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Today in Labor History October 4, 1884: Japanese writer Jun Tsuji was born. He was a Dadaist, nihilist, Epicurean and shakuhachi musician. Early in his life, he was influenced by the works of Tolstoy, Kōtoku Shūsui's socialist anarchism, and the literature of Oscar Wilde and Voltaire. Later, he became a follower of Stirner’s individualist anarchism. His works were censored by the authorities and he was harassed by the police. His former wife, anarcho-feminist Itō Noe, was murdered by the military police in the Amakasu Incident in 1923, when the military police murdered her and lover, Ōsugi Sakae, an informal leader of the Japanese anarchist movement, along with Ōsugi's six-year-old nephew. During the weeks that followed the great Kantō earthquake, authorities and vigilantes arrested, beat, tortured thousands of dissidents, and murdered an estimated 6,000.

The cover of Jun Tsuji's translated edition of Stirner’s The Ego and Its Own. By sourced from Taisho Democracy., PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11122686

Being poor is no excuse to join an imperialist military. Joining the army explains but doesn’t excuse the action. Just like me being poor explains why I say rob and kill my elderly neighbor to sell all their possessions. My poverty doesn’t somehow make my actions defensible and the fact that you think it does for people who join the military makes it clear you don't oppose imperialism.

The (new) scientific revolution will make science radically egalitarian and libertarian and communist. This new science will justify natural equality and social equality. This new science will be relativist and subjectivist. It will claim truth, morality, etc. are relative and vary and that different truths, moralities, etc. are equally valid. It will promote acceptance, freedom, and pluralism/diversity.

Class War by Chris Wright, 2025

For nearly fifty years, America's working and middle classes have been under relentless attack. Wages have stagnated, inequality has soared, and the vast majority now lives paycheck to paycheck-while trillions of dollars flow upward into the pockets of the wealthiest few. Class War, Then and Now is both a searing indictment of this economic and political order and an impassioned call to arms




for a new left rooted in class struggle, solidarity, and socialist values. Drawing on a decade of essays and articles originally published in outlets such as Dissent, New Politics, CounterPunch, Socialist Forum, Truthout, and Common Dreams, historian Chris Wright examines the deep roots of capitalism's crises and the failures of the contemporary left to confront them. In sharp, accessible prose, Wright tackles: The centrality of class struggle in building a movement that can unite working people Why identity politics, while important, must not overshadow the fight against capitalism The overlooked necessity of nuclear power in addressing climate change Lessons from labor history, from Jimmy Hoffa to modern union battles.