Since the French Revolution, the Right has deployed a common set of arguments to resist the drive to democratize economic and political power.

The Left will only win if we analyze their rhetoric — and counter it.

On my way to Dilemmas of Humanity, no. 4, joining Dilma Rousseff, Fernando Haddad (finance minister of Brazil), Jeff Sachs, Marcio Pochmann, Joao Pedro Stedile, Juliane Furno, and others to discuss the need for a social transformation.
See you there: dilemmasofhumanity.org/conferences/...

You can watch the opening panel from this conference here. The audio is missing for about the first 70 seconds.

www.youtube.com/live/V4MLXd9...

"When Fortunati was working on The Arcana of Reproduction, her approach was iconoclastic – for, as the title of the book suggests, few social realities have been so manipulated as the sphere of reproduction, especially in Italy where years of Fascism had turned maternity into a religion."

#OtD 20 Feb 1834 the first Lowell "mill girls" strike occurred in New England when 800 women textile workers walked out against a 15% pay cut. While unsuccessful, it showed that local women workers would no longer be pushed around stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

jacobin.com/2021/12/neol...

#WolffBites: Billionaire "broligarchs" need strong gov't power to protect their outlandish wealth. Demagogues need broligarchs to take power. When they find each other, their marriage is called fascism.
www.theframelab.org/why-broligar...