#neoliberal

@avatter das meint #merz, wenn er weiterhin (!) behauptet , man arbeite gut zusammen in der #schwarzrot #koalition …
#spd #klingbeil #neoliberal #kleptokratie #spahn #untersuchungsauschuss #masken #cdu

Dette : le système #néolibéral - #capitaliste met VOLONTAIREMENT en difficulté les finances de l’État pour justifier la destruction de ce qu'il nous reste de biens communs & mettre les gens modestes en coupe réglée... mais pas touche aux milliardaires
#Insoumis #LFI #GJ !

Scientists with full time jobs moonlighting as Uber drivers to afford the basics. Or getting out of science or the country.

‘I don’t want my training to go to waste’: the Argentinian scientists working side jobs amid Milei’s sweeping cuts

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/argentinian-scientists-work-side-jobs-javier-milei

#economy #neoliberal #science #Argentina

#Multipolarity is not a choice but an objective reality.
It is replacing the outdated #neoliberal model which was essentially built on #neocolonial practises

Lavrov speech at #BRICS Summit

Better hurry comrade Lavrov because I don't think many of us will stay alive for a long time if neoliberalism lasts a little longer

Democrats & Republicans SERVE Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn9EyqpPImo

“keep your foot on his neck. he is still your enemy, enemy of the people”

Zohran Mamdani Can't Even EXPLAIN SOCIALISM

#Politics #ZohranMamdani #Socialism #Politicians #Serve #Capitalism #Reminder #Learn #LiberalPolitics #WorkerClass #Bourgeois #NYPD #Progressivism #Statism #Subjugation #RootCauses #Neoliberal #Maintenance #Hopes #Rights #Billionaires #Power #Anarchism #Illegitimate #States

I just happen to come across this article by #CurtisDaly from 2023.

#TheCanaryUK

#AndrewTate: a #neoliberal biproduct; more Agent Smith than Neo? https://www.thecanary.co/video/2023/01/16/andrew-tate-a-biproduct-of-neoliberalism-not-someone-helping-young-men/.

#men. #uomi #hommes #hombres

@carcosa @QasimRashid

We've all talked to death about how the #MAGA wing took over & warped the #RepublicanParty

We need to have the same conversation about how #CitizensUnited enabled #neoliberal #CorporateDemocrats to take over & warp the #DemocraticParty

It started out the party of Southern slaveholders & their lackeys - #autocrats #Oligarchs & enablers... it morphed into a coalition btw #Labor & #CivilRights flanks

Let's face it, the party's returning to its roots

Dette : le système #néolibéral - #capitaliste met VOLONTAIREMENT en difficulté les finances de l’État pour justifier la destruction de ce qu'il nous reste de biens communs & mettre les gens modestes en coupe réglée... mais pas touche aux milliardaires
#Insoumis #LFI #GJ !

@Nickiquote In BC - our current Premier used to be a strong civil liberties lawyer. I supported his work in that arena for years. Then, he moved to politics. Shortly after that, got groomed by now dead neoliberal who screwed up BC for years & sold his soul to capitalist lobbyists. He is now a very awful person. Doing almost everything he fought against, when he was a civil liberties champion. Power & greed corrupted him.

#BCpoli #BCNDP #Neoliberal #Capitalist #CDNpoli #politics #Sellouts #BCNewDeathParty #DavidEby

CDU & SPD versprachen im Wahlkampf, die Mittelschicht zu entlasten. Kurz nachdem sie an der Macht sind, stampfen sie ihre Versprechen wieder ein:

Keine Entlastung bei den Strompreisen für alle
Keine niedrigeren Steuern für die Mittelschicht Kein 15 Euro Mindestlohn

Dafür kommt:
Senkung der Unternehmenssteuern
Senkung der Strompreise nur für die Industrie
Erleichterte Abschreibungsmöglichkeiten für Unternehmen

Diese Koalition hat einen großen Sinn und Zweck: Umverteilung von unten nach oben.

#cdu #spd #neoliberal #politik

“To be a good subject of #neoliberal labor, one has to emit desire and identification with the affective ties of #collegiality to make networks of shared obligation seem more grounded and permanent than the corporation will support structurally.” Lauren #Berlant, Cruel Optimism, p. 218. #capitalism

And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!

#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead

Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |

This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.

What happened?

"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.

"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.

[...]

New York City

"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.

[...]

Portland, Maine

"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.

"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.

"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.

Long road ahead

"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'

"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”

https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/

#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica

@ChrisMayLA6 same as with #socialdemocrats across #Europe including #thenetherlands :

Will they be able to wrestle themselves from their self-imposed #neoliberal mind frame? And start bravely proposing and implementing policies that restore #fairness and #equality . Focus on the real reasons people vote #populist.

Der Trick von CDU & SPD:
Alles, was im Koalitionsvertrag vereinbart worden ist, steht unter Finanzierungsvorbehalt

Das heißt, jegliche Vorhaben können mit dem Argument "das Geld fehlt" wieder eingestampft werden.

Konsequenz: Ein neoliberales Wünsch-dir-was.
Steuererleichterung für Unternehmen, erhöhte Militärausgaben, aber Sozialausgaben und Steuersenkungen für Armutsbetroffene fallen weg...

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/stromsteuer-kritik-100.html

#cdu #spd #klingbeil #schuldenbremse #neoliberal

What can we learn from the current mess. The protests didn’t fail because people didn’t care. They failed because the system is not built to respond to protest, it’s built to absorb it. We’ve marched for climate justice, taken the streets for peace, rallied for gender freedom, and now we mobilize for Palestine. The awareness is unprecedented. The turnout is historic. But what has shifted?

Police powers expanded. Fossil fuel extraction accelerated, Gaza burns. The truth is: awareness is not power. That’s a bitter pill for many on the #mainstreaming liberal left, who still believe that if we just scream loud enough, someone with authority will finally listen. But listen to what? A million voices chanting through state-sanctioned routes, wrapped in #NGO branding, monitored by our mobile devices?

This isn’t failure by accident, it’s design. Modern post #neoliberal governance has perfected the art of managing dissent, it doesn’t crush opposition, it curates it. It schedules protest, builds fenced-off “free speech zones” tallies engagement for annual reports. It makes this work by funding the same nonprofits it pretends to oppose to push protest as a pageant, a performance of resistance that never practically interrupt the flows of capital.

Worse than this, it trains us into harmless routines: march, chant, hashtag on the #dotcons, disperse, donate, repeat. It pacifies rage by channelling it into metrics, and then sells those metrics back to us as success. It offers us vacuous victories made of smoke and mirrors: a viral post, a headline, a panel discussion.

But to put this simply, real power doesn’t care how you feel, it cares what you can disrupt. And right now, they know we can’t disrupt much, because power doesn’t fear signs or slogans, it fears logistics.

We know this from history. The Viet Minh didn’t defeat the French colonial army with slogans. The IRA didn’t survive the British Empire through branding. The Zapatistas didn’t hold territory in Chiapas by waiting for permission. These movements did not rely on protest. They relied on operations. On strategy. On adaptability. On patience and planning.

What do we need, to shift from affective protest to effective resistance? This doesn’t mean abandoning public protest entirely, but it means recognizing what it is: a signal, not a structure. It’s the spark, not the engine. And too often, we mistake the spark for the fire.

So what does this shift look like? Stop chasing virality. Build networks that don’t rely on platforms owned by billionaires. Organize in ways that can’t be throttled or shadowbanned.
Don’t just protest; prototype. Create alternatives: cooperative farms, tool libraries, mesh networks, open media infrastructures (#OMN), community defence projects. Measure what matters. Track not followers or clicks, but mutual aid distributed, infrastructure built, people trained, tools replicated. Treat resistance like an ecosystem. Not wannabe famous (stupid)individuals shouting louder, but communities learning, adapting, and reproducing decentralized power.

In short, we need an operational culture, built not on outrage cycles but on daily commitment, iteration, and survival. This is prefigurative politics in action: we don’t beg the world to change, we build the new one inside the shell of the old. Yes, the current system will collapse. It is already collapsing. The question is no longer how to reform it, but at this stage, how to outlive it, and outgrow it.

This is where strategy matters, this is where affect must meet action. Because we aren’t here to perform resistance for an audience, we’re here to construct parallel systems in the cracks of empire. And that starts with understanding: protest alone is not enough. We must become ungovernable, not just in what we say – but in how we live.

#KISS

There is, however, an important encouraging sign from #ZohranMamdani's victory, which is not affected by the failures of the electoral system: it is a sign that the #USA public is starting to realize that #neoliberal Democrats are their enemies, and must be defeated along with Republicans if anything resembling genuine liberty is ever to be achieved. That realization needs to be widespread and deeply held if we are ever to liberate ourselves, whether by electoral means or by any other means.

The discussions on sovereignty at #NGIForum2025 make me wonder: what year are we in? It’s as if we’re rebooting grassroots conversations we’ve had for decades – but without the mess, memory, or movement that gave them meaning in the first place.

A breath of clarity came from @renchap, who said it plainly:

We need to focus our efforts on funding and supporting public value network infrastructure… THAT CANNOT BE BOUGHT.

Absolutely. If that idea resonates with you, try starting with the #4opens – a pragmatic path to build tech with real accountability and openness. It’s not a utopia, it’s a filter designed to push out 95% of the #techshit we’re constantly drowning in. The rest? That’s the work: compromise, community, governance.

For those curious about mapping this stuff, I appreciate the attempt to formalize governance components of digital commons here: https://commons.mattischneider.fr/2-constituants It’s useful, but my take? Still not messy enough to reflect how real-world horizontal projects actually work. As the site rightly says:

“If you already have experience in operating commons, you or your organisation will probably have specific practices that are more appropriate to your context.”

Exactly, why context matters, and why real commons need trust-based governance, not just metrics and diagrams. Let’s remember:

Tools are only useful if people use them.And that’s our real problem right now.

Take this audience question as a clear example: What should we do when a US company acquires an EU one – like Cisco buying Slido? It hits the core issue:

Centralized, vertical control is always the endgame of VC funding and the mainstream tech stack.

What’s the mainstream response? Push more AI. Push more “innovation.” Push more #stupidindividualism. This story is heavily funded and constantly amplified. Why? Because it keeps us distracted, divided, and demobilized. We need to compost this garbage.

Let’s stop pretending #opensource is the goal. It’s only useful if it lives in common infrastructure, owned and governed collectively, with embedded solidarity, not slogans. Yes, someone pointed out that:

"Open source licensing permits continued operation of the software with an EU provider."

That’s technically true, but in practice, how many such transitions actually happen? How many of these tools become hollowed-out ghost projects after the buyout? We need the EU to fund #4opens #FOSS and commons-native projects directly, not startups chasing exit strategies.

And yes, I’ll be blunt here:

There’s likely a whole class of people who should be prosecuted for fraud.

Because the current “innovation” circuit is knowingly wasting public money on private gain under the “our” banner of openness. It’s a con. A parasitic class living off the #countercultures they parasitise. So let’s call this out, not to “disrupt” for disruption’s sake, but to open up space for what actually matters:

Native projects with shared roots in code, care, and community.
Activism that isn’t tacked on for #PR, but central to the infrastructure itself.
Horizontal governance that embraces mess, rather than paving over it.

We don’t need more products, we don’t need more platforms, we don’t need more panels pushing safe #neoliberal “common sense.” What we do need is to build and protect infrastructure that can’t be bought, captured, or silenced. Because that’s the only way we’re getting through this era of collapse with anything human left intact.

#NGIForum #NGIForum25 #4opens #OMN #openweb #techshit #commonsnotplatforms #mutualaid #FOSS #trustnotcontrol #liberalcapture #activismtech #geekproblem

DRAFT

It’s good to see events like #NGIFORUM2025. The #Fediverse and the wider #openweb reboot are real forces for social good, messy, hopeful, and grounded in decades of grassroots digital culture, we do need to support them. BUT we also need to speak honestly, as these spaces are not healthy by default.

Too often, they are co-opted by #NGO and institutional actors who bring with them a dangerous kind of “common sense”, what I’ve long described as the parasite class. We see this clearly at #NGIFORUM and similar events.

Despite the energy and good intentions, the dominant framing is stuck in a narrow, #neoliberal logic:

More funding for shiny #techfixes.
Token gestures to social issues.
Endless discussion about scalability, compliance, branding, and “the market.”
Panels where on topic needs “reality-checking” and “off-topic” is the path to sense.

This is not the native path, what we need is more shovels and composting. We need to grow native, open projects from the messy soil of lived social experience. Not more polished “innovation theatre.” And crucially: we need to bring activism back into these spaces – not as token #fashernista crap, but as lived, rooted practice. We need to embed activist tech into the core of these events, not leave it in the hallway.

Because let’s be honest, too much of what’s being showcased is just more #techshit to compost. Take the role of NGI funding (Next Generation Internet): It could be a powerful tool to fund the future of a people-powered web. But right now? It’s increasingly structured to reward isolated hard tech with narrow deliverables, and punish anything messy, social, or disruptive. That’s upside-down.

The development side of open-source should be anti-commercial – in its process, not necessarily in its usage. That means public funding should support the huge social layer that keeps FOSS and #openweb projects alive:

Community organising.
UX design from lived needs, not compliance charts.
Onboarding and trust-building.
Accessibility work.
Documenting process for reuse and remix.

But these parts are almost entirely unfunded, and that is pushing us into the arms of the parasite class. We are walking backward into the future, again. Projects without people, users, and support are dead projects. No matter how elegant the codebase is.

We need to shift this policy, national governments and #EU to actively intervene in the monopolies running the current internet. Both mobile and fixed-line networks need to be opened up to allow for grassroots, peer-to-peer, and local hosting paths to flourish.
The current centralised infrastructure is a block to the native #openweb, and we can’t “build better” on broken foundations.

Cultural shift, we also need to unblock the #geekproblem. This is not a call-out – it’s a call-in.
The feedback is there, i’ve personally been working on this issue for over a decade, what we’ve seen is a cycle: Working in a small way… failing in a big way… repeating.

It’s not personal, it is structural. And we can do better, if we compost the fear of doing things differently. A practical example, we need more points that are currently deemed “off-topic.”
Because what’s “on-topic” in these spaces is just branding and polite theatre. And that’s exactly how the #dotcons rose to dominance in the first place.

We are at risk of simply recreating their culture in softer tones. Let’s not do that. Let’s take a breath and reflect on what we’re actually building, it’s not a rhetorical question. This is not abstract.

Because if we keep defaulting to #neoliberal “common sense,” if we ignore the reality of climate collapse, digital authoritarianism, and infrastructure lock-in, then we’re just dancing around the edges of a very real #deathcult.

Let’s do the real work, let’s dig, plant, compost, and build trust. Let’s reclaim the tools and shape the #openweb around care, not control. Because anything less? It is just another empty panel on a sinking ship.

#Fediverse #OMN #4opens #commonsnotplatforms #mutualaid #socialroots #trustnotcontrol #KISS #NGIFORUM2025 #NGIforum #nlnet

Was Leser:innen empfehlen: »Der Lehrling und sein Meister. Liberale Tradition und Faschismus«. Michael Deeg auf bsky: „Unfassbar, wie sehr das politische Damals nach dem Heute klingt. Sehr aktuell, spannend und aufschlussreich! Die zitierten Stellen von Oswald Spengler aus »Jahre der Entscheidung« … /1

#faschismus #neoliberalismus #liberalismus #liberal #neoliberal #kapitalismus #buchtipp #lesetipp