Category: Politics
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Economized Spaces
I’ve spoken briefly about working on a theory of economized and non-economized spaces before. This is where I’m going to explain what I mean by all that. This article is going to be fairly abstract, largely because I have not found the kind of evidence that I really want yet. What I was hoping to…
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The Joy and Duty of Expropriation
“Expropriate” is one of my favorite words. It has a distinct communistic air about it, being used so frequently to described robberies as conducted by Stalin, and then to state seizures conducted by the Soviets and by the Chinese communists. It brings to mind horror and revolution; horror for the haves, revolution for the have-nots.…
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Anti-Manifesto for a New Vanguard Theory Group
A list of 21 questions that a new American leftist theory should make its priority to answer. A call to form a New Vanguard Theory Group.
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Palestine: A Virtuous Cause
I’ve just finished the book The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi and I found it very illuminating. The greatest impact it’s had on my thinking so far, and what I will be digesting for some time, is how the book changed my view of the Palestinian side of the conflict. This is…
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What Is a General Strike?
Among those who talk a lot and think they know, the general strike is seen as a pie-in-the-sky idea, like fully-automatic luxury gay space communism. I’m a guy who talks a lot and thinks he knows, but I don’t agree that the general strike is a pie-in-the-sky idea. I don’t agree that we should stop…
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For Fun: A Proposal for a New American Government
Let’s imagine you came to me and said “J, we need a new government. We have to think up a better government structure that would have a chance at creating a better society as what we have in America today. Can you give me a proposal for a new structure for the government?”
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How to Win the Culture War
You cannot win the culture war by fighting on the battlefield of culture. It’s how most wars are won so I understand why you want to do this. But that is not how the culture war works.
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Why Democrats Blame the Victim
Why is it that Democrats, especially online, blame Muslims and trans people and their supporters for Harris’s loss?
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Why Normal People Often Don’t Fight Fascism
It’s not as simple as “they’re secret fascists”