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>>15089408
The Labour management blatantly discussed how they could lose the election to prevent a Corbyn government. The Democrats, for the second time, sabotaged Bernie (not to say that he isn't a thrall to the party).
It is clear the establishment will do everything in its power to prevent a change to the status quo.

Social Democracy's focus on electoralism is a dead end. The Labour party in Britain is not a typical social democratic party insofar as it let all its institutions/infrastructure crumble while it focused on electoralism. All the sports clubs, the working men's clubs, the venues, the youth clubs - they all disappeared over the last 50 years. They were completely hollowed out to being a electoral machine. The abandonment of the dual strategy, that is, trying to win seats but also creating bases of resistance in communities, will only lead to defeat in the long run.

Time to organize. Time to READ.
Time to return to Lenin!

>Stocks suffering their biggest one-week decline since the financial crisis in 2008, with the S&P 500 dropping more than 13%.
>Broad market average more than 32% below its record set on Feb. 19
>U.S. labor force participation rate of 63% with a 30% unemployment rate implies over 50% of Americans being without a job & getting direct checks by the gov't.
>Deficit of $3-$4T.
>Federal Reserve buying corporation bonds & expanding balance sheet by $4T.
>Federal Reserve now in the process of removing the limit on the number of dollars they can print so as to prevent another great depression.
>Hyperinflation a real possibility.
>Corporations getting billions in bailouts.
>Richest countries in the world unable to make masks or ventilators because they exported factories to the third world.
>Queues for hospital equipment, since overstocking was unprofitable.
>Major CEOs have fucked off into the sunset.
>Rationing soon to be introduced.
>Ruling oligarchy have underestimated an airborn combination of pneumonia and HIV in a country overflowing with diabetes and hypertension.
>An economy of iPhones and cable tv is too important to halt for the sake of an aging population (their pensions have been fucked anyway)

Hmmm

>>14602134
>"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.[2] Immaturity is
the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity
is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and
courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude![3] “Have courage to use
your own understanding!”--that is the motto of enlightenment."
- Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment

https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/files/Kant--What%20Is%20Enlightenment_.pdf