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Mark Leier

@markleier.bsky.social
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Historian at SFU. Anarchism, Wobblies, utopia. Saving my pessimism for better times.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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@bcferrys @bcferrys.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Reminder to all our fellow boaters that it is illegal to dump Fraser Institute statistics into open water within three miles of shore.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is very important. The intrusion of AI slop into higher education is not mainly coming from below, from the students. It's coming from the top.
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
SLOCOM members/fans, it has been a busy few months but look forward to more from non-Party non-headquarters!
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
New book by SFU PhD Aaron Goings out now!https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295754000/red-harbor/
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@bcferrys @bcferrys.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We’d be stupid to turn down the generous gift of three $150-million catamaran ferrys from the Egyptian government.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
nothing spells faculty productivity like spending hours manually inputting pull-down-menu versions of information readily available on a CV into a proprietary Faculty Productivity™ software on which the university spent jillions
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Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Puppets…
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@bcferrys @bcferrys.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Warm weather is here! Anyone know of a Canadian maker of Clamsicles?
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤
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duncankinney.bsky.social @duncankinney.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
cannot say enough how much i despise the leaders and the senior leadership of canada's three major political parties. whatever the result tonight we all lose.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I know you all think you've saved the country but in 4 years the status quo will be untenable and the next Poilievre will be far worse. Enjoy the reprieve
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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Canadian politics 101: 158 years of Liberal/Conservative horse races. And both parties running on "change."
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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The really messed up thing is, my heart is in my throat about this election but it's going to stay there because even if we keep PP out, we're going to have to fight Carney tooth and nail for 4 years.
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This election forces us to choose between the evil of two lessers.
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
This Canadian election is important, for whoever wins it shifts the "Overton Window" further to the right, exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of all the parties, and reveals the illegitimacy of the colonial "nation-state" and capitalism in particularly sharp relief. So, a teachable moment.
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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
An election where the climate was barely mentioned. As the water levels in the Rockies reach record lows, as the forest fire threats accelerate, as glaciers melt at record pace, as extreme weather accelerates...and yet, nothing.
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@bcferrys @bcferrys.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Boat early, boat often
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I fear that "the long march through the institutions" means we have become institutionalized.
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Starting Dan McQuillan's "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence," Bristol University Press, 2020, and there is much good stuff here, including a call for mutual aid and the commons.
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
As I wake to the 81st day of the Fall of the American Empire, the question I contemplate: Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...
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Johnny Cash - Hurt
YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO
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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
dear journalists: if you don't know how to do research, how to read critically & for context, or how to make claims that can be substantiated by your sources, HELP IS AVAILABLE AT A HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEAR YOU
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
One advantage to SLOCOM typed mail is security services no longer have the capacity or equipment to steam open letters! "Kettle? No, but there's a coffee pod machine in the kitchen. Why?"
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
There is much wisdom in the piece by Canadian Quakers on trade wars with the US and how to respond without the sabre rattling and call for increased defence spending quakerservice.ca/wp-content/u...
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
WE ARE NOT OVERTAXED WE ARE UNDERPAID
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I thought this was helpful open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
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The Underlying Problem
This is happening because some people are too rich.
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Of course her book So Little for the Mind was pretty conservative and critiqued Dewey’s emphasis on democracy
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As Marx wrote, "The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class size struggles."
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If class size doesn't matter, why do CEOs take private golf lessons
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Kropotkin on Marx' Capital: "We passed over all the defects in his theory in view of the fact that he turned his principal attention to the economic forms of life, which are always forgotten by revolutionaries who come from the bourgeoisie and generally have a bourgeois education."
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
In 1858, Déjacque in his journal had critiqued Proudhon, "No, it is not the product of their labors to which the workers have a right. It is the satisfaction of their needs, whatever the nature of those needs."
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Not exactly news, but Canada Post and the federal government consider strikes a way to punish workers and save money. "Provoke workers, let them suffer, don't pay them, then order them back to work--that'll learn 'em!" The official bs from gov't, CP, and academic toadies has been disgusting.
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Working on the seasonal Durruti tree
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wolff is on to something here www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/14/c...
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Capitalism, Mass Anger and the 2024 Elections
In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French “centrist” President Emmanuel Macron, he said he understood the
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@bcferrys @bcferrys.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Coming soon: onboard suggestion boxes. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/f...
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Ferry advisory committees being axed as B.C. Ferries designs new engagement system
Company says it’s replacing 13 committees with new engagement system it hasn’t yet designed
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Wishing you and yours a truly wonderful Thanksgiving.
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
SFU announces new “Transparency in Sustainability” program
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Mark Leier @markleier.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Saku Pinta @tbayslim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Canada's first Prime Minister had to resign because of a corruption scandal over the railway, but he was re-elected and never imprisoned. He resided over the military invasions and westward expansions of what would become western Canada and the initiation of the genocidal residential school system.
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