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“The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.”

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Cake day: January 7th, 2020

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  • Marxist theory on the underclass suggests that the ruling class actually need a large class of underclass, unemployed homeless people.

    They are arresting them. The US prison system employs prison labor for profit. This essentially makes them “employed” and “sheltered”.
    It’s a drive for profit and capital accumulation, using prison labor to maintain profit rates.

    The Supreme Court on Friday sided with a small Oregon town that imposes civil punishments on homeless people for sleeping in public spaces, finding that enforcement of its anti-camping rules is not prohibited by the Eighth Amendment’s protections from cruel and unusual punishment.

    The 6-3 decision from the court in the case known as City of Grants Pass v. Johnson is its most significant involving homelessness in decades. It comes as cities nationwide grapple with a spike in the number of people without access to shelter, driven in part by high housing costs and the end of aid programs launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.