Capitol Riot: The Grambling of Democratic Imagination
These events were not an aberration from democracy, because simply the USA were never democratic in the first place. They weren’t democratic when they had slaves, they certainly weren’t democratic when the segregation laws were in place, the separation of normal citizens and Others due to the color of their skin, and of course, they remained un-democratic when the Jim Crow laws withdrew and the ugly systemic racism was swept under the rag.
Being Human After 1492
Essay first published in The Con, Johannesburg, in response to the election of Donald Trump.
Honda, General Motors: Global Crisis and the Car Industry
Are We Going Back to the 1930s?
Protectionism and “globalisation” have the same mother: the crisis of capital
Has “globalisation”, the freedom for capital and goods to move from one end of the planet to the other, with no barriers to limit trade and its miraculous effects, come to an end? Looking at what has happened recently, it seems that an ideology, and, even more so, one of capital’s ways of being has reached the end. It seems like the bourgeoisie, or at least a part of it, has taken a suit from its wardrobe which it has not worn for a long time, one which was needed for a tougher climate and the storms that come with it.
Living The Dream during Trump's Trade War
Short podcast on Trump, Trade and Capital from Living The Dream - a podcast hosted at The Word From Struggle Street
The role of the left in the rise of far-right populism - Ben Debney
If Trump exemplifies the use of scapegoats by the far right for the destruction of the country by the pursuit of privilege, then Hilary Clinton exemplifies the use of scapegoats by what passes for the left for the selling out of principle on much the same grounds, a habit with many similar examples in more radical spheres.
Trump and Jerusalem
The Communist Left and Marxist Humanism - Part 1 On Trump and Neo-Fascism
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