Free swag is the coveted status symbol for every loyal subject of global capital.

Solidarity and organization are a “mind virus”.

Silly proles, always trying to find ways to take care of themselves.

Someone needs to come show them what is best for them.

Different kinds of ramifications probably result from the two events. One may be greater, as you suggest, but to me the difference seems quite difficult to predict, and not particularly relevant.

Respect the pun.

The broader ramifications of one venue closing, or operating at limited capacity, are quite substantial, for the event, the venue, and for the greater powers looming above the city, who thirst tirelessly for profit, for value extracted from the labor provided by workers.

Marx and Durkheim have laid the groundwork for psychological transformations under liberal society.

Postmodernist authors have tried to address the issues more comprehensively, to varying degrees of coherence and reliability.

The Spectacle of the Situationists, and capitalist realism of Mark Fisher, interrogate the extreme alienation of postmodernity.

Liberal psychology is based on a collective delusion that alienates an ideal, presented as universal, from any immediate experience, such that all meaningful experience by an individual alienates the individual from the rest of society, who perceives only the ideal.

Thus, all unity from shared experience is annihilated by servility to the abstract.

True. We all share the same vulnerability, but I think it is one remarkably germane to the structural criticisms of the “white liberal”.

Notice Pryor’s clever tactics for exposing Fuldheim’s indifference to any contribution that may validate the substantive or lived experiences of anyone marginalized.

(Pryor of course is Black American, and also was raised in abject poverty.)

She has troubling coping with not being the one directing the narrative.

Not allowing his face to be prominently exposed would be the purest ideal.

Otherwise, perhaps mark a post as NSFW, so the image would be displayed as blurred.

Is the article referring to the same New York Times that seems complacent over reactionary media consistently defaming it as being leftist?

What gets my goat is that officially, the US observes Labor Day, but within the country, notice is rarely given to May Day, due to a wish for erasing the historical events of Haymarket Square in Chicago.

Don’t judge so harshly. Give credit where it’s due.

He has almost reached the end of the alphabet. Y and Z remain outstanding, but he still may discover them yet.

Public schools have long been a backbone of civil society in the US, and have survived as one of the more functional institutions, even as systems everywhere have fallen into decay.

Teachers have commanded great respect throughout recent history. They support the common and legitimate interests of everyone.

As workers, teachers stand in solidarity with all other workers, and all other workers must rise to the occasion, of standing in solidarity with teachers.

Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, Yaron Brook, boasts of having relocated to Puerto Rico, as part of his shtick demanding taxes are theft.

I suppose someone with such a mentality finds some kind of joy in being estranged both to the populations from which he has originated and to the one that has become involuntarily his host.

There can be no doubt that the population that repairs his cars and cleans his clothes shares with him no common interests, him being such a clueless, privileged white dude who rants nonsensical pitches no one wants to hear.

Just keep your head down and let the masters take as much as they can take.

If you have any luck, then you will survive for a while even as the ranks begin to thin.

However, in 1963, the oldest Boomers were still not yet adult.

One issue commonly a subject to confusion is the position of government and politicians within the class struggle.

Workers may apply pressure to the state to achieve concessions, but we cannot expect the state to protect us.

The state protects capital, and capital utilizes the state to repress workers.

Powerful politicians generally have owned capital since before entering office, and the barriers are quite severe against entry into office without owning capital. Controls against manipulation and collusion are impossible to enforce, and anyway, resources and willingness overall for their enforcement are quite minimal

Politicians and capitalists are both facets of the ruling class.

Neither is a friend of workers. The only friends of workers are other workers.

They have so completely stripped from the system any guise of legitimacy that even their ingenious techniques for deluding the youth are now inept.

Strangely, social media has also helped challenge the delusion. In the early days, everyone used it to foster an illusion of contentedness in life, essentially curating a personal image. Now, it is common to find tearful pleas and angry rants that show each of us that our own resentment is not exceptional.

All that remains is for workers to join in solidarity by a common wish to smash the entire system through our shared struggle.