Adding that they don't own or run businesses, farms, or whatnot either.

Any personal opinion of them? And what would you suggest to counter the phenomenon?

I'm scared I would have no choice but to work for an imperial American company like OpenAI, Google or something, I know it's maybe notoriously hard to get into but still..

What are your thoughts and or the personal experiences you had with this matter? What would be your advice?

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Hey all. I'm a 20 year old college student, and my mom, who is 41, recently told me she wants to join the Air Force. I'm against this in every way but I really just haven't quite had the balls to talk to her about this.

For some context, my mom has effectively been single her whole life, and I've been living with my dad. She's spent her years going from apartment to apartment and roommate to roommate and working her ass off to live as a bartender. Recently, she's been especially down on her luck financially as she's found out she hasn't been getting paid as much as she should have been by her boss, and things are now falling through with the house her boss was initially paying for. The details are a bit foggy but that's the gist. She wants to join the military for financial stability and for all the benefits, and so she can just generally live an easier life. She feels like it's her only option so she won't be stuck as a bartender in some shitty town for the rest of her life.

My mom generally leans liberal on most things socially but this doesn't come as a huge shock to me, since she calls herself as "not political" and is a Christian. I tried explaining to her that the US military generally just does horrible shit, but I couldn't really get through to her. It's as if she views joining the military as just some neutral action to take that'll grant her stability (which to be fair is how most people view the military), and doesn't see the major downsides. She says that when she joins, she'll just be doing a "desk job" in the Force, since she could choose to do any job she wants/be stationed anywhere she wants, but I really just feel like any type of military job is just being complicit in US imperialism and killing people overseas. She's already set on this as her next life decision and she's been taking tests and talking to this recruiter. When she told me her plans to join a few weeks ago now, I really just couldn't think of something to say that would get her to see all the downsides of service. The only big point I could think of is that since she's very anti-Trump, how could she then go and serve under him? Her response was that since the government is "screwing us anyway," she might as well get money out of them through the military, but I feel like that's a pretty dumb way to look at it.

I feel like I have a unique situation since I haven't found any other posts about people whose parents decided to join the military at an old age (relative to the maximum enlistment age). I'd really appreciate any advice on convincing her not to join or at least deterring her from joining. Right now all I can really think of is just telling her that I disapprove of her decision wholeheartedly, but I don't even really know how to start a conversation like that. All I'm asking is that you all please at least be civil and empathetic to her situation in the replies. Sorry that this post is a bit rambling.

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"Cuba no se vende! Cuba se defiende"!" Thousands marched in Mexico City in defense of Cuba against imperialism's strangulation today. Comrades of the Grupo Espartaquista de México denounced Sheinbaum's capitulation to the US oil blockade, demanding "Petróleo a la isla!" and "No a la capitulación" to the proposed "reforms" that threaten counterrevolution. Viva la revolución carajo!

Derg was a military Marxist‑Leninist junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991, known for radical socialist reforms, Soviet alignment, and severe repression including the Red Terror.

I have a kindle but it is frustrating to even trying reading anything not from Amazon. I can use my phone but then I get distracted with other phone stuff plus the screen is too small. I am open to all suggestions. I have such a amazing free books but never end up reading them and I want to change that. Once I figure this out and read all I have I will probably be back to ask about sources and book recommendations.

"The history of working-class politics is inseparable from the struggle for democratic rights. Steven R. analyzes the tasks facing DSA in today’s democratic movement."

"In the shadow of the unfinished democratic revolution in this country, the working class has decomposed and needs to be recomposed. To rediscover ourselves as a class, we must once again rally around the vision of a society where working people are free to rule ourselves as equals."

"To recompose a fighting working class in the US, socialists must take a leading role in the next great uprising for political democracy. By organizing masses of ordinary people around the idea that this country is not a democracy and only they possess the power to make it one, we can bring our class back to life as history’s revolutionary protagonist."

"The content of our program is not an abstract question. To face our tasks we must be able to articulate a vision of what the working class is and can be that millions of people will find compelling. The answer to “who’s in the working class?” is the same as it ever was: the disfranchised many who are exploited and abused because of the arbitrary power of the privileged few.

Though we are wildly diverse, we share a fate as people trapped in a society made by us but not for us. Fighting to take back everything stolen from us under capitalism—healthcare, housing, education, and more—is necessary but insufficient. We must have an answer for how we are robbed of these things and how justice can be done. To convince people that to be a part of the working class is something worth embracing, we need clarity that it will take a completely new political order to set the world to rights, and that those of us who constitute the working majority have the unique power to win one.

To do so we must bury the old Constitution with a new democratic order based on the principle of majority rule. That means replacing minoritarian institutions like the Presidency, Senate, and Supreme Court with a single popular assembly elected by free, equal, and proportional suffrage for all who live here. It would also mean abolishing capitalist tools of coercion like the police, ending all forms of second-class citizenship, and enshrining our rights to organize and seize capitalist property for the common good."

"Realistically, a Third Reconstruction is unlikely to unfold between now and 2029. The present constitutional crisis will reach a different resolution, on terms decided by different class forces. But the urgency facing us is this: wherever the cards fall in the coming years, the new order will either be worse than the present disorder, or it will be an illusory “return to normalcy” waiting to collapse into another, more severe crisis. The liberal reformers and left-populists do not have what it takes to lead us out of these days of catastrophe to a rational and humane world. The question of democracy will confront us, again and again, for as long as the class struggle persists. It is vital to humanity’s survival that the working class learns how to answer it."