Is there a guide or essay somewhere that explains how this won’t end up in authoritarianism this time?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
A lot of deaths have occured in the name of capitalism as well. I don't think this conversation needs to go there...
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Replying to @sashaperigo @uhshanti and
I just want to know if there is a standard book or essay that everyone reads somewhere that grapples with this history and has a good argument for why next time can be genuinely democratic and not repeat this past.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti and
There are lot of very smart socialist writers, but I don't think there's any text with the answer to everything. Is there a book everyone reads that explain how capitalism could ever be democratic?
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Replying to @sashaperigo @kimmaicutler and
This is an interesting conversation we all consider for sure, but it feels like the goal posts have moved here from "how can we protect rural ratepayers and have municipal power" to "guide me through a communist revolution."
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Replying to @sashaperigo @uhshanti and
Sorry,
@uhshanti to seize the means and I didn’t know what she was referring to....2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @kimmaicutler @sashaperigo and
But I have def had that question for a long time.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @uhshanti
This is definitely something we consider in everything we do! I've been reading "The Anatomy of Fascism" recently which is a really interesting perspective that pieces out how to distinguish fascism when it cloaks itself in leftist rhetoric.
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Not explicitly on this subject, but three books from modern socialist writers I enjoyed this year were "Hope In the Dark" by Rebecca Solnit, "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle" by Angela Davis, and "17 Contradictions of Capitalism" by David Harvey.
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Replying to @sashaperigo @uhshanti
Solnit is a poetic writer, but she's not a policy/governance person. I'm interested in how a new system would actually operate, what its incentives would be, what its accountability levers would be, who would be accountable to whom and how.
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With Marxist policies at the municipal level, I think it's challenging bc cities have much less control over flows of people, capital than nation-states do. There's Tiebout-sorting on taxes and then a problem w cities providing services when neighboring jurisdictions don't
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @sashaperigo
I mean Marxism is ultimately an international political economy theory. how it translates locally can be lots of tactics and strategies that we argue over amongst ourselves all the time
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the challenge is that the US is littered with the corpses of socialist orgs who said “there’s one way to do this and that’s it”. DSA itself has a katrillion tendencies already, but we have to build power the left doesn’t have b/c it’s been in the wilderness for a half century
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