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Tag: Political ideologies

  • Whither White Poverty

    Whither White Poverty

    I joined the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) in 2018 on the fiftieth anniversary of Dr King’s assassination. Rev. Dr. William Barber II, who Cornell West has described as “the closest thing we have to Dr. King,” envisioned the new PPC as a “re-consecration” of King’s life’s work to “change the coversation about what is possible […]

  • The Violence of Development

    The Violence of Development

    A revised version (September 2024) of the open-access e-book Food Dependency and Dispossession: Resisting the New World Order (2022) by Colin Todhunter is now available. A brand-new concluding chapter, “The Violence of Development”, rounds off a book that presents a scathing critique of the global industrial agriculture system and its proponents. The book takes aim […]

  • The New Normal Right

    OK, this will be one of my non-satirical essays … or mostly non-satirical essays. It will serve as a companion piece to The New Normal Left, another non-satirical essay that I published in April 2023, which was basically just a reiteration of a speech I gave at a conference in London. It went over pretty […]

  • At what point are we permitted to…?

    At what point are we permitted to…?

    Five questions, and a sixth: 1. At what point does it become irresponsible not to compare Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people with the genocide westerners know best: the Nazi Holocaust? 2. At what point does shielding Israel from the revulsion its actions naturally inspire not turn into complicity? 3. At what point should western […]

  • “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. […]

  • Venezuela: Where Next?

    Venezuela: Where Next?

    We must speak the truth: therein lies our strength, and the masses, the people, the multitude will decide in actual practice, after the struggle, whether we have strength. — VI Lenin, 1905 Hugo Chavez will live on as one of the most outstanding foes of US imperialism in our time. His defiance of successive US […]

  • The Weakness of Progressive Latin American Governments in These Precarious Times

    The Weakness of Progressive Latin American Governments in These Precarious Times

    Andry León (Venezuela), José Gregorio Hernández, 2023. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 16 August 2024, the Organisation of American States (OAS), whose 1948 formation as a Cold War institution was instigated by the United States, voted on a resolution regarding the Venezuelan presidential elections. The nub of […]

  • First, Elon Musk made us pay for “free speech”; now he decides who’s allowed it

    First, Elon Musk made us pay for “free speech”; now he decides who’s allowed it

    Many users of X, formerly Twitter, seem deeply misguided. They imagine that Elon Musk is the saviour of free speech. He’s not. He is simply the latest pioneer in monetising speech. Which isn’t the same thing at all. All the blue ticks on X – mine included – are buying access to an audience. Which […]

  • 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 […]

  • Two Cheeks of the Same

    Two Cheeks of the Same

    Needless is it for me to say to the thinking workingman that he has no choice between these two capitalist parties, that they are both pledged to the same system and that whether the one or the other succeeds, he will still remain the wage-working slave he is today. — Eugene V Debs, “Outlook for […]

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