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Oct 3, 20142 min read

Thoughts on socialist revolution

In retrospect it’s obvious that something like socialism couldn’t have happened until the nation-state system had disintegrated (which...

Sep 30, 20143 min read

Thoughts on Marxian common sense

[From this book.] An example of intellectuals’ need to make everything more complicated and difficult than it has to be is the unending...

Sep 27, 20143 min read

Radical human nature

The power of indoctrination is shown by the fact that most people don’t consider themselves radical leftists, socialists, or anarchists....

Sep 24, 20142 min read

A dying society

For-profit justice.— What’s going on in the prison-industrial complex is almost literally unbelievable. Just read Punishment for Sale:...

Sep 22, 201414 min read

U.S. labor history

Power-structures never want people to remember history, because knowledge empowers. Knowledge of how the oppressed have won victories, or...

Sep 20, 20141 min read

Learning from history

The elite has the money, but the workers have the dignity. The elite consumes; the workers produce. Future ages always forget the past...

Sep 15, 20143 min read

Homo ludens vs. homo institutorum

[Excerpt from a book.] The psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott said it simply—one of those simple but profound truths worth remembering: “It is...

Sep 10, 20145 min read

Our 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...