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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1m

I'm the co-chair (and former chair) of CDSA's Political Education section, and I think we do pretty important and effective work. Our Socialist Night School is my favorite thing to do and I'm thrilled to start our 14th semester! Come out, see me, meet me, talk about socialism with me! Readings here:

SNS-Whytheworkingclass.pdf

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 3m

If you'd like to come, we're meeting at the Fellowship Hall of Wicker Park Lutheran Church at 1500 N. Hoyne Avenue at 6:30PM. Learn about why the working class is of paramount importance to socialism! Meet new friends, comrades, and allies united in the fight against socialism! RSVP here:

10/13 Socialist Night School: Socialism or Barbarism? Capitalism at a Crossroads

Socialist Night School — Semester 14 Socialist Night School returns with a six session series entitled “Socialism or Barbarism? Capitalism at a Crossroads” . Each session features a guided discussio...

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 6m

Hey! Chicago! Socialist-curious? Wondering how we got to this terrible moment and what to do about it? Just want to hang out with cool people like me?

The new semester of @chicagodsa.bsky.social's Socialist Night School is starting, with the first session TOMORROW EVENING!

The new semester of Socialist Night School, presented bt the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America, starts tomorrow night, Monday, October 13th, from 6:30 to 8:30PM at the Wicker Park Lutheran Church at 1500 North Hoyne Avenue. Our topic will be "Why the Working Class?"

What is Socialist Night School?

Socialist Night School is a recurring series of facilitated political discussions (not lectures) around a specific topic, set of readings, and set of discussion questions.

We typically run SNS in "semesters" that consist of a series of three to five different sessions, with each session usually running about two hours.

Socialist Night School is a great event for new DSA members, non-members, and long-time members alike. Even if you're not able to complete the readings, we encourage you to attend and join the discussion.

READINGS FOR THIS SESSION:

"Why the Working Class?": pamphlet by Chicago DSA's Political Education committee (3 pages)

"Bourgeois and Proletarians": from THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (12 pages)

Excerpt: from "From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation" by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (7 pages)

CHICAGO DSA SOCIALIST NIGHT SCHOOL FALL 2025 SESSION SCHEDULE:

October 13th: "Why the Working Class?"

October 27th: "Zohran: The Discussion"

November 10th: "Nationalism, Institutionalism, and Socialism"

Date to be determined: "Intersections: Labor, Race, and Organizing"

Date to be determined: "Marxist Economics 101"

Date to be determined: "Post-Capitalism"

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 40m

Tremble at the organizational might of people able to

/checks paper

purchase a costume

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 2h

The only people who are allowed to spy on us are American tech companies

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 3h

That should be TABLOID photos, not tennis, although that would probably be amazing as well especially from Diane Keaton

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 3h

With everyone remembering the great Diane Keaton, a note that she wrote a number of books, my favorite of which is LOCAL NEWS, a collection of incredible, noir-esque photos from her parents' collection of tennis photos from the L.A. Examiner:

Local News: Tabloid Pictures from the... book by Diane Keaton

Buy a cheap copy of Local News: Tabloid Pictures from the... book by Diane Keaton. Actress Diane Keaton pulls the sheet off the sensational pictures of the notorious, Hearst-owned Herald Express, wit...

www.thriftbooks.com

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, technically, $150 million does contain a significant amount of cotton and linen

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 4h

Hi this is my real face and name and I am not scared of shit but that dude is 100% a weird creep and he was a complete asshole to me and a bunch of other people in this thread because he has a weird anticommunist hardon

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

It should be pretty obvious why we are told that no one likes to live under socialism, that everyone there wants to move here, that there is no freedom or democracy, that they are ruled solely through state terror, and that they all exist under self-imposed economic failure. Folks, you gotta wise up

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

We constantly hear these states have no democracy (rather than democratic practice that is not the same as ours), that none exist with the consent of the governed (an obvious lie as well as an insult to the power of the people), and that power at a granular level is somehow sustained by one person.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

Just another note on this: It is astonishing how complete is the delusion in capitalist countries - ESPECIALLY the United States - that every communist or socialist state is maintained solely through dictatorial power of a single individual or small group and persists only through oppressive force.

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 7h

It's Socialist Sunday at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and that dumbass NYT hed about how Chinese people should "protest" the country's green energy program inspired me to write about how anticommunism makes us all deeply stupid. Check, check, check, check it:

Afraid of the Light - IMMORTAL SCIENCE

In an article from the New York Times today about the unsightliness and mild annoyance created by green-fuel high voltage lines in China - qualities apparently absent with coal or oil,...

immortalscience.pika.page

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 7h

Not all heroes wear capes

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 7h

It's Socialist Sunday at IMMORTAL SCIENCE, and that dumbass NYT hed about how Chinese people should "protest" the country's green energy program inspired me to write about how anticommunism makes us all deeply stupid. Check, check, check, check it:

Afraid of the Light - IMMORTAL SCIENCE

In an article from the New York Times today about the unsightliness and mild annoyance created by green-fuel high voltage lines in China - qualities apparently absent with coal or oil,...

immortalscience.pika.page

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10h

This has almost literally happened already, all the pandas in US zoos come from China and weirdo reactionaries talk about them like they're animal slaves controlled by the evil CCP government

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 14h

Another way that you know A'ja is GOAT is that she did her whole championship press conference with a huge load on, girl was DRONK

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 15h

Massive green energy infrastructure expansion: Awful but everyone is afraid to say it

Army of masked thugs terrorizing communities: No one can say if good or bad

New York Times: "Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends On Who You Ask"

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 15h

Anticommunism is a hell of a drug

New York Times article talking about how "few citizens dare to protest" its construction of electric car and high-speed train infrastructure. No information provided as to why they would want to do such a thing

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23h

I will post "You shouldn't use slurs against AI" additional times in exchange for every thousand hours of volunteer work people who say "You shouldn't use slurs against AI" spend helping actual people who have had slurs used against them

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23h

I will post "You shouldn't use slurs against AI" one more time in exchange for a check in the amount equivalent to twice the value of all the material stolen from my friends to train the AI

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23h

I will post "You shouldn't use slurs against AI" one time in exchange for a check in the amount equivalent to every job I have lost because of AI

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Fat Mourney

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to engage them earnestly and it went south immediately

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

If only someone had warned us literally every day for the past three years

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch is just funny English, thrift store division

Eddy Wally album called IK GEEF JOU N ROOS

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