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The argument that capitalists are needed to provide workers with means of production, and profit is their reward for doing so, is nonsense. All capitalists have are paper or digital claims on the right to allocate means of production or material resources. All of the actual material resources — means of production and raw materials…
Yugoslavia: A Utopia Lost or False Nostalgia?
The twentieth century was marked by rapid technological advancements and population growth, never seen before in the history of humans. It was also a century where creativity reached new heights, especially ideologically speaking. One of these political experiments was the creation of Yugoslavia. It is a country that no longer exists; however, nostalgia for it…
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…
