Harry Cleaver
@harrycleaver.bsky.social
ex-economist, retired professor, Autonomist Marxist, Zeroworker, anti-capitalist, pro-Wilderness, pro-all-sentient-beings, pro-commons,
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Harry Cleaver
@harrycleaver.bsky.social
· Nov 29
Harry Cleaver
Content by our about Harry Cleaver, autonomist Marxist theoretician, and author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. (b. 1944)
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At the very least, they should quarantine Earth until we get rid of capitalism & start repairing all the damage it has caused to the planet, its critters & other life forms. David Brin is spot on in his "Uplift" novels.
The only conspiracy theory I subscribe to but don’t actually believe is one where the intelligent aliens won’t talk to us until we achieve communism.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
At the very least, they should quarantine Earth until we get rid of capitalism & start repairing all the damage it has caused to the planet, its critters & other life forms. David Brin is spot on in his "Uplift" novels.
Kindness is the bare minimum moral position. Better: imagine getting to know & developing friendships with animals like these. It's hard because capitalists keep them locked away in factory farms so you never get a chance to know them as individuals. End their subordination & welcome them as buds.
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Kindness is the bare minimum moral position. Better: imagine getting to know & developing friendships with animals like these. It's hard because capitalists keep them locked away in factory farms so you never get a chance to know them as individuals. End their subordination & welcome them as buds.
What's good about Hegseth's announcement is that it makes his - & the Trump Administration's - racism blatantly obvious for all to see and despise. Frankly, Native Americans are lucky there's nowhere for racist ICE goon squads to deport them, being from this land & all!
Trump’s Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that the 20 U.S. Army soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor, for their participation in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, may keep them.
This is nothing more than a disgraceful celebration of the Native American Genocide.
This is nothing more than a disgraceful celebration of the Native American Genocide.
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What's good about Hegseth's announcement is that it makes his - & the Trump Administration's - racism blatantly obvious for all to see and despise. Frankly, Native Americans are lucky there's nowhere for racist ICE goon squads to deport them, being from this land & all!
Hell, I'd ban the fascist pig from my driveway!
I hope everyone sees and understands why my tribe banned Kristi Noem from our reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hell, I'd ban the fascist pig from my driveway!
Sadly, economists like Robert only worry about these relationships when they reach an extreme. What he describes is ALWAYS the case within capitalism. It's how they set it up & how they have always run it. "Regular" [working] people only "have a voice" when they raise it in massive numbers.
Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Sadly, economists like Robert only worry about these relationships when they reach an extreme. What he describes is ALWAYS the case within capitalism. It's how they set it up & how they have always run it. "Regular" [working] people only "have a voice" when they raise it in massive numbers.
Subsidizing capitalists is one of the fundamental roles of the state within capitalism, either directly with money or indirectly by keeping real wages & standards of living of most people low so they'll report to work & earn profits for their bosses. The fossil fuel industry is only one of many.
Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Subsidizing capitalists is one of the fundamental roles of the state within capitalism, either directly with money or indirectly by keeping real wages & standards of living of most people low so they'll report to work & earn profits for their bosses. The fossil fuel industry is only one of many.
Racial profiling in action...by racists, being paid to be racist, for the joy of the racists paying them by providing the spectator sport of racial harassment. That's ICE & its perpetrators in a nutshell. Racist pigs, one & all.
Republican Party uses ICE to cancel Christmas.🎄 🎅
Fascism stops at nothing.
Fascism stops at nothing.
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Racial profiling in action...by racists, being paid to be racist, for the joy of the racists paying them by providing the spectator sport of racial harassment. That's ICE & its perpetrators in a nutshell. Racist pigs, one & all.
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
I'd be willing to bet that, in fact, the woman "looks her best" when she's "doing things that make [her] happy"! Makeup & all the rest are peddled by capitalists to make profits by convincing women (& men) that they are necessary to "look my best". Lies, but then it's all you can expect from them.
Turning 43 Today: Anne Hathaway
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I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven’t looked in a mirror for days, and I’m doing things that make me happy.
#annehathaway
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I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven’t looked in a mirror for days, and I’m doing things that make me happy.
#annehathaway
Turning 43 Today: Anne Hathaway
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November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'd be willing to bet that, in fact, the woman "looks her best" when she's "doing things that make [her] happy"! Makeup & all the rest are peddled by capitalists to make profits by convincing women (& men) that they are necessary to "look my best". Lies, but then it's all you can expect from them.
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
True! Wiping out inconvenient history & creating false historical narratives is standard fascist practice. It is also, unfortunately, also true of capitalism in general - just look at the treatment of slavery & the genocide of Native Americans in your schools' history books.
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
True! Wiping out inconvenient history & creating false historical narratives is standard fascist practice. It is also, unfortunately, also true of capitalism in general - just look at the treatment of slavery & the genocide of Native Americans in your schools' history books.
Yep! They had the same idea when workers took over Paris & created the Commune in 1871 - it was one of the reasons they were massacred. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_C... If Mandami were really a "commie", he'd be organizing for a New York Commune.
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Yep! They had the same idea when workers took over Paris & created the Commune in 1871 - it was one of the reasons they were massacred. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_C... If Mandami were really a "commie", he'd be organizing for a New York Commune.
LOL! I realized long ago, that if I wanted to always be able to eat what I like, I'd best learn how to prepare it. So, as my tastes & druthers widened, so did my skills, the number of cookbooks on my kitchen shelf & the clutter of once-exotic tools on my counters. Have fun!
The restaurant where I order my poke bowl changed their ingredients and upped the price. So I get less fresh food, more ultra processed crap, AND I have to pay more for that 🙄
So fine, I bought everything I need to make them now because fuck that shit
Like $25 for a rice bowl like come on
So fine, I bought everything I need to make them now because fuck that shit
Like $25 for a rice bowl like come on
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
LOL! I realized long ago, that if I wanted to always be able to eat what I like, I'd best learn how to prepare it. So, as my tastes & druthers widened, so did my skills, the number of cookbooks on my kitchen shelf & the clutter of once-exotic tools on my counters. Have fun!
My dad was a vet; he fought the Nazis in WWII. I honor him for that. But let's not forget, modern wars are started by those making foreign policy: capitalists & the politicians & experts they pay for. The wars are for their profits & soldiers are cannon fodder - made clear by the neglect of vets!
“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com
Clarksville veterans say care, not cuts to the Veterans Administration, are needed • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee veterans face worsening chronic illnesses as a result of long waits for care and denial of claims from the Veterans Administration.
tennesseelookout.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
My dad was a vet; he fought the Nazis in WWII. I honor him for that. But let's not forget, modern wars are started by those making foreign policy: capitalists & the politicians & experts they pay for. The wars are for their profits & soldiers are cannon fodder - made clear by the neglect of vets!
LOL, Al-Sharaa is probably giving him a cut of this year's opium harvest. You can bet your ass, ever-grifting Trump is getting something out it!
Trump said 'he's had a rough past! He was the leader of Al Qaeda. The GOP spent the past weeks using Islamophobic rhetoric to fear-monger about Mamdani in NYC as DJT welcomes former al-Qaeda commander Ahmed al-Sharaa, previously on the U.S. terrorism blacklist to the @whitehouse-47.bsky.social 😡😤
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
LOL, Al-Sharaa is probably giving him a cut of this year's opium harvest. You can bet your ass, ever-grifting Trump is getting something out it!
If you don't understand, read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics AND en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics THAT is where these bastards are headed. Never doubt it!
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If you don't understand, read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics AND en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics THAT is where these bastards are headed. Never doubt it!
It's a capitalist system, pesticides increase harvests & profits. Agribusiness doesn't give a shit about the consequences for either farmworkers or consumers. It's been this way for YEARS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qub4... Don't like it? Fight to change the system.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's a capitalist system, pesticides increase harvests & profits. Agribusiness doesn't give a shit about the consequences for either farmworkers or consumers. It's been this way for YEARS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qub4... Don't like it? Fight to change the system.
"Profit over people" = Standard Operating Procedure in capitalism. You don't like it? Start thinking about getting rid of it and exploring alternatives. There are many, to almost every aspect of society that capitalists have reorganized for their own benefit, folks are producing other ways of doing.
Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off.
Why? It was hurting their profits.
They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.
Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.
Profit over people.
Why? It was hurting their profits.
They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.
Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.
Profit over people.
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"Profit over people" = Standard Operating Procedure in capitalism. You don't like it? Start thinking about getting rid of it and exploring alternatives. There are many, to almost every aspect of society that capitalists have reorganized for their own benefit, folks are producing other ways of doing.
The fucking World Cup is not about sports, it's about making money by sponsors, construction industries, etc. and about screwing everyone locally who gets in the way. The history of displacing people & animals & killing protesters is appalling.
Trump has threatened to bomb or invade 7 countries with a shot to play in the 2026 World Cup. He *has* bombed one (Iran) and said he'd deny them visas. He's preparing for war with another (Venezuela). He has summarily executed citizens from at least 3. He has imposed tariffs on nearly all of them.
FIFA head says 'you will see' at World Cup draw if Trump receives new peace prize
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The fucking World Cup is not about sports, it's about making money by sponsors, construction industries, etc. and about screwing everyone locally who gets in the way. The history of displacing people & animals & killing protesters is appalling.
As long as the meat industry proliferates its lies about the necessity of eating meat to be healthy, it's gonna remain an uphill battle. Need to have those lies not only exposed but legally banned, like other misleading claims about food.
Overdoses & suicides aside, everyone I know who is dead died of diseases that almost certainly could have been prevented w a healthy plant based diet, yet everyone claims to know of someone who went vegan & nearly died 🤦♀️
Please, people. Think more critically. Yours & the animals’ lives depend on it.
Please, people. Think more critically. Yours & the animals’ lives depend on it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
As long as the meat industry proliferates its lies about the necessity of eating meat to be healthy, it's gonna remain an uphill battle. Need to have those lies not only exposed but legally banned, like other misleading claims about food.
Need soundtrack of all the booing!
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Need soundtrack of all the booing!
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"disintegrate" is too weak a word. They fall in line to profit from fascism. They always have! Read & learn: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993) & D. Peukert, Inside Nazis Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, 1982.
From government departments targeted by Doge to CBS to now the BBC, we are seeing liberal institutions are not capable of putting up *any* resistance to fascism.
They disintegrate at the lightest touch from a fascist.
They disintegrate at the lightest touch from a fascist.
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"disintegrate" is too weak a word. They fall in line to profit from fascism. They always have! Read & learn: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993) & D. Peukert, Inside Nazis Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, 1982.
If they knew better, they'd want more than "a new leader"! They'd want to purge the entire party of all the MF'ers who have sold their souls to capitalists & been complicit with screwing the rest of us. But then they don't know better because the history of the structure has been hidden.
80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If they knew better, they'd want more than "a new leader"! They'd want to purge the entire party of all the MF'ers who have sold their souls to capitalists & been complicit with screwing the rest of us. But then they don't know better because the history of the structure has been hidden.
To anyone who has been paying attention, and clearly all too few have been, or being bought-off by Zionists have ignored it, all this has been obvious FOR YEARS! The only way you can perpetrate GENOCIDE is with the complicity of soldiers & others who do the killing.
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... "#IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy" #gazagenocide isn't over until there is justice
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
To anyone who has been paying attention, and clearly all too few have been, or being bought-off by Zionists have ignored it, all this has been obvious FOR YEARS! The only way you can perpetrate GENOCIDE is with the complicity of soldiers & others who do the killing.