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Steven Brust
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Practical ontologist, mad, drunk, and reckless troubadour (RCPM) WSWS.Org
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I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.
September 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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June 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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"Utopia." "Workers paradise." With such terms, and a sneer on his lips, the reactionary announces that he has no substantive argument to answer socialists. And, obviously, no socialist has ever promised anything remotely like Utopia. Resolving the contradiction between social production and private appropriation will solve many problems, and permit us to begin addressing others, but there will be no shortage of problems and difficulties remaining. But the real point is this: How cynical and demoralized do you have to be in order to believe that universal housing, universal health care, peace, and a decent living are Utopian! Isn't such a world, in fact, the minimum we should demand of a society easily able to provide it?
June 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Imagine that it is July 2nd, 1863, you are in a small Pennsylvania farm town, and you are a member of the 1st Minnesota. General Scott, seeing Confederates coming down the Emmitsburg Road aimed right at a weak spot in the Union line, orders your regiment to attack. Now imagine, in that moment, someone next to you saying, "Wait. We can't know if all of those people are trying to destroy the Union and defend slavery. There are good Confederates, and bad Confederates." He then goes on to talk about how some Confederate soldier shared his rations with a captured Federal, and how another helped a civilian chop her wood, and another brought a wounded enemy back to the field hospital. "You can't judge them all by the actions of a few," explains the guy next to you. To even express this is to show its absurdity; they are in uniform, and, barring cowardice or a timely attack of conscience, they are going to try to kill or capture you. I understand that some of you do not view the institution of the capitalist police force as uniformed enemies of the working class, whose job is to defend exploitation and the property relations that require exploitation, and carry out the inevitable repression and violence needed to defend those property relations. But perhaps this example will, at least, communicate why I do not consider the character of this or that police officer relevant when discussing the role of the police. In my opinion, class war is ongoing, sometimes in the open, and sometimes under the surface, but it is every bit as real as the Minié balls that flew at the 1st Minnesota on that day in 1863.
May 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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April 22, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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For many years now, this has been at the top of my "I wish I had thought of that" list.

"Look upon my woks, ye mighty, and this pear."
April 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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The right-wing and the pseudo-left certainly have their differences, but one thing they have in common is utter contempt for the masses.
April 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A recent Facebook rant to sort of properly kick off my Bluesky experience. I hope its readable.
April 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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For years I had a problem with losing important floppies. Then I got smart.
April 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM