Harry Cleaver
@harrycleaver.bsky.social
ex-economist, retired professor, Autonomist Marxist, Zeroworker, anti-capitalist, pro-Wilderness, pro-all-sentient-beings, pro-commons,
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Harry Cleaver
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Harry Cleaver
Content by our about Harry Cleaver, autonomist Marxist theoretician, and author of Reading Capital Politically, an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's Capital. (b. 1944)
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The main reason anyone, anywhere "needs" more energy production is because CAPITALISTS hog it, to keep people working producing useless crap, to power their advertising & selling the same crap. End capitalism, the work it imposes, & the crap we've forced to produce = less energy needed.
The main reason any state needs energy is because data centers are hogging it …🔻
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The main reason anyone, anywhere "needs" more energy production is because CAPITALISTS hog it, to keep people working producing useless crap, to power their advertising & selling the same crap. End capitalism, the work it imposes, & the crap we've forced to produce = less energy needed.
Now if this was the Canadian National Weather Service, they'd have added how you need to keep your block-heater plugged in at night, at home, at work & at stores so your engine oil doesn't freeze solid in -30 degree weather. 3yrs in Quebec made THAT essential precaution quite clear to me. 🥶
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November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Now if this was the Canadian National Weather Service, they'd have added how you need to keep your block-heater plugged in at night, at home, at work & at stores so your engine oil doesn't freeze solid in -30 degree weather. 3yrs in Quebec made THAT essential precaution quite clear to me. 🥶
It is, unfortunately, a universal problem. Those who take to the streets & engage in other forms of struggle rarely have the time & energy to record their actions for the historical record. Few too are those who try to write it up. Make's it tough for those who later want to learn from it.
Prepping for teaching, and I'm appalled to discover how *little* detailed research exists on the Bristol Bus Boycott.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but it's no wonder there is so little awareness of the history of Black civil rights activism in the UK. Just a vicious cycle of ignorance.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but it's no wonder there is so little awareness of the history of Black civil rights activism in the UK. Just a vicious cycle of ignorance.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It is, unfortunately, a universal problem. Those who take to the streets & engage in other forms of struggle rarely have the time & energy to record their actions for the historical record. Few too are those who try to write it up. Make's it tough for those who later want to learn from it.
These "mega-corporations" are just like all capitalist corporations. They are all devoted to imposing as much work as possible and extracting as much profit as possible to be invested in expanding work & exploitation. Capitalists are NEVER "on workers' side".
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
These "mega-corporations" are just like all capitalist corporations. They are all devoted to imposing as much work as possible and extracting as much profit as possible to be invested in expanding work & exploitation. Capitalists are NEVER "on workers' side".
Maybe not in the UK, but in lots of other paces, including the US agriculture & trade policies have been intentionally manipulated to raise food prices & undermine real wages, in the early 1970s that led to boycotts & today by Trump. Often in the global south to transfer income to capitalists.
Not since the Corn Laws have we had a government this committed to keeping food prices high.
UK supermarkets set to be hit by higher business rates after Treasury U-turn
Chancellor expected to use Budget to include large retail premises in the top band of the property-based levy
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November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Maybe not in the UK, but in lots of other paces, including the US agriculture & trade policies have been intentionally manipulated to raise food prices & undermine real wages, in the early 1970s that led to boycotts & today by Trump. Often in the global south to transfer income to capitalists.
Moreover, in our essentially unregulated capitalist system, in which industries are allowed to poison air, water and land, NO person can avoid illness thru healthy practices of living, not in this toxic wasteland they create.
People need to understand how deeply eugenicist this is.
They’re insinuating that if you “take care of yourself” you will be healthy and should get affordable healthcare.
Disabled people can’t “healthy living” their way out of being disabled.
It’s not a moral failing.
We need healthcare too
They’re insinuating that if you “take care of yourself” you will be healthy and should get affordable healthcare.
Disabled people can’t “healthy living” their way out of being disabled.
It’s not a moral failing.
We need healthcare too
Markwayne Mullin on healthcare: "What the president would like to do is say, hey, if you take care of yourself -- you don't smoke, you don't dip, you're not drinking, you're not overweight, you're working out -- then you should pay less than the guy that obviously is not taking care of himself."
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Moreover, in our essentially unregulated capitalist system, in which industries are allowed to poison air, water and land, NO person can avoid illness thru healthy practices of living, not in this toxic wasteland they create.
It is not "big money" that must be gotten out of our politics, it is CAPITALIST MONEY, that's the "big money" that buys politicians & laws that favor exploitation, profit & the ravaging of the earth. Better: outlaw all modes of corruption. Best: end capitalism & create a democratic system of govt.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It is not "big money" that must be gotten out of our politics, it is CAPITALIST MONEY, that's the "big money" that buys politicians & laws that favor exploitation, profit & the ravaging of the earth. Better: outlaw all modes of corruption. Best: end capitalism & create a democratic system of govt.
THIS is the agenda: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eu... Take note! Fight it! Or suffer the consequences. 😡
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
THIS is the agenda: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eu... Take note! Fight it! Or suffer the consequences. 😡
"number one aspiration of working class people is not to be working class"? True. But why? Because: they are sick & tired (often quite literally) of having their lives subordinated to work. But that's how capitalists control society, so getting rid of it is the only path to the liberation of life.
What Lord Glasman doesn't understand is the number one aspiration of working class people is not to be working class.
The belief in education, hard work and getting their fair share of opportunity.
It's not getting a new flat cap and another whippet.
The belief in education, hard work and getting their fair share of opportunity.
It's not getting a new flat cap and another whippet.
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"number one aspiration of working class people is not to be working class"? True. But why? Because: they are sick & tired (often quite literally) of having their lives subordinated to work. But that's how capitalists control society, so getting rid of it is the only path to the liberation of life.
"Abolish Daylight Saving Time"? Why? Posts that make demands with no rationale for supporting them are annoying. In this case, if you're curious: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayligh...
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"Abolish Daylight Saving Time"? Why? Posts that make demands with no rationale for supporting them are annoying. In this case, if you're curious: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayligh...
Only in capitalism, where selling yourself to business is necessary to survive, does education get reduced to job training, done well or not - at the expense of every other potential benefit of learning about life, history, politics, culture, other languages, ways of being, art, music, etc. 😡
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November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Only in capitalism, where selling yourself to business is necessary to survive, does education get reduced to job training, done well or not - at the expense of every other potential benefit of learning about life, history, politics, culture, other languages, ways of being, art, music, etc. 😡
Good advice! One problem: because capitalists hide the animals they exploit, like cows, pigs & chickens, away on factory farms where they mistreat, torture & kill them, most folks never have the opportunity to touch such animals while they are still alive, much less get to know them as individuals.
Kindness - or nothing. 🙏
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November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Good advice! One problem: because capitalists hide the animals they exploit, like cows, pigs & chickens, away on factory farms where they mistreat, torture & kill them, most folks never have the opportunity to touch such animals while they are still alive, much less get to know them as individuals.
At the very least, they should quarantine Earth until we get rid of capitalism & start repairing all the damage it has caused to the planet, its critters & other life forms. David Brin is spot on in his "Uplift" novels.
The only conspiracy theory I subscribe to but don’t actually believe is one where the intelligent aliens won’t talk to us until we achieve communism.
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
At the very least, they should quarantine Earth until we get rid of capitalism & start repairing all the damage it has caused to the planet, its critters & other life forms. David Brin is spot on in his "Uplift" novels.
Kindness is the bare minimum moral position. Better: imagine getting to know & developing friendships with animals like these. It's hard because capitalists keep them locked away in factory farms so you never get a chance to know them as individuals. End their subordination & welcome them as buds.
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Kindness is the bare minimum moral position. Better: imagine getting to know & developing friendships with animals like these. It's hard because capitalists keep them locked away in factory farms so you never get a chance to know them as individuals. End their subordination & welcome them as buds.
What's good about Hegseth's announcement is that it makes his - & the Trump Administration's - racism blatantly obvious for all to see and despise. Frankly, Native Americans are lucky there's nowhere for racist ICE goon squads to deport them, being from this land & all!
Trump’s Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday that the 20 U.S. Army soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor, for their participation in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, may keep them.
This is nothing more than a disgraceful celebration of the Native American Genocide.
This is nothing more than a disgraceful celebration of the Native American Genocide.
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What's good about Hegseth's announcement is that it makes his - & the Trump Administration's - racism blatantly obvious for all to see and despise. Frankly, Native Americans are lucky there's nowhere for racist ICE goon squads to deport them, being from this land & all!
Hell, I'd ban the fascist pig from my driveway!
I hope everyone sees and understands why my tribe banned Kristi Noem from our reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hell, I'd ban the fascist pig from my driveway!
Sadly, economists like Robert only worry about these relationships when they reach an extreme. What he describes is ALWAYS the case within capitalism. It's how they set it up & how they have always run it. "Regular" [working] people only "have a voice" when they raise it in massive numbers.
Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.
The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Sadly, economists like Robert only worry about these relationships when they reach an extreme. What he describes is ALWAYS the case within capitalism. It's how they set it up & how they have always run it. "Regular" [working] people only "have a voice" when they raise it in massive numbers.
Subsidizing capitalists is one of the fundamental roles of the state within capitalism, either directly with money or indirectly by keeping real wages & standards of living of most people low so they'll report to work & earn profits for their bosses. The fossil fuel industry is only one of many.
Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Subsidizing capitalists is one of the fundamental roles of the state within capitalism, either directly with money or indirectly by keeping real wages & standards of living of most people low so they'll report to work & earn profits for their bosses. The fossil fuel industry is only one of many.
Racial profiling in action...by racists, being paid to be racist, for the joy of the racists paying them by providing the spectator sport of racial harassment. That's ICE & its perpetrators in a nutshell. Racist pigs, one & all.
Republican Party uses ICE to cancel Christmas.🎄 🎅
Fascism stops at nothing.
Fascism stops at nothing.
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Racial profiling in action...by racists, being paid to be racist, for the joy of the racists paying them by providing the spectator sport of racial harassment. That's ICE & its perpetrators in a nutshell. Racist pigs, one & all.
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
I'd be willing to bet that, in fact, the woman "looks her best" when she's "doing things that make [her] happy"! Makeup & all the rest are peddled by capitalists to make profits by convincing women (& men) that they are necessary to "look my best". Lies, but then it's all you can expect from them.
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I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven’t looked in a mirror for days, and I’m doing things that make me happy.
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I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven’t looked in a mirror for days, and I’m doing things that make me happy.
#annehathaway
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November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'd be willing to bet that, in fact, the woman "looks her best" when she's "doing things that make [her] happy"! Makeup & all the rest are peddled by capitalists to make profits by convincing women (& men) that they are necessary to "look my best". Lies, but then it's all you can expect from them.
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
True! Wiping out inconvenient history & creating false historical narratives is standard fascist practice. It is also, unfortunately, also true of capitalism in general - just look at the treatment of slavery & the genocide of Native Americans in your schools' history books.
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
True! Wiping out inconvenient history & creating false historical narratives is standard fascist practice. It is also, unfortunately, also true of capitalism in general - just look at the treatment of slavery & the genocide of Native Americans in your schools' history books.
Yep! They had the same idea when workers took over Paris & created the Commune in 1871 - it was one of the reasons they were massacred. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_C... If Mandami were really a "commie", he'd be organizing for a New York Commune.
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Yep! They had the same idea when workers took over Paris & created the Commune in 1871 - it was one of the reasons they were massacred. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_C... If Mandami were really a "commie", he'd be organizing for a New York Commune.
LOL! I realized long ago, that if I wanted to always be able to eat what I like, I'd best learn how to prepare it. So, as my tastes & druthers widened, so did my skills, the number of cookbooks on my kitchen shelf & the clutter of once-exotic tools on my counters. Have fun!
The restaurant where I order my poke bowl changed their ingredients and upped the price. So I get less fresh food, more ultra processed crap, AND I have to pay more for that 🙄
So fine, I bought everything I need to make them now because fuck that shit
Like $25 for a rice bowl like come on
So fine, I bought everything I need to make them now because fuck that shit
Like $25 for a rice bowl like come on
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
LOL! I realized long ago, that if I wanted to always be able to eat what I like, I'd best learn how to prepare it. So, as my tastes & druthers widened, so did my skills, the number of cookbooks on my kitchen shelf & the clutter of once-exotic tools on my counters. Have fun!