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 […]
The US was the dominant imperialist force in the post World War II era. It managed the transition from the direct colonies – literally owned and controlled by England, France and Germany – to the neo-colonies, where the newly independent nations entered the world economy. Then began the transition to the global capitalist economy that […]
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, […]
In the United States, Police, Sheriffs and other “officers of the law” kill three people a day, every day, on average. With Ferguson, people began to address the idea of “state-sanctioned murder.” These young leaders are principally from a generation that was born in 1980 or later. They represent the motion of a new class […]
Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person – David Korten Southern ownership of human beings as private property has informed the most extreme legal vision of property in the world. This article discusses the following two books: Ned and Constance Sublette. […]