Pig: Metonymy or allusion to a member of the police.
Cuck: Short-hand for cuckold (a person whose partner is adulterous).
My biggest complaint about Jacob Frey is that while purporting to be a liberal, he is a defender of the police, an institution which undermines many, if not all liberal ideals. He wants to partner with them, but doesn’t recognize the short-sightedness of this relationship. Whether he knows it or not, his good intentions are being diluted and bastardized. In his handling of the police, Jacob has shown himself to be a pigcuck!
Ultimately, the cops serve as the last line of defense between the working class and the oligarchs, the bourgeois, the defenders of capital – Jacob belongs to this upper class – those who co-opt progressivism. He may not be a millionaire, but he defends their interests, interests which are cruel, self-serving, white supremacist, and violent. Jacob defends systems of oppression and has been disingenuous with his campaign promises.
The Bring Back Exile (a.k.a. Ostracism) campaign is an effort to put exiling a local politician to a vote, every year. B.B.E. is meant to empower the electorate by allowing them to send a clear message to the politician of their choice: “Shame on you!”
It serves as a form of punishment / re-grounding for the ineffectual leader as well as a catharsis for the citizen. After being selected by majority vote, the exiled politician would need to spend one – three years in exile before occupying a leadership role again, political or otherwise. There are many possible nominees for exile, but I’ve chosen Frey as the “figure-head” of this campaign. As the leader of Minneapolis during a pivotal moment in U.S. history (the murder of George Floyd and the peoples’ demand for systematic change), Jacob showed an unwillingness and a lack of ingenuity to address the horrors of our society.
Read more about the specifics of this campaign here.
BOOK REVIEWS
Differing from the autocratic Joseph Stalin and the staunch Leftist Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin (also a member of the communist leadership) took a more moderate approach.
The most significant consideration for Bukharin was not asserting total control or making Russia a communist society by any means necessary, but rather to maintain open lines of communication between the government and the Russian peasant. Bukharin also believed that there would be a period of time between Czarism and Communism where state power and private ownership would coexist. This balanced approach was known as the New Economic Policy (N.E.P.) and was the topic of debate throughout the 1920s among the different party factions.
This book zips through the early years of Bukharin’s life, and then slows down to discuss the difficulties and lessons of reorganizing a old society. The full review is coming soon, and can be found here.
ABOUT THE SITE
- Site Moderator:
South Minneapolis resident. - Goals:
1. Promote a program that addresses the electorate’s grievances with politicians deemed to have failed in addressing the major concerns of our society (i.e. the Bring Back Exile / Ostracism Campaign).
2. Develop other campaigns and organizational capacities.
3. Do ethically aligned journalism (some opinions and personal philosophy mixed into the facts).
4. Promote educational resources and review / discuss revolutionary texts, films, lectures, etc. - If you’re interested in publishing through Reeducate MPLS, send me an email and if it makes sense, I would love to include / promote my neighbors’ ideas. Email: reclaimmpls.org@gmail.com
- Politically speaking, I am an anarchist and an utopianist.
- For me, anarchism resides within the realm of freedom, and has left behind the realm of necessity.
- Karl Marx in Capital: “The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases; thus in the very nature of things it lies beyond the sphere of actual material production.” Marx goes on to say that the shortening of the working day is the basic prerequisite for the realm of freedom.
- Anarchy does not refer to chaos, violence (except for legitimate self-defense), or nihilism. It means that we (the people) can do a better job at structuring our society than the capitalistic hierarchy. Anarchism resides in a society so well organized, that all of our basic needs are met, with the fewest number of people needing to work.
- Utopianism is often a pejorative for the privileged, highly educated class, who try to impose their lofty realm of ideas upon the material world. I do believe in some distant utopia, but unlike “traditional utopianism”, it is the material world which must inform our ideas and conceptions of what is possible. For instance, a material truth seems to be that people can’t participate in society when they are constantly fighting to survive within the realm of necessity, i.e. make money.
- For me, anarchism resides within the realm of freedom, and has left behind the realm of necessity.
- Thank you for reading a little about me and the basics of my cosmology / belief system. I hope it’s enough for you to either embrace or reject this digital commons as a place for good faith conversation. Cheers!
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