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If there are two types of policies that I most vehemently oppose—alongside all pro-war policies—they are attempts to regulate society in favor of corporations and attempts to extract from and/or weaken the working class. Under state capitalism, these sort of policies tend to go hand in hand, and, unsurprisingly, have continued to do so under…
America’s Fascism Didn’t Start with Donald Trump
Page one of the American history book is stained with blood. The first lines tell the story of genocide against the continent’s original peoples—a campaign of dispossession and dehumanization. Colonists didn’t just steal land; they stole names, cultures, and futures. This erasure set the tone for centuries to come. The brutality continued with chattel slavery,…
RFK Jr.’s War on Neurodiversity is a War on Individualism
Rational Ignorance, Cognitive Distortion, and Anarchism
Pseudo-Libertarian Tech Bros
Myanmar: The Accidental Agora 
For decades, Myanmar’s economy and political system have been heavily shaped by totalitarian regimes and a powerful military. The state-controlled cooperative system initiated under the “Burmese Way to Socialism” in 1962 eventually transitioned to the non-ideological military dictatorship in the 1990s. A short-lived period of market-oriented development occurred under the NLD government (2015-2020). However, the…
Undemocratic Assumptions of Long(er)-Duration Sovereign Debt
Rethinking Systems for Structuring Time  
Homes Not Jails: An Anarchist Guide to Housing
Book Review: Filthy Lucre
Joseph Heath. Filthy Lucre: Economics For People Who Hate Capitalism (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2009). Heath states his goal at the outset: I’m not interested in selling anyone on the virtues of private enterprise. This is primarily because I share the unease that most people feel with the capitalist system. And I would like to see us…
Reconciling the Insights of Marx and George
Book Review: Assets in Common
Therapy for Radicals
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 ideology of ethnonationalism,…
The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification
Karl Hess: A Life on the (Right) Left (and Right)
Intellectual Property: A Libertarian Critique — 2nd Edition (2009, 2023)