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Jacobinmag
How Australian Workers Prepared to Socialize Industry During the Great Depression
In the 1930s, working-class radicals in the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party established Socialization Units, mass organizations parallel to the party. Their goal was to prepare for the democratic takeover of industry, and to build “socialism…
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"On Monday, in a move that would seem a little too on-the-nose even for The Onion, the CIA completed a chic and diversity-encouraging rebrand to attract new recruits who can trace their heritage to the places that the agency has undermined and destabilized. The newly-launched recruitment site features a new tech-y logo, vaguely familiar fonts, prominently figured Black and brown faces across the sleek new site."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vqme/inspiring-cia-rebrands-to-attract-diverse-operatives
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vqme/inspiring-cia-rebrands-to-attract-diverse-operatives
Vice
Inspiring: CIA Rebrands to Attract Diverse Operatives
The coup-plotting spy agency has a diversity problem preventing it from attracting recruits who can trace their heritage to places the CIA has undermined and destabilized.
"What once stood out as a vital genre of anti-capitalist fiction has mainly been reduced to a cool retro aesthetic easily appropriated by the world’s second-richest man to market ugly Blade Runner–inspired trucks to nostalgia-drenched Gen Xers."
"“Classic cyberpunk is anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, and not tech-fetishistic but rather skeptical of how technology is used by systems of power to further oppression,” wrote comic book author and art director Rob Sheridan."
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/cyberpunk-2077-aesthetics-elon-musk-anti-capitalist-fiction/
"“Classic cyberpunk is anti-capitalist, anti-establishment, and not tech-fetishistic but rather skeptical of how technology is used by systems of power to further oppression,” wrote comic book author and art director Rob Sheridan."
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/cyberpunk-2077-aesthetics-elon-musk-anti-capitalist-fiction/
Jacobin
Cyberpunk Needs a Reboot
Cyberpunk once stood out as a vital genre of anti-capitalist fiction. Today, it’s been reduced to a cool retro aesthetic easily appropriated by the world’s second-richest man to market ugly Blade Runner–inspired trucks to nostalgia-driven Gen Xers.