History Returns Again in Ukraine
After the 2014 coup and eight years of fighting between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists, history has once again exploded and returned to the stage in Ukraine. As Westerners…
William Hawes
Capitalism Is Not Your Friend
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its…
Democratic Party Fascism: 2020 Edition
Now that Joe Biden will be America’s next president, it might be worthwhile to take a closer look at some of the choices for his cabinet, White House staff, and…
Nobody for President: Voting Legitimizes a Fraudulent Democracy
Co-Written by Jason Holland and William Hawes Here’s a bit of food for thought about why you should not, we repeat, should not, vote for anyone in November. Now, unlike…
Abolish the Police, Abolish the Military, Abolish ICE: Dismantle Systems of Oppression
In this crucial moment, all of us who desire change should begin to think very carefully about a unified message and a coherent, organizing principle in the fight against endemic…
“You Can’t Fix Stupid”: A Review of Robert Reich’s The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
Robert Reich’s new work, The System, offers a wide-ranging critique of our nation’s contemporary political and economic ills. Reich does a brilliant job succinctly reminding us of the scale…
Moderately Liberal, Extremely Dystopian: Establishment Democrats and Big Brained Centrism
As we approach the middle of March 2020 with Super Tuesday behind us, the moderate candidacy of Joe Biden has gained momentum, notching ten victories. The recent spat of moderate…
What “That’s Not Realistic” Really Means: Bernie Sanders, Social Democracy, and Capitalist Apologetics
When discussing politics, or listening to pundits in the mainstream media in the run up to the 2020 presidential election, you’ve probably heard a common refrain: certain policies are “not…
We Work, They Scam: The Art of the Con in Terminal-Stage Capitalism
Recently, the ridiculous real estate company WeWork has faced intense scrutiny after their business model was absurdly overvalued and their CEO, one Adam Neumann, was exposed as an abusive…
Translating Neoliberal-Speak: Your 2020 Democratic Candidates
Presented here is a short list of some of the most ridiculous statements, absolute gems really, from some of the hopefuls for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President. These are…
Death by a Thousand Trumps: The Logical End Point of Capitalism
“The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly…
Questioning the Extremely Online
This essay is in regard to a crime that too often goes unmentioned when the conversations turn towards political analysis, the contemporary journalistic scene, and broader social critique: the crime…
The Green Old Deal
There are a lot of things to like about the recent resolution for the Green New Deal. The commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the acknowledgment of the catastrophic events…
Discipline Will Remain…or Will It?
Last October, Philip Hammond, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the annual federal budget speech to the UK Parliament, said this: “Austerity is coming to an end, but discipline…
Baselines for Activism: Brecht’s Stance, the New Science, and Planting Seeds
I’ve often wondered about the limits of activist’s reach and the lack of coherent, organized progressive social movements in the US. Does it come down to the precarious nature of…
From Frankfurt with Love
(Scene) Axel Honneth paces in a lavish office on an upper floor of a building overlooking the Main. In the middle of the room, a Ouija board sits on a…
Ecology: The Keystone Science
A missing piece from most critiques of modern capitalism revolves around the misunderstanding of ecology. To put it bluntly, there will be no squaring the circle of mass industrial civilization…
American Rage
“The Bonaparte dynasty represents not the revolutionary, but the conservative peasant; not the peasant who strikes out beyond the condition of his social existence, the small holding, but rather one…
Global Weirding
Oh, what fun it truly was to experience the “bomb cyclone” in January in New England: the snowfall gave a sense of peace and calm, the winds were less strong…
Review: Humanity: The World Before Religion, War, And Inequality By Barry Brown
Self-Published by Barry Brown https://www.amazon.com/Humanity-World-Before-Religion-Inequality-ebook/dp/B01NCX7MD6/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 January 17th, 2017 · ISBN-10: 1773022253 · ISBN-13: 978-1773022253 322 Pages, Paperback [email protected] Genres: History, Culture, Society In this groundbreaking work, author Barry Brown…
Ode to America
“My own little world Is what I deserve ‘Cause I am the only child there is. A king of it all The belle of the ball I promise…
Perspectives On Activism: Waiting And Being Present
"The more people I meet, the happier I become." -Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot In the interregnum, we find ourselves as citizens waiting...for something. We bide our time with…
The Great Unraveling: Using Science And Philosophy To Decode Modernity
“Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into…
Revolution, Not Reform: Moral Courage, Redefining Progress, And The Myth of Social Democracy
“Revolution in society must begin with the inner, psychological revolution of the individual. Most of us want to see a radical transformation of the social structure…however radical that social…
Capitalism And Its Discontents: What Are We Living For?
“Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism?” -Max Horkheimer, from the essay “The Jews and Europe”, December 1939 Aren’t we all tired of…
Lies That Capitalists Tell Us
Please share these counter-arguments far and wide, in order to educate your fellow citizens, and, if necessary, to provide the intellectual beat-downs needed when arguing with pro-capitalists. So without further…
Something Is Happening
Something is happening here, but you don’t know what it is: Do you? (1) No one knows, really, as this something is still evolving. As we look back to 2016, though, it is abundantly clear…
Two Parties, One Machine
“Realize that the system can't exist without belief Appreciate your true potential, un-twist your mouth and speak We're working on building a world our children can live in Understand I…
Cutting the Cords Of Empire: The Spectacle Of US Elections
“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.” -Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle It’s almost time for our quadrennial political distraction, masquerading as the…
Let’s Build A Regenerative World
The current state of American politics must make us question whether any of our leaders in the Beltway can be described as “grown-ups”, i.e., fully mature and sane individuals. Between…
What Does The EU Stand For: Globalization or Universalism?
What is the purpose of the European Union? This question has been of the minds of everyone following the UK vote in favor of Brexit. Yet in the mad scramble…
Europe At The Crossroads: The UK Referendum And The Spectre Of Nationalism
Europe is about to faces a series of difficult decisions that will affect its future for years to come. The social contradictions of keeping an expanding globalized economy running, which…
The Case For The Green State
Critiques of the modern nation-state have been growing in recent decades, due to the abysmal failures of the capitalist, neoliberal order. In particular, conservative-libertarian arguments are tinged with isolationist and…
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