Political Crisis Now Stalks the US You know something is weird when we are supposed to cheer on the FBI in its battle with Donald Trump. Some people even claim that the FBI is now leading the so-called “Resistance”! This craziness is one sign of the political crisis that is rising in the United States […]
On Friday, December 1, the Senate passed its version of the Republican tax bill. The same day the Mueller investigation into alleged Russian influence in the election indicted former director, General Michael Flynn on one single count of illegally operating as an agent of a foreign power. What’s the significance, if any, between this coincidence […]
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 […]
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. […]
AR’MA GEDDIN’ OUT OF HERE !!!! By Steven Miller, October 15, 2017 America has had a wrenching summer, as the public has been rocked by crisis after unprecedented crisis. Hurricanes, massive floods and destruction, fascists marching in Charlottesville, nuclear war with North Korea, earthquakes in Mexico, the Las Vegas shooter, Devil Winds, Houston, Florida, Puerto […]
Facebook Post September 10, 2017 Bourgeois pundits are always looking at these productivity-vs-wages charts trying to figure out, “what’s wrong with U.S. labor? Why the disconnect between productivity & wages?” This is usually in the context of writing material for public consumption. Perhaps we need to look at things a different way. Perhaps it […]
After dominating U.S. Politics for many decades, the Democratic Party and Republican Party, both pawns of big business, are now in collapse. Both of these parties were created during the industrial period of the U.S., and that period is finished. When the U.S. first elected a president, George Washington, in the pre-industrial agricultural society in […]
something rises up New Orleans, September 3-5, 2005 something rises up out of muddy waters out of the rot that festers in the world’s eye the bravery of my class the disinherited that nothing can drown: not the affectless indifference of the ones unfit to rule: whose power is not any power at all whose […]
Karl Marx, 1859. Excerpt from his Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality […]
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 […]