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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 1d

Itamar Ben-Gvir calls for the death penalty for those charged with terrorism.

Good!

Ben-Gvir can be the first sentenced to death as he has been charged with terrorism.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 9d

BREAKING: Israel has identified suspected Al-Qassam Brigades commander, Abd-El-Erling Hamdan, suspected mastermind of the coordinated Hamas/Norway attack on Israel on Oct. 11

Erling Haaland photoshopped into a Hamas uniform

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 9d

BREAKING: Israel has identified suspected Al-Qassam Brigades commander, Abd-El-Erling Hamdan, suspected mastermind of the coordinated Hamas/Norway attack on Israel on Oct. 11

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 16d

My favorite piece I've written thus far.

Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 16d

“The soul of revolution is nothing mystical; it’s the rediscovery of what we’ve always been capable of: cooperation, compassion, creation.”

New essay: The Soul of Revolution

Let me know what you think!

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

The Revolutionary Soul

Capitalism hollowed out our humanity. Socialism can restore it.

open.substack.com

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Sam @dragonborn.bsky.social · 16d

Chicago residents prevent ICE from kidnapping a man ✊

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 16d

“The soul of revolution is nothing mystical; it’s the rediscovery of what we’ve always been capable of: cooperation, compassion, creation.”

New essay: The Soul of Revolution

Let me know what you think!

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

The Revolutionary Soul

Capitalism hollowed out our humanity. Socialism can restore it.

open.substack.com

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 18d

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MyNameIsÐolph🎨 @mynameisdolph.bsky.social · 18d

Another new communist podcast/show? Yes please and thank you. And talk about that guest… We love our @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com, don’t we folks?

Hammer and Sickle Productions @hammerandsickle.bsky.social · 19d

Finally finished editing! Episode 1 with @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com is now out.

youtu.be/FDsRK6r55bA

The Hammer and Sickle Show Episode 1: Where to Begin? w/ Comrade Drew

YouTube video by Hammer and Sickle Productions

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Hammer and Sickle Productions @hammerandsickle.bsky.social · 19d

Finally finished editing! Episode 1 with @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com is now out.

youtu.be/FDsRK6r55bA

The Hammer and Sickle Show Episode 1: Where to Begin? w/ Comrade Drew

YouTube video by Hammer and Sickle Productions

youtu.be

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 18d

Make sure to check out Episode 1 of the Hammer and Sickle Show.

@hammerandsickle.bsky.social has been working on this for a long time and it's finally out now. Go show some love!

Hammer and Sickle Productions @hammerandsickle.bsky.social · 19d

Finally finished editing! Episode 1 with @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com is now out.

youtu.be/FDsRK6r55bA

The Hammer and Sickle Show Episode 1: Where to Begin? w/ Comrade Drew

YouTube video by Hammer and Sickle Productions

youtu.be

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 21d

Roosevelt, Kennedy, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Ford.

Those families have been in power much longer than the Castros and have not liberated a fly.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 21d

Debt isn’t just numbers on a balance sheet. It’s a leash: on individuals, on nations, on the future itself. Credit disguises control as opportunity, and freedom as obligation.

If we want liberation, we have to confront how debt is weaponized against us.

Read here: open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

Til Debt Do Us Part

Toward Abolishing Debt and the System That Depends on It

open.substack.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21d

A Mamdani type candidate would win the next US election in a landslide, but the Democrats will work harder to prevent that than the Republicans. That's the sad truth.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 22d

Capitalism doesn’t just exploit workers, it colonizes our imagination. We’re trained to think freedom is choosing between two brands of the same thing, rather than imagining a world where we don’t have to buy survival.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 22d

Capitalism doesn’t just exploit workers, it colonizes our imagination. We’re trained to think freedom is choosing between two brands of the same thing, rather than imagining a world where we don’t have to buy survival.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 23d

Strength is not found in conquest, but in liberation. A body made strong for struggle. A class made strong in unity. A people strong enough to abolish exploitation.

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

Strength as Liberation
Why Physical Fitness is Revolutionary for the Body, Mind, and Society

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 23d

Strength is not found in conquest, but in liberation. A body made strong for struggle. A class made strong in unity. A people strong enough to abolish exploitation.

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 23d

Every collapse of a society begins with the ruling class convincing people that the present order is eternal.

Nothing is eternal. Not feudalism, not slavery, not capitalism. Everything ends.

The only question is: did the old society get replaced by a better one?

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 23d

What’s more dangerous: a government that openly calls itself authoritarian, or one that insists it’s “free” while ruling through prisons, racism, police, propaganda, and debt?

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 25d

50 cereals. 1,000 sneakers. Dozens of streaming services. Capitalism calls this freedom. But the choices that actually matter, housing, healthcare, work, are rigged. We have been chained by consumerism.

My new essay: The Myth of Choice 👇

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

The Myth of Choice

Capitalism's favorite illusion

open.substack.com

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 25d

The things you find when you chase the money...

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Kaz ☭ 🇵🇸 @kaz01.bsky.social · 25d

Rest in power Assata Shakur! ✊🏿

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 25d

The UN letting Netanyahu speak is a disgrace. A butcher, drenched in Palestinian blood, standing at a podium of “peace.”

Every minute he talks is another insult to the dead in Gaza.

The world doesn’t need his speeches. The world needs him, and everyone else involved, tried for war crimes.

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 25d

50 cereals. 1,000 sneakers. Dozens of streaming services. Capitalism calls this freedom. But the choices that actually matter, housing, healthcare, work, are rigged. We have been chained by consumerism.

My new essay: The Myth of Choice 👇

open.substack.com/pub/simplify...

The Myth of Choice

Capitalism's favorite illusion

open.substack.com

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Drew ☭ @simplifyingsocialism.substack.com · 26d

Another night lost in the void. Sleepless nights are fun . . . sometimes, but not every time.

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