Eric Blanc

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idk, seems like there actually is a relatively simple way to end this war: stop bombing Iran and cut off all aid to Israel

What's the point of just making things up for the sake of likes? Some leftists on here think it's fun or politically important to dunk on me, but I wish they'd sometimes engage substantively on the actual debates: i.e. what are the most effective ways to organize in solidarity with Palestine and Iran inside the US, not *whether* we should do so

Obviously, it's important for radicals to always propagandize for our ideas But our ideas will only seem feasible to most working people once they've gone through experiences in struggle convincing them of our collective power That's why it's so important to consistently distinguish between united-front demands for mass action and our broader political program laborpolitics.com/p/ultraleftism…

Many of our tactical differences hinge on whether you think most people radicalize mainly by us convincing them of socialist ideas or whether its mainly via their participation in empowering struggles

@kayrosso1 Leaving aside whether it's useful to personally attack comrades (rather than their ideas), what evidence do you have that it's "non-controversial" today that the anti-war movement needs to be broad? Seems like there's plenty data to suggest the contrary

Eric Blanc has a gift for presenting the most non-controversial orientations (“an anti-war mvmnt needs to be broad and based in every day social relations”) in the most off-putting way so as to render them as just more fodder for ‘sectarianism’ he’s always railing against.

I hope @JulieMenin's constituents see that she's proposing to cut their services (under the guise of "savings") instead of making the rich pay their fair share Reach out here to Julie to tell her to do the right thing: SpeakerMenin@council.nyc.gov

New York voters overwhelmingly backed @ZohranKMamdani on a platform of government doing more to make people’s lives easier. Why is @juliemenin pretending that service cuts are only way to close budget gap? Why won’t she lead council in demanding that?@GovKathyHochul tax the rich?

Mamdani's admin is crying foul on Speaker Menin's budget savings plan, saying her math isn't adding up, in part bc she apparently double-counted ways to trim costs. "We can’t balance the books by counting the same dollar twice," an admin official said. politico.com/newsletters/ne…

Like in 1970, the strategic option facing our movement — and anti-war activism specifically — is liberalism, ultraleftism, or independent mass action laborpolitics.com/p/ultraleftism…

Too few lefties today seem interested in learning from our country's most successful anti-war movement

If our priority as a US solidarity movement is to help stop the genocide and support Palestinians' right to self-determination, then anything that makes achieving that goal harder should be rejected — including nonsense anti-semitism laborpolitics.com/p/ultra-leftis…

Tolerating anti-semitic remarks in our movement makes it harder to build a mass pro-Palestine movement in the US, it's not that complicated

Its good for Zohran to criticize bad comments made by someone who (like the Zionists) conflates Jews as a whole with the Zionist project — and who ignores young American Jews' widespread opposition to the genocide

This is the person some folks wanted Mamdani to defend lol. Just entirely unserious.

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I agree AOC and Bernie and Zohran should do more to build a mass movement! That said, past anti-war movements against Vietnam war and Iraq were built despite the absence of any top progressive/Left electeds focusing on galvanizing them (beyond things Bernie/AOC do like speaking out vs the war and speaking at rallies). So I don't think that's one of the top factors. Also, PSL/ANSWER is the most influential anti-war force, it's not marginal within the context of anti-war politics. And their approach has set the tone for both the encampments and much of DSA's anti-war work. So it's fair to criticize the impact this orientation has had

Trump's Iran war has already cost the US roughly $10 billion according to the Pentagon Those taxpayer funds could have paid for 2.7 billion school lunches for our children

Great to see workers fighting against their ICE enabling bosses! And happy to have played a small part in making this happen nytimes.com/2026/03/11/tec…

First I heard that @thomsonreuters employees were organizing against their company's complicity with ICE was when this NYT reporter called me to ask if I knew my research had sparked their effort 😭