Kaptain Walcott @kaptainwalcott@mastodon.social
Political Scientist | Libertarian Socialist | Tendai Buddhist | He/him
Científico Político | Socialista Libertario | Budista Tendai | Pronombres masculinos
In case anybody wanted an explanation of my politics (I don’t know why you would but it’s my profile so who cares), I’m a (vaguely defined) libertarian socialist deeply influenced by Castroism, the Mexican anarchist traditions (magonismo, villismo, and (neo)zapatismo), Orthodox Marxism, syndicalism, Titoism, and the works of Murray Bookchin, Abdullah Öcalan, and George Orwell.
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AMLO is President of Mexico. MORENA and PT have 65 seats in the Senate. MORENA and PT have 254 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
🎶So we reject free enterprise, and once again the Left shall rise!🎶
A hero puppy named Todd took loyalty to new heights after he prevented his owner from being bitten by a rattlesnake during a walk in Arizona’s Anthem desert last Friday.
(✍️ @cr07cristina)
Former Spanish Civil Guard Admits to Torturing ETA Members
Brazil: Munduruku Indigenous Nation Says No to Waterway Project
– PERMANENT REVOLUTION –
Bukharin: Keep supporting and implementing socialist revolutions until every country becomes socialist.
Trotsky: Every country has to do revolution at the same time.
Mayor 'killed by sniper' during city hall ceremony in Philippines.
Read more: https://bit.ly/2z8tfLI https://t.co/rFuuEpecCb
Swedish Law Redefines Rape as 'Sex Without Consent'
In case anybody wanted an explanation of my politics (I don’t know why you would but it’s my profile so who cares), I’m a (vaguely defined) libertarian socialist deeply influenced by Castroism, the Mexican anarchist traditions (magonismo, villismo, and (neo)zapatismo), Orthodox Marxism, syndicalism, Titoism, and the works of Murray Bookchin, Abdullah Öcalan, and George Orwell.
#GME | Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate known as AMLO, is Mexico's next president. He's the clear winner of Sunday's election, and will be the country's first leftist leader in decades.
@SandforAlasdair has the latest. https://t.co/qvO24UB2LR
#AMLO’s ran this election on a platform of Cardenist social democracy, and I expect at least that much from him, but AMLO’s personal ideology stems from Magonist anarcho-communism (like how Bernie Sanders presents as a social democrat, but is personally a democratic socialist), and I look forward to seeing how he reshapes Mexican society.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/world/americas/mexico-election-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador.html
Vote Buying, Fraud Rears Its Face Once again In Mexico Election
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Vote-buying-irregularities-in-Mexico-20180701-0020.html
This may be the worst take on the SYRIZA government & populism in general. Yeah SYRIZA teamed up with the fascistic Independent Greeks & followed the Troika’s demands to stay in the Eurozone, but blaming Greece’s unemployment crisis on SYRIZA instead of the Troika’s policies is just dishonest. I don’t trust SYRIZA to enact the platform they ran on, but they’re the best chance Greek electoral politics has for real change (unless Popular Unity can get their shit together).
Harry Potter and the Woke Retcon
There's a better way: radically changi… https://t.co/WNUIPIBIYk
Basically the Justice Party calls for a gradual shift from corporatism to state capitalism, then from state capitalism to socialism along the workers' self-management model, relying on coops and collectives to replace the capitalist market economy with (supposedly) a type of market socialism.
The Justice Party's platform (go read the COMIC here: https://m.post.naver.com/viewer/postView.nhn?volumeNo=2335323&memberNo=11036494) calls for your typical social democratic reforms to the welfare state, protection of workers' rights, support for unions, etc., but becomes radical when talking about the economy, where they propose transitioning the the economy (specifically the corporatist chaebol system) into state hands when it becomes inefficient, and transitioning state-owned enterprises into a new "social economy" of coops and collectives!
