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We live in a world of surveillance states, militarized police, and crackdowns on dissent. Meanwhile, corporate behemoths will often ally with the state to shut down dissident speech or aid and abet surveillance. In this context, it’s important for independent groups to develop and maintain encrypted communications platforms and independent web hosting. But the Trump…
On Larken Rose: The “Economics” the Left “Doesn’t U...
If you’re a leftist who frequents online spaces at all, you’ve almost certainly been mocked for not “understanding economics” or told to “go study economics” by some right-wing dudebro (probably with a black and gold header and #Bitcoin in his profile, if he’s on social media). When a podcast by Larken Rose (“Appreciating Capitalism”) for…
A Half-Built Garden, by Ruthanna Emrys (Tor 2022)
A Half-Built Garden is a well thought out first contact story, with an engaging plot — things which would make it well worth reading on its own. But as anyone familiar with my previous reviews will be aware, when I review near-future sci-fi stories about liberatory postcapitalist utopias, that’s not my primary concern. I review…
Liberal Socialism
Liberal Socialism By Kevin A. Carson A new C4SS study by Kevin Carson (online pdf). The biggest challenge facing a defense of liberal socialism is the viscerally negative reaction it evokes from major segments of both right and left as, in the words of Matthew McManus, a “perceived oxymoron…” For some parts of the left,…
