Oct 27, 2022
Moralism is a certain pattern of thinking (and an accompanying rhetoric) which many comrades use, sometimes unknowingly. The purpose of this note is to clarify what this pattern is and to explain why it does …
Oct 17, 2022
The purpose of this post is to clarify the relationship between the following things
Fascism Capitalism Democracy Liberalism Socialism What is fascism Fascism is part of how capitalism defends itself in times …
Oct 9, 2022
A nice forest. Photo: Jody Amiet/AFP/Getty Images. When it’s dry, and trees are thirsty, the forest emits large amounts of nice-smelling, piney chemicals called terpenes. This is a magical ritual performed by …
Sep 16, 2022
I went to try the veggie burrito at Aliberto’s. It’s very good.
While I was eating, a woman1 came in, went to the counter, and gave the details of the order she was picking up to the man behind the …
Sep 15, 2022
I just watched some of the videos of the talks from the “Schelling Point Conference”. These talks give a clear display of a current within the crypto/web3 space: techno-utopianism. Techno-Utopianism is an …
Jul 16, 2022
I recently read a blog post analyzing various purported “socially responsible investing” (SRI) products and showing how they were anything but.
This kind of analysis is valuable for learning and …
Mar 24, 2022
There is a nice idea – which I learned from the work of David Harvey (or in podcast form) – of analyzing society in terms of a number of “moments”, or aspects of society at a given …
Feb 8, 2022
A lot of socialist rhetoric focuses on framing the capitalist class as the primary enemy of socialists and of the working class. However, the capitalist class itself is not the primary enemy of socialism.
The …
Jan 1, 2022
In a series of blog posts I have written, and probably in more that I will write in the future, I explain my understanding of Marxist ideas in partially mathematical terms.
There are a few reasons I am doing …
Jan 1, 2022
During the most recent DSA meeting, a comrade argued against expelling Jamaal Bowman by stating that the resolution to expel him was “resolutionary socialism” – that is, that those who …