The People's Line

NEW: Matt Taibbi's lawsuit is stupid and embarrassing
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NEW: Compact launched promising class war against the so-called "professional managerial class."

Their new article, however, reveals their real mission: they just want a PMC with more white men.
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Rich people waste much more money than poor people Another round of glazing the rich online is completely detached from reality.

NEW: Rich people waste much more money than poor people, and it's not even close www.peoplesline.org/p/rich-peopl...

Blowback and the international troll industry Why are so many Twitter reactionaries from outside of the United States?

NEW: Why are so many right-wing accounts based outside the United States?

Simple: Republican oligarchs are outsourcing their media campaigns. www.peoplesline.org/p/blowback-a...

Trump's plan for Ukraine won't bring peace It kicks the can down the road with "freezes" and probably concedes too much for an opening bid.

NEW: It looks increasingly like Trump is hoping to "freeze" the conflict in Ukraine - a non-resolution that will only guarantee more war in the future. www.peoplesline.org/p/trumps-pla...

SNAP lapse proving that charity can't replace the welfare state Families are already going hungry.

Capitalists argue that private charity can replace welfare programs like SNAP.

Food bank failures over just the last few days prove otherwise. www.peoplesline.org/p/snap-lapse...

Matt Yglesias is still lying about Democratic donors Another swing at the Shor / Yglesias "rich people have made Democrats too progressive" schtick.

NEW: I regret to inform you once again that Matt Yglesias is lying about data
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ACORN is the future of the Democratic Party Don't count on Congressional Democrats to save themselves.

NEW: Trump is using the IRS to target liberal-left organizations.

If you think Democrats will intervene to save them, it's time to remember what happened to ACORN. www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...

The federalist case against Trump is a terrible cop-out Instead of fighting the political fight, liberals are abandoning their commitment to federal power.

NEW: Democrats are abandoning the liberal critique of federalism and resorting to Dixiecrat "states rights" arguments against Trump.

It's gotten so bad that Gov. Pritzker is now approvingly quoting Kristi Noem's warning of "war" against Biden.
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Pritzker and resistance theater Do you want epic press conferences, or do you want to win?

NEW: Pritzker's grandstanding didn't do a thing to stop ICE from swarming Chicago. Do Democrats have a strategy to win besides vague calls to "fight"?
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Local socialism can't defeat global capitalism If socialists want to win, they'll have to go international.

NEW: Trump is funding libertarians and defunding socialists; if socialists are going to win, we'll have to go global.
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NEW: Reading recommendations By popular demand...

NEW: Introducing our recommended readings page - a list of books, articles, and other texts and media that we think our readers would benefit from! And we've provided free links to *everything*.

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Sunstein is right: there are indeed racist liberals Another look at the inbox.

NEW: Cass Sunstein says that racists like Hayek and Reagan are liberals. He's right!
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Is Trump going to false-flag the left? If the administration can't find a pretext to crack down on us, they may invent one.

NEW: Americans should meet evidence the government provides of left-wing violence with extraordinary skepticism.
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Class analysis and "authoritarianism" Two ways of explaining Trump's recent H1-B visa fee yield vastly different insights.

NEW: Class analysis gives us a much clearer understanding of Trump's immigration policy than vague talk about "authoritarianism".
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Rand Paul brings back antiwoke capitalism See how this works?

NEW: Rand Paul reminds everyone that you don't actually have rights under capitalism.
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NEW: An insane passage on the murder of Charlie Kirk
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How capital wields race against Mandami's socialism Beset on all sides by the woke and anti-woke, Mandami's campaign maintains its lead

NEW: In 2008, attempts to trivialize Obama as an "articulate" and "charming" smooth-talker were widely regarded as racist.

In 2025, liberals constantly say the same things about Mamdani - because they don't want to talk about socialism.
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NEW: The second of a multipart series on materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion.
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NEW: The first of a multipart series of materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-do-mat...

The marketplace of ideas takes another L Liberals are losing the argument, so Zack Beauchamp thinks they need to win with financing.

Young liberals have plenty of career paths. That's not why liberalism is losing!
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PROJECT 2029 UPDATE:

We have added H.R.51 "To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union" to Project 2029.

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Ukraine's crisis of confidence Ukrainians are losing trust in its government to end the war.

NEW: Americans and Ukrainians have very different opinions about the war against Russia.
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Mamdani is winning the Democratic base And no, the base of Democrats is not black voters.

NEW: Mamdani's campaign is exposing a significant rift in the party between black voters and liberals. www.peoplesline.org/p/mamdani-is...

Wealth inequality: the past, and the future Part VI: The long future of capitalism.

NEW: The sixth and final installment of Carl Beijer's six part series on the past and future of capitalism.

PART VI: Capitalism's long future.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future Part V: What would late capitalism actually look like?

NEW: Part V of Carl Beijer's continuing series on the past and future of capitalism.

What would late capitalism actually look like? The answer isn't in the present - it's in the past. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...

Everyone cherry-picks the left The right's Sydney Sweeney escort mission plays the same game that liberals play constantly!

NEW from Carl Beijer: Conservatives and liberals love inventing leftists to get mad at.
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Would Yglesias have opposed genocide under Harris? Democratic loyalists are happy to join the antiwar movement when their leaders aren't in power.

The grotesque irony of Trump's victory is that elite Democrats would have never spoken out against the genocide in Gaza under President Harris.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future Part IV: "But history has proven Marx wrong!" Nope.

NEW - Wealth inequality: the past, and the future, Part IV

Hasn't history proven Marx wrong? Nope - turns out there's still a lot of history left.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future Part III: Liberal objections to Marx's law of capital accumulation, debunked.

NEW - Wealth inequality: the past, and the future, Part III

Marx predicts that wealth inequality will inevitably grow under capitalism. Here's the standard liberal objection to this, and why it doesn't work.
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