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Personally I would get the backing track together, put it on a loop, figure out a melody and then just keep looping and freestyle riffing on that loop until some coherent words come out that sound good. just revise from there until it feels complete

Unz Review.

He was even directly questioned about this years ago and said he would look into it and never stopped posting there

Yeah I’m way passed the point where I would listen to anything either of these men have to say. Hudson posts his work on a Nazi site and Wolff isn’t useful once you’ve read Lenin and realize empowering workers through workplace democracy within capitalism creates a labor aristocracy who gains more from maintaining capitalism than they do from defeating it

Yes and the senate and house and presidency, if only the were truly pro worker, would be great for labor. It’s almost if we live in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the state is a tool of the ruling class to oppress the working class or something

Again, the NLRB affects 10% of workers, it is already meaningless to the most marginalized and oppressed workers; to nearly every worker. The union itself should be the organizational power, but the NLRB means they the power rests in a government body instead of the workers themself. What power did workers have before the NLRB? Considering it was their power that forced the government to create the NLRB in response, obviously it was a lot. The idea that anyone is rooting for this in hopes of it helping is naive and misguided, the point is that it is happening anyway and contradictions are getting sharper for many reasons, this being one of them. That is happening and we need to incorporate that into our analysis and be prepared to organize with that reality in mind

Wouldn’t the expectation be that generations of workers are getting better educated and over qualified for factory jobs? I don’t think this is a problem for Chinese workers in the same way it would be for America if they still had factories

Okay so the neoliberal union machine run by the US government that represents 10% of workers will be disbanded, and then workers will have to break the law to get what they want? This is bad because we respect the law and think that unions should be yoked by the US government? This is bad because the workers with the largest concessions afforded by the US government will lose those concessions and no longer have an economic incentive to maintain the status quo? Do we not like wildcat strikes? What is your critique here?

Things are accelerating, contradictions are sharpening, the economy is crumbling and fascism is on the rise. Are we not allowed to have an honest analysis of the situation? Is that accelerationism? The treat factory is ending, inshallah, and the treat addled mind along with it. When people awaken from this haze and realize they are gonna have to break the law to survive, maybe they will actually join with the rest of us who have been living this way the whole time. Maybe instead of wishing to protect the institutional systems designed to destroy the labor movement, we should celebrate their downfall and the downfall of all of the institutions that keep the neoliberal fantasy alive. We are entering the best period for revolutionary organizing since the 60’s and, as always, it is because the conditions have gotten bad enough that people will do something that would have been previously too uncomfortable. I did not organize for this to happen, nothing I did or thought accelerated this situation into being, but this has obviously been where we are going for a long time and now we are here.

Labor’s Untold Story does a decent job covering it and the later Taft-Hartley act within the scope of the US labor movement

NLRB was an essential part of the destruction of the working class movements that preceded it. If unions are no longer regulated by the US government, they can exert more pressure in more effective ways.

they aren’t saying anything unique or new, just pointing out the obvious and saying so that’s why you should… join DSA? no thanks

yeah maybe so, I feel like people were practicing animal husbandry under primitive communism though right? I would assume the first instance of having a class divide socially would have required a religious concept to justify it

yeah it is quite literally the oldest trick in the book and the origination of class society

Honestly an important example for communism being anti-religious. This idea gets thrown around a lot as if it means communists will oppress you for being a Christian or something, but they don’t mention that there were fucking geomancers and mud idolatry cults taking people’s income to throw in the river to get a blessing and not die from drinking dirty water. This is still a huge issue all around the world, like in India with the Brahmin mafia needing to get cut in on everything that happens in society to just burn some incense and say some words or else everyone will be punished by this god or that god, or the so-called Hyenas in Malawi who are hired to sleep with kids after their first menstruation in order to “cleanse” them, or the Catholic church for, well everything they’ve done. It makes sense that communists would fight these things, and they are religious things, but it doesn’t have to mean that a communist must be anti-religious to fight specific examples of abuse from metaphysical thinking that they see around them.

If you want to play bluegrass banjo, or old time for that matter, you pretty much need the 5th string in order to syncopate the finger picking or frailing respectively. Flat picking guitar style is what is played in bluegrass and is typically done on a standard tuned acoustic guitar, you could do this on a gitjo but it won’t be able to directly replace the role of the banjo in a bluegrass band. If you already finger pick guitar you could try and learn banjo rolls and songs on a standard tuned gitjo but if you want to play a banjo song as written for the banjo it would be pretty challenging to memorize because the 5th string on the banjo is on top in order to use your thumb on it because of how often you use it. To get that sound you’d have to be picking the high e as often which is opposite the other strings, doing so with finger picks on (pretty much required to get bluegrass banjo sound) seems harder than just taking a little time to learn how to play bluegrass music on the instrument most often associated with it; bluegrass sounds the way it does because of the way a 5 string banjo is designed. As far as chords go, it’s pretty easy since the strings are not wound and can be barred with one finger, and each barred fret gives you a major chord. If you are already a comfortable guitar player I’m sure you would pick up the 5 string banjo quickly with a couple free youtube tutorials or an entry level book.