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JesseLex<p>Interesting stats showing why increasing taxes on higher income/wealthy people &amp; possibly even better results state/locally doesn't occur through elections.</p><p>Wealthy white homeowners vote more on property tax hike proposals - Chicago Tribune<br><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/wealthy-white-homeowners-property-tax-hike-votes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/</span><span class="invisible">wealthy-white-homeowners-property-tax-hike-votes/</span></a></p><p>If you're a Chicago Public Library cardholder, you can access this article without paywall via <a href="https://www.chipublib.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">chipublib.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/Taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taxes</span></a> <a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/DemocraticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticSocialism</span></a> <a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/Campaigning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Campaigning</span></a> <a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/Class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Class</span></a> <a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/Marginalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marginalization</span></a> <a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> <a href="https://cityofchicago.live/tags/VoterTurnout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoterTurnout</span></a></p>
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"The magazine’s distinctive illustrations, when Conroy and Hagglund could afford to print them, were key to both its regional aesthetics and democratic socialist philosophy. Nearly all illustrations are linoleum block prints and depict workers in an asymmetrical, primitivist style. One image from the May-June 1940 issue of New Anvil, John C. Rogers’s Working Class Mother, portrays a simply clothed woman standing arms akimbo on a country hill, her back turned to the viewer as she looks proudly at a sun either rising or setting. As in Conroy’s vivid description of his printer’s “cowbarn sanctum,” Rogers depicts the rural environment of the magazine’s imagined reader with respect but little romanticism. Ideologically, it signals a departure from the conventions dominant in Marxist aesthetics during the early 1930s. Instead of replicating socialist realism and representing the world revolution with depictions of workers united in victory or heading into battle, Working Class Mother equivocates on the state of socialism in the rural United States. It is unclear whether the sun in the illustration is rising, suggesting the coming revolution, or setting on a passing opportunity, perhaps registering that the anti-capitalist potential of the Depression decade was on the wane."

jacobin.com/2025/02/anvil-maga

jacobin.comAnvil, the Forgotten Magazine of Heartland MarxismPrinted out of a cattle barn in Minnesota, Anvil published some of the biggest leftist writers of the 1930s, including Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. Its popular vision for a multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent today.

Does anyone know of an example of a country that has privatized government services that is currently working out well? Likewise, are there opposite examples where privatization has been tried and failed miserably? I need examples to read up on to help me make my argument against privatization hit home when talking with my siblings and their in-laws.

About 6-7 years ago I stopped identifying as a Democrat (for obvious reasons) and Bernie Sanders gets credit for introducing me to the term Democratic Socialist. From there, I continued learning. In the last year or two I've come out as simply a Socialist.

I recognize many others are on that path as well. I would like to say to them:

The reason the word Democrat is so commonly put in front of Socialist is because of internalized fear mongering and misinformation regarding what Socialism is. It takes time to un-learn the cold war propaganda. It feels safer to take baby steps. That's valid. People still respond in unpredictable ways, socially, when they hear the S word. But give it a try. Seek out information, question your own beliefs.

"Did US sanctions cause the issues in Cuba, and blame it on Socialism? Why does National Socialism use that word even if it's not Socialism?" Is a good place to start.

Ditching the D word in front of the S word is a little scary at first, but it's liberating to break free from the angry mob's expectations as puppeteered by US Imperialism.

#USA #DemocraticParty #DemocraticSocialism: "[L]ooking back a decade, it’s worth asking: How many of the fundamental 2010s problems — the ones that launched Occupy and fueled Bernie in the first place — have been addressed by today’s Democrats?

Here I mean the Big Things: universal health care, the power of capital over labor, class dealignment, the crimes of US foreign policy. How much progress have we made on these? The child tax credit and more money for green infrastructure are wonderful little wins, but are they really building a bridge to social democracy, much less democratic socialism? If I sound sour, it’s because I worry that some of our best young people have been bought cheap."

jacobin.com/2024/08/online-lef

jacobin.comHas the Online Left Given Up?How many of the fundamental 2010s problems — the ones that launched Occupy Wall Street and fueled Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns in the first place — have been addressed by today’s Democrats? None.