State and Revolution is SHOCKINGLY clear and accessible, and yes, not a million pages long.

I read the first 30 or so pages. It seems promising. It’s setting the stage for sort of an anthropological study of class based on interviews with a large number of working class people, exploring their feelings about upward mobility and exploitation and the sort of sense of inadequacy many feel about being of low status or education or origin in a society dominated by the “well to do” accultured few…

It started off with a brief outline of the evolving lives and views of two former communists, which was interesting, and I’m very curious to see if and how it circles back to them. There’s an examination of whether/why American workers lack revolutionary potential, and seems to show significant criticism of the purely economic explanations that a lot of people on both the left and right hold, the idea that it just boils down to bread and circuses and some small measure of economic stability. It seems like they’re trying to thread the needle and examine social forces that act on working class people , without completely collapsing into individualistic nonsense.

There’s also a CW: SA needed within the first 2 pages of the introduction

Yeah, that’s the thing. This dogshit headline says “more toxic than cigarettes” but that’s simply not what the study looked at, it looked at specifically heavy metal exposures, which are not the primary things that make smoking cigarettes bad for you.

WOAH! could be just a funny coincidence, but I picked up an old book a couple months ago, from a junk store, called verbatim, The Hidden Injuries of Class

Looks like it was released in 1972, which iirc was around the time of Parenti’s leftward turn (his first book, The Anti-Communist Impulse was release in '69).

I picked it up based on the summary and some light skimming, assuming it would be pretty lib but sounded maybe worth a shot, but this gives me a bit more hope for it having some value, if it may have made an impression on Parenti…

it’s on libgen/archive.org it seems

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A98146A793EC86689DEE33E499378729

https://archive.org/details/hiddeninjuriesof00sennrich/page/n291/mode/2up

I haven’t read it yet but this may inspire me to pick it up

@[email protected] whats up

https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-attacks-nypd-for-threatening-bill-de-blasios-daughter-after-arrest-2020-6?op=1

DeBlasio’s daughter was arrested for blocking traffic at a protest, the pig union posted her mugshot and personal details on twitter, and used it to attack DeBlasio. There may have been some further subtext about keeping her jailed or pushing for prosecution for political reasons

not to mention the fact that the rich have AC too so they’re not in danger regardless

yeah I was out in similar (higher heat index but lower temp) weather and I thought I was doing good, taking it slow, covering my face from the sun, drinking some water and gatorade

But after I got back inside I felt really faint for a few mins.

2 years ago I did basically what you did, but on a bike. brand new bike, had to take it for a ride, almost couldn’t get up the stairs to the door when I got back.

I only mention it because occasionally people hit the block button by accident. Similar with “Hide Post” (first option on the ‘…’ menu on the post)

if you have the comm blocked (or maybe even unsubscribed) that can happen

It doesn’t look fake to me. you can see at various points his arms and chest and such, also burnt. But every word out of his mouth is a red flag so idk

if it is real, seems like a naive, maybe sheltered, suicidal kid. And the terrorism charge threat makes slightly more sense in light of the fact he did this at a gas station. obv it wasn’t terrorism, but it sounds like something a pig would say.

I wasn’t in a great mental place beforehand, so that combined with the fact that we’re alarmingly close to that reality now did it for me. It didn’t ruin my week but it did “ruin” my night.

Whoever mentioned Threads earlier in the week was spot on, way more than I’m comfortable with. I’m not sure I’d recommend watching it though, I did after hearing it referenced a couple times and it was truly alarming and stomach churning for me, and I’m not easily bothered. I can only compare it to grave of the fireflies, but with none of the ghibli magic and portraying an even more grim situation.

ew. I mean some good discussion going on there but more dumb guy shit than I expected

I haven’t been reading much besides the news mega recently, were people really saying that on here, or was that just the general “online leftist/marxist” milleu?

Admittedly they have been labeling all of israel as high risk for travel, and certain areas as “very high risk” since at least mid-May, and issued a vague warning on friday right as things were kicking off. But an additional “get tf out now” on saturday seems like an obvious choice…

possible source (though they do just say “Circulating:” so I don’t think they originated it.)

I don’t think there’s any reason to believe this is real

I fucking love this quote every time. Getting a lot of mileage out of it