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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 6d

My favorite piece I've written thus far.

Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 6d

“The soul of revolution is nothing mystical; it’s the rediscovery of what we’ve always been capable of: cooperation, compassion, creation.”

New essay: The Soul of Revolution

Let me know what you think!

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

The Revolutionary Soul

Capitalism hollowed out our humanity. Socialism can restore it.

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Sam @dragonborn.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago residents prevent ICE from kidnapping a man ✊

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 6d

“The soul of revolution is nothing mystical; it’s the rediscovery of what we’ve always been capable of: cooperation, compassion, creation.”

New essay: The Soul of Revolution

Let me know what you think!

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

The Revolutionary Soul

Capitalism hollowed out our humanity. Socialism can restore it.

open.substack.com

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 8d

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MyNameIsÐolph🎨 @mynameisdolph.bsky.social · 8d

Another new communist podcast/show? Yes please and thank you. And talk about that guest… We love our @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com, don’t we folks?

Hammer and Sickle Productions @hammerandsickle.bsky.social · 9d

Finally finished editing! Episode 1 with @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com is now out.

youtu.be/FDsRK6r55bA

The Hammer and Sickle Show Episode 1: Where to Begin? w/ Comrade Drew

YouTube video by Hammer and Sickle Productions

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Hammer and Sickle Productions @hammerandsickle.bsky.social · 9d

Finally finished editing! Episode 1 with @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com is now out.

youtu.be/FDsRK6r55bA

The Hammer and Sickle Show Episode 1: Where to Begin? w/ Comrade Drew

YouTube video by Hammer and Sickle Productions

youtu.be

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 8d

Make sure to check out Episode 1 of the Hammer and Sickle Show.

@hammerandsickle.bsky.social has been working on this for a long time and it's finally out now. Go show some love!

Hammer and Sickle Productions @hammerandsickle.bsky.social · 9d

Finally finished editing! Episode 1 with @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com is now out.

youtu.be/FDsRK6r55bA

The Hammer and Sickle Show Episode 1: Where to Begin? w/ Comrade Drew

YouTube video by Hammer and Sickle Productions

youtu.be

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 11d

Roosevelt, Kennedy, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Ford.

Those families have been in power much longer than the Castros and have not liberated a fly.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 11d

Debt isn’t just numbers on a balance sheet. It’s a leash: on individuals, on nations, on the future itself. Credit disguises control as opportunity, and freedom as obligation.

If we want liberation, we have to confront how debt is weaponized against us.

Read here: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

Til Debt Do Us Part

Toward Abolishing Debt and the System That Depends on It

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 11d

A Mamdani type candidate would win the next US election in a landslide, but the Democrats will work harder to prevent that than the Republicans. That's the sad truth.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 12d

Capitalism doesn’t just exploit workers, it colonizes our imagination. We’re trained to think freedom is choosing between two brands of the same thing, rather than imagining a world where we don’t have to buy survival.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 12d

Capitalism doesn’t just exploit workers, it colonizes our imagination. We’re trained to think freedom is choosing between two brands of the same thing, rather than imagining a world where we don’t have to buy survival.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 13d

Strength is not found in conquest, but in liberation. A body made strong for struggle. A class made strong in unity. A people strong enough to abolish exploitation.

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Strength as Liberation
Why Physical Fitness is Revolutionary for the Body, Mind, and Society

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 13d

Strength is not found in conquest, but in liberation. A body made strong for struggle. A class made strong in unity. A people strong enough to abolish exploitation.

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 13d

Every collapse of a society begins with the ruling class convincing people that the present order is eternal.

Nothing is eternal. Not feudalism, not slavery, not capitalism. Everything ends.

The only question is: did the old society get replaced by a better one?

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 13d

What’s more dangerous: a government that openly calls itself authoritarian, or one that insists it’s “free” while ruling through prisons, racism, police, propaganda, and debt?

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 15d

50 cereals. 1,000 sneakers. Dozens of streaming services. Capitalism calls this freedom. But the choices that actually matter, housing, healthcare, work, are rigged. We have been chained by consumerism.

My new essay: The Myth of Choice 👇

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

The Myth of Choice

Capitalism's favorite illusion

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 15d

The things you find when you chase the money...

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Kaz ☭ 🇵🇸 @kaz01.bsky.social · 15d

Rest in power Assata Shakur! ✊🏿

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 15d

The UN letting Netanyahu speak is a disgrace. A butcher, drenched in Palestinian blood, standing at a podium of “peace.”

Every minute he talks is another insult to the dead in Gaza.

The world doesn’t need his speeches. The world needs him, and everyone else involved, tried for war crimes.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 15d

50 cereals. 1,000 sneakers. Dozens of streaming services. Capitalism calls this freedom. But the choices that actually matter, housing, healthcare, work, are rigged. We have been chained by consumerism.

My new essay: The Myth of Choice 👇

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

The Myth of Choice

Capitalism's favorite illusion

open.substack.com

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 16d

Another night lost in the void. Sleepless nights are fun . . . sometimes, but not every time.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 16d

I hate to ask you all, but it would mean a lot if you could spare a dollar or two.

I work as a journalist for my university making min. wage. I have to drive 1hr 1/2 to get there and back.

All of this is going towards gas then whatever is left is for bills.

Thank you!

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 16d

Capitalism doesn’t just exploit workers, it disconnects us. Marx called it alienation, and in 2025 it shapes every part of life: work without meaning, rest without freedom, communities without connection.

My latest essay breaks it down:
simplifyingsocialism.substack.com/p/alienation...

Alienation in 2025

Why we feel so disconnected

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 16d

I hate to ask you all, but it would mean a lot if you could spare a dollar or two.

I work as a journalist for my university making min. wage. I have to drive 1hr 1/2 to get there and back.

All of this is going towards gas then whatever is left is for bills.

Thank you!

ko-fi.com/comradedrew/...

Buy Comrade Drew a Coffee

Send Comrade Drew of Simplifying Socialism a coffee!

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