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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Enslaved people generally came from Roman expansion and from captives being taken by the Roman army. But their ranks were also being added to by those who lived within households and had children born into slavery within a Roman domicile. We know that about 60 percent of the enslaved people within this vast empire of about seventy million people at its height were working in a rural context, with the rest working in an urban context.</p><p>Looking at those in the cities, nine out of ten would probably be manumitted in the future, but only one out of ten of the rural agricultural slaves will be manumitted. It made a big difference whether you were assigned to work in the fields or in a domestic context, as a teacher of children, for example, or as a stenographer, a librarian, or a nursemaid. All of those jobs had at least a higher possibility of manumission, which doesn’t in any way validate slavery or make it ethically correct, of course. But in an agricultural world where you were constantly working in the fields, that meant in all likelihood you would spend almost your whole life enslaved.</p><p>There was tension between enslaved workers within the world of agriculture and a lot of animosity towards enslaved people working in a domestic context. But overall, Rome was a slave society that depended heavily on enslaved labor in order to be successful. The citizens of Rome, especially in Italy and the city of Rome itself, were highly dependent both on slaves and free people to do a lot of the manual labor that they themselves did not want to do."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/07/ancient-rome-labor-slavery-strikes" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/07/ancient-ro</span><span class="invisible">me-labor-slavery-strikes</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/RomanEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AncientRome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncientRome</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassStruggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassStruggle</span></a></p>
Voting is Your POWER<p>IT WAS OUR PITCHFORKS👇</p><p>ROBBER BARON BEFF JEZOS was forced to relocate his Venice wedding reception due to protesters! <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EatTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0vjr07570o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cd0vjr07</span><span class="invisible">570o</span></a></p>
🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸<p>Boys and girls are actin' real strange<br>Pretendin' they're welders and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cowboys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cowboys</span></a> and such<br>Buyin' old work gear from the exchange<br>You can tell their hands don't do very much<br>Sayin', "Me, me, me, me, me more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cowboy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cowboy</span></a> than you<br>I swear that I'm <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingClass</span></a> through and through"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBrudiBrothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheBrudiBrothers</span></a> - Me More Cowboy Than You</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAsq8vyKRs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=FaAsq8vyKRs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>country</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/countryMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>countryMusic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/americana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>americana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@Edelruth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Edelruth</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ApostateEnglishman</span></a></span> <br>Keep telling <a href="https://mastodon.online/@Edelruth/114662730492322469" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">that lie</a> to yourself often enough and you may actually believe it.</p><ul><li>Makes it way easier to ignore any criticism...</li></ul><p>I'm not telling <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gretathunberg</span></a></span> what she can do or not.</p><ul><li>All I'm saying is that the entire <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Madleen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Madleen</span></a> tour thingy was an extremely naive <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckAroundAndFindOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckAroundAndFindOut</span></a>!"</em> - kinda way to get some media attention.</li></ul><p>Alas thins entire thing helped exactly 0 Gazans as they didn't even try to launch an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine#Torpedo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>"Aid Torpedo"</em></a>, so precisely 0g of aid reached <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. </p><ul><li>For someone so <em>"concerned about the envoirment"</em> that must've been a hard-to-swallow truth.</li></ul><p>Alas, maybe she'll actually come to the right conclusions, that all things - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Neocolonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neocolonialism</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SocialInjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialInjustice</span></a> - are intrinsically connected and can be attributed to few key people that make huge sums of money off the misery of others.</p><ul><li>I'll set <a href="https://mastodon.online/@Edelruth" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">you</a> on a timeout.</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/thxbye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thxbye</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/next" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>next</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EOD</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@Jgbird" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Jgbird</span></a></span> no, it was always about <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SuperRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SuperRich</span></a> vs. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poor</span></a>, of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> vs. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Workers</span></a>.</p><ul><li>Even <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WarrenBuffet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarrenBuffet</span></a> admitted to that in public!</li></ul>
Mark Patterson, MD, PhD<p>Great new anthem by the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/DropkickMurphys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DropkickMurphys</span></a>. <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <br><a href="https://dropkickmurphys.com/2025/06/03/music-video-wholl-stand-with-us/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dropkickmurphys.com/2025/06/03</span><span class="invisible">/music-video-wholl-stand-with-us/</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In line with its ‘timeful’ approach, the book starts working towards its end once we arrive at financialization in the form to which we are accustomed. By this point, Bicocca is almost completely stripped of its old working-class identity. Though the authors do not write in a melodramatic tone here, it’s sad to see that, after a century of struggle, the area is now known as a ‘no-man’s-land’. It was not always planned like this; in the 1980s, Pirelli’s plan was to turn Bicocca into a leading centre of high-tech industrial development named ‘Technocity’. But already by the 1990s, company management realized that basing the neighbourhood’s development entirely on real-estate speculation was much more profitable. In stark contrast, then, with the supposedly ‘dynamic’ financial markets determining the rhythm of its development, Bicocca is now best described by the authors as ‘decaffeinated urbanity’.</p><p>In that sense, Class Meets Land reminds more of the financial markets it takes issue with than of present-day Bicocca: it’s a fast-paced book, in the best sense of the word, and nowhere do the authors trip into excessive theoretical reflection. Yet, its biggest strength lies in Kaika and Ruggiero’s methodological insistence: the struggle between class and capital is never lost sight of, and each historical event is neatly related to what preceded and followed it. As such, they make a convincing case for approaching financialization in its specific historical context and from the perspective of local class struggles."</p><p><a href="https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22135_class-meets-land-the-embodied-history-of-land-financialization-by-maria-kaika-and-luca-ruggiero-reviewed-by-victor-stout/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">marxandphilosophy.org.uk/revie</span><span class="invisible">ws/22135_class-meets-land-the-embodied-history-of-land-financialization-by-maria-kaika-and-luca-ruggiero-reviewed-by-victor-stout/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Milan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Milan</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Operaismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Operaismo</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Financialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Financialization</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marxism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Bicocca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bicocca</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"We still have a working-class majority in this country. Their occupations may have changed, but their struggles are the same. They’re still struggling with health care costs, with bad bosses, with low wages. The party is still confronting an electorate that’s majority working class, and it needs to think about how to win in those conditions.</p><p>The important thing here is that the party’s economic program really came first. So in 1993, Clinton comes into power. Democrats push through this very capital-friendly, business-friendly economic program, and then in ’94 they reap what they sowed.</p><p>They were conscious of that. There are these memos and interviews, oral-history accounts of people in the White House at the time, and they are talking about how even in ’93, they knew what was going to happen with NAFTA, with budget austerity. They knew they were going to lose a lot of working-class voters."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/05/democrats-class-dealignment-working-class" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/05/democrats-</span><span class="invisible">class-dealignment-working-class</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Clinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clinton</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClass</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Today, a well-paying manufacturing job requires a hard science background, centered around engineering, technical proficiency, or in many cases, wiring and operating complex automated technology. </p><p>"We don’t want to bring back the jobs of yesterday — we want to enable the operational efficiency and innovation of tomorrow," Kenworthy says, stressing the need to "skate to where the puck is going" as manufacturing roles continue to evolve.</p><p>The exact type of manufacturing the U.S. hones in on will factor heavily as well. Textile and garment industry jobs aren't likely to attract American workers, Kenworthy theorizes, given the relatively low pay, poor hours and high physical demands. The focus instead should be on "anything in the high-tech sector," including the semiconductor sector, pharmaceuticals, automotive and aerospace, all of which beget the need for highly-skilled, well-trained workers with engineering backgrounds.</p><p>The problem right now, though, is that the infrastructure to educate and entice these workers simply doesn't exist, and there are currently no plans to build that out anytime soon, all while the Trump administration has sought to deport the very people who would want those manufacturing jobs the most. </p><p>"A broad program to empower and build a next-generation manufacturing workforce would be what is necessary to make this effective," Kenworthy posits. "Without that, all this effort to bring manufacturing back to the United States is not going to be effective.""</p><p><a href="https://www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/41659-a-fools-errand-the-fatal-flaw-behind-a-us-manufacturing-revival" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">supplychainbrain.com/articles/</span><span class="invisible">41659-a-fools-errand-the-fatal-flaw-behind-a-us-manufacturing-revival</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Protectionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protectionism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>While I think a lot of observers make too much of the supposed ideological differences between the "populist" white nationalist faction, and the pro-billionaire techno-fascist contingent in the Trump regime, it's hard not to notice that some of the DOGE recommendations and other funding cuts look like class warfare made literal, with expected casualties. In a move that makes precisely zero sense from a perspective of protecting Americans living through the early stages of climate catastrophe, the Trump regime has ordered the closure of twenty-five science centers that monitor water levels to combat flooding and drought. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-administration-united-states-geological-service" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/02/trump-administration-united-states-geological-service</span></a></p><p>Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US</p><p>"The Trump administration has ordered the closure of 25 scientific centers that monitor US waters for flooding and drought, and manage supply levels to ensure communities around the country don’t run out of water.</p><p>The United States Geological Service (USGS) water science centers’ employees and equipment track levels and quality in ground and surface water with thousands of gauges. The data it produces plays a critical role across the economy to protect human life, protect property, maintain water supplies and help clean up chemical or oil spills.</p><p>The targeted centers are part of a larger network, and the Trump administration based its decision to make cuts on leases near expiration, not scientific reasoning, said Kyla Bennett, director of science policy with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility non-profit that is tracking the issue."</p><p>I think I do a pretty good job of distinguishing the things I know, from the things I suspect, here on this blog; so perhaps what I'm about to say here is speculative, but please note that my observations are absolutely informed by people like Elon Musk openly articulating his belief that we're in a racialized war for the future of humanity, which is going to happen on Mars apparently. That noted, it's hard for me not to notice that an absolutely huge portion of the regime's slash and burn agenda is clearly a targeted type of quite literal class warfare; they're actively burning down anything that keeps poor and labor class people alive, while funneling money directly to billionaire tech-fascists, increasing military funding, and rapidly expanding a fascist police state. The result of these policies on a long enough timeline will quite obviously be the deaths of more labor class people, and a further entrenchment of power for the ruling class reactionaries; and suggesting that might be intentional would sound like a conspiracy theory if the billionaire nazis surrounding and populating the Trump regime, guys like Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance and so forth, didn't keep saying the quiet part out loud. </p><p>Finally, while I'm not sure this is newsworthy, I couldn't willingly write up this story without marveling at what I'm sure one of the wildest things quoted from The Guardian in the paper's long history:</p><p>“It’s not being done with any thought about human life, it was just ‘this seems so woke so let’s get rid of it,’” Bennett said. “People think water is free and comes out of your tap whenever you want, but it’s not that simple.”</p><p>Yeah, water is "woke" is a thing now apparently; may whatever gods you believe in have mercy on our souls.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flooding</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Defunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Defunding</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AnarchoNinaAnalyzes</span></a></span> yes, it is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> and said <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> needs to be turned, unless we want <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humanity</span></a> to cease existing!</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In Finland, manufacturing accounted for 24 percent of GDP. By 1991, it had declined to 17. In Sweden, manufacturing as a share of GDP declined from 21 to 16 percent during the same period. But by the early 2000, Finland brought its manufacturing share of GDP back up to 24 percent, and Sweden raised its manufacturing share of GDP to 20 percent.</p><p>The same trend can be observed in Singapore. Singapore experienced quite a significant decline in manufacturing in the mid-1980s, from 27 percent to 20 percent. But by the mid-2000s, it had recovered back to 27 percent. By the way, Singapore, despite what people think, is one of the most industrialized countries in the world: in terms of per capita manufacturing output, it ranks in the top five globally. There’s an interesting myth about it being a service economy.</p><p>The most industrialized country in the world is Switzerland. You think that the Swiss are dealing in the black money from Third World dictators and selling cow bells and cuckoo clocks to American and Japanese tourists. Actually, it is literally the most industrialized country in the world, if you count in terms of manufacturing output per person.</p><p>These countries have managed to revive their manufacturing industry, and since then they have declined a bit. But the lesson here is that these countries could do that only because they had a deliberate policy to revive manufacturing. What Donald Trump is trying to do is wishful thinking. Countries that have successfully increased their manufacturing output have deliberate policies to support manufacturing. In the Swedish and Finnish case, it also extended to retraining the workers made redundant because of the decline in traditional manufacturing sectors and then turning them into workers for new industries."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/04/tariffs-protectionism-manufacturing-industrial-policy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/04/tariffs-pr</span><span class="invisible">otectionism-manufacturing-industrial-policy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manufacturing</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Reindustrialization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reindustrialization</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Automation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Protectionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protectionism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IndutrialPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndutrialPolicy</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Trump's policies reflect a transformation of the global trade and capital regime that had already started. One way or another, a dramatic change of some kind was necessary to address imbalances in the global economy that have been decades in the making. Current trade tensions are the result of a disconnect between the needs of individual economies and the needs of the global system. Although the global system benefits from rising wages, which push up demand for producers everywhere, tensions arise when individual countries can grow more quickly by boosting their manufacturing sectors at the expense of wage growth—for example, by directly and indirectly suppressing growth in household income relative to growth in worker productivity. The result is a global trading system in which, to their collective detriment, countries compete by keeping wages down.</p><p>The tariff regime Trump announced earlier this month is unlikely to solve this problem. To be effective, American trade policy must either reverse the savings imbalance in the rest of the world, or it must limit Washington’s role in accommodating it. Bilateral tariffs do neither.</p><p>But because something must replace the current system, policymakers would be wise to start crafting a sensible alternative. The best outcome would be a new global trade agreement among economies that commit to managing their domestic economic imbalances, rather than externalizing them in the form of trade surpluses. The result would be a customs union like the one proposed by the economist John Maynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944. Parties to this agreement would be required to roughly balance their exports and imports while restricting trade surpluses from countries outside the trade agreement. Such a union could gradually expand to the entire world, leading to both higher global wages and better economic growth."</p><p><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/global-trading-system-was-already-broken#" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">foreignaffairs.com/world/globa</span><span class="invisible">l-trading-system-was-already-broken#</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GlobalTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTrade</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"What will it take to beat Amazon? Much more of what we’ve seen this past year, escalating to disruptive actions sustained over time and coordinated systematically on a global scale.</p><p>To get there, we will need union drives that embrace three principles: First, a class-struggle organising approach, recognizing that this is a fight between two opposing interests: Amazon workers, who demand the full fruits of their labor and rights at work, versus their bosses, who want to maximize profit and control. Second, the movement must be driven by bold, concrete demands that clarify what is at stake. Amazon workers have shown they will make extraordinary sacrifices if they are strongly motivated by the prospect of changing their lives. And third, there must be thorough and democratic shop-floor organising. There are no shortcuts to building the strength and resiliency necessary to withstand the blows of Amazon’s union busters.</p><p>This must be a coordinated, global effort."</p><p><a href="https://socialistproject.ca/2025/04/how-amazon-workers-can-organise-globally/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">socialistproject.ca/2025/04/ho</span><span class="invisible">w-amazon-workers-can-organise-globally/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unions</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LaborMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborMovement</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The US doesn't have enough qualified tool-and-die makers and other skilled tradespeople to produce the machines that will make the goods that Americans want to buy. New tradespeople can be trained, but acquiring these skilled trades is a process of many years. For the US to reshore its manufacturing, it needs substantial, sustained public investment in capacity-building: loans and grants to train workers and investment in basic research and other non-market goods needed to recover the US manufacturing base.</p><p>America should do all that, but if it wants to try, it needs a robust, predictable, orderly system of government to build upon. It needs the kind of reliable and orderly processes that make people feel safe about changing trades and going back to school. It needs imports of goods from overseas that can be used to restart the US manufacturing capacity that can replace those imports.</p><p>But in a market like this one, dominated by monopolies who needn't fear the Trump-gutted FTC, DOJ and CFPB; where cartels have captured their regulators; where Doge-style chaos spreads existential terror about the future, tariffs will only raise prices, without any significant re-shoring or capacity building. The Trump tariffs are a gift to giants like Nike, who have the logistics sophistication to exploit loopholes, demand preferential rates from shippers and brokers, and to pass on costs to their customers. Any domestic company that seeks to compete with Nike will not have these advantages. For Nike – and other dominant companies – the Trump tariffs are just another moat, another obstacle which they can hurdle, but which stops smaller competitors dead in their tracks:"</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-matters-how-you-slice-it/#too-big-to-care" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/04/07/it-</span><span class="invisible">matters-how-you-slice-it/#too-big-to-care</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligopolies</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a></p>
Waywords Studio<p>𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗘𝗶𝘀𝗻𝗲𝗿 - </p><p>The first in this series virtually invented the graphic novel genre. More, though, over the three books and 20+ years, Eisner sets a high bar for its form and ambition, as well. </p><p><a href="https://buff.ly/YTi2PkG" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/YTi2PkG</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookworm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readreadread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readreadread</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/willeisner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>willeisner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contractwithgod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contractwithgod</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dropsieavenue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dropsieavenue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/graphicnovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graphicnovel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"According to a new study published FGS Global, they see a technology that will primarily benefit large corporations, be used to surveil them and invade their privacy, and over which they will have little power. FGS interviewed 800 union workers, 800 nonunion workers, as well as industry and political leaders. (Disclosure: The study was commissioned by the Omidyar Network, where I was previously a reporter in residence.)</p><p>Workers are excited about the potential productivity benefits the technology enables, but are also keenly aware that as it stands, those benefits will be captured by management, and that they will have little control over how AI is ultimately used in the workplace.</p><p>In other words, I would say that, by and large, workers are seeing right through Silicon Valley’s hype, and AI for what it is. They get it."</p><p><a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/workers-know-exactly-who-ai-will" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloodinthemachine.com/p/worker</span><span class="invisible">s-know-exactly-who-ai-will</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIBubble</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Automation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClassWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWarfare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unemployment</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Productivity</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/adams-john/75024/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>John Adams</b></a></p><blockquote>It is true, there has been among us a party for some years, consisting chiefly not of the descendants of the first settlers of this country but of high churchmen and high statesmen, imported since, who affect to censure this provision for the education of our youth as a needless expence, and an imposition upon the rich in favour of the poor — and as an institution productive of idleness and vain speculation among the people, whose time and attention it is said ought to be devoted to labour, and not to public affairs or to examination into the conduct of their superiours. And certain officers of the crown, and certain other missionaries of ignorance, foppery, servility and slavery, have been most inclined to countenance and increase the same party.</blockquote><p><b>John Adams</b> (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)<br>Essay (1765-09-30), “A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 3, <i>Boston Gazette</i></p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/adams-john/75024/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/adams-john/75024/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=classwarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwarfare</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=powerful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerful</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=publiceducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publiceducation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=upperclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>upperclass</span></a></p>
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