Aug 5, 20152 minBureaucratic fanaticismIt might seem wrong to maintain, as I have in many writings, that the modern predominance of bureaucratic social structures and their...
Apr 8, 20157 minTo see the Holocaust in a grain of sandPart 2 of "Thoughts on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust." Part 1 is here.— While the industrialized murder of six million...
Apr 5, 20152 minCapitalist fratricide (i.e., neoliberalism)The nation-state and capitalism were born as twins from the fertile, ancient womb of greed and power-hunger. They grew up together, were...
Oct 21, 20144 min"Burn the Constitution!" (to quote Seth Ackerman)Notes on a classic.— Charles Beard’s Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) is still worth reading, a...
Oct 19, 20142 minThe (ironic) anti-capitalism of the Founding FathersIn the footnotes to chapter 6 of Chomsky’s Understanding Power are these illuminating remarks: “[Thomas] Jefferson did not support...
Oct 11, 20148 minNotes on the history of neoliberalismReading A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), by David Harvey. The inflation of the 1970s, as you may know, resulted largely from...
Sep 24, 20142 minA dying societyFor-profit justice.— What’s going on in the prison-industrial complex is almost literally unbelievable. Just read Punishment for Sale:...
Sep 10, 20145 minOur modern holocaust of individuality[Note to my first blog post: Much of this blog will consist of excerpts from books and other writings. Here's one of them--a rather grim...