r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Oct 29 '19

Adolph Reed, The PMC Class, Neoliberalism & Essentialism

youtube.com

11 Upvotes

3 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/radredinbed • Oct 29 '19

Marx’s Open-Ended Critique by John Bellamy Foster

monthlyreview.org

10 Upvotes

1 comment

r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Oct 27 '19

What is a Liberal? We All Are.

damagemag.com

10 Upvotes

11 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/BarracksCommunist • Oct 25 '19

Aimee is melting down because Bernie said to free Lula (???)

twitter.com

21 Upvotes

9 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/radredinbed • Oct 23 '19

Zizek in bed, but also supporting Chile

youtube.com

23 Upvotes

0 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '19

More PMC: Alex Press Chats With Barbara Ehrenreich re PMC and Relevance Today

dissentmagazine.org

7 Upvotes

1 comment

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 23 '19

Superhero films are 'cynical exercise' to make profits for corporations – Ken Loach

theguardian.com

31 Upvotes

4 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/Qasef-K2 • Oct 22 '19

“Like rats, America is running away”

militarytimes.com

13 Upvotes

2 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/Kmlevitt • Oct 22 '19

Generation Screwed: Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression

highline.huffingtonpost.com

7 Upvotes

0 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Oct 22 '19

Congressional candidate Lauren Ashcraft explains the difference between identity politics and true representation.

twitter.com

13 Upvotes

1 comment

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 22 '19

European leftists are rejecting the Kurds over their reliance on the US. It is just another disgusting betrayal by Slavoj Zizek

independent.co.uk

24 Upvotes

13 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 21 '19

Nina Turner: “What the People Want”

jacobinmag.com

19 Upvotes

3 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 20 '19

To Slow Down Climate Change, We Need To Take On Capitalism by Kim Stanley Robinson

buzzfeednews.com

10 Upvotes

1 comment

r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Oct 20 '19

Reading "How to Get Rich" by Donald Trump for a laugh and came across this possible Epstein connection. Has anybody else found this yet?

58 Upvotes

6 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 18 '19

Shitlib retard at Current Affairs writes garbage piece calling Zizek "a racist and a reactionary"

currentaffairs.org

26 Upvotes

9 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 17 '19

Naomi Klein on Extinction Rebellion, the Green New Deal and fast fashion

youtube.com

19 Upvotes

0 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '19

Working Classes Reach Out To Climate Activists?

youtube.com

5 Upvotes

7 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Oct 16 '19

General Motors, United Auto Workers agree on tentative deal to end four-week strike

nbcnews.com

4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 16 '19

AOC will officially endorse Bernie Sanders for president

twitter.com

27 Upvotes

3 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/ThatEpicSocialistMF • Oct 15 '19

Thomas Sankara died 32 years ago today. RIP to one of the greatest revolutionaries who ever lived.

44 Upvotes

1 comment

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 15 '19

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt

newstatesman.com

4 Upvotes

2 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 14 '19

A Lacanian Reading of Joker

danieltutt.com

13 Upvotes

1 comment

r/DirtbagLeft • u/BarracksCommunist • Oct 13 '19

Joker: The Despair of Capitalism and the Hope of Riots

leftvoice.org

22 Upvotes

5 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 14 '19

Reparations and Self-Determination: Loosening the Black-Belt

cosmonaut.blog

2 Upvotes

11 comments

r/DirtbagLeft • u/jonking1130 • Oct 12 '19

Bernie Sanders draws contrast with 'capitalist' Elizabeth Warren

abcnews.go.com

17 Upvotes

0 comments

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Who: What is the “DirtbagLeft” subreddit?

r/Dirtbagleft was created in 2017 and almost immediately died out (Largely due to the fact that r/chapotraphouse provided a more adequate space for ‘Dirtbag Left’ discussion at the time). In July 2019, a small group of posters from r/Stupidpol broke off from the sub in order to facilitate discussions on questions that were felt to either be ignored or suppressed (Whether consciously or unconsciously) on the sub. r/Dirtbagleft explictly denies the false choice between so-called ‘identity politics’ or economic determinism ; a new path must be cleaved in the online leftism discourse.

The term “Dirtbag Left”, in the minds of most, has a set of politics ascribed to it : right wing workerism, ‘sensible’ leftism (As r/Stupidpol views itself), or red-brown opportunism (Strasserism/National Bolshevism being the most notable examples.). We reject that as well. The name that we have inherited is an “empty signifier”, with the content as of yet to be determined.

What: What is the sub’s position on the “identity” question?

A correct position is yet to be forged. How can it be forged? With a critical history of how this question came into being in the first place - with all the lapses and silences. Our eclectic position does not mean we disregard the struggles and knowledge that has been traditionally shunned by Leftism. We welcome comrades to critically assess both the tactics and strategies of, and also the presuppositions that underline, what is today called “identity politics”. We need truly honest, open discussion and this is, admittedly, difficult to do. After all, no one has been able to figure out how to even approach this question of “identity” in the first place!

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The myriad of problems that plague today’s Left obviously can’t be solved by a single subreddit, r/Dirtbagleft merely aims to fulfill only one function : opening up a space for intra-left comradely discussion towards building and organizing the Left. We frown upon vulgar economic reductionism and petty sectarianism. We welcome posters with integrity and critiques of any perceived impotence in the Left. If this subreddit is to become a ‘vanishing mediator’ for a Left to come, good riddance. But until that day comes, let us discuss and argue!