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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 1h

a strategy that highlights the strength that comes from fighting for shared goals, and that names the real opponents standing in the way."

An important piece for thinking through class identity and class politics today 5/end

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 1h

While the right has successfully mobilized this moral outrage around a politics of resentment and division, the authors conclude that "the left...must develop a strategy that credibly promises to enlarge the pie for the working population as a whole: 4/

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 1h

The authors claim that what emerges in this society is a working class marked by moral outrage and deep disengagement from formal politics, whose lived experience generates sharp critiques of redistribution, recognition, and representation. 3/

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 1h

the authors argue that we now live in “demobilized class societies,” which are still structured by class but stripped of effective class-based political organization and representation. In this context the dominant form of class consciousness is the moral sense of injustice. 2/

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 1h

Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/
marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...

Workers’ Political Consciousness in Demobilized Class Societies: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation | Section on Marxist Sociology

A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politics,...

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 23h

I was heartened to see many of them seize the opportunity 🇵🇸 3/end

#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #StopTheGenocide #BDS #DivestNow

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 23h

So rather than teach about “contemporary social movements” and “capitalism, socialism, and democracy” today, I gave my students the opportunity to gain some hands-on experience you can’t get in the classroom. 2/

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 23h

Tens of thousands of students across Montreal universities and CÉGEPs staged a one-day strike for Palestine today, based on authorization votes taken in general assemblies and online referenda. 1/

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 2d

With 51,000 Alberta teachers now on strike, we currently have something on the order of 130,000 workers on strike across Canada, a country with 1/10 the population of the US:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Historic Alberta teachers' strike begins as 51,000 educators walk off the job | CBC News

Alberta school divisions are telling families not to send students to school on Monday as the largest teacher strike in provincial history cancels classes at around 2,000 schools.

www.cbc.ca

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 2d

I’m all for people wearing what they want at conferences. Were I to try pulling off such a look, I’d take a cue from our Kiwi colleagues, who know a thing or two about wearing shorts in more professional settings. This Wellington civil servant ca. 1973 would be on my mood board.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 3d

So! So! So! Solidarité! Avec! Avec! Avec la Palestine!

Huge march for Palestine in Montreal today 🇵🇸

Manifestation énorme pour la Palestine à Montréal aujourd’hui 🇵🇸

#AllEyesOnGaza #FreePalestine #PalestineWillBeFree #BoycottIsrael

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 4d

An impressive analysis of the broader context surrounding the current contract dispute at Canada Post. The author puts workers at the center of the story, showing of how changes in the structure of work at the post office concretely affect workers’ lives.

maisonneuve.org/article/2025...

Return to Sender

maisonneuve.org

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 5d

Hands off @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social !

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Barry Eidlin @eidlin.bsky.social · 5d

TFW your student comes up after class and asks “would it be OK if I wrote my research paper on the causes and consequences of the defeat of Operation Dixie?”

a cartoon character says " yes you can " in front of a blue sky

ALT: a cartoon character says " yes you can " in front of a blue sky

media.tenor.com

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