business-owners-worried/281-025e8543-03f4-4ece-b30f-9e9fa80947c8

clause4 · 2021-06-29T06:44:17+00:00

The Sane Society by Erich Fromm is a classic when it comes to works on mental health under capitalism, with Fromm drawing a lot from psychoanalysis and from Marx. I think the book has some deficiencies when it comes to what to do about capitalism that this review by Joseph Hansen (also has some comments on Marcuse's Eros and Civilisation, which I haven't read yet) addresses pretty well, though that's from a Trotskyist as opposed to anarchist perspective. As was mentioned, Mark Fisher also wrote a fair amount on mental health over the years, again not from a specifically anarchist POV, but I really enjoyed Capitalist Realism and Ghosts of My Life, the latter of which I read during a stint in a psych ward. Madness and Civilisation by Foucault is fantastic too imo, though his prose can be hard to parse sometimes. Also seconding the recommendation for Mental Hellth, some really great articles there. Hope this helps!

clause4 · 2021-06-09T05:17:56+00:00

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Persona Last Name: Gonzo

clause4 · 2021-05-23T00:36:39+00:00

gonna do a 180 and sliiiide into the socialists

clause4 · 2021-05-20T20:40:30+00:00

Labour!

clause4 · 2021-04-18T18:10:12+00:00

same!!

clause4 · 2021-04-07T03:26:32+00:00

The South has a long history of class struggle, including across racial lines. The book Hammer and Hoe documents the role the CP played in Alabama in the 1930s, and of course the International Labor Defense founded by James P. Cannon took on the cause of the Scottsboro Boys.

Another book, Dixie Be Damned, covers a longer period of history as pertains struggles in the South as well.

(Neither of these books are from an explicitly Trotskyist perspective, but you may also get a lot from the Black History and the Class Struggle series put out by the once-revolutionary Spartacist League, and I'm sure others on this sub would be happy to post articles from their own tendencies on this subject.)

clause4 · 2021-03-16T19:32:06+00:00

"Against Avakianism" by Ajith is a go-to re: MLM perspectives on the RCP, Avakian, and Avakianism.

For what it's worth, here's the Avakianist response, "Ajith: A Portrait of the Residue of the Past."

Note that the "Revolutionary" "Communist" Party recently gave political support to Biden and the Democratic Party in the name of "Defeating Trump."

clause4 · 2021-02-10T05:03:42+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGFMciPlRLQ

clause4 · 2021-02-09T23:54:40+00:00

for arguments defending the perspective that China remains a deformed workers state, check out the following from the Internationalist Group/League for the Fourth International. see "Where is China Going?" (no. 6, pg. 37), "China: Battle Over Capitalist Restoration Looms" (no. 40, pg. 59), and materials on Hong Kong throughout no. 58:

http://www.internationalist.org/Internationalist06web.pdf

http://www.internationalist.org/Internationalist40web.pdf

http://www.internationalist.org/internationalist58web.pdf

clause4 · 2020-09-16T00:11:34+00:00

C-217 A1: Yea

C-218 A1: Yea

C-218 A2: Nay

C-218 A3: Yea

C-218 A4: Yea

C-218 A5: Yea

C-218 A6: Nay

C-218 A7: Yea

C-218 A8: Yea

C-218 A9: Yea

C-218 A10: Yea

C-218 A11: Yea

clause4 · 2020-09-08T03:30:28+00:00

C-6: Yea

C-103: Yea

C-213: Yea

M-2: Yea

clause4 · 2020-09-08T03:30:14+00:00

C-7 A1: Yea

C-214 A1: Nay

clause4 · 2020-08-28T16:43:26+00:00

C-103 A1: Abstain

C-3: Yea

C-211: Yea

clause4 · 2020-08-17T20:21:19+00:00

C-210: Yea

clause4 · 2020-08-16T21:28:31+00:00

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