This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Molly McKew, Scot Nakagawa, Jessica Valenti, Derek Beres, Joyce Vance, Peter Geoghegan, Kristin Du Mez, and Todd Miller
To propose pacifism as the foundational theory of resistance to what is forthcoming is to embrace deliberate suicide and endorse the unopposed murder of our comrades.
I suggest we start our political re-education by reading the Harry Turtledove short story, "The Last Article," which illustrates our present-day reality more potently than any other text I know, whether factual or fictional. (The story is available on line.) Then I would emphatically suggest becoming a subscriber to, or at least a regular reader of, the World Socialist Web Site.
In terrible truth, what we are facing has no precedent in U.S. history, and the ecogenocidal future that is now inescapable will be, by far, more devastatingly horrible than most of us can imagine, all the deadlier for the fact Nixon's abolition of the military draft in 1972 is now having its intended outcome: by denying the 99.9 Percent military training, the U.S. Empire avoided the fatal mistake of Tsarist Russia, which was the mandatory military service that, in effect, gave our victorious proletarian predecessors the discipline and skill essential for successful revolution.
To propose pacifism as the foundational theory of resistance to what is forthcoming is to embrace deliberate suicide and endorse the unopposed murder of our comrades.
I suggest we start our political re-education by reading the Harry Turtledove short story, "The Last Article," which illustrates our present-day reality more potently than any other text I know, whether factual or fictional. (The story is available on line.) Then I would emphatically suggest becoming a subscriber to, or at least a regular reader of, the World Socialist Web Site.
In terrible truth, what we are facing has no precedent in U.S. history, and the ecogenocidal future that is now inescapable will be, by far, more devastatingly horrible than most of us can imagine, all the deadlier for the fact Nixon's abolition of the military draft in 1972 is now having its intended outcome: by denying the 99.9 Percent military training, the U.S. Empire avoided the fatal mistake of Tsarist Russia, which was the mandatory military service that, in effect, gave our victorious proletarian predecessors the discipline and skill essential for successful revolution.