Since I have a poor memory, would someone please remind me why it is harmful for the working class to continue allowing production to fall under the consolidated control of oligarchs?

I know there must be some reason, but I seem to keep forgetting.

Israel itself is drenched in a culture of racist anti-Palestinian tropes, and denial of the ethnic cleansing called the Nakba.

The crimes of the Third Reich are invoked disingenuously to construct a counterfactual demonization of the Palestinian people.

Meanwhile, Jews in the West are often antagonized in their communities and families if they challenge the prevailing dogma.

There is a soft but tragic irony, that many liberal Jews feel free to approach their religious heritage critically and skeptically, but any who question political doctrine are greeted as heretics.

I read a study arguing that each time someone utters the letters U, B, and I, currency devalues itself by one thousand fold, chunks of the sky rain down on metropolitan centers, and everyone instantly becomes fat, lazy, and uninterested in any activities except playing video games.

A strike can last much longer if workers are not worried about their bread and roof.

Even without organization, a secure worker can bargain harder for higher wages and better conditions.

I guess lying to employees about the law is just what families do.

I think when one small group holds power, the effects for everyone else are usually shitty.

The issue may be more related to power itself, rather than to those who hold it.

Laws protect business, not workers.

I suppose he must be very frugal with household expenses.

Full time work being thirty two hours each week would be a compromise.

The defining principle of the systems under which we live is work or die.

No conditions under such a system would be ideal, and any would be a compromise.

Considering all the years that have passed since the Haymarket massacre, and all that has been sacrificed, fighting for thirty two hours is hardly radical or outrageous.

The population seems complacent to accept that employers seek unlimited power, merely because no other channel is available for earning one's survival.

No way of relating to an abusive system is ever considered, except capitulation.

In fact, I feel alarmed at how readily many will imagine some grave threat from a hypothetical coworker who uses substances, without ever considering the threat of abandoning one's own privacy.

Fortunately greater numbers are coming to realize that the Gates Foundation's function was never much more than reputation laundering.

American workers historically have understood clearly that their antagonist is the capitalist class, who uses the hollow abstraction of "the economy", framed as an end in itself, to distract from its selfish pursuit of private accumulation.

It is time that everyone finally wake up and join the shared struggle.