While I use a combination of Waterfox and LibreWolf on my personal computer, unfortunately for work I need to use a Chromium based browser to work with all of the corporate spynet type stuff. I used to use Opera for a decade plus but recently switched to Vivaldi because it feels more like OG Opera instead of an amalgamation of stuff
techwooded
joined 2 years ago
For me the most influential was Matt Bruenig. He's extremely knowledgeable about Nordic model socialism as well as the building of a good welfare state.
Specifically, his explanations about how the way people frame welfare program is incorrect as it's not a vehicle of Socialism itself. As a TL;DR, people incorrectly assume it's about vertical redistribution (high income to low income), where the correct way to frame it is horizontal redistribution (e.g. a single lawyer that only has to take care of themselves and a lawyer who has 3 kids, a disabled sibling, and two elderly parents that they have to take care of should be able to live similar lifestyles).
He's also a labor lawyer and knows basically everything there is to know about the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), so it's helped reframe a lot of modern issues for me into a labor mindset.
He has a lot of stuff posted on The People's Policy Project as well as his personal website Matt Bruenig Dot Com. He also does a Podcast with his wife, Liz who is a great writer with the Atlantic and another lefty, where they end up talking about a lot of this stuff. The podcast feed also has in it a Socialism Series where Matt goes through the "canon" of socialist thought like Charles Fourier, Karl Marx, John Francis Bray, etc.
Sounds like I need you as my IT lol. Tried to convince them to let me use linux when I went remote as well, but I'm stuck with Adware 11