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Sep 4, 2020
39 min

The Workers' Bill

Here's the last section of chapter 6 of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Depression. The previous two sections are...

Jul 19, 2019
3 min

Thoughts on planning vs. the market

Been reading The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. It's a good ...

Nov 8, 2016
4 min

Skeptical thoughts on the Russian Revolution

[From an email.] …Of course it's true that every event in history depends on contingencies. [I had said the Russian Revolution depended o...

May 6, 2016
3 min

On the French Revolution

It’s interesting that the French Revolution’s liberalism in some ways helped make possible its illiberalism, its nationalism and authorit...

Jan 29, 2016
13 min

Intellectual origins of American radicalism

Staughton Lynd's Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (1968) is a fantastic exploration of the ideological offshoots and effects o...

Feb 15, 2015
2 min

Christianity updated

One of the many ironies about contemporary Christians is that they tend to be supportive of capitalism. This isn’t surprising: from the t...

Feb 11, 2015
2 min

Capitalism, socialism, and planning

Ideological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is tha...

Oct 29, 2014
4 min

Socialism and communism

[Excerpt from a book.] The awesome power of business propaganda is revealed in the fact that most Americans scorn the idea of socialism, w...

Oct 16, 2014
5 min

Correcting Marx's theory of revolution

From an academic paper. (See my book on worker cooperatives, where this is all fleshed out in much more detail.)-- The Food Wars (2009), ...

Oct 3, 2014
2 min

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 it...

Sep 27, 2014
3 min

Radical human nature

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

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