Outside the Asylum
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 08/25/2019 - 5:38am
Come outside.
Capitalism
Socialism 2019?
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 07/09/2019 - 12:41pm
Who knew that socialism had already come to the US? I’d given some of these links a few days ago to Aspie Corner, but he seemed to have been off on another project. I thought he’d enjoy a lot of this; I know I do. First, some background:
June 28, 2019 ‘Socialism 2019: the Left at a Crossroads’, Louis Proyect, counterpunch.org, June 28, 2018 (some bits and bobs)
“For a number of years, the International Socialists Organization, once the largest Marxist group in the USA, held educational conferences either in Chicago or in various American cities. In 2004, I attended a plenary session of a regional conference at City College in New York, mostly to hear my old friend Peter Camejo who was the featured speaker alongside Ahmed Shawki, the disgraced former leader whose cover-up of multiple rapes in the ISO led to its dissolution this year.”
Midnight Express - Sean Hannity Destroys the Fake News Mainstream Media!
Submitted by Big Al on Sat, 06/08/2019 - 10:51pm
Is it Possible to Confront Capitalism?
Submitted by Big Al on Sat, 06/01/2019 - 10:55pmI wonder when the first time someone said, "the rich are getting richer"? I go back to almost the middle of last century and I'm sure I've heard it most of my life, and I probably heard it first from my grandpa who went back to the start of last century. If it keeps going, those rich getting richer, will there come a time when the rich have everything, then it won't have to be said anymore? How is this going to work out in the end? Seems like if it keeps going there will come a time.
Dystopian horror for the weekend (1)
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Fri, 04/26/2019 - 11:49amDystopia does not do a lot for us. It does not inspire people to change the world; only the right utopian dream will do that. But for some reason dystopia has become the "default narrative" for this global space and historical time. Only by examining dystopia will we be able to understand its prevalence as a trend. I suppose the resultant literary genre for the prolonged investigation into dystopia would be called "horror."
Where are all the good Russian socialists gone?
Submitted by mimi on Sat, 03/16/2019 - 7:55pmThere is a long history of high-profile Russians turning up dead or seriously ill in foreign countries.
Politics: Get down to the REAL Nitty-Gritty
Submitted by jim p on Tue, 03/05/2019 - 6:45pmPolitics: Get down to the REAL Nitty-Gritty
Being a politically aware person for some 58 years now (thank you Bolshevik-fleeing Granddad!) I’ve always been one of those people who frequent political discussion circles. I don’t exclude anyone on the basis they’re insane or dis/agreeable to my thinking or feelings.
Liberals and the left fail to notice - and celebrate - the intellectual death of conservatism
Submitted by Tony Wikrent on Sun, 03/03/2019 - 11:48amFaced with Trump's populist seizure of the Republican Party, establishment conservatives and libertarians are trying to redefine republicanism to exclude anything other than market capitalism.
The Primary and Secondary Contradictions of the American Empire
Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Sat, 02/09/2019 - 7:20pmTo understand what I mean by contradictions, let me offer some recommended reading:
What exactly are the contradictions in our rotting empire? To begin with, our economy can't survive without the very things we claim to abhor such as imperialism, various means of exploitation, exceptions that maintain the rule, and that's just three.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (ASC) - "the goal is to automate us"
Submitted by arendt on Mon, 01/21/2019 - 9:55amJust reading an interview with the author has convinced me to buy this book. The meme "surveillance capitalism" has been out there for at least four years; but this book is a 660 page philosophical tome.
