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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interestingly, Marx does not seem to think surplus-labor and exploited labor are synonymous. Surplus-labor will continue under communism, rather than considering it expanded necessary labor. Or maybe these terms start to break down in meaning outside of class society.

This is also the only portion of surplus-value and surplus-product, and thus of surplus-labour, which would continue to exist, outside of that portion serving for accumulation, and hence expansion of the process of reproduction, even after the abolition of the capitalist mode of production. This, of course, presupposes that the portion regularly consumed by direct producers does not remain limited to its present minimum. Apart from surplus-labour for those who on account of age are not yet, or no longer, able to take part in production, all labour to support those who do not work would cease.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Laser-focused on making people's lives worse to distract from their own failure.

Upston explained the proposed 2028 Jobseeker cuts would apply to some beneficiaries suffering from health conditions but said it would not apply to those deemed unable to work like those battling cancer.

Next month, an estimated 4300 18- and 19-year-olds with parents earning more than $65,000 will no longer be able to access the Jobseeker benefit under changes from the coalition Government.

In July under questioning from Green MP Ricardo Menedez-March in the House, Upston acknowledged about 1800 of them had a psychological or psychiatric condition.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As ever, ole mate just making it up as he goes along.

Upston and Luxon fronted the policy announcement in Kapiti this morning.

Asked if he would be open to MPs facing random drug tests, Luxon said he was “fine” with it but clarified it wasn’t National policy. He acknowledged he expected such a question following today’s announcement.

Luxon suggested he was open to funding more places in rehabilitation if demand increased as a result of the alcohol and drug assessments.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I see the circus is in full swing already.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They legislated to make it easier to fire workers, and now they're promising to punish people for being fired.

lowering the rate of payment for those who had been on the benefit for two of the previous three years, from 1 April 2028. There would be a smaller reduction for households with dependent children.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you really want to get "more people off welfare and into work", consider not tanking the economy. That typically works better than performative cruelty.

The party also promised:
to provide "intensive, work-focused support" for 30,000 jobseekers who have been on Jobseeker for more than a year, with more funding for employment programmes that support young people into work.
lowering the rate of payment for those who had been on the benefit for two of the previous three years, from 1 April 2028. There would be a smaller reduction for households with dependent children.
those who repeatedly leave employment without good and sufficient reason would face a 26-week non-entitlement period, up from 13 weeks.
from 1 April 2028, the minimum residence period to qualify for main benefits will increase from two years to five years.
Upston said the party was focused on "getting more people off welfare and into work".

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*as always I'm not advocating people vote Opportunity, no need to send me the dossier you've prepared on Opportunity, I'm sure it's very through and long but I don't need convincing as I don't plan to vote for them

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Free GP visits *are* a plus (as is cheaper public transport) but the Labour platform isn't exactly exciting, maybe that explains the Green surge and the rise of Opportunity* as those parties are proposing something transformative

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Always hard to guess what the medium voter is thinking, but of the 'major' parties it seems Nation is offering the status quo and Labour is offering status quo+ that is, your wages, taxes, and bills are largely the same but you get a couple of free GP visits etc Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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Henry Laws @henryglaws.bsky.social · 17h

So today I finished reading the book Workers Control and Socialist Democracy: The Soviet Experience by Carmen Sirianni. You can find my thoughts on it via the links in the comments below.

Image description: Picture of the book cover, which consists of the book’s title above an artistic depiction of two workers.

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

eco-anarchism, punk anarchism, and revolutionary social anarchism. Ultimately, the article argues that anarchism was revitalised in the late twentieth century because it provided compelling answers to the new problems posed by the neoliberal counterrevolution and the crisis of state socialism. 5/5

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Marxism-Leninism and popularised the anarchist analysis and principles that provided the foundation for the anti-globalisation movement. The article discusses five examples of the development of anarchist theory and practice: Black/New Afrikan Anarchism, anarcha-feminism, 4/

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Part one investigates how the New Right’s post-1960s counterrevolution defeated the New Left and remade US society, including by recuperating potentially liberatory elements of social movements. Part two examines how a new generation of radicals critiqued the failures of 3/

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Abstract: After almost a century of Marxist predominance, how did anarchism develop from a marginal phenomenon into a force at the centre of the anti-globalisation movement? This article explores how anarchism was reborn in a counterrevolutionary age. 2/

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My first academic journal article came out in Anarchist Studies four years ago. It has long since been posted on the Anarchist Library where you can read it for free: "From the Ashes of the Old: Anarchism Reborn in a Counterrevolutionary Age (1970s-1990s)" theanarchistlibrary.org/library/spen... 1/

Photo of my hand holding a copy of Anarchist Studies Volume 30, Number 2, from 2022. The cover has a picture of Lenin on a coin. Next to the journal is my adorable cross-eyed black cat named Frida, who is a natural anarchist.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Breathed a sigh of relief when I read the NZ First list released today, no known cookers in any winnable positions (Of course, there are cooker fingerprints over all of the policies) Crossposted with @openvibe.social

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 07/10/2026

Last month @paulapenfold.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece interrogating a NZF candidate's disinformation about abortion. Today the leader of that party quite clearly shared the dogwhistle version of that rhetoric unchallenged. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

From Penfold's article:

Mundt said the abortion legislation had been "shrouded in controversy".
"It was passed just as the country was going into covid lockdowns," she wrote,
"so the focus of the nation was divertedẠại
She said NZ First had "put forward a conscience vote" and its MPs voted against the bill at its third reading.
"Their (sic) is NO upper limit to the age of a baby being aborted. If two practitioners agree, a baby can be killed right up to the day of birth," Mundt continued.

From Peters' interview today:

Asked about abortion, Peters said "the facts" were worth revisiting.
"At its worst, and it's a matter of timing, but it shades into a thing called murder. You got me here?
"It shades into a thing called murder or assassination, get any name you like. But that's the purpose. We've got to know the facts."

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can buy the book "Anarchisms" directly from Dog Section Press now, or wait until it is available in the US distributed by AK Press... but if you can't wait, it's also available as a free PDF from Dog Section Press! www.dogsection.org/product/anar...

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Anarchisms

“The characteristic function of anarchism is to encourage the blossoming of different types of anarchists, of diverse anarchist milieus, dissimilar in operation, di ering over the ways to best use li...

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Anarchisms" includes a chapter by yours truly on "Anarchist Institutions," which discusses the history and function of institutions like infoshops and lays out five characteristics of successful anarchist institutions.

Photo of a book spread of my chapter, "Anarchist Institutions," with a beautiful illustration of an anarchist bookshop.

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Anarchisms" is out today from Dog Section Press! It's a wonderful collection of chapters by Ruth Kinna, Benjamin Zephaniah, Peter Gelderloos, Spencer Beswick, Zoe Baker, Seth Wheeler, Jessica Thorne, Koshka Duff, Carne Ross and Lorenzo K. Ervin www.dogsection.org/product/anar...

Cover of the book "Anarchisms" which has a black cover with yellow writing. It's on an illustrated background with a lot of people's faces.

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you have any tip offs about the Neo-Nazi group Action Zealandia and its front organisations White New Zealand, the National Socialist Faction and the Southern Rangers Active Club, then feel free to direct message us or email us at paparoa3@protonmail.com

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

While Jack Captein is imprisoned, the Neo-Nazi organisation he co-founded, Action Zealandia, has continued to operate, with its members reconstituting itself into White New Zealand, the National Socialist Faction and the Southern Rangers Active Club: globalextremism.org/new-zealand/...

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GPAHE report: Far-Right Hate and Extremist Groups in New Zealand

GPAHE Report Lists Hate and Extremist Groups in New Zealand. Similar to trends elsewhere, white nationalist, anti-immigrant, and other extremist groups in NZ have grown in recent years

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jack Captein is not the only Neo-Nazi Action Zealandia member that has been part of the New Zealand military, as fellow AZ members Max Newsome and James Fairburn/Hector were also soldiers before we helped expose them. newsroom.co.nz/2020/03/08/a... and newsroom.co.nz/2020/11/25/f...

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Action Zealandia member planned terror cell

An anonymous member of the white supremacist Action Zealandia organisation discussed purchasing firearms from the black market and creating terror cells in New Zealand.

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When Jack Captein was part of the Neo-Nazi group Action Zealandia, the successor to the Dominion Movement, he praised the fascist Christchurch terrorist. x.com/Paparoa3/sta...

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Paparoa (@Paparoa3) on X

The article shows that Action Zealandia's distancing themselves from the Christchurch terrorist are insincere, as AZ member and NZ Army soldier Johann Wolfe, who also goes by Jim Young, praises the Ch...

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jack Captein's extensive history of Neo-Nazi activity prior to his arrest, trial and imprisonment for espionage in Wargus Christi, the Dominion Movement, Stormfront and VK is detailed in this @unicornriot.bsky.social article, which we provided information for. unicornriot.ninja/2019/new-zea...

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New Zealand Soldier With Alleged Nazi Ties Arrested - UNICORN RIOT

New Zealand – On December 14, a soldier in the New Zealand Defense Forces (NZDF) was arrested in an investigation believed to be related to his suspected involvement in neo-nazi groups. According to v...

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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seven years on, it's finally public knowledge that Neo-Nazi Wargus Christi, Dominion Movement and Action Zealandia co-founder Jack Captein/Johann Wolfe is the New Zealand Army soldier that is currently imprisoned for attempting espionage. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/jac...

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"Jack Captein named as former New Zealand Army soldier in attempted espionage case

Tracy Neal
Open Justice multimedia journalist, Nelson-Marlborough·NZ Herald·
6 Oct, 2026 03:00 PM
5 mins to read"

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The Anarchist Library @anarchistlibrary.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The text that is featured as a "Conversation of the Week" on the ANews Podcast can also be read on the library here: "Building the American Anarchist Movement" by Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social text: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/spen...

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Building the American Anarchist Movement

Spencer Beswick Building the American Anarchist Movement Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s 2026 Journal for the Study of...

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pleasantly surprised to see that the latest ANews podcast features a long conversation on my recently published article "Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s." I'm so happy when people find my writing useful. Check it out!

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bara’a writes directly from her tent in Gaza: "In the absolute dark, when the sounds of fear outside grow too loud, I hold Ibrahim’s tiny hand. His skin is warm, his breath quiet, and in that small touch, I hold my entire universe." 🧵

An adult hand holding a child's hand before a tent ceiling.

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Rebecca Priestley @rkpriestley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We talked to farmers in a South Island community and found: (1) mistrust in climate science and scientists, (2) mistrust in government, (3) mistrust of the mainstream media and (4) a sense of responsibility and care for their farms. #ClimateChange rsnz.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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New Zealand Farmers’ Trust in Climate Change Expertise and Policy: A Case Study

Responding to recent discord between Aotearoa New Zealand's agricultural sector and the government over environmental policies, this paper examines farmers’ trust in climate change science and policy...

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is clearly just a case of the radical leftist Jacob Rees Mogg implying anyone he disagrees with is a Nazi. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’

Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finished reading Bonanno on national liberation, and absolutely loved it. Very subtle and deep work about how an anarchist federalism can defeat nationalistic and statist idealism and expose the connections between internal colonialism and imperialism theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfr...

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Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle

Alfredo M. Bonanno Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle Third South African Edition, February 2019 2019 Anarchism and the National Liberation...

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This naturally ties in with decolonial efforts. Many socialists understand it is wrong for, say, England to rule over India, seeing the need to break up this power. They might even want to break off Scotland and Wales. They have been less supportive of the need to break England itself.

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The state is rejected for both its artificial unity and artificial separation. It forces many peoples into the same structure, while also dividing them from people they might share more in common with in other states or territories.

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anarchist federalism follows from the administration of things taking place without the government of persons. Federations find their natural limits in the share historical characteristics that forge a people (rather than state imposition), and unite the globe in the confederation of free peoples.

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JudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finished my guide to the final chapter of the Manifesto. Though really most of it is just a discussion of non-communist political ideologies, especially going into a large history of social democracy, and then some history of the 1848 revolutions judgesabo.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

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A Guide to the Communist Manifesto: Chapter 4

Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life—the greater is the store of your estranged being." 2/2

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Marx: "The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save— 1/2

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good question

Three men around a table, one is pouring a glass of wine

A subtitle reads 'what can you guarantee in this haunted mansion'

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tonight's spooky season watch is the 1989 Czechoslovakian mystery horror The Damned House of Haijn (aka Uncle Cyril)

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