A more newsy, free-flowing episode. I see many socialists confused by paired spectacles of astroturfed extremism and carefully misdirected popular energy: caravans of hooting hollering settler hogs on the one side, caravans of moozlamic hispanic terrorists on the other. I’m pretty sure the plan is to numb you to the current violence of bio-gladio, and the climate massacres to come, by convincing you that any given authoritarian crackdown is only going to hit the invading “caravan” who fall on the “side” opposite you, not of the class divide but the partisan divide. But while you were cheering or jeering at the trucker-branded, spook-seeded rodeo clowns—indigenous organizers of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en nations have had their accounts frozen. And when the “caravans” of climate refugees arrive, all the totalitarian measures you helped them pass will come mercilessly down on their heads and yours. We take up texts from Engels, Kautsky, and Lenin on the importance of civic freedoms not as the sole end in themselves but as strategic “light and air” for the proletarian struggle. We’ll miss freedom of movement and freedom of assembly when they’re gone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.