Resisting fascism (a book review)
[This review was published at H-Socialisms.] The elevation of Donald Trump onto the national political stage in 2016 provoked a heated...
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- Jul 10, 2021
- 15 min
Against liberal "pluralism"
In the time of Trumpism, Michael Paul Rogin’s great book The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter (1967) shouldn’t be as...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...