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Thanks comrade!

I'm...stunned. Where was he on 9/11? They played the same footage 24/7 for three fucking months. A snuff film on cable TV. We invaded two countries, killed or displaced well north of 2 million people in those countries, and are still fucking in them!

Another potential option would be the FRSO. It's a smaller organization than PSL, I believe, but I've struggled to find PSL organizers in the rural area where I live. When I decided to look into the FRSO, there were people already organizing in my area.

Of course, I have no issue with amphetamines being given to students that have diagnosed issues. My wife's brother, for instance, has severe ADHD and has been on vyvanse for several years. I never knew him before he started his medication, but I have seen home movies, and there was a notable change in his demeanor. I would never, ever, tell someone who needs these medications to not take them.

My issue, largely, comes from students being misdiagnosed and given large amounts of stimulants, which are addicting to individuals that don't need them. My cousin, for instance, was misdiagnosed with ADHD in middle school and was prescribed adderall. She's now addicted to crystal meth facing down a felony charge, and has lost custody of her son. I have a lot of friends, I've lost a lot of friends, who were diagnosed by the sham psychiatrist my school district kept on retainer who started with adderall, graduated to cocaine, and then moved on to other(both prescribed and illegal) drugs. I've seen the danger in my community first hand, particularly with children, and it frightens me.

I apologize if I spoke out of turn.

There are two books that really helped form my understanding of the formation of capitalism. They are, "The Market Revolution" by Charles Sellers(a Marxist academic) and "The Shop Keeper's Millennium" by Paul E. Johnson.

Sellers goes into a lot of detail about the formation of early market economics in the U.S. during the Age of Jackson. The guy is a genius, and writes in a manner that is very easy to follow. I read his book as an undergraduate student in a course with many non-history majors, and we all found it easy. At the end of the class, our professor asked us which book we liked best, and Sellers won in a landslide.

Johnson's book is a bit different. It specifically looks at market formation in a specific town in New York, Rochester. The Jacksonian era caused a lot of upset in the social hierarchy of America at the time. Compared to the previous six presidents, Jackson was considered by many to be a dangerous radical. He looks specifically at the religious revival in America and how closely religious persuasion was associated with business, and how that was used to actively keep working people restrained.

Both books are, in my view, essential for understanding the myriad ways that the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie engage in oppression against working people. I suggest everyone read them.

I totally agree with your point. Is it so shocking that children, given amphetamines at absurdly young ages, become attracted/addicted benzos? To opiates? In graduate school I was up til 2 or 3 AM, sleep for a couple of hours, up again at 6:30, on campus by 7. I drank 10-12 cups of very strong black coffee(supplemented heavily by my dear friend Marlboro Red and frankly dangerous amounts of Redbull) from then until 8 or 9, when my last class finished. I'd go home, eat dinner, and then study and the cycle would continue. At the time, the only way I could sleep effectively was by choking down as many klonopin as I could chew.

For the health of humanity, capitalism must end. Physical, mental, environmental, everything. Sorry for the rant.

Every time people start sucking Orwell off for Homage to Catalonia I bring this up and they go "bUt tHe InTeRnAtIoNaL BrIgAdEs bEtRaYeD tHe POUM!!!!!1111!!!" Fuck Orwell.

I rather hope that the PSL responds. On the one hand, I think there's a difference between appearing on these programs to debate. I think that debating fascist talking points and outwitting them on their media is a good idea. I'd have to know more context as to what he was doing to make a proper judgement call on the situation, though.