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youtubeAn Attack on Tech Freedom, an Assault on Dissent
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…
Review. CLR James: Cultivator of the Popular Will, by Matth...
Matthew Quest. CLR James: Cultivator of the Popular Will. A Study of the History and Politics of World Revolution (Brill, 2026). As Matthew Quest notes in his appendix, “Top Ten Reasons We Don’t Know More about CLR James,” CLR James is a relatively obscure thinker even among the African-American left. This is doubly so on…
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,…
