$1,000/month for six months to $70,000 a year plus bonuses? Power never gives voluntarily; you have to fight for it, every damn time. Solidarity.

He was busy looking at child pornography..

You’re a big hockey guy? Or you’re a big NHL guy? Your comment suggests the latter.

Reading “What’s the Matter With Kansas” right now.

Full disclosure, I’d actually say maybe. I supported Bernie and am relatively supportive of a market driven economy with some socialist-like social welfare/health/education features as well as a reasonable amount of government regulation. But going full bore socialism seems antithetical to what is means to be…

Virtually because of the bad press the word got in the US (as opposed to Europe for ex.)

This. More people need to get educated. Let’s get the Eugene Debs/Wobbly labor movement back.

IMO syndicalism will never catch on because its name is so annoying.

Most of the country wouldn’t accept a broadly socialist platform, but I think that they definitely ought to be positioning themselves as the party of certain socialist policies like single payer healthcare. A kind of American labor party, essentially, rather than a center-right party who really only breaks from their…

Yeah, it seems like the old racists keep raising new generations of racists to carry on. Plus, people are inherently contrarian. As we’ve seen, if you try to make the status quo “equality for all”, you have no shortage of people willing to “stick it to the man” against the “oppression” of “political correctness” and…

They were not. NOT.

There was a socialist workers wing in the Nazi Party early on, but that was purged in the Night of the Long Knives.

The Nazi Party was unabashedly Fascist, and taking the NSDAP name at face value isn’t going to change that after all these years.

Why would they need to get hip to Marx to become socialists? Marx’s views were hardly the first or only form of socialism.

Zeidler was an urban saint. Wonderful guy who still took the bus and lived in the same low-key house into his 90s, even though the neighborhood had radically changed. The neighbors respected him and his wife so much that when some guy broke into their house and roughed them up, he was nearly killed by an angry mob.

Ziedler’s Ghost 2020. Was living in Milwaukee when he passed away, had never seen a former mayor of a city THAT beloved for so long after he served.

Ever heard of the “Sewer Socialists” who ran Milwaukee for decades (including during the halcyon days of the 1950s)? Pragmatic and progressive, yet palatable to Middle America. They fought for county parks, public health, better education and government-run utilities and services. And all with a minimum of corruption!…

Define “most socialist policies”? Because many of the critical features of social democracies around the world actually poll quite well here. 58% of people support switching to a single-payer healthcare system. 62% favor making public colleges tuition-free. A 2014 poll (i.e., a poll taken before Sanders’ campaign…

Except... they’re not. Socialist ideals, taken outside the context of socialism, are actually incredibly popular.

“rightly” lol