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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Private companies are *always taxing you*, except the difference is they use those taxes to amass undemocratically controlled wealth to make unilateral decisions about how society operates which only benefits them.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If anyone complains to you about paying taxes, ask them what they think about Ontario privatizing alcohol sales. Previously you bought at the LCBO, and the profits (a tax) went to the government for services. Now, you pay the same amount for beer at 7/11 and those profits go to… 7/11.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And we hear this in our language all the time. “I don’t recognize you anymore” or “that’s not the man I married” etc. Some of this is bullshit, they knew all along and ignored it for reasons, but the logic has force. And it speaks to the change in identity that I’m trying to capture.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

But those flaws can’t be the kinds of things that make the relationship impossible to begin with. Because then you couldn’t be in a loving relationship at all. It’s like saying the sun “unconditionally” rises and falls each day, which is true. Because if it stopped, it wouldn’t be *our sun*.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What I feel like they mean, is they want someone to see the best part of them deeply, and love them despite all of their flaws. But those flaws have a limit. And I think that’s all we mean by “unconditional”: that there’s someone who will love me despite myself.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

But do they really mean that they want to be loved despite otherwise engaging in aggressive anti-social behaviours that they wouldn’t countenance in a lover? I don’t feel like anyone is going to commit to that when pushed.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If it’s the alternative, that we love people even if one day they start drinking human blood for breakfast, that doesn’t make any sense. But I’ll admit that “unconditional love” in this sense is stretching the meaning of the terms and ends up being romantically metaphorical and not very exact.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Of course that’s going to be a condition. But that’s a condition of being in any sort of relationship at all. I think the hope is that your romantic partner sees you, in all your glory and ugliness, and chooses you insofar as you continue being that specific flawed (as we all are) person.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

But then the concept of unconditional love is incoherent, at least for romantic partners. And maybe that’s true. But if it has any meaning at all, if we’re to be generous to the concept, it can’t just be whisked away because it’s possible for people to engage in evil behaviour.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

But we can’t exist in relationships comfortably and securely if we think that we have to be perfect all of the time. That’s untenable. So I think that’s what unconditional love is supposed to capture: someone who loves and supports you through thick and thin.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It’s just that those mistakes and failures should happen within the set of mistakes and failures we’d expect for the person we love. Like, I’m going to forget birthdays, that’s pretty clear to my wife, but I’ll always hold down a job and contribute to our household, barring catastrophe.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

And so that creates a requirement within our relationships to be vulnerable, honest and intimate, so our partner knows exactly who we are, and we know who they are. So in *that* sense it’s unconditional, despite the fact that we’re all of us fallible and make mistakes constantly.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“Unconditional love” seems like a straw man? I think the idea is supposed to be that you love a specific person unconditionally, in the sense that, so long as they continue being that person. If your partner cheats on you, that betrayal is certainly not part of who you thought they were.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

More content like this please. Long live bee friend #disabeelitees

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The idea that the city, and the province, in their utter inability to deal with the continuing health crisis, turns around and blames LTIs, w/o evidence, on presumptive legislation that protects paramedics, is grotesque, and speaks to their continued disregard for medics and their well-being.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Attached are the resource utilization numbers from 2025. In the city’s *own reports* they are targeting *65%* and are nowhere near it. Study after study shows that anything over 50% is dangerous to medics and the public. Waterloo region, for example, targets *35%* resource utilization.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

But what is even more concerning, is that the city is, at best, speciously, and at worst, self-servingly, blaming this on PTSD legislation without a shred of reported evidence. See attached. What is *far more likely* is that the service has unprecedented amounts of burn out due to overwork.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

@graphicmatt.com I wanted to draw your attention to GG30.23 - Occupational Health and Safety Report for 2025. As a paramedic, it is not surprising, but nonetheless staggering, how outsized the rate of injury is to other departments. We have over 3 times more LTIs than second place (shelter staff).

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Toronto Tenant Union @tenantsunionto.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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Toronto Tenant Union @tenantsunionto.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This Saturday @ 2575 Eglinton Ave W there'll be a movie night social at 6pm (immediately following orientation). Come meet your fellow members! It’s time to get cozy with TTU! DM us with any questions 🫰 #MovieNight #TenantPower #StrongerTogether #TenantUnion #Toronto #TorontoTenantUnion

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ohhh, I like this. It’s tough, because I follow this thread throughout the day and it gets buried by the timeline when I have to log off, so having a dedicated webpage for it is fantastic. And it’s just a lot easier to read. Thank you!

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A reasonable position on Nietzsche is that his writing is so imprecise and often contradictory, that whatever insights he does have are so buried that the opportunity cost isn’t worth it. There’s no instance where there isn’t something more important to read that takes half as much effort.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is a tale as old as time. I’m not sure this article is even saying anything novel about the disagreement. I’d add that the issue now is that there’s *so much* content, that clarity, concision and precision are even more important than they were previously.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I think it shows how committed the oligarchs are to holding onto power by any means necessary, and that those of us fighting against those who work forces, and don’t have the luxury of being a playboy, have to approach politics with the exact same level of seriousness.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It is unfortunate for all of us that the laws that govern the motion of US empire are a nuclear chain reaction, but it means that the only solution is to send the US into the sun.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So to get back to the original point, pundits reflexively ascribe idiocy to Trump and his minions, forgetting the history of the US and its *identity*. Empires are not created by leaders, they create the leaders they need based on their own internal logic — their “laws of motion”.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Or, the decisions are a combination of inertia and lack of operational flexibility. Like a duel where the stakes are death even if you put down your sword. Richard Sakwa has said about the Ukraine war exactly this: Zelensky is held at gunpoint by Azov to continue, and Putin by the Russian people.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Or those decisions can be inertia. That is, there is no *current* decision being made, because that’s not how geopolitics works. It takes *years* to plan any particular geopolitical action. Iran spent decades preparing for this, as have the Americans. And the US has chosen war.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It is notoriously difficult to assess someone’s motivations, in particular when you’re ascribing psychological states to organizations. Outcomes that seem terrible or unintelligible can easily be either incompetence or corruption, that is, unintentional or intentional, even with full information.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

How can you wield what Kissinger called “madman” diplomacy (that the US is psychotic and will destroy everything if it doesn’t get its way), if you sit down at a table with your enemies and talk it out? Madmen don’t negotiate.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

What if the US *wants* global chaos, as Peter Thiel has advocated for, because they know that the status quo will slowly lead to the downfall of the empire, and chaos is their only “choice” for continued domination? To go out with a bang instead of a whimper?

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Brian Berletic has said this over and over: the US does not negotiate, they use negotiation as a stalling tactic to continue their wars from a more advantageous position. Moreover, the US *knew* the SoH was going to be closed by Iran, so is it surprising that they’re now blockading it themselves?

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I’ve mentioned this before when thinking about geopolitical events, but it’s very helpful to, at least hypothetically, take them at “face value”. I’m seeing commentators talk, again, about Trump and his teams incompetence at negotiations. But what if they don’t *want* to succeed?

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Maybe for the ultra religious types the cross dressing itself is an issue. For most of us, the cross dressing isn’t the issue. Be yourself, express yourself, whatever. The issue is how fucking weird he was being with it.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

If you don’t think that the conflicts are intimately connected then I’m not sure what to tell you.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

And this isn’t just hand waving. Article 5 necessitates that Canada participate: “Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against them all.” And it does not matter if the attack against NATO is in self defence.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It doesn’t matter if Carney condemns the war of aggression. The fact remains that it can only be waged due to the assistance of NATO, and Canada is a NATO member. The US is using bases in Germany, Portugal, UK etc. Until Canada removes itself from NATO, it is a participant.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I would go so far as to say that anyone who was not out at No Kings trying to convince people to be a communist doesn’t know how to be a communist.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The Bolsheviks, because they were organized and disciplined, used the Russian version of the No Kings rally to their advantage, showing up, protecting people and pushing their message of Peace Land Bread. And guess what fucking happened after that?

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Communists will fail if we always act like smug self-righteous know it all’s who never make any material sacrifices, but blather on at everyone about how their politics aren’t right and so therefore it would be better if they stayed home.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I’ll just add another thing as I’m thinking about this. Lenin called appealing to mainstream mass politics “tailism”, and he loathed it. Why? At least partially because he believed in communism and thought others would be convinced if we were organized, advocated for and protected the people.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

If communists want to be taken seriously, they have to be the vanguard they profess to be. Even if no kings was mostly shitlibs, you gain a lot of prestige with the people when you prevent them from getting fucked up by fascist cops. Our fight is with the fascists, so we should focus.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

That said, I don’t hate popular music or even the *idea* of popular music. I wish the airwaves weren’t saturated by trash. I love, for example, popular Indian music from the 70s, or popular Irish folk music. I’m not trying to be an esoteric hipster. I just want music that sounds authentic.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Its perfectly reasonable to have a visceral dislike of music that’s made explicitly to support the idea of celebrity, whose artists have no connection to anything their songs are about, and are made in pop song sweatshops for the benefit of monopoly record labels. It sounds fake and it is.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

What this also means, though, is that Marxists believe there are legitimate constraints on your choices of political activity, and you cannot simply conjure up any society you want. This is why Marxists won’t, for example, support reformism in most instances, because it’s impossible or ineffectual.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

And, if you’ve done everything correctly, you can figure out where society could be headed, and act in a way to help propel history forward. Just like how gravity will pull objects into a black hole, but they can move faster or slower if we increase or decrease their acceleration.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

So when Marxists talk about having a good “analysis” in order to understand how to do politics, all we mean is that you have to know the current anatomy of the society you’re looking to change. These are the “initial conditions”. You then plug these conditions into the laws of historical change.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Marx’s theory of change is slightly more philosophical than what I just wrote about, and that’s probably a topic for another day. But hopefully the idea of thinking about human civilization as similar to any other natural process we can understand through science helps demystify things.

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Marxist Work Warehouse @marxistworkware.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

These changes, just like in a whale as it evolves, are the product of external constraints, (I.e. the natural world), and internal ones, (I.e. the current configuration of the society or the whale’s physiology). Marx believed the engine for this change is contradictions within society.

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