There’s much media discussion about the rise of fascism. We all sense it. Feel it. Fear it. Describing the features with superficial analysis is not enough. The following entries written by Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell in a recent edition of Marxist Glossary provide the foundation for deeper and more accurate understanding of what we are dealing […]
Chinook Flight Engineer in Afghanistan “War as cognitively known to most non-combatants, war as battle in a field between men and machinery, war as a massive deciding event in a dispute in international affairs: such war no longer exists.” Sir Rupert Smith, Deputy Commander of NATO during the 1998-999 Kosovo War “If you treat debt as a weapon, […]
We stomp through deep soft snow Clear white unblemished sparkling in the sun untouched by any form of life A vast field sloping toward dark green trees in the mountains of Poland We are searching for wolves Hunting for wolf tracks In four days No wolves sighted No wolf tracks found Two days later I […]
Capitalism gave rise to the philosophy of pragmatism Although Harry K. Wells wrote “Pragmatism—Philosophy of Imperialism” back in 1954, it is burningly relevant today. Pragmatism has silently taken over as the dominant philosophy of people who live in the US, and it is harming the struggle for progressive change. The book intertwines discussion of political […]
http:// Fascism (present, US): Twenty-first century fascism in power is the open terroristic dictatorship of the mega-corporate state. The mega-corporate state is the merger of the social, economic and political power of the mega-corporations with government and state. Fascism is state power, hence political and can be defeated based on political will. Fascism […]
Like Germany in World War II, we in the US today also have a crazy man heading up the government. But the problem of fascism is much deeper than that. It’s not caused by one insane person; the great man theory of history would point at one great leader (good or bad), but that is […]
