Wright's Writing

Reading A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), by David Harvey. The inflation of the 1970s, as you may know, resulted largely from...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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...