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.

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.

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.

The youngest age cohort is currently the only with any broad class consciousness.

Older generations, the ones that endured the depression and fought the two wars on either side, were fiercely class conscious, entirely aware that the wealth of society that they were generating was being stolen by the greedy parasitic class of owners.

Ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, it was common, after finishing school, for someone enthusiastically to sell the entirety of one’s being, body, mind, and all, to the corporate masters, imagining such enthusiasm as making oneself superior to peers, providing a guarantee to outpace all of them in the promotions and purchases that would mark the milestones of life.

The lies and mythology by now have become too obvious not to notice by anyone not already traumatized by the severest indoctrination and self delusion.

The system is unfair and unstable. Some workers trample other workers, only that we all may be trampled by our rulers, gratefully of course.

The current situation is exactly as depicted.

Most of the population submits to ideals, promulgated through elite channels, that erase class, makes society seem as a unified whole unladen by competing interests, or afflicted by competing interests based on race, gender, or citizenship, rather than being shaped by the overarching antagonisms between owners and workers.

The capitalist class is overwhelmingly portrayed as benevolent and essential, and represented through terms such as “business leaders” and “change makers”, though they are far more accurately described as appropriators or exploiters.

Sorry. I may not understand.

I do hold the hope that university professors will begin to recognize their shared struggled with the rest of the working class.

Now is as good a time as any, I suppose. Historically, professors have been among the cohorts most insulated, probably the one singularly most insulated, from the ravages of the the capitalist class, but no one is any longer too blind to see how universities have been systemically transformed into private businesses under the calculus of neoliberalism.

“We are done footing the bill for the chancellor’s house”

Class consciousness is rising.

It would be a small but very useful step in mitigating some bad effects within a society that needs to be entirely rebuilt.

The standoff is also one that workers must win. The force against companies in Sweden is illusory. Workers’ only real power is from the force they create themselves, and unless they use their power, it will continue to be eroded.