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Worker Movement
Welcome to Worker Movement, a podcast dedicated to the working class, a podcast dedicated to raising class consciousness. This podcast is for you, for us, for the worker.
Leftist cohosts discuss a wide range of topics through the lens of the left / communist / socialist.
Educating future members of the working class is our best hope.
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=69
Extracting resources for use by the imperial core has traditionally required the enactment of acute violence, but through recent advancements in exploitation, chronic violence has become the preferred method.
The debt ceiling spectacle obscures the complexity of competently investing in public infrastructure.
COVID-19 deaths are no laughing matter, but it will happen when ethical systems defer to the free market.
People vote based on material conditions, and when material conditions don't improve, you get to vote again later!
AOC's accrual of national publicity has diverted campaign resources that should be spent on local causes.
Conspiracy theories are to America, as 9/11 is to imperialism.
https://www.nist.gov/el/final-reports-nist-world-trade-center-disaster-investigation
Technological advancement benefits the ruling class, but when there is an issue in the supply chain, the working class is punished.
For the vast majority of Americans (including us), nothing changed on 9/11, but it would change the future.
Both neoliberal parties are advocating for Herd Immunity as a strategy rather than an objective.
The US Supreme Court allowed Texas' anti-abortion legislation, SB8, to take effect and they ended the CDC's eviction moratorium citing a lack of authority in 361(a).
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a24_8759.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a23_ap6c.pdf
Vaccine durability is waning along with the inoculation rate, but corporations stand ready to keep you safe if it helps their profits.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02261-8
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.31.21261387v1
The American automotive industry is a jobs program that doesn't benefit the working class.
Twitter needs more users, Google wants to pay workers less based on where they work and job qualifications are biased towards class interests.
When an industry's rate of growth declines, the industry's rate of worker exploitation must increase to compensate.
The new eviction moratorium is intended to preserve the for-profit housing system.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/communication/Signed-CDC-Eviction-Order.pdf
The exploitation of Olympic athletes forced capital to pretend to care about mental health.
Discussion on the exploitive nature of the Olympics and why NBC only airs swimming on prime-time.
Fight Capitalism by growing your own food. You can grow your own tomatoes for under $20 anywhere in the USA.
The US is ready and willing to run propaganda campaigns against foreign countries, but they're unwilling to convince US citizens to take a vaccine.
When your cause of death is being poor, you're a statistic.
https://www.multco.us/multnomah-county/news/preliminary-review-heat-wave-deaths-shows-most-were-older-lived-alone-had-no
If the government doesn't regulate corporations, who is accountable when a building literally collapses?
https://www.wfla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2021/06/8777-collins-ave-structural-field-survey-report.pdf
Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers April 12, 2021.
Absolving renters debt is a bailout for capital, whereas preserving student debt is beneficial to capital. We also discuss the Democratic Theater Company's For the People Act.
George Floyd's murderer is sentenced and the Mayor of Minneapolis hires a private police force using coronavirus pandemic emergency authority.
https://mn.gov/msgc-stat/documents/Guidelines/2020/2020StandardSentencingGuidelinesGrid.pdf
https://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12646/MCRO_27-CR-20-12646_Sentencing-Order_2021-06-25_20210625145755.pdf
The sooner you understand worker exploitation, the sooner you can do something about it.
We take a trip down memory lane exploring our political past while expanding on our theory of local electoralism.
The unintended consequences of increasing the minimum wage.
https://www.irp.wisc.edu/resources/how-is-poverty-measured/
The Obama Foundation held a forum on May 26, 2021 to discuss the progress (or lack thereof) towards racial justice.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-201500033/pdf/DCPD-201500033.pdf
When people hold a corporation hostage that's a problem, but when people are held hostage by a corporation that's capitalism.
The distinction between conservative and neoliberal policy is imaginary, but the suffering from acute and chronic violence is real. #theory
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/20/e2013637118
Institutions of capital perpetuate modern slave labor with success measured in unemployment and inflation.
When privatized infrastructure is incompetently managed, exploited labor can't serve the ruling class.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota wrote an academic paper illustrating that the Linux Kernel is vulnerable to exploitation. Then while defending their institution, capital proved their conclusion.
https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf
A merger of state and corporate power occurs under Neoliberalism and perpetuates chronic violence. #theory
Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers April 9, 2021.
https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/documents/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf
The 2020 Census Apportionment Results were released on Monday and mark the start of the once-every-ten-year redistricting process. Federal districts are often the focus, but new state level boundaries are most important in securing worker power.
The CDC's Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System just isn't good enough.
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html
Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers April 7-8, 2021.
Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers April 5-6, 2021.
Witness testimony continues in the trial of George Floyd's murderer; this episode covers March 31 through April 2, 2021.
Opening statements and witness testimony in the trial of George Floyd's murderer started on March 29, 2021. This episode discusses jury selection and the first two days of testimony.
Who are you going to believe, your own lying eyes or the corporate media?
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmouthpoll_us_060220.pdf
When the data exists to make good decisions, but bad decisions are made, the problem isn't the data.
When the establishment wins its called democracy. When the slightly left-er-ish faction won in Nevada, its called a problem.
Globalization is the scaling of exploitation, but as exploitation runs dry, the exploiters become the exploited.
George Floyd's murderer is scheduled to stand trial on March 8, 2021. We summarize important facts of the case and discuss what police accountability should look like.
With one distraction removed, the Biden Administration can devote their full attention to screwing over minimum wage workers.
A mental health condition triggered by an inability to understand a world without capitalism.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/operation-strategy.html
The ability to survive is correlated with the ability to prepare and money makes preparation easier.
Forcing a vote on Medicare For All in a Neoliberal Congress is like forcing a square peg in a round hole.
When was the last time you heard the phrase "death panel"?
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommendations-process.html
The promise of a vaccine is near, but the promise of actually being injected with a vaccine is not near.
COVID is being mismanaged in the US because the entire healthcare system is profit driven. It's not a good idea to put that same system in charge of creating a vaccine.
Any analysis of the US Political system must acknowledge the existence of multiple capitalist parties colluding.
The name of the game is to get more votes than the other players, but not everybody is playing the same game.
The presidential election is a sticky mess, and other observations on gerrymandering, protesting and pardoning.
The public school system is burdened by short term thinking and redundancy in the name of local control.
Analysis of the Final Presidential Debate that seemed to last longer than Biden's 47 years as a politician.
The ruling class has incurred several defeats during Trump's presidency, but the working class doesn't always win when the ruling class loses.
When asked whether to pack the courts, the question can really be framed as: Are you going to act in the interest of capital or are you going to act in the interest of the working class?
There are two populations that want a Biden win, in one corner there's the blue-no-matter-who crowd, shitlibs, wine-moms, the #khive (Copmala's twitter following), the Peter Butterbar fan club, anybody that voted for Bush but also voted for Hillary. In the other corner we have capital, hint: they might be on the same team.
The entire ruling class doesn't give a fuck about long term planning because they don't have a profit motive and they won't be alive.
Conclusion of debate analysis covering the second half topics of: Law and Order, Climate Change, and Election Integrity.
Analysis of the First Presidential Debate covering the first three topics: Supreme Court, Covid, Taxes/Economy.
Neoliberalism opposes central planning because the mechanisms of self-enrichment are eliminated.
Prerequisite material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh-nlY3U6M A discussion on masks in media.
Now that there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court, how should each party handle the nomination process?
Overtime the line between the petite bourgeoisie and the working class will blur as COVID discriminates against poor people, just like capitalism.
Every institution in your life kneels before the alter of capitalism, and anything that actually benefits a worker is collateral damage to corporate profits. Every time a corporation helps somebody, that's collateral damage. It's accidental and the corporation will try and do better next time.
If you're going to do a basic outcomes analysis of A or B, the outcomes need to be quantifiable.
Accelerationism isn't some fringe concept, its an application of game theory to cease power after creating instability that is actively being used by both major parties.
What happens with labels that don't have universal meaning? They get co-opted by capital. "Progressive" is a functionally dead term that has zero meaning and should never be used as a label.
Nation states are exerting significant resources to influence public opinion and you can't compete.
As an individual you have power to influence your local community. The basic premise we'll focus on is hierarchical autonomy, which is a fancy name for nested power structures.
If NCAA sports aren't cancelled nationally, players will likely rise up to expose the exploitation of "student athletes."
Cops are an example of a government institution placing workers in a situation where they can be exploited.
The obligations of public servants requires an adherence to the public good, but when the institution for which they work requires service to a single class, the institution is degraded.
Painting Black Lives Matter on the streets doesn't do anything and musings about Biden's VP selection.
Attributing class as the root of all evil excludes the vast majority of people that are unaware of the class struggle.
A continuation on accountability, incentives and Joe Biden's ability to recognize wildlife. Trump passed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, you can do your own assessment: https://championsforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/MOCA-8.1.8.2-English.pdf
There are two blind squirrels attempting to find a nut, and the corporate world wins again.
If one incompetent person disparages another incompetent person, it doesn't mean the second person isn't incompetent.
Let's suppose the Trump campaign and the GOP/Dem machine have determined defeat is imminent for Trump in November 2020. What's the play?
Neoliberalism is a form of corporatism where the interests of capital are directly implemented by capitalists after the government defers to act in the public interest by ceding power to private interests.
Large corporations devote significant resources to ensuring that their user base is engaged. This engagement drives profits, it doesn't drive anything else.
Segregated bathrooms, drinking fountains and schools (among other things) were eliminated by Brown vs. Board of Education, but segregated bathrooms based on gender persist to this very day.
If you're rich, you want to take advantage of the opportunities afforded to you as a result of being rich.
All workforces employed by government entities that serve the ruling class and enforce the class divide are bastards.
Evaluating the economic incentives of various groups involved in the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
When presented with two terrible options, what's the better option? Don't play the lottery.
The effects of educational disparities will have long term socio-economic impact that will widen both the achievement gap and hinder societal advancement.
Capitalistic motivations are inhibiting the collection of accurate scientific information which will cloud the judgment of policymakers and likely expose workers to unnecessary health risks.