People’s History Series
We’re reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Of The United States and reviewing a chapter per episode. Check out our Chapter One review video here – podcast audio coming soon!
Conspiracy Theories Benefit The Ruling Class
I’ve been thinking about all of the conspiracy theories, like 5G, Qanon, etc. These kinds of conspiracy theories are not new. With the advent of anything new causing social anxiety, new ones spring up. They are not wrong that we have been lied to about a lot, but instead of discovering the actual lies, they…
Capitalists Benefit From Pseudoscience
Capitalism relies upon pseudoscience in order to function. This means, in part, encouraging scientific illiteracy among the masses. Sowing doubts about the veracity of science itself among the Proletariat is another strategy that they employ. It has been very effective in getting a lot of people to blind themselves to the climate crisis we face….
Cheap Lunches and Cheap Bosses
Earlier this afternoon, I had a flashback to when I first started working at a B2B magazine publisher’s headquarters in Detroit back in 2000. At that time we were at the location on Woodbridge, near the Renaissance Center, and I worked in technology services in the basement. Also in the basement was the break room,…
VIDEO: People’s History With Ruben
Starting this week with a new project. We’ll be reviewing the book Howard Zinn’s A People’s History Of The United States on a weekly chapter by chapter basis, highlighting historic people and events that have impact on our lives today, but that have been suppressed and whitewashed out of our school history textbooks. This has…
On The Question Of China and Socialism In 2020
I’m writing this not simply for the purposes of others reading it, but also, to record where I am at in my understanding on the matter of China and Socialism. I live in the US, as I have my entire my life, and while as a white woman, I have spent a good part of…
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UPDATED: DIY Tear Gas Help Kits – Mutual Aid – Praxis!
UPDATE: 15 April 2021 It’s fighting season again and there will be a need for Tear Gas First Aid! More experience with the pigs usage of chemical weapons banned by the Geneva Convention over the past year has led to the following updates from a comrade who is an experienced street medic and was kind…
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Open Source Software and Marxist-Leninism
When I worked in IT I was a massive Open Source software advocate. I administered a couple of LAMP boxes, implemented WordPress on our corporate intranet, etc. Anyway. I was just thinking about how there are some specialized Open Source packages where the basic is free to use, but there are often upgraded levels of…
What’s In the Works
It’s been a minute since I’ve updated here with a blog post or (gasp) a new podcast, but I’ve been busy nevertheless! I’ve been networking with new allies and comrades, and looking for ways to best utilize my abilities to serve the working class. I wanted to give a rundown on some things I have…
How To Organize, Strike, And Revolt During A Pandemic
I think it’s safe to say that quite a few of us are aware of the need to take action to influence our future society well above and beyond voting in November (if the election is actually held and viable). But we’re all trying to survive the pandemic, too – so the traditional actions one…
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