Joseph Amoriello > Recent Status Updates

nearly halfway there, even though my reading has been unconventional. hoping this can be done by the end of the year. it is still extremely interesting. it’s very clear that anti fascist action is extremely popular in the global public, but too often the establishment and governing bodies are entirely complacent with fascists and their activities.

i don’t know if it’s the staring at screens and paper all day long or the music i listen to, but i feel like i am going to fall asleep when i read here. it is shocking how popular fascism has been in the past few decades in europe and how much it continues to grow. fascist parties continue to win elections across europe, and the organized establishment left will not counter them. it’s up to the people now

i feel as though we’re all familiar with this title. it’s no secret what this book is about. however, i am very much enjoying orwell’s writing style in a way that i do not recall when reading this before. i admire the matter of fact tone and brevity in which the book are written, almost as if it were a historical retelling of the fictional animalist revolution. i think it’s fascinating and fun

fascism doesn’t disappear. it comes and it goes. and now, as we speak, it’s appearing again. antifascist action is not cohesive or organized, but it is effective. historically, the police will not combat fascism in the us. broad coalitions of people who believe in the prosperity of antiracism and antifascism is what has historically prevailed over skinheads, the klan, and other fascists. it is necessary now.

if you want to find a place where antifa exists in an organized form with centralized leadership and regular action, you will have to go to germany. this kind of antifascist action doesn’t exist in the united states, anyone that says it does is lying to you. don’t hold anyone to the bare minimum standard of telling the truth and don’t assume that people have the critical thinking capacity to recognize the truth

if you find yourself hearing from someone that the us needs a unified or homogenous cultural identity, that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country, that the us should be governed by a system built on protestant anglo-saxon values, that “illegal” immigrants are subhuman, then you are speaking to a fascist. their priorities and values have not changed in 100 years. burrito for lunch if you were curious

once again not much progress since it’s during lunch, but i am getting an extremely comprehensive exposition on nazism and fascism that would not be taught in schools, even in germany. fascism never went away, it has existed in its same nature since the 1920s. ww2 helped to weaken it, but it is still visible in many forms, from british anti-immigrant demonstrations sponsored by tories to alt-right rallies in the us

anti-fascist action fails when the left population collapses and combats within its own ranks. if there is no competent and unified left that is committed to anti-fascist action, then fascism will always exist.

i’m back and better than ever. though not too far into this one yet since i started this during my lunch break, the striking similarities between mussolini’s rise to power and subsequent reign are plenty cause for concern in regard to the current united states republican party.

it’s pretty good. reads like a movie.. probably because it is one. not too shabby for my first fiction so far

a lot of persisting themes from reconstruction to now including the subtle racism of voter intimidation and suppression as well as misdirection of violence towards black people and away from true aggressors. it is very sad.

political parties in the us are not meant for individual citizen membership. these political machines were built by capitalists and will change ideology on a whim when the ideologies of their sponsors happens to change. the people need to build their own party that is independent of corruption and is run by the plurality of workers’ voices to ensure the best lives for all people

a comma here and there would be nice.
also, i’ve made the realization in reading this, thanks to Camejo, that owners of capital having any interest in improving the lives of laborers has not existed in the united states since the era of reconstruction. since then, not just their primary, but their only incentive, is profit

the last chapter in the first part of this book causes concern in me that this book has fallen to the same fate as many others in its genre, that it could have been 100 pages shorter and still include all the necessary information and context. so much of the information in this chapter was repetitive and redundant. i hope that i am wrong and the rest of the book proves that

this book is proving to be much more time consuming and challenging to read than i anticipated. but this history of the cpusa is a comprehensive one and has no doubt greatly strengthened my understanding of communists in the us and their relationship and compliance with moscow even in the times following the populist rulings of local soviets and the bolshevik influence.

nice intro, Dr. O. i’m excited

youth solidarity is the biggest factor to revolutionary success. when you convince the unheard and mistreated and abused populations of impoverished as well as other interested parties to join hands and fight together, you cannot lose. young men and women are the strongest and most energetic force in radical change. it starts with us. with solidarity of young people who have something to say.

so long as we allow for those in power to remain there, there will be people on the bottom and in the underbelly of our world that will suffer. revolution is in the minds of all as the idea that we can change the bad to good so that we may all succeed, but it is our actions that will yield us our access to our desires to be free and equal

in a capitalist’s world, there is no way to advance by watching the capital grow around you. capitalism is beyond its growth stage of the gilded age, and it is stagnant with the few refusing to share the means or ends of production. there is no way to beat this than by evolving to the system that will place workers at the helm of production and industry so they can be granted their rights and choose how they live.

hard work and determination does not pay off the same way in our world as it had in the past. the capital will own everything and we will not gain all that is owed to us for creating the production that they profit off of. we cannot live in and experience true freedom and democracy until capitalism is replaced in our society by something more advanced, and we will only achieve this by joining together and fighting.

poor fella bein’ tormented by fleas - scratchin’ like heck. he picks one of ‘em off and looks at it. an’ he puts it back!! his pal watchin’ says “why the hell didn’t you kill it?!?” and the fella says - “that wasn’t the one that was bitin’ me!

what you learn the more you study racism in the us is that it was not an ideal that spurred in the minds of poor whites because of their natural distain for black people. racism specifically in the us in poor white people is born from the capitalist desire to divide the working class, to have all those less fortunate fighting against each other so as to distract them from the most sure and absolute oppressors, elites

the most interesting aspect of this study into african lives in new spain is how stark the contrast between spaniard and english treatment of black and brown people is. the english tradition of enslaving and abusing people based on their skin color, despite their skills and abilities is contrary to the respect the spanish held for black and brown individuals, often placing them in positions of power and influence.

capitalists, or owners of capital all share the same goal; to dehumanize workers, not treating them as individuals with dignity, but viewing them only as potential sources of profit. this system locks workers into unfair conditions of working and does not allow for the less fortunate to seek a better life for themselves.

very interesting to draw lines to how people react to plights today. instead of blaming the ruling class for their low wages and high cost of living, many of the ignorant working class will look to blame those who are framed to be their enemy and their replacement, then blacks, now migrants. the only difference between the 1860s and now is that the working class today has not maintained its revolutionary mindset

naive monarchism does not have to only apply to an individual, we can be subject to a federal, state, or local government that, as a union, operates as an autocrat and a tyrant