The children yearn for scabs

Excellent article! Great overview of the purpose of crises in the Capitalist economic system, and an important kick in the pants for Marxists to get organized and active.

I can't help but feel like the defeatist attitude taken by some of these third-worldists works to excuse their own organizational inaction

💯 "democracy" means nothing if the workplace, where most people spend (at least) half of their waking life, is a dictatorship of the owning class

The Canadian government has set a precedent of interference and shutting down strikes - a stand with CUPE is a stand with all Canadian labour against this vile practice

Boldly adopting the same losing strategy as always

gwen: I love the aim she takes at our hubris and impatience, our belief in shortcuts and saviours:

"The victory of socialism will not descend from heaven. It can only be won by a long chain of violent tests of strength between the old and the new powers."

Absolutely - the forced correlation of communism and fascism by Hedges (and many liberals in the present moment) works to obscure the conditions that bring about fascism, functionally absolving capitalism of its responsibility by placing the blame on the nebulous concept of "totalitarianism".

I blocked him, and I've never been so hydrated. My skin has never been so clear.

Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution - so far, a great look into Cuba's post-revolution transition and the debate over the USSR's auto finance system

Two neoliberal parties that were happy to keep Canada a branch plant economy + "Junior Partner" of American Imperialism for the past 2 decades. Oh but now they're doing more for our national bourgeoisie, I guess.