Honestly I like FTP because they focus on mutual aid a lot more , think black panthers

A lot of the other ones are just like weirdo protesting or some s*** just not productive at all

Obviously this depends on your area

Journals, editorials, the news, etc

ohh

none really

Idk I been looking at jacobin, listen to a few socialist podcasts,

i still look at npr for just general updates every now and then

sometimes I don't really like their takes but its a lot better than a lot of news outlets

plus they place an importance on creativity which is a bonus (tiny desk and their music stuff)

i know u disappointed in me and I understand, I don't look at them as much

All really depends where you live and what tendency you fall under

There’s been a lot of debate within FTP lately about mutual aid and it’s usefulness

FTP Boston came out against mutual aid as a primary focus for a Marxist org

Tribune of the People

tribuneofthepeople.news

It’s an American revolutionary newspaper that covers working class news

Yep.. I know

I tend to agree that mutual aid is ultimately just cleaning up the mess capitalism leaves behind and isn’t something that will help reach our goal of revolution.

But it does short term good so no use opposing it

For sure. agreed.

I know MA is used in actual practice; in CONJUCTION with other things; so i know it has its place.

US is so splintered. People just don't even know where to start.

I think the US is so f***ed with individuality something like MA is needed just to build community. But that might not be a correct idea.

I feel like once MA gets enough mass base behind it, it can be utilized to reach into other marginalized classes rather than the homeless. For example, after reaching the homeless, MA can then reach into folks who are lving in poverty but still have apartments. From that, you can segway into tenant organizing.

Damn....

And all these people in the west refusing to take the vax

Slavery and colonialism leading to more coherent and potent politics isn’t surprising. Conditions are worse and push social groups together in circumstances which foster communication and lay power dynamics clear. CLR James and Dubois recognized that I think. The west was just farther along the timeline. Che and Fidel were guerilla theater beirdos and failed until they succeeded. The fertile grounds for revolution plowed by aristocracy and slavery and colonialism are just salted and scorched under neoliberalism. It’s a disorienting, impersonal rot of the social fabric.

context?

what do u mean by "The fertile grounds for revolution plowed by aristocracy and slavery and colonialism are just salted and scorched under neoliberalism" just found that sentence very interesting

Read this s*** - Black Red Guard

My people shall live - Leila Khaled

We’ve had successful republican, slave, peasant, and anti-colonial revolutions the world over. Who has resisted neoliberalism in the past half century? It’s clearly a different, more cunning adversary. That excerpt illustrates it perfectly. Look how atrophied and incoherent the opposition to it is.

Now I think “the left” has made strides in diagnosing neoliberalism intellectually, but in terms of opposing it on a popular or vanguard basis? Next to nothing? Naked oppression is just less stable than subtler, or at least better marketed, repression. Our antibiotics made a superbug!

thanks for the explanation ur totally spot on with the a***ysis. I do feel like neoliberal hegemony is ending though, with the rise of China giving an alternative economic system. Whether if u think they're socialist or East Asian model or whatever, they for sure arent neoliberal. Recently feels like the inner contradictions of Neoliberal countries are tightening with all the and with China might be the external force that might be too much for neoliberalism to handle. Though this might be all way too idealist cause I doubt any real conflicts will happen with China.

I've only really read David Harvey on the subject, but I think he makes a strong case for "neoliberalization with Chinese characteristics". They opened markets, priviatized industry, and class power is returning. They are the world's biggest manufacturer and exporter. Neoliberalism being hegemonic and absent from China seems nonsensical on its face.