Tag: power
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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 General Fascism?
What I’m going to present is “general fascism”, with a similar meaning as Eco’s but not the same thing. Again, the difference isn’t so much in the goal but in the approach. Reading Eco’s piece, it’s clear that his analysis is based primarily on his experience of fascism. My approach is much more historicist. For…
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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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A Non-Grand Thesis of Luxury Politics
My goal with this work is to explore this question: How does a smaller group of people manage to rule over a larger one? Why is “there are more of us” not enough to create change? My answer to that question is “the subjugation effect” and this work is my attempt to explain what that…
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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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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…