that will never have to face the consequences of the violence he advocates for

There’s also a significant material restriction on kids. More homework and pressure to do extracurriculars, less money, harder to get around, fewer brick and mortar places to go, less woods, parents have less time, etc. I was in school a decade ago at this point but most of us just played PlayStation together. I think as shit (specifically housing, cars, and college) gets more expensive and wages stagnate this is further exacerbated.

It seems like China gets lucky every year while most of the West is very unlucky. It must be their crickets.

Yeah that was where the real distinction evolved. In Europe and the US opportunists were happy to redistribute the wealth of the global periphery to their nation’s proletariat and call it socialism. The global periphery redistributing it’s own wealth from its bourgeoisie to its own working classes isn’t particularly evil though.

Also oppressed people by definition are denied their rights, so they wouldn’t even have the obligations.

I’m probably quitting the DSA over the refusal to discipline electeds especially on the issue of Palestine, but this statement is misleading.

The vote was a voice vote which means the 50 aldermen shouted “yea” or “nay” at the same time and the chair decided the outcome. One aldermen asked to be officially recorded in opposition to the resolution but Chicago DSA’s statement claims a second DSA alderman spoke out against the resolution so it’s likely he also voted in opposition. Nobody actually knows what anyone voted for unless they were in the room listening to them though, and by that point the room has been cleared by the cops.

Despite it being a requirement in the bylaws of the organization, adhering to the policy positions of the organization is almost never actually required for membership, especially on the Palestine issue. Being endorsed is though.

I’ve always wondered why there’s been no serious academic investigation of this. I think about the Grapes of Wrath, one of the most famous works of Americana, which vividly describes the hunger and the violence of the Dust Bowl and yet I’m supposed to believe nobody starved to death? No malnourished children died? People didn’t get in fights and die over resources? Apparently the Great Depression sucked but besides the banker that jumped off the fifth floor nobody died.

In many curriculums, he’s not mentioned at all. I took a class on political theory and he wasn’t mentioned once. I took another on European history and he was mentioned twice, once during the industrial revolution when the proffessor said Marx was wrong because thwre were factory managers, and again with the October Revolution. He was briefly mentioned in an intro to sociology course by my professor, but we spent significantly more time on Weber. He’s been systematically torn out of curricula.

Edit: I legitimately think it was wiped per the University’s orders too because the sociology professor was involved in DSA. Likewise in an international relations course, my professor had a May 1968 sticker on his laptop. He mentioned Lenin and Imperialism once and then continued on like it had never been said. I did see a sociology adjunct tell some students (not his) to read the Manifesoto though.