Category: Politics
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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”
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Why the Democrats Will Never Love You
Luxury is a game of pretend, that’s why it isn’t joy. It’s a person looking over at the heap of vegetables that have been harvested and smiling while pretending they don’t see the army of slaves behind it. Joy is knowing that no one suffered to produce what you have, no one was ignored, because…
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Protest and the Construction of Power
The surest sign that a protest is effective is if the military opens fire on it. I want to explain why this is. Of course, I’m considering both “protest” and “effective” in a narrow sense here but I think the general point is understandable on its face: as a challenge to the government, a protest’s…
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Thoughts on the Critique of the Gotha Programme
I wanted to talk about the Critique of the Gotha Programme because I feel it has relevance to our current situation where the left is in the political wilderness. The Gotha Programme’s aims, in the eyes of Marx, were to sand down the edges of the socialist movement such that it would not seem so…
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Whipping Ourselves and Weeping
This broad tendency among the Western left, from the end of the French Revolution to the present day, is fueled by an impulse towards self-flagellation. The question then is: why does the left feel the need to lash itself in penance? This is not a thorough study but I have been thinking about this for…
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The Democrats Hate You
I know that it is easier to talk about what the Biden administration is doing by acting as if they are making mistakes, but we all know better and I think it would be good if we stopped pretending. Biden and his mob want the American president to openly be a dictator. That’s what it…
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What Is Capitalism?
What is the point of all this? The point is to be able to come to some sort of understanding of what capitalism means so we can understand the political implications and effects it has. We tend to be presented with capitalism as only partly political because it is so strongly associated with money. Because…