Accelerationism is petty bourgeois nonsense from people that don’t want to contend with the struggle of organizing as leftists in the imperial core. It’s also used as a boogeyman by “reformists” to juxtapose themselves against something that isn’t Marxism.
My few experiences with Trots:
I tried to talk to some SA people, all they wanted to do was sell a newspaper, even as I was asking about their platform and what joining might look like. Once I bought the paper they were a little bit friendlier but that was all I needed to experience to not want to be involved.
Two different Trotskyist groups injecting themselves into every vaguely left thing in town. One of the groups was straight up disruptive while the other one would just try to recruit people.
A Trot that somehow snuck into a union organizer position ghosting me and my coworkers when we tried to organize. I found out he quit from someone else in the labor movement a few months later.
Over the last year I’ve been introduced to a number of people who had interest in an ideology that is a weird blend of Trotskyism and anarchism and most of those people and their ideas are absolutely cursed.
Im here right now
What’s next? Is the sun gonna disappear from the sky?
They already spent the last decade supporting the Saudi effort to bomb and starve Ansar Allah into submission and it didn’t work. Can’t imagine that would change now.
You mean the guy that has openly been “personally opposed” to abortion his entire career doesn’t do anything to protect it? 
Didn’t Henry Hakamäki mention on Guerilla History that the people at Verso had been extremely rude to him and his co-translator when they discussed publishing their translation of this text? Seems like a cheap shot at them.
I usually drink it hot unless it’s a really hot day. I don’t dislike iced coffee but it just feels weird to me drinking it like a soda.
Grocery stores usually do an insane volume of sales compared to most retail. I’m not sure how big these things were but even if they’re tiny they’re probably selling thousands of units a day. The number of chips they would need and the labor to apply them would almost certainly be unsustainable.
I voted for Bush when I was five because it was the only name on the ballot I could read. I’ve been trying to repent ever since.
I think I died somewhere between three and five years ago and I’ve been in my own personal hell ever since. Anyone else get that vibe?
Didn’t Mussolini come to power because a centrist liberal government was too weak to violate the law and crush him and his blackshirts? I would think the priority of anyone trying to prevent fascism would be to prevent a weak unpopular liberal leader who will cave to the fascists under the slightest pressure from coming to power.
Good. The major unions have become parasitic tools of the state and finance capital due to the NLRA model. A new regime of labor law would undoubtedly be a sharp blow against American workers, but would also force them to actually exercise their power in ways they haven’t in years.
It’s kinda funny to read the Palestinian-American quoted be like “we care about the children who are getting murdered, not birthrates” among all the Zionist psychos wanting to turn themselves into baby factories for the race.
that will never have to face the consequences of the violence he advocates for
From my experience the most significant issue DSA faces is that they’re incredibly fragmented and disunited. They function more like a loose network of activists who come and go than a political party. Members are allowed more or less to believe and act how they want even if it’s unhelpful or harmful to the organization. This manifests in their most prominent members blatantly contradicting the organization’s positions, but it also manifests in basic administrative tasks not being completed and a disinterest in building a robust internal culture, camaraderie, and pursuing democraticly decided political goals. They might be able to unite around a (usually local) issue but once that matter is settled or the energy dies down then most people drift away until new wave of activists joins up for something else. It also allows for scattered campaigns as people try to pursue their own interests within the DSA only to not have the organization materially support them because nobody else actually wants to do the thing.
If that’s reflective of your experience then I would suggest trying to build a culture of party loyalty, discipline, and focus. Idk how to do that specifically but it probably involves mandatory political education.
There’s also a significant material restriction on kids. More homework and pressure to do extracurriculars, less money, harder to get around, fewer brick and mortar places to go, less woods, parents have less time, etc. I was in school a decade ago at this point but most of us just played PlayStation together. I think as shit (specifically housing, cars, and college) gets more expensive and wages stagnate this is further exacerbated.
I’ve always wondered why there’s been no serious academic investigation of this. I think about the Grapes of Wrath, one of the most famous works of Americana, which vividly describes the hunger and the violence of the Dust Bowl and yet I’m supposed to believe nobody starved to death? No malnourished children died? People didn’t get in fights and die over resources? Apparently the Great Depression sucked but besides the banker that jumped off the fifth floor nobody died.
Yeah you’re touching on a current I’ve seen as well. A large section of the US left are fundamentally petty bourgeois socialists who turned to it because they were denied comfy professional jobs and houses after 2008. They can easily be bought out and they will struggle to be revolutionary as a class because their goal isn’t to overthrow the capitalist system, it’s to become a smallholder in a social democracy.
I think home ownership rates are going to be the greatest signifier for the potential of this class. Right now the home ownership rate is at 65%. In urban areas this is significantly lower so you see more radical activity. Nationally if this gets to 50% we might actually have something to work with. The question then becomes whether or not they can be led to revolutionary solutions or if they’ll just pursue land reform.
Under the dictatorship of the proletariat firearms would have to be restricted so that reactionaries could not access them. As the transition to communism progressed there would eventually be a point where weapons wouldn’t need to be controlled. Under capitalism gun control, like all laws of the bourgeois dictatorship, will only be used to maintain the supremacy of the bourgeois class.