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Harry Cleaver

@harrycleaver.bsky.social

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ex-economist, retired professor, Autonomist Marxist, Zeroworker, anti-capitalist, pro-Wilderness, pro-all-sentient-beings, pro-commons,
For details: https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/

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@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 4:01 PM

Thanks!

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:20 PM

We need AIPAC Tracker to generalize! Not just track American politicians bought by Zionist money but ALL of 'em bought by capitalist scumbags. Unfortunately, it would probably require an impossible, huge enlargement of AIPAC's staff & resources.

@xelahart.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:37 PMReposted by @harrycleaver.bsky.social

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@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:12 PM

In school, we are taught that "stealing" = pickpocketing or shoplifting; films add bank robbing & hijacking. What they don't teach, & thus hide, are all the ways capitalists steal, not only money via profits & govt, but tru the theft of our time & energy in the work they impose on us, day after day.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:50 AM

Gives WAY too much credit to individuals when they are but implementors of the agenda of a whole racist, misogynic White Christian Nationalist movement, itself but one mode of capitalist fascist politics. Read: MONEY, LIES & GOD (2025).

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:46 AM

It ain't gonna happen as long as people's lives are made miserable by capitalism & they seek recourse, of all sorts, including mythologies that preach better behavior than capitalist exploitation and alienation. Want people to move beyond religion? Fight to change the conditions of their lives.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:40 AM

Fun to watch this woman's protest go iconic!

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:30 AM

All true, but unfortunately, the same hypocrisy has been displayed by all too many establishment Democrats who have perpetrated neoliberal policies over the last 40 yrs or so, e.g., Clinton who imposed "workfare" on the poor, Biden who deported hard-working immigrants.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:23 AM

True. But because capitalists have shaped them, PUBLIC schools are largely edu-factories to produce workers. Read up: R. E. Callahan, Education and the Cult of Efficiency: A Study of the Social Forces that have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools, 1962.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:18 AM

Charles Dickens did a number on this kind of person in his novel Hard Times (1854). In that narrative, the JD Vance character is Josiah Bounderby, a fat cat who hides his origins while deriding the poor. Check it out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Ti...

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:13 AM

Naw, don't need. I listen to my eyelids. Every night, without fail, they tell me when it's time to close the book & go to sleep.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 10:08 AM

Sounds about right. From the beginning of struggles for decolonization, i.e., liberation from capitalist imperialism, there was a tension between local elites who wanted to replace their foreign masters and the grassroots who were fighting their exploitation & alienation.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:56 AM

Yes, McCain undoubtedly displayed courage, but it would be more accurate to modify the sign to "A GOP of Complicit Racists & Misogynists" because most were racists & misogynic long before Trump came to lead them.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:53 AM

Halloween for the politically aware! From social media memes to yard decorations, Trump et. al's awfulness seems to inspire endless creative protest. 😄

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:48 AM

SOME may be scared, but all too many others are COMPLICIT with his racism & misogyny - because theirs long predates his arrival on the political scene & they deserve rejection for their own actions quite independently of supporting him. 😡

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:44 AM

Except that they live in trees, I wouldn't be surprised if some monkeys adopted dogs as companions. The dog clearly appreciates behavior similar to what he knows from humans.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 9:42 AM

Beware idolization of your preferred politico, or movie star, or sports "hero", or entrepreneur. It replicates the idolization of "nobility" - still all too common in England, but survives in the US in Hallmark romantic-comedies. It all diverts us from everything that matters, politically speaking.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:23 PM

Not "cowardice", rather complicity. After all, the Repubs were racists & misogynists long before Trump.

@harrycleaver.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:19 PM

Nice one! The only lives the "pro-life" movement has ever been about is driving women's lives back into broodmare & handmaiden status.

@xelahart.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:30 AMReposted by @harrycleaver.bsky.social

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