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@BlackSocialists
Dec 23, 2017 • 35 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
Next time a hard leftist tells you that @BernieSanders isn’t a real Socialist, here’s an extensive Twitter thread outlining his history that you can share with them (with sources, courtesy of Reddit user /u/Rvb321).
1) While attending the University of Chicago, Sanders was a member of the Young People's Socialist League, and he discusses his reasons for joining it in this interview:

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Oct 4, 2018
If we share works from Marx, we’re allegedly Marxists.

If we share works from Bookchin, we’re allegedly Bookchinites.

The Left’s infatuation with categorization/labels takes precedence over nuanced, scientific understanding, and this is at the core of our sectarianism problem.
For a solid grasp on why humans think this way, it is worth taking cues from the field of Human Behavioral Biology.

We‘d like to share some clips from a lecture series provided by Professor Robert Sapolsky at Stanford in 2010.

Here is Sapolsky on why we use categories + labels.
“When you are paying too much attention to categories, you can’t differentiate two facts that fall within the same category.”
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Aug 23, 2018
A pro-CIA article from a paper owned by a man who has a $600 million contract with the CIA.

Bold move.

PS: Notice how most people (including Leftists) STILL conflate “Communism” (the Marxian conception of a communist society) with State Capitalism. Sad.

wapo.st/2PtoUqy?tid=ss…
“The west called [the Soviet Union] Socialism in order to defame Socialism by associating it with this miserable tyranny; the Soviet Union called it Socialism to benefit from the moral appeal that true Socialism had among large parts of the general world population.”

– Chomsky
The historical dynamics surrounding the word “Socialism” that Chomsky explains in the video above are just as (if not more) true for the word “Communism” today, except there is no USSR. Also, the word “Socialism” is being associated with Social Democracy more than true Socialism.
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Aug 22, 2018
Warning:

@ezraklein of @voxdotcom is one of the most ruthless corporate shills in existence, and the Vox platform is constantly reinforcing dangerous agendas.

For those new to the actual Left, please make sure to read between the lines when/if consuming content from Vox.
To those questioning our assessment, please see a fairly recent example through the piece (tweet) shared below.

If you’d like more examples, see their videos on foreign policy, and feel free to have a thorough dig through @ezraklein’s Twitter history.

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Jul 11, 2018
We are an internationalist organization.

We believe Socialism must be global, just as Capitalism is currently global.

No one can unhinge production here in the U.S. from the global economy entirely; it’s all connected.

The goal is to maximize ethicality in building dual power.
Be wary of Leftists who only speak in abstracts, and who indirectly promote inaction through their analyses.

There is no ethical consumption or production under this global capitalist system.

This is not an excuse for exploitation; it is merely the reality of our situation.
In order to change the system, we must engage with it to some degree.

We are already engaging with it in terms of consumption; we have virtually no choice in this matter.

The aim should be to use resources to shift worker relations in terms of production both here and abroad.
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Jun 11, 2018
We’re going to be honest:

Too many Leftists lack an understanding for what Capitalism is, not as an abstract socioeconomic system, but as a MODE OF PRODUCTION.

Move past LABELS and watch @profwolff break down Capitalism as a MODE OF PRODUCTION using simple arithmetic.

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“It’s really only ‘do ya got it?’ or ‘do ya not have it?’

And if ya have it, you can be the employer.

And if you don’t, [then] ya can’t [be the employer].

The fact that the employer who has it didn’t produce it is a nagging problem we prefer not to ask [about].”

(2/6)
“The logic would be, gee, the worker added the value; [they] SHOULD GET IT!

‘CAUSE [THEY] GAVE IT!

[THEY] CREATED IT!

...

Do you think that happens in Capitalism?

No, you don’t, do you?

We don’t give the worker the value added... EVER, in Capitalism.”

(3/6)
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Apr 18, 2018
Just as is the case with MLK, people don’t like to mention the late, anticapitalist views of Malcolm X too much.

This thread is Malcolm X on both Capitalism and Socialism... in his own words.
At a symposium in May of 1964, when asked what political and economic systems he wanted, Malcolm X stated:

“I don't know.

But I'm flexible.

As was stated earlier, all of the countries that are emerging today from under the shackles of colonialism are turning toward Socialism.”
“I don't think it's an accident.

Most of the countries that were colonial powers were capitalist countries, and the last bulwark of Capitalism today is America.“
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