April 5, 2063: “It unites humanity in a way no one ever thought possible when they realize they’re not alone in the universe. Poverty, disease, war. They’ll all be gone within the next fifty years.” #StarTrek #FirstContact #FirstContactDay
“Mister Data, I need to know the exact date.”
“April fourth, two thousand sixty-three.”
“April fourth?”
“The day before First Contact.”
-Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Lieutenant Commander Data, and Commander William T. Riker, “Star Trek: First Contact” #FirstContact #StarTrek #LLAP
Eight to nine million marched at No Kings on 3/28: the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. Now organize: recruit, build strike committees, strengthen unions. Protest opens the door. Organization walks through it. #NoKings #WeSayNoKings #CapitalismFails #TrySocialism #JoinDSA
Mass mobilizations are a beginning, a first step. Without organization, indignation dissolves into phrases. With organization, it becomes leverage. With organization, it becomes power. With power, we win. The masses deserve an organization worthy of what they know. #NoKings #NK3
Mutual aid networks that feed people. Tenant unions that stop evictions. Community health structures that deliver care. Each demonstrates in practice that the working class can govern its own affairs. Each builds the organizational muscle that strike action requires. #NoKings
Every socialist org that participated must answer concretely: how many signed up for a follow-up meeting? How many attended? How many now sit on a strike committee, mutual aid structure, or union drive? These questions separate serious organizations from phrase-mongers. #NoKings
The question facing every serious organizer who participated in No Kings is this: who, specifically, is organized now who was previously unorganized? If the answer is “no one new,” then the march, for all its millions, changed nothing in the balance of class forces. #NoKings #NK3
Kwame Ture said it plainly: “In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” Moral appeals work on individuals capable of shame. States respond to power. The bourgeois state responds to organized, material, economic power. #NK3
The ruling class already knew people were angry. What it needs to know is whether the masses have translated that anger into the capacity to impose costs. A march that disperses on Saturday afternoon & builds no ongoing organ of struggle tells the bourgeoisie: sleep soundly. #NK3
Nine million people filled the streets on No Kings Day 3.0, the largest single-day political protest in U.S. history. Extraordinary. Insufficient. A thread on why mobilization alone cannot change the system. #NoKings #WeSayNoKings #CapitalismFails #TrySocialism
The Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, Communist Party of Vietnam, & Communist Party of China act while capitalism rots. National Assemblies elected, & Five-Year Plans advance with socialist modernization. Scientific socialism builds while capitalism decays. #Laos #Vietnam #China
The abuser who hides behind the movement is no comrade. He is a reactionary force masquerading as liberation. We must believe survivors. No holidays. No biopics. Accountability as misogyny only serves the oppressor. We must root it out without mercy. #SupportSurvivors #UFW
“Leftists who criticize the Cuban system are mistaken to dismiss the remarkable gains the Revolution brought to the Cuban masses.” #Cuba #DefeatImperialism #DefendCuba
I came late in my formative years of science fiction to the 1982 “Tron.” But lateness can be a kind of clarity. #Tron #TronLegacy #TronAres
From the Grid’s 1980s technocracy to Web 2.0’s platform age and the AI-soaked 2020s, liberation in any system requires organizing and resistance. Link in bio. Photo: Logan Bush (Santa Cruz, 10/18/2019). #Tron #TronAres
“Every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slave-owning, predatory “great” powers.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, “Socialism and War: The Attitude of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party Towards the War,” 1915 #NoWarWithIran
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Proletarians of all countries, Unite!”
-Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” #CommunistManifesto #CapitalismFails #TrySocialism
I am proud to stand among the comrades of the fifth-largest chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Let the East Bay, steadfast in organization and struggle, become the tinder & the torch—helping to ignite the flame of socialist revolution against the rule of capital. #JoinDSA #TrySocialism
For the first time, the Democratic Socialists of AmericaAmerica has surpassed 100,000 dues-paying members—organization, not sentiment. Only the Socialist Party of America was larger, peaking around 113,000 in 1912. We have a world to win. Join DSA today. #JoinDSA #DSA100k #DSA
No half-measures, no “reform.” The only correct position is this: abolish ICE; abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Tear out these instruments of repression by the root. Agents who have committed their abuses should be brought to justice & prosecuted. #AbolishICE #IceOut
La postura es clara: Todo el poder y la solidaridad a la RepĂşblica de Cuba, al Partido Comunista de Cuba, al Primer Secretario y Presidente Miguel DĂaz-Canel BermĂşdez, a las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Cubanas, a la RevoluciĂłn Cubana y al fidelismo. #Cuba #HandsOffCuba #PCC
“This is another regime-change war to steal another country’s oil, just like the failed war against Iraq, and to crush any resistance to US imperialism. Trump’s war will only impoverish the people of Latin America.” #Venezuela #HandsOffVenezuela #PSUV #Socialism
La izquierda anticapitalista y antiimperialista en EEUU: apoyo y solidaridad a la República Bolivariana, al PSUV y a Nicolás Maduro; al pueblo trabajador, la Milicia Bolivariana y la FANB; a la Revolución Bolivariana y al socialismo del siglo XXI. #Venezuela #HandsOffVenezuela #PSUV #Socialism
“Not about blood,”—yet you still blanket political title. You trade material analysis for incantation: “connection” is no deed; demography is no justice. Historic ties can’t sanctify dispossession. I support universal emancipation & Palestine liberation. Demography is not a moral argument. So long.
Zionism isn’t ancient liturgy but a late-19th-century nationalist state project. “Indigenous” claims by bloodline are slogans, not material analysis. Demography proves nothing & can’t erase displacement. Fight antisemitism—reject colonial nationalism; stand for de-colonial liberation. #FreePalestine
Zionism chains the Jewish masses to imperialism and colonial conquest. The liberation of Palestine — full, de-colonial, irrevocable, by the steadfast will of the toilers — must be our categorical imperative. #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #Gaza #Palestine
One may grasp Marx and still light Sabbath candles—so long as faith fortifies, not fetters, class struggle. The point is not to bow before dogma but to enlist every emancipatory tradition under the red banner. Essay with the link in bio. #TrySocialism #KarlMarx
Tracing the red thread of Marxism–Leninism to contemporary socialist projects in China, Cuba, Vietnam, and Laos, examining how each creatively wields party leadership, law, and market mechanisms in the service of proletarian emancipation. #CapitalismFails #TrySocialism #China #Cuba #Vietnam #Laos
