He let them do it. Put up no protest and then gave them his support after they fought him with their whole apparatus.

He’s also a Zionist, weak tea when it comes to policy, and completely incapable as an organizer, throwing away his network twice after losing. He was always a compromise candidate at best from a left perspective and is only perceived as particularly left wing in comparison to the duopoly status quo of proud neoliberal racist vs. false pretense neoliberal racist.

Some of this is good advice but I recommend evaluating every protest, having a real plan for transportation and a buddy system, and trying to be as secure as possible by default and only making exceptions when necessary.

Most of the guide is about phones and how they can leak information. The only surefire way to prevent your phone from leaking location information to show you were at a protest is to leave it at home. That should be your default. The next option is to use a burner, but you must be very careful about when you charge your burner and turn it on, as you never want it to be on near where you live or work. Cell signals can be triangulated to a few block radius. The next option is put your phone in airplane mode and turn it off. Your phone is now an emergency device, you won’t turn it in at the protest unless a safety critical situation develops, such as being separated from your group by police or other right wing violence. Under no circumstances should you use your main phone to coordinate day-of at any event. If you are an organizer, use a burner to do this. This is also a reason to not use Signal for day-of coordination, as it will pressure you to either turn your burner on at home so that you can coordinate or associate your signal account with other devices traceable to your home or work. Walky talkies are best but Signal alternatives like davel suggested are also better.

Also, cover your face and wear sunglasses.

FDR was the liberal response and then recuperation of left organizing. Socialists and organized labor had become substantial enough to begin threatening to demand concessions on their own terms. By legalizing a liberalized set of rights and privileges on the terms of liberal democrats, they could control and then stymy those movements rather than observe the left oppositionally build until liberals became irrelevant.

The year of the Linux desktop gaming handholdis upon us.

How nefarious: this famine-facing country is growing food.

AOC is a liberal that coopts ledt aesthetics. She did a very normal liberal thing, which is to claim organized lavor cred and alignment and then undermine labor materially.

This is one of the problems with treating class as an inherent identity, not a person’s relation to the means of production. A person that begins as a direct wage laborer is working class, but if they ascend the ladder they become closer and closer to carrying out the functions of the owner class (i.e. becoming upper management) they lose proletarian character and gain bourgeois character. So the UHC CEO may have started out working class but obviously he became a bourgeois monster.

There’s a similar pitfall, which is the uncritical moralization of the working class. The working class has a world historical role to play and is the class oppressed by the bourgeoisie, but it can easily have reactionary elements that should not be embraced, esoeciskky not as “working class values”. The working class exists in the society shaped by the bourgeoisie, with marginalizations baked in by the bourgeoisie that can become self-perpetuating (e.g. racism), so we must not simply accept whstever the majority opinion of the working class is, let alone some random guy that ended up facilitating death and pain for profit.

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Osmand has a terrible user interface

I’m gonna download more copyrighted media today just because you told me not to.

Gotta save the legal fund for inheritance squabbling

Yes I should have put an asterisk there for Foucault at least. I have had many fights with faux-left Foucault appreciators that use him to avoid, e.g. having an anti-imperialist stance. I was listing him just for the context: it is good to know his terms and ideas, despite his influence being negative and incorrect for practical organization, so that one can enter and participate in left discourse. I should have made that a category and added Trotsky to it.

Debord is a bit separated from them, though. His work is actually a quite gokd Marxist expansion on the analysis of capitalist society and it presents no distraction from the necessity of its removal.

I present to you: the NGO-industrial complex.

All that money comes from somewhere and “the donors” expect influence for their cash.

It’s a good book but the people that need to read it are those already trying to organize but stuck in an ineffective “horizontalism” rut.

I would recommend a mix of Marxist and anarchist founfational texts, media literacy snd historical texts, and modern summaries and topic-focused books. You can start wherever you’d like, but I usually recommend media literacy and history as they are immediately and widely useful and help open the door to the rest. So maybe an order like this to start:

• Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

• FAIR.org, the Citations Needed podcast, and Manufacturing Consent / Inventing Reality.

• The Jakarta Method

• A summary text of Marx’s Capital or two. Like Heinrich and then Michael Roberts’ counterpoints. Eventually, read Capital itself.

• Socialism, Utopian and Scientific and The Conditions of the Working Class by Engels.

• Texts around the October Revolution and contemporaries. Lenin vs. Kautsky, the formation of the Bolsheviks, histories around the timeline, Kropotkin, State and Revolution, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, What is to Be Done

• The basic Soviet canon, like Foundations of Leninism. Histories around the topic, like those of Losurdo.

• Major works by Emma Goldman, David Graeber, Crimethinc, Bookchin.

• Wretched of the Earth by Fanon.

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Friere.

• Fanshen and core Mao writings.

• Prison writings of Gramsci.

• Essential works by the French weirdos like Foucault and Debord.

That should set you up for the basics. Not joking - these are the basics that will allow you to communicate with the left and have a grasp of the analyses. There is much, much more to understand, and namely, none of what I’ve listed teaches how to organize or will make you sufficiently educated on the specific contexts in which we need organization. That is best done by joining an active socialist organization (not Trot and not a cult like Avakian stuff). This list is also low on topics of marginalization and combined struggle, which are important to read (e.g. Leslie Feinberg on trans liberation or du Bois on Pan Africanism), as it really is just the basics.

First, give your lists to the DNC. Second, dismantle your grassroots campaign apparatus and leave everyone to fend for themselves as individuals with no organization to work with. Then sheepdog them to the Democrats so that Genocide Joe can do whatever he wants and no hint of resistance can be mainstreamed. Then tell people that you know how to organize and fight.

Anyways the title is correct but don’t listen to Sanders, he doesn’t organize jack. Instead, join a local socialist (or socialist-ish) organization and do your best to self-educate on socialism by reading key texts and humbling yourself as we are all taught false things that must be unlearned and replaced with correct historoes and depropagandized analysis.

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Anti-YPG Turkish sleeper agent Donald Trump

The deep state is made entirely of state employees and civil servants, exactly. The only distinction made is that the deep state bureaucracy can run its own agendas, even against elected executive leadership. Can you think of any departments or agencies that have exhibited such behavior?

There are no government employees spanning administrations that keep agendas going?