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The “Violent Rhetoric” Is Coming From Inside Your House Kirk As the New Horst Wessel / Ernst vom Rath / Reichstag Fire Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk Wednesday, all over the right-wing political world and commentariat we’ve seen mouth-frothing rage, as authoritarian crybullies blame the killing on the “violent rhetoric of the left” and…
Alienation, Deprivation, and Play
In trying to understand the moral paralysis that undermines the revolutionary energy so essential to our collective survival—an energy that has no real place within the narrow ideological confines of democratic realism—we find ourselves returning, almost reflexively, to the Marxist concept of alienation. This idea addresses more than just economic conditions; it speaks to the…
Book Review: Red Moon
I had Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon on my Goodreads to-read list for a long time, mainly because I’m a fan of his other work and the title sounded evocative. But I put off reading it time and again because the Goodreads summary didn’t give much indication of how much systemic transition figured in the…
Landback: Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
. . . With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The…
