S4A Office Hours 2023-11-02: Palestine-Israel; Car Dependency; Psychedelics & Trauma; Chat & More

Socialism for All does not run ads on its material. Please consider becoming a financial contributor on Patreon or BuyMeACoffee today for as little as $2/month! https://patreon.com/socialismforall | https://buymeacoffee.com/socialismforall Timestamps: 0:00 Intro, Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza 6:59 Chat 1: Car-sharing; Politsturm on Palestine; Thanks to the Patrons/BMAC-ers; Public transportation; Medicare for All; Project 2025; Lives Per Gallon; Stalin supporting more national liberation struggles after Lenin died?; Politsturm’s planned S4A response stream; Hamas used force against other parts of the resistance to attain power in Gaza, but there is unity in the current fight for survival 24:10 Chat 2: ANSWER rally for Palestine in Washington DC 11/4; BRICS silence and inaction on Israeli war crimes; COVID-related “work from home” disappearance; How to bring the secular left to power in Palestine?; Is social democracy (welfare capitalism) OK long-term? No – it will die in crisis and bring fascism 37:27 Chat 3: Project 2025 as phase three of GOP’s Tea Party-MAGA evolution toward white nationalism; Democrats & Republicans are “good cop/bad cop” for imperialism; Nationalization in capitalism; Palestinian resistance; Preparing for a protest (write phone numbers on your skin) 49:36 Chat 4: China’s out to do business (period); PSL, ANSWER, & multipolarity; Imperialism in the Marxist-Leninist sense; “Scandinavian social democracy” piggybacks off of the USA et al.; The Federal Reserve tries to maintain a certain (significant) amount of unemployment; US housing downturn imminent; Housing investors caused the housing crisis 1:02:34 Chat 5: Liquidity crisis on the horizon?; Austerity is also hitting the European social democracies; Politsturm not a democratic centralist organization?; Anti-immigrant sentiment a prominent feature of European fascism; Red Vienna; Record-high rents; Low purchasing power today versus a decade ago; Sino-Soviet split; Cenk Uygur & Wolf PAC; Neoliberalism and the end of profits; The defining feature of a proletarian 1:19:11 Chat 6: Still struggling, working in a trade; Accepting your proletarian status; Coming to terms with global crisis 1:34:00 Chat 7: USA’s proxy wars; Refined carbohydrates and blood sugar problems; Cohabitation the only way to survive for many; Public sector unions & the “I Am a Man” protest; Terrence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson: the ultimate fake libertarian left?; What it takes to be radicalized in the USA? 1:49:46 Chat 8: Alcohol and exercise; “Don’t Look Up”; Revolution won’t happen on its own; Openly communist orgs & front groups; Young people living with parents at highest levels since 1940s; Trying to make life plans as a proletarian in capitalism; More McKenna; Alienation and isolation; Move the body to the extent you are able 2:04:43 Chat 9: Is communism “too much” & Is Germany socialist?; Don’t fly communist flags at pro-Palestine rallies?; The needs of capital will undermine social democracy over time; The far-right revival in Germany; Psychedelics; The basic problem: capitalism or corruption?; Libertarians and New Agers; Fighting for a world with far less trauma 2:22:32 Chat 10: “Extremism is my enemy”; Conspiracism as part of US capitalist counterculture; People have to be helped/taught to think about society (is it too big for the off-the-shelf human mind?) #s4a​​ #socialismforall​​ #socialism4all​​ #demexit #leftcoalition #leftcongress #revolution2030​​ #rev2030 #tatertube #socialism​​ #socialist #communism​​ #communist #marxism​​ #marxist #news #politics #antifa #antifascist #antifascism #sociology #sociologylecture #greenparty #democraticparty #democraticsocialism #union #labor #laborunion #laborhistory #psychedelic #trauma #traumahealing #traumahealingjourney #psychedlic #alienation #therapy #china #israel #palestine #gaza #freegaza #freepalestine #istandwithpalestine #standwithpalestine #economy #economics #discussion