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  • “Intellectual Hick”: Sorting Out Our Complex Identities

    I am from rural America, sort of. I’m an intellectual, sort of. I’m certainly on the political left, but some comrades believe I’m turned conservative. Like many people, I don’t fit easily into conventional labels used in today’s polarized political debates. To understand me—and anyone else—takes some sorting out. Here’s how I sort myself out. […]

  • The Collective Creativity of Workers

    The Collective Creativity of Workers

    Orientation One purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way. Our notion of creative today is baked with the assumptions of a Romantic theory of art. These have their good points but they also limit us. In this article I want to argue that the most […]

  • The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

    The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

    What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled […]

  • From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia

    A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic. — Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology (2023) We are currently […]

  • Sacred Economics: Shylock as Anti-Christ

    Sacred Economics: Shylock as Anti-Christ

    Money vs the gift Sacred Economics 100 Deconstructing the Story of Self/ the World Life without prisons Marx’s ‘death knell’ of capitalism, revolution, was the first answer to capitalism’s ills, after which the state would wither away, and we would live in a utopian bliss. The 20th century put paid to that vision, as revolution, […]

  • Judaism is a Religion, Not an Ethnicity

    I could convert to Judaism, says George, but how would that give me the right to occupy land in Palestine? The post Judaism is a Religion, Not an Ethnicity first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations

    The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations

    Orientation Power struggles between the two sides of the brain In Part I of this article, I compared the left to the right side of the brain across many categories. One of the most interesting prospects in Iain McGilchrist’s great book The Master and His Emissary, is that the two sides of the brain functions […]

  • The Problems with Purism and Reformism (not reforms)

    Over 20 years ago I wrote one of these columns examining the issue of “purism” versus “pragmatism” when it comes to organizing for systemic and desperately needed change in this world. I wrote about two essential ingredients that are sometimes in conflict. One essential is conscious political organization motivated by principles and a genuine desire […]

  • We are All Nicaragua: The Sexual Diversity Community

    We are All Nicaragua: The Sexual Diversity Community

    The Story of Julia Chinamo “I realized when I was nine years old that I liked boys,” Julio Sanchez tells me. Julio is also known by the nickname “Julia Chinamo” and socially as “Nahomy Campbell.” “My father was a military man, a macho man. My aunt told him, ‘Look at Julito, he’s queer.’ I didn’t […]

  • The Weaponization of Health Care and Education is Incompatible with Democracy

    Terror: noun ter· ror ˈter-ər  ˈte-rər plural: terrors Violence or the threat of violence used as a weapon of intimidation or coercion — Merriam-Webster, 1828 While the Western elites continue to pour money and materiel into their terrorist proxies in Kiev and Tel Aviv American society is grappling under the iron heel of a different kind […]

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