Dimmer06

The first season was pretty good. I didn't like the following two seasons as much.

The "labor movement" at absolute best is only concerned with their own members and their own organizations which they jealously guard membership to. If they were serious about the longevity of their unions or ever wielding some sort of power they would be organizing the huge mass of unorganized blue collar workers here in the US. Even the call for a general strike was really just a call to line up their contracts to expire at the same time, freeing up the less than 6% of private sector workers covered by cbas to strike.

Imo if we actually want to resist Trump or the greater American project the labor movement would be the keystone of that effort but unfortunately the labor movement as it exists is not capable of doing what needs to be done and is not interested in supporting unorganized workers do it either.

This is how like 60% of voters orient their politics. They're fine with everything unless they see it on the news.

Don't worry, Shawn Fain is gonna lead one in 2028 for the 2% of private sector workers who are still in unions.

Kinda crazy the US population has all these small arms supposedly to resist the government and then nobody actually resists the government even slightly.

Yeah it feels like that. Don't get worked up over it otherwise you'll burn out. It sucks but just take things slow and easy and don't be too hard on yourself.

P.S. my partner who does this professionally said you could not come up with a more apt metaphor for organizing

It seems like the more ML aligned groups are talking about these things at least but they're definitely not part of the dominant narrative here.

Even the analysis by much of the actual US left has been quite lacking around this imo. The primary line seems to be that this is bad because the actions of the US are imperialist and warmongering which is absolutely true, but it sort of just ends there. There seems to be a shying away from the actual specific conditions of Venezuela and it's relationship to the US. Instead of solidarity for Venezuelan socialism the best the left here seems to muster is "we shouldn't bomb you because that's wrong for obscure reasons". It just seems hollow and maybe even harder to build a long term movement around.

My belief is that either Trump ordered this without (or in spite of) his advisors because he's brandoning or the administration actually believes their own lies about Maduro singlehandedly controlling all of Venezuela. Even the fact that they kidnapped him instead of drone striking him screams Trump being petty and unstable.

Now the underlings are just trying to make something out of this crazy move.

It only took my 22 years to beat Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga for GB. The only other interesting things were the Forest and Civ 6.

The emergence of the bourgeois and the proletariat is pretty straightforward. The proletarii were a class designated in the Roman census. Basically they were legally free (not slaves) but owned very little wealth. They were by no means the majority of people in Rome.

Fast forward 1700 years. There's precious metals and unfinished goods flooding europe and this emergent class of small merchants that want to make stuff to sell now that people have the gold to buy it. They're pretty ingenuitive so they create new machines and processes to produce, but they need a ton of labor-power. Serfs don't really make the cut and slaves are too expensive so they turn to the free labor, the proletariat. Hired out just for the cost of their labor and totally severable. A few centuries later, capitalism and technology have overtaken basically every aspect of our society, displaced all the serfs, freed most of the slaves, and those merchants are basically hiring everyone as a worker and there are very few people left of the other old classes.

It's almost as if the massive expansion of the means of production is good for humanity and our mode of production based on private property and market exchange inhibits that development. I wonder if anyone has written anything about this?