"Old-fashioned socialism, it turns out, is the “good old thing” best suited for combating the “bad new things” of modern capitalism. Corbyn and Sanders upended their respective parties precisely by holding on to socialism even when it was desperately unfashionable to do so. They were able to do so because they understood, as the Italian novelist Giuseppe Lampedusa put it, “Because things are the way they are, they cannot stay the way they are.”"

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/third-way-democratic-socialism-tony-blair-bill-clinton-uk/

"Franklin already knew he was being monitored; he had been followed by unmarked cars for years, and he often confronted police and livestreamed the exchanges with his phone when he saw them watching him. But the extent of the surveillance revealed in the documents surprised even him: Some memos listed people’s height and weight, Social Security numbers, and in one case details of an individual’s mental health history. And Franklin realized when he learned of the joint intelligence briefs that a new neighbor who had told him that he looked familiar had been receiving the memos police had written on him and distributed widely."

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/20/political-surveillance-police-activists-tennessee/

#podcast

I decided to compile a list (that will also be published on the list of Pantopia Daily's musts) of some podcasts you might enjoy:

ChapoTrapHouse
David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan

On the topic of Queer, 2 short ones (they're 6 episodes each. They're kind of OT but I can't recommend them enough):
- Moonface, in which a young gay man wants to come out to his mom but can't because they don't speak the same language
- Gay Future, a satirical narrative sci-fi comedy series in which a totalitarian government rules over what’s left of North America to spread its insidious gay agenda

I might update the list in the future, so if you have something to suggest please use @pantopiafeedbackbot

Hey guys! We've done this once before, and it seemed to have helped out, but this time around a friend of the network, and a hardworking syndicalist, ran into a bit of trouble. Dude needs help. Let's show him what some good old fashioned direct action and mutual aid can do! Send him whatever you can spare, he will definitely appreciate every penny!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-branden-get-a-new-car

Over time I've sent a series of articles, essays and videos on leftist theory and matters that might be of interest for leftists. I fear that new "entries" might skip on these invaluable sources, so I decided to compile what is hopefully a concise list, so as to be always easily accessible. Enjoy!

https://telegra.ph/Musts-from-Pantopia-Daily-01-24

p.s: the list itself is a work in progress, it will be expanded over time
p.p.s: I updated the list with some other stuff at the end, for 'beginners'

you can listen this article ^^

"The Democratic Party of the 1950s and 1960s was probably much more corrupt and inept than the Democratic Party of today—but back then it lived in the neighborhood, as it no longer does today. Now the Democratic Party relies on think tanks in elite universities to find out what people back in those neighborhoods are thinking."

https://newrepublic.com/article/156000/educated-fools-democrats-misunderstand-politics-social-class

"The idea of prefigurativism is to understand and practise the behaviours and relationships we want to see as mainstream in the future; to experiment with, learn and retrain ourselves into new and better behaviours and organisational structures"

"For prefigurative politics this means that many important aspects of power and decision-making fall outside of the formal policies and structures of a party or a community group. For example, what happens during tea break, in small talk, or to the dirty dishes at the end of a meeting is as much a part of politics as the written agenda or the rules on how decisions are made."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/could-pre-figurative-politics-provide-way-forward-left/

#books

Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism, by Jeremiah Morelock
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17653_critical-theory-and-authoritarian-populism-by-jeremiah-morelock-ed-reviewed-by-j-d-evans/

The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal, by Axel Honneth
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17622_the-idea-of-socialism-towards-a-renewal-by-axel-honneth-reviewed-by-amogh-sahu-dave-schafer-ross-wolfe/

Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices, Contestations, by Ian Bruff and Cemal Burak Tansel
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17675_authoritarian-neoliberalism-philosophies-practices-contestations-by-ian-bruff-and-cemal-burak-tansel-eds-reviewed-by-lars-cornelissen/

Considering Class: Theory, Culture and the Media in the 21st Century, by Mike Wayne and Deirdre O'Neill
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17681_considering-class-theory-culture-and-the-media-in-the-21st-century-by-mike-wayne-and-deirdre-oneill-eds-reviewed-by-ufuk-gurbuzdal/

Capitalism, Alone. By Branko Milanovic
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/branko-milanovic-capitalism-alone-review/

"In the end, Billion Dollar Brand Club is Chicken Soup for the MBA Soul, a reassuring collection of anecdotes that affirms, as the last paragraph of the book lovingly whispers, that there’s still “plenty of room for start-ups.” If the book testifies to anything, it’s that the best and brightest of our country’s business class have invested all of their available brain power into making once durable consumer goods disposable and continuing the atomization and dispossession of worker power by extending lean manufacturing to new realms."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/convening-citizens-panel-penzance-10-things-i-learned/

"a global survey released just before Davos found that over half of respondents believe capitalism in its current form does “more harm than good.” That belief was expressed by a majority across age group, gender, and income level divides."

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/stakeholder-capitalism-in-davos/

"With such a Left absent, the Greens’ own ambitions are deeply limited. The fact that the need to make a Kurz-led government “more bearable” has become the main argument for their participation in government shows how little of an actual political vision they have."

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/austria-greens-peoples-party-sebastion-kurz-coalition/