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Why We Hate Mondays
It’s the beginning of the work week. Your inbox is starting to trickle full of “Happy Monday,” greetings. You ask someone how they are, and they reply, “It’s Monday.” Yes, It is Monday, great job. Three days prior your co-workers were saying, “It’s Friday,” unprompted, as though they were saying there was cake in the… →
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Be Like Joseph Vaughn, Even Though Furman Doesn’t Want You To
“ Furman doesn’t want its students to follow in Joseph Vaughn’s footsteps, no matter how many statues, plazas, awards, and days of remembrance it dedicates in an attempt to claim otherwise.” →
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Why You Should Run for SGA
The Student Government Association has been long neglected as a front in the popular struggle—the struggle of the working class—on campus. We intend to change that. →
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Night and Day
This Tuesday, Furman YDSA and five other organizations released a joint open letter to the Furman administration and Board of Trustees demanding concrete action in solidarity with Palestine against the ongoing Israeli genocide. The signatory organizations—YDSA, the Furman Middle East and North Africa club, Afrikiya, the Furman International Student Association, the Environmental Action Group, and… →
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Revolution as Defense
From a young age, we are taught that any and all forms of violence are completely and totally unjustifiable, regardless of the motivations behind said violence. We are taught that the people in charge know what they’re doing, and that they have our best interests in mind. We are taught that disdain for the systems… →
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A Brief History of the General Strike
The socialist left has a long and storied romance with the idea of the general strike, also known as the mass strike. The basic premise is that capitalist society survives only by the continued participation of the working class, and therefore if a critical mass of workers across industries were to cease work all at… →
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America’s True Revolution
On this day 162 years ago, in this very state, the white slaveowner and state senator Edmund Ruffin fired the first shot of the Civil War against Union troops occupying Fort Sumter. In so doing, he unwittingly ignited one of the greatest revolutionary firestorms in world history, and indeed the only true social revolution in… →
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“Salt of the Earth” in Context
The history surrounding our fist ever movie night. →
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A Mass Movement, If We Want It
In the face of the multiple compounding crises of modern capitalist society—the mounting debt, rent, and healthcare crises, police terror, unchecked far-right violence and reactionary advances on the political front, catastrophic infrastructure collapse, imperialism’s flirtation with nuclear war, and the potentially civilization-ending threat of runaway climate change—it is easy to become disheartened. The internal pessimist… →
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We’re Digging for Windows Here: The Need for Revolutionary Optimism
The crushing weight of the social systems at play around us can be overwhelming. We live in a world where every aspect of society is built up to insidiously maintain a wicked status quo, and thus it is easy to say that it’s naïve to assume that we can change the system with the tools… →