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Elon J Rytotsk
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He/him. Ireland. Reader, writer. Occasional photographer.
Proletarian Perspective: www.proletarianperspective.blog
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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From my latest post on the class basis of morality. proletarianperspective.substack.com/p/their-mora...
January 22, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Their Morals and Ours: The Class Basis of Morality. Notes on Leon Trotsky's 1938 publication.

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#Trotsky #Marxism #Capitalism #Ethics #Morality #CurrentAffairs #Politics
Their Morals and Ours: The Class Basis of Morality
Urgent Lessons For Today! In Their Morals and Ours (1938)1, Leon Trotsky highlighted that morality is shaped by class interests. ‘Their’ bourgeois morality is essentially adapted to the…
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January 20, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Today's Luddites: the entrepreneurs

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#entrepreneurship #capitalism #technology #business #socialism #capitalism
January 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Toxicity of the "New Normal". An overview of Gabor Maté's book the Myth of Normal.

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#Psychology #Medicine #Sociology #BookReview #Essay #AmWriting #Capitalism #MentalHealth
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Paul Le Blanc on the pitfalls of sectarianism between revolutionary socialists: proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/p... #socialism #capitalism #stalinism
Paul Le Blanc on Sectarianism Among Revolutionary Socialists
The aim of the book From Marx to Gramsci (as described by Le Blanc in the twentieth anniversary edition) is to ‘provide a certain conceptualization of Marxism that connects it—as Marx intende…
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January 16, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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I'll add this to my spreadsheet of fascist military coups that were defeated by a database.

Row 1
startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23d
Gov. Tim Walz said the state is creating a "database of atrocities" by federal agents against Minnesotans.

The Minnesota Attorney General's Office has launched a form where residents can share information about the actions of federal agents in Minnesota: www.ag.state.mn.us/Federal-Acti...
January 16, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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Just put this up on X. #BoycottX #CloseDownGrok
January 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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The planet is now averaging above 1.5°C per year for the past three years (disastrous!). So I'm resharing this article I wrote a couple of years ago. proletarianperspective.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/c... #ClimateChange #Environment #News #GlobalWarming #Capitalism #Politics #Economics
Capitalism and Climate Change
The average global temperature is over 1.1°C warmer than it was before the Industrial Revolution. The extreme or bizarre weather events we are already experiencing occur in the context of a 1.1°C t…
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January 14, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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No issue with this. The Iranian people deserve better. But how quickly the Irish gov can stop Iranian ambassador when they did nothing regarding the Israeli ambassador. I suspect the real reason has more to do with Irish establishment kowtowing to powerful US interests.
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Ceremony to accredit Iran's ambassador postponed
The new Iranian ambassador to Ireland has been prevented from officially taking up their duties by the Department of Foreign Affairs because of the regime's response to protests in Iran.
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January 13, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Calls to urgently shut down Grok

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Shut down Grok – Elon Musk’s depraved AI tool
By Ollie Bell So-called ‘Generative Artificial Intelligence’ is the latest tech nightmare to be forced onto us by morally bankrupt tech billionaires. What AI ‘innovators’ promised was the elimination ...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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A look at Gabor Maté’s The Myth of Normal.
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Toxicity of the “New Normal”: Notes on Gabor Maté’s The Myth of Normal
Despite growing awareness of health related activities and lifestyles, ‘our collective health is deteriorating’. Amid all the resources and technological achievements of our time, our c…
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January 13, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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I was on Morning Ireland earlier discussing what we need to do about X.
Will the EU ban X?
TJ McIntyre, Assistant Professor in Law in the Sutherland School of Law in UCD and chairperson of Digital Rights Ireland, discusses the possibility of the EU banning X over Grok creating non-consensua...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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The Ancien Régime did not fall merely because Rousseau and Voltaire published good ideas. It fell because it was materially, morally, politically and ideologically bankrupt...

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#History #Politics #Revolution
Revolution by Necessity
The Ancien Regime did not fall merely because Rousseau and Voltaire published good ideas. It fell because it was materially, morally, politically and ideologically bankrupt and because the French b…
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January 12, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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That at least 40 people were massacred by the USA in #Venezuela during their illegal bombing of that country has gone unmentioned by the establishment media.

But a good working-class point-of-view regarding the situation can be found below.
January 5, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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Excellent piece on situation in #Venezuela by Michael O'Brien

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No to Trump’s imperialist oil grab in Venezuela
By Michael O’Brien Months of piracy in the Caribbean, which saw US forces sink 20 small Venezuelan vessels, and the resulting murder of scores of crew, as well as the pursuit and seizure of oil tanker...
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January 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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The working class is asked to pay for climate change: Why that doesn't work.

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#climate #sustainability #ecology #environment #economics #climatechange #thomaspiketty #gretathunberg
The Working Class is Asked to Pay for Climate Change: Why That Doesn’t Work
‘Poorer people have less capacity to decarbonise their consumption’ I’m not (yet) very familiar with the writing of Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty, but I did come across a pertinent p…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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“The eco-apocalypse is a class act.” — Michael Parenti (1996)
Check out my article on why class power is the missing piece in the climate debate.
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#climatechange #climate #climateaction #climatecrisis #globalwarming
#environment #sustainability
Understanding Climate Crisis is about Understanding Class: Michael Parenti on Human-Caused Climate Change
Excerpts from Blackshirts and Reds (1996)1 To understand the climate crisis is to understand class division in capitalist society. Humans are causing climate change, that is a fact. But it is not a…
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November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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I suggest Jeremy Corbyn and anyone else (maybe Palestine protesters or striking workers and unions) immediately sue the BBC for the same misrepresentations, slanders and smears. Or is this path only available to the ruling class? www.rte.ie/news/uk/2025... #Trump #News #UK #USA #Business #January6
Trump threatens $1bn lawsuit against BBC over documentary
US Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action over the way a documentary aired edited clips of his speech just before the 2021 US Capitol assault.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Regarding the capitalist class:

"You begin with interest, you proceed with awe and admiration, you deepen into hatred, and you wind up with contempt for the nature of the beast. You realise that – The Capitalist Class is the Meanest Class that ever grasped the Reins of Power."
- James Connolly
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Michael Parenti wrote about “rational fascism”. Rational fascism contradicts the idea, generally held. that fascism was an act of one-off, uniquely German insanity. Rather, he showed that capitalists supported fascism in order to boost their profitability and to counter working-class politics.
Profile image of author Michael Parenti sitting on a chair in front of an abstract painting.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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"The Roman slave was held by fetters: the wage labourer is bound to his owner by invisible threads." - Karl Marx. mashable.com/article/microsoft-teams-will-tell-your-boss-when-you-are-out-of-office #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams #Business #Employment #Management #Privacy #Windows #Technology
Microsoft Teams will tell your boss when you’re out of the office
Microsoft Teams will soon be able to track when an employee is working from the office, and when they step out.
mashable.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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An excellent point by Rachel Shabi:

#Zionism #antisemitism #israel #gaza #palestine #christianity #evangelical
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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The hijacking and weaponisation of antisemitism is nothing new - it has been happening for a hundred years.

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#antisemitism #Orwell #Israel #Churchill #Gaza #Palestine #Politics #News #AmWriting
July 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Weaponised Antisemitism: From Churchill to Now

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#Antisemitism #Israel #Imperialism #IHRA #Orwell #Churchill
Weaponised Antisemitism: From Churchill to Now
How the fight against hate became a tool of imperialism
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July 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM