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We are Ⓐ group of @DemSocialists members who believe that decentralization, ecology & radical democracy are at the core of socialist organizing•ALL BLM✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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Joined July 2017
The Libertarian Socialist Caucus seeks to provide a political home within DSA for all socialists opposed to the state. We are a diverse body of anarchists, libertarian Marxists, and members of other tendencies in the left wing of the socialist movement.
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Rest in Power Will Van Spronsen. He died attempting to sabotage GEO group's bus fleet which they use to ship people to airports for deportation. #AbolishICE.
@jjmacnab The guy who attacked the ICE detention centre was a 69-year-old anarchist named Will Van Spronsen. This is him.
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The West: a visual guide to a totally coherent and not at all bullshit concept.
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Antifascism saves lives. Researching, doxxing, deplatforming and confronting fascists saves lives. It is never enough, but until we address the root causes of white supremacy, it will continue to be a necessary component of every bit of our work.
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RT if you think billionaires shouldn’t exist.
RT if you think billionaires should pay their taxes.
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Immense solidarity with all of our DSA, IWW, antifa, and left wing comrades protesting against Nazi filth. We support you unconditionally.
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We’ll win when everyone has somebody in their neighborhood with a DSA story like this one.
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A DSA member and elected official was compelled to resign from their position on a school board after receiving numerous death threats. In other words. Andy Ngo is a threat to our community and provides kill lists to Atomwaffen.
"Fortson said within 15 minutes of (Andy) Ngo’s tweets, they received 10 or 11 death threats, which they reported to Twitter."
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The United States Govt's decision to allow the Turkish invasion of Northern Syria, also known by the Kurdish name Rojava, will be a disaster for peace built in the region by the feminist and socialist revolutionary forces which liberated the area from ISIS.
BREAKING: In an extraordinary Sunday night statement, the White House announces that the US "will no longer be in the immediate area" of Northern Syria, allow Turkey to launch an invasion in the region and give Turkey responsibility for captured ISIS fighters in the area.
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socialism = workers own the means of production.socialism =/= the State.
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If you ever needed more evidence that authoritarian capitalists merely adopted the language of "liberty" to provide themselves with an ideological smokescreen, this organization provides plenty of boot-licking examples. Capitalism cannot exist without the violence of the State.
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A father, veteran, and anarchist walks into a city council meeting
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This important thread by @BBCAfrica on Cameroon reveals the absolute importance of a free press. When reporters are able to do their job — free from the profit-mongering of capitalists and the censorship of states — they can do amazing work that uncovers govt lies & killings.
THREAD. In July 2018, a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. 2 women & 2 young children are led away by a group of soldiers. They are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. #BBCAfricaEye investigated this atrocity. This is what we found.
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The funny thing about propertarians like @charliekirk11 calling themselves “libertarian” — a word Rothbard stole from anarchist socialists — is that in practice they’re the biggest defenders of totalitarian capitalism, the absolute tyranny of property owners and bosses over us.
Teachers should not be allowed to strike, just like police officers and firefighters . Not having teachers in schools is a public safety risk and tips the scales in negotiations in their favor against taxpayers.
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Peak capitalism is when you go into work only to get shot by a cop, and your boss puts out a statement thanking the cop for his service. #ACAB #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #AbolishBosses.
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Greta said degrowth 🌱. Capitalism is incompatible with life on earth, pass it on.
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," climate activist Greta Thunberg tells the UN. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you."
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Trump wins presidency. Liberals blame the Left. Trump cracks down on Left. Liberals cheer. What's next in this plot?.
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If this doesn't give you chills, you're probably a capitalist.
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Worker control over production is not only possible — in certain places, like cooperatives, it exists right now. Workplace democracies are perfectly capable of making the most advanced products. Fuck that — we’ll go even further. Democratic control = more and better innovation.
Hey @feeonline, here's a friend's #Fagor pressure cooker made at the #Mondragon #Cooperative in #Spain. You see, stuff can be made under various economic arrangements. #Socialism will have stuff, don't worry.
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Attention leftists:. Russian state media is not on our side. Russian state media is *not* on our side. @RT_com is NOT ON OUR SIDE. Russia has a racist, fascist, imperialist government like ours, which jails & tortures anarchists & socialists & bombs people of color abroad.
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Intellectual property is theft. The fruits of scientific labor belong to the whole world. Bring down the walls; open access to all.
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R9: Establishing a National anti-Fascist Working Group, passed 521-493.
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We could sustainably feed, house and clothe the world five times over. Overpopulation arguments ignore the elephant in the room, which is unequal distribution and consumption of resources. The earth can support billions, but not billionaires.
This tweet made the rounds on our Facebook page and prompted both good and bad faith skepticism, so it might be helpful to explain in briefly why overpopulation arguments are bunk, and completely antithetical to socialism.
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Imagine being this person that thinks it is a bad thing that people who actually work get paid first.
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Post-scarcity economics are not dependent on a hi-tech sci-fi future. We could provide for everyone with today's tech. We could have provided for everyone with 1960's tech. We could have provided for everyone with 1900's tech. It is our political system which is obsolete.
Every single person that dies because of homelessness, illness, or starvation because they didn't have the funds were murdered by the status quo. We could easily provide adequate food water shelter and clothing to every single person on earth with the resources we currently have.
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By a narrow margin, DSA just established an Antifascist and Direct Action Working Group. We are very excited for this development and happy that our comrades chose to take up this work. Now, delegates, on to resolution 83 and support for our disabled comrades.
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Cherán in Mexico runs itself anarchistically, returning to long-suppressed indigenous modes of government that turn the town into a democracy of assemblies. None of Mexico’s cartels or highly corrupt political parties is present. Police have been replaced by community patrols.
This Mexican town kicked out the politicians and declared autonomy. Now it's practically crime-free – and banning elections and political parties to keep it that way.
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The #HongKong protestors have successfully used lasers to counteract the facial recognition software used by the Chinese surveillance state to keep a massive citywide database of subversives (just like the ones in many Western cities). This is what they look like from afar.
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The police are protecting the landlords, not you. They care about the right of the rich to erect empty luxury condos they own without even living in them, not the right of all to housing. Fight for @moms4housing!. #AbolishPolice!. #AbolishLandlords!. #AbolishBosses!.
Black women are being arrested by militarized officers, wielding AR-15s, for fighting for their right to housing in the “progressive” Bay Area.
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The pigs couldn’t be more wrong here. Socialism means that all trains could be as beautiful and colorful as this. Painting them would be a great civic honor and a recognition of the proud tradition of street art pioneered by artists of color. Make every train a Basquiat!.
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As Libertarian Socialists members of @DemSocialists, we argue for radical democracy, communal governance and collective ownership as the means and ends of building and fighting for socialism. We make our case most clearly in this document:.
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Abolish landlords and absentee owners. Expropriate the billionaire land deed trolls sitting on desperately needed infrastructure waiting for property values to rise so they can flip it at a higher price. Put the capital the working class has built to work for the working class.
Protesters in Philly say they are now establishing an occupation at the site of the Hahnemann Hospital, which was bought and closed down by an investor named Joel Freedman. Freedman recently tried to extract $1M rent from the city to use the empty hospital during the pandemic.
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Direct action gets the goods. #Striketober.
Victory!!! Debt relief plan includes a city backed guarantee and affordable monthly mortgages putting an end to 46 days of protest and 15 days of hunger strike.
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Bernie will not keep you safe from Nazis. Your organized friends, coworkers, lovers neighbors and comrades, however, just might. Movements protect people, not figureheads.
I could not believe my ears that I just heard someone, in good faith, say that endorsing Bernie Sanders is an effective strategy for keeping the alt-right from killing people.
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Disaster communism in action. The only way we can survive in the harsh catastrophic world our masters have created is to join together, help one another — and revolt. #MutualAid #BlackLivesMatter #ClimateCrisis.
The Mutual aid group @TheWitchesPDX , who have been providing water and snacks to BLM protesters in Portland, have arrived in Mulino to drop off supplies to firefighters
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Reports coming in from the streets that the kids said google Bookchin. #ClimateStrike.
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Anarchists don't like the government shutdown either. People are working without pay, are at risk of going without food and housing, but the carceral and military state is unaffected. This crisis only highlights what we have been saying all along: this system is unsustainable.
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The Libertarian Socialist Caucus of DSA stands in full solidarity with WOL. We condemn the politicians for endorsing Genocide Joe during the genocide he enables. Resistance against the Zionist entity is justified. We must demand better, not labor Zionism!.
WOL press release for today's protest in The Bronx. Our demands for progressives who claim to be in solidarity with our struggle:. 1. Unendorse Genocide Joe. 2. Re-affirm that anti-zionism is not antisemitism. 3. Recognize the right to resist in accordance with international law
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Today David Koch died. He was one of the most vicious oligarchs in the country. A fossil baron whose megacorp has done irreversible ecological damage & whose political machine flooded the electoral system with dark money to lower his taxes (paving the way for fascism), Koch’s.
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As the current title-holders of being the #TooFarLeft caucus of DSA, we're aiming to abolish capitalism, the state and hierarchy through bottom-up democratic organizing!.
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"Where there is a state, there is no real freedom or democracy".
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Socialism isn’t when the government owns things — it’s when the workers control them and use them to meet everyone’s basic needs as human rights.
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broke: socialists require authority because authority is any exertion of will or collective self-defense. woke: systems of top-down command don't work, socialism is radical democracy, and every cook can govern
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Fascism is here. What are *you* going to do about it?.
Trump defends police killing of Portland man: "There has to be retribution.".
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Solidarity to the uprising in Poland. Fascism will be defeated everywhere.
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The Caucus is proud to finally announce its official platform for the upcoming 2019 @DemSocialists Convention. Our modest proposal: Democratize Everything!. We must hold DSA to a standard of radical democracy in order that it democratize all of society.
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It’s come to our attention that @StephanieKelton — a prominent leftist economist, @SenSanders advisor, & proponent of #MMT — recently met with & advised some of the most reprehensible figures of the Japanese far right. Here’s our statement. (THREAD).
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What if we took all of these smaller strikes, and made them into One Big Strike 🤔🏴🌹.
Not a bad idea. 🤔. #GeneralStrike #StrikeToWin.
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France is in revolt again. A strike has paralyzed the country to demand an end to pension cuts.
A massive nationwide strike in France has closed schools, railways and sites like the Eiffel Tower. Rail workers, teachers and nurses are protesting pension reforms they say will weaken benefits and make millions work for longer before getting them.
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Update on the Portland occupation: ICE has decided to temporarily close their office in that city due to the Left’s direct action. @PortlandDSA @pdx_dsa_lsc .
ICE has decided to temporarily shutter it's main Portland facility due to #occupyICEPDX. Story:
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If you're not studying Hong Kong protest tactics right now, you ought to be.
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Liberals: All violence is terrorism. Also Liberals: The police are only doing their job.
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Inspiring images from the uprising in Myanmar (not Colombia, as the replies point out, though libsocs are heavily involved there as well). Have you been doing *your* drills?. #Myanmar #soscolombia.
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The ruling class has nothing but contempt for the younger generation they’ve squished beneath the weight of debt, unemployment, low wages, & ecocide. This is just as true of centrists like @JoeBiden as it is of the far right. Our choice: a socialist future, or no future at all!.
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Stephen Jay Gould was a great scientist, a fervent opponent of racism in all its forms — and a lifelong socialist.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."--Stephen Jay Gould, died OTD 2002.
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Being "well-adjusted" to our current fucked up system should not a point of pride
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Next time someone talks about “skilled labor,” show them this:.
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"Peter Kropotkin layed out the math for how to make sure everyone had everything they needed to survive with only an average of 5 hours a week of work from all able bodied adults. in 1892".
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Libertarian socialist hacker cracks Cayman offshore database, exposing more shady dealings and corruption of the rich and powerful.
#Breaking: Massive Hack Strikes Offshore Cayman National Bank and Trust.A blast of sunshine has hit a secretive banking network used by global ultra-wealthy figures following a massive hack by #Hacktivist “Phineas Fisher“ .
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"Essentially, we all live in the same country. called Capitalism".
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Heads up #TwinCities comrades — due to an unspecified “credible threat” (🙄) the @MNNationalGuard are now armed with *live ammunition*. Again we call on all soldiers to make the right decision. Refuse & resist any order to shoot civilians!. #georgefloyd .
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Antifascism protects people. Fascism kills people. Never forget the difference.
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We’re working on a new Libertarian Socialism 101! What libsoc theorists and ideas are you interested in learning more about?.
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hearing that folks didn't hear this enough in Atlanta this weekend, so we're saying it again:. ALL. POWER. TO. THE. LOCALS.
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The founders feared a true democracy. They rightly believed that the people would simply vote away their wealth. America, this could be us.
People must stop referring to some ahistorical, fantastical notion of “American democracy.”. America has literally never seen anything even *remotely* close to democracy, and this is hardly a “radical” position to take. We as Black Americans understand this reality all too well.
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Solidarity with our queer comrades in Cuba fighting for libertarian socialism. 🏳️🌈🌹🏴.
Free Isbel and Jimmy! Two anarchist and LGBT activists in Havana, Cuba have been detained by state authorities after advocating for an independently organized and non-state sanctioned LGBT march.
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Don’t let capitalists & imperialists parroting “woke” language trick you. Don’t let representational & symbolic politics cover up genocide & exploitation. Right now, the indigenous people of #Wetsuweten are fighting for their land & rights. Join them!.
"These protesters, these activists, may have the luxury of spending days at a time at a blockade, but they need to check their privilege," outgoing Conservative Leader @AndrewScheer says of the #Wetsuweten protesters. #cdnpoli. More here:
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Ilhan Omar has been on a roll lately. Many on the left could learn a thing or two from her. International solidarity to the Syrian revolution.
The people of Syria revolted against Assad's repressive dictatorship 8 years ago today, demanding a more just and free government. Peace loving people around the world stand in solidarity with them in this struggle!.
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We are EXTREMELY proud to call the people in this formation friends and comrades, we're honored beyond measure that they have been willing to collaborate with us, and we are excited to see where this path takes them and takes Labour. Solidarity forever!.
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It’s curfew time in the #TwinCities and people aren’t leaving. The time has come for the National Guard & others to decide whether there will be blood, or whether civilians will be allowed to protest police murder. Solidarity to all our comrades out in the streets. #GeorgeFloyd.
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Remember kids: intellectual property is theft. “Steal” NFTs, build up copyleft and commons, pirate anything that pays not artists but parasitic conglomerates, support artists directly, and never stop mocking, belittling, and resisting the patent trolls at Disney and Elsevier.
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DSA LSC Stands In Solidarity with Sex Workers Targeted by the FOSTA/SESTA Bills
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Actually, protesters of ALL races have been saying not to share photos of the protests. So to anyone protesting: DON’T SHARE PHOTOS OF PROTESTERS.
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LSC expresses our full solidarity with the Palestinian people in their 75-year-long fight to end the occupation of their homeland. As libertarian socialists, it is our duty to stand against state violence, colonialism, and apartheid.
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Alt Right is using this image to falsly connect antifa to ISIS. These are rad Kurdish folks fighting & killing ISIS.
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We see you, Bernie canvassers (in fact, there are caucus members who went to canvass too). We know you're hurting. We know you're angry. You deserve institutions that won't cheat you. We are going to build them, from the bottom up. Join us!.
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"When refugees started arriving on Greek shores in large numbers, the anarchists opened their doors. Clandestina, an empty government building that had already been home to squatters, was turned into refugee accommodation by a small anarchist group. ".
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The time for asking nicely is over. Workers can no longer wait for industrial democracy and a green transition. The future of the world depends upon our building socialism now. #SeizeTheMeans.
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We have signed an open letter alongside @DSARefoundation, @DSABoriSoc, and others in the @DemSocialists expressing our concerns over @Ocasio2018’s position on Israeli settler-colonialism in Palestine and outlining ways in which this could be addressed.
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Today is the anniversary of the libertarian communist uprising against Leninist rule in Hungary in 1956. As many libertarian socialists then and since have written, it was an attempt to institute democratic rule by workers' council -- and was crushed by Soviet tanks.
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This is what happens when socialists become cops. Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen again. And yes, we’re #StillMadAboutKronstadt — thanks for asking!.
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Don't let Dr. King's radical politics be whitewashed by opportunist politicians today. Instead, fight for the kind of world he was preaching about building towards the end of his life.
Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Socialist?
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