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    Resisting fascism (a book review)
    • Oct 10, 2021
    • 9 min

    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...
    Against liberal "pluralism"
    • 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...
    A despairing rant
    • 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...
    Thoughts on classical fascism
    • 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....
    Grad-school notes on Populism and Progressivism
    • 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...
    The Destruction of Reason
    • 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...
    A Marxist history of World War II
    • 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...
    Climate change, capitalism, and state violence
    • 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...
    Random notes on Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, economics, and traditional China
    • 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...
    On "The Reactionary Mind"
    • 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...
    On late-19th-century decadence and its aftermath
    • 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...
    Bureaucratic fanaticism
    • 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...

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