Socialism … Seriously

In my experience, the best way to stay on track is to keep finding reasons to laugh—at the absurdities of capitalism and at our own sometimes clumsy efforts to challenge it.

Today we know that the revolution will not only be televised, it’s going to be trolled real hard.

Loving the public but not people is also a feature of elitist socialists, whose faith rests more on five-year development plans, utopian blueprints, or winning future elections than on the wonders that hundreds of millions can achieve when they are inspired and liberated

finally all these changes and others as well were sold to us as what the protesters had been fighting for all along—a world in which every man, woman, and child is born with the equal right to buy as many smartphones and factory-ripped pairs of jeans as they want.

The role of revolutionaries is not to create revolutions but to prepare for them.

If some workers ignore—or support—the oppressions of other workers, then real unity is impossible.

We aren’t just poorer; we’re weaker and less organized. We work longer hours, pay more for health care, scramble to deal with more precarious childcare arrangements.

This isn’t about petty jealousy. That money came from us!

Here’s my point: since a billion dollars is thirteen thousand times what the average American owns, a billionaire could give you thirteen thousand dollars to do that undesirable thing and it would cost him the equivalent of one dollar. By the same scale, for a hundred dollars, a billionaire can spend $1.3 million in regular people money, which can buy the support of both candidates in most Congressional races, or pay the salaries of a dozen people to promote his agenda in a think tank or bogus grassroots organization.

billionaire and ex–New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg showed up and did the same thing, his $25 billion in wealth would stretch all the way to the moon . . . and back . . . five times.