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Sep 24, 2020
4 min

A despairing rant

These are interesting times. We have the "privilege" to be living in the era when centuries of capitalist evolution are approaching their...

Aug 5, 2020
6 min

Thoughts on classical fascism

[Student notes from ten years ago.] Reading Robert A. Brady’s classic Business as a System of Power (1943), which influenced Chomsky. The...

Jul 25, 2018
8 min

Grad-school notes on Populism and Progressivism

In The Populist Vision, Charles Postel argues persuasively that Populism, the greatest popular movement in American history, should not b...

Mar 23, 2018
1 min

The Destruction of Reason

Just a quick note: I recently posted a long summary of and commentary on Georg Lukacs' masterpiece The Destruction of Reason, which has b...

Nov 17, 2016
1 min

A Marxist history of World War II

I recently read a book by Chris Bambery called The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) and decided it was good enough to take note...

Jul 27, 2016
10 min

Climate change, capitalism, and state violence

In an age when the State is daily demonstrating its willingness, or rather its extraordinary eagerness, to brutally repress dissent and d...

May 31, 2016
1 min

Random notes on Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, economics, and traditional China

Years ago I read and took some notes on various works by Hannah Arendt. In particular her classic Origins of Totalitarianism. It's a grea...

Sep 25, 2015
4 min

On "The Reactionary Mind"

Reading The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (2011), by Corey Robin. An elegant and erudite elaboration of...

Aug 14, 2015
3 min

On late-19th-century decadence and its aftermath

What is the significance of the fact that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries certain (semi-fascist) sections of the mid...

Aug 5, 2015
2 min

Bureaucratic fanaticism

It might seem wrong to maintain, as I have in many writings, that the modern predominance of bureaucratic social structures and their eth...

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