Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

Naomi Klein’s new book starts on a mountaintop with two “faithful men gathering an audience to share their vision”. It’s a vision of a paradise city, gated at every entrance, no need for weapons there, everyone in it rich. One of the men has tears in his eyes as he describes its beauty. The opening scene of End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, is not a metaphor, however. The men are Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The year is 2026, the mountain is Davos. The paradise city will be called New Gaza.

The World Economic Forum get-together in Davos, Switzerland, has always had a twin purpose – to provide a platform for the super-rich to describe all the good they are doing on poverty and climate, and to give us a glimpse into their enviable lives. This year what we witnessed was, quite brazenly, the world’s richest men gathering to discuss the real estate possibilities of a mass grave.

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Lauren Sacks: Canadian unions should know socialism never ends well

Lauren Sacks: Canadian unions should know socialism never ends well

The resurgence of socialism in the United States, mainly through the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), should serve as a warning to Canadians. Ideas once associated with Soviet socialism and later cultivated in Western activist movements and university campuses, are increasingly finding their way into mainstream campaigns and electoral victories in the United States.

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Is Donald Trump’s bid to brand the ‘radical’ communists of the Democratic Party as ‘radical’ communists working?

Is Donald Trump’s bid to brand the ‘radical’ communists of the Democratic Party as ‘radical’ communists working?

After casting his vote in South Carolina, a man who introduced himself as Chestnut was unwilling to give his full name. “You don’t have a need to know,” the air force veteran declared. He was, however, happy to share his views.

“I’m a true American. I believe in the USA,” said the man, outside Christ the Servant Lutheran church in Conway. “And I don’t believe in communism or socialism.”

Several hundred thousand South Carolinians took part in a Republican special runoff on Tuesday, selecting the party’s nominee for US Senate after the sudden death of the veteran lawmaker Lindsey Graham. Darline, his sister, prevailed – in a victory for Donald Trump.


Only at the Guardian.

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A Bellwether for Militancy? The DSA’s New National Youth Leaders

A Bellwether for Militancy? The DSA’s New National Youth Leaders

Each year, the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) elects new co-chairs, who also serve on the organization’s National Political Committee. During the first weekend of August, as the DSA held its Socialists Summit, YDSA delegates gathered for their National Convention, where they adopted new resolutions, elected a new National Political Committee, and chose James Hernández and Mae Bracelin as the organization’s new co-chairs.

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The DSA’s Latest Defense of It’s Privilege Is About As Hypocritical As You’d Expect

The DSA’s Latest Defense of It’s Privilege Is About As Hypocritical As You’d Expect

Some socialists have discovered a convenient new defense for enjoying the spoils of capitalism while demanding its destruction.

Grace Ryan, a former organizer for Brad Lander’s congressional campaign and the daughter of the man behind a $10 million chocolate business, took to social media to defend herself, and fellow privileged Democratic Socialists of America members, for preaching redistribution from behind the comfort of family wealth. Her defense was to invoke the phrase “noblesse oblige,” a phrase rooted in the idea of voluntary generosity, as proof that she has an obligation to help usher in the golden age of socialism.

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The DSA Is Fully Aware Of The Horrors Of Socialism, But They Don’t Care As Long As They Get Power

The DSA Is Fully Aware Of The Horrors Of Socialism, But They Don’t Care As Long As They Get Power

During a heated interview with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) co-chair Ashik Siddique over the party’s statement honoring Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, CNN’s Boris Sanchez suggested Siddique “have more conversations with folks who have fled that regime and what they think about these statements and the position of the DSA.”

It was an earnest ask, especially considering Sanchez’s own grandfather suffered political persecution under Castro. But it also underscored the one mistaken assumption that so many — on both the left and right — make, that is: if the DSA just knew a little bit more about Castro, or Karl Marx, or Marxism, or Maoism, so on and so forth then they’d become some variation of a capitalist, freedom-loving patriot.

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Anti-rich DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo lives it up in posh $1.5M NYC pad paid for by millionaire parents

Anti-rich DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo lives it up in posh $1.5M NYC pad paid for by millionaire parents

The millionaire parents of a whiny top DSA leader have set up their socialist son in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home — where he lives while railing against the rich and property ownership, The Post has learned.

Gustavo Gordillo, the 38-year-old co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, is peddling his anti-capitalist lefty agenda while enjoying the life in the two-story, nearly 2,000-square-foot row home on a gentrifying tree-lined block in Bed-Stuy.

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CBC: Real communism has never been tried!

CBC: Real communism has never been tried!

Top global basic income experts in Toronto, senate bill top of mind

A bill to develop a national framework for a guaranteed basic income in Canada will be a focal point at an international basic income gathering happening in Toronto this week.

Bill S-206, which is currently being studied by a Senate committee, would direct the Minister of Finance to develop a national framework to give every person over age 17 in Canada access to a guaranteed livable basic income without work requirements.

It’s set to be discussed at length on Wednesday at the Basic Income Earth Network Congress (BIEN), which is holding its 25th annual international gathering at Toronto Metropolitan University this year.

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MORGAN: Anti-automobile activists disguise themselves as safety activists

MORGAN: Anti-automobile activists disguise themselves as safety activists

Scratch a pedestrian safety group, and you will find an anti-automobile activist underneath every time. The latest group has labelled itself “Coalition to Reduce Auto Size Hazards,” and hasn’t even bothered to build itself a website. But they did catch the attention of legacy media outlets when they highlighted a recent study that profoundly concluded that pedestrians have a higher chance of fatality when hit by larger vehicles rather than smaller ones. Being hit by a train is more likely to kill you than being hit by a scooter as well, but that’s hardly news. It’s physics.

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DSA and Muslim Democrats agree on the enemy — not the endgame

DSA and Muslim Democrats agree on the enemy — not the endgame

Fifty members of the Democratic Socialists of America flew from New York to Michigan before the primaries. They came to support DSA candidates, but they also canvassed for a Senate candidate their own organization had never endorsed. Abdul el Sayed doesn’t call himself a socialist, and the DSA never put its name behind him. Its members showed up anyway.

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Another Win for Socialism: Rents in Manhattan Reach All-Time Highs

Another Win for Socialism: Rents in Manhattan Reach All-Time Highs

Everything socialists touch they ruin. In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to freeze rents and imposed a pied-à-terre tax (which is currently being blocked by a pending lawsuit), and all it did was push rents in Manhattan to an all-time high of $6,655 a month.

The “affordability” agenda, ladies and gentlemen.

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Spencer Pratt Mocks Hasan Piker Meltdown Over Francesca Hong‘s Wisconsin Election Loss

Spencer Pratt Mocks Hasan Piker Meltdown Over Francesca Hong‘s Wisconsin Election Loss

Communist streamer Hasan Piker melted down over Communist Francesca Hong’s upset loss in Tuesday’s Democrat primary election for Wisconsin governor. Piker blamed “the fucking national media,” who he says are lying to voters about Democratic Socialist candidates. He also threatened revenge on the Democrat Party establishment.

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Holiday-hating Francesca “Crazy Eyes” Hong loses to David Crowley in Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary

Holiday-hating Francesca “Crazy Eyes” Hong loses to David Crowley in Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary

WASHINGTON — Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly upset Democratic socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday night, despite polls showing Hong in front by double-digits in the final stretch before polling day.

Crowley’s campaign said the 37-year-old state legislator and member of the Democratic Socialists of America called Crowley early Wednesday to concede the race. Hong trailed her rival by more than 3,200 votes out of more than 787,000 ballots cast as of 6 a.m. ET., a margin of 0.41 percentage points.

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