Perhaps "doing something" would require clarity on the possible role of the bourgeois franchise in enabling social change. The clearly demonstrated ill effects of the duopoly on social progress since

Not sure whether, if Pence had allowed himself to be "whisked away," he would have been unable to return--or that the results of the certification process would have been different with a day's delay

A footnote to the above: "Corporatism" ("corporativismo") per Mussolini did not mean the rule of big joint-stock business organizations as Americans may tend to assume--the word "corporation" as we un

It's nothing of the kind, Green. What in the fuck are you even talking about?

I wonder about this guy despite his alleged conversion, but this made IMO for interesting reading all the same: https://www.rawstory.com/dakota-rhodes/

I'm not among the "camp" that holds bourgeois elections to be intrinsically without meaningful consequences. I do not see the antidemocratic duopoly as the self-evident fruit of constitutional semi-de

I don't see how anyone can disagree with this. But, as a recent article by Alejandro Pedregal and Juan Bordera in MR states: Capitalism,does not seek to close the gap between rich and poor, and there

Despite extreme reservations about the value of Engels as a scientific Supreme Leader, I have no trouble accepting the "metabolic rift" metaphor in some form, even if I do not believe that Nature as a

MSN has the following from WaPo, Maybe not paywalled for the masses? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/with-sweep-and-speed-supreme-court-s-conservatives-ignite-a-new-era/ar-AAZ6N3N

I think that is certainly possible, Today's WaPo has several pieces on the trend, including this sensationally scary piece--quoted here in part so as to constitute "fair use;" AMong other things, wemi

Doesn't the seizure of political power, especially where there are multiple potential centers of state power, have to be completed by the consolidation of that power--a second and by no means automati

"Anticipating this week’s decision, Maine lawmakers enacted a crucial amendment to the state’s anti-discrimination law last year in order to counteract the expected ruling. The revised law forbids dis

David: I can't speak for Bradley Mayer, whom I was citing re Bannon, but my position has never been that there will be a coherent fascist state. Very much to the contrary: there MAY BE (by the law, if

A constitution. QED, can be both a document (the British Constitution is as we say "a thing" without a single sacred text, though there is a kind of guidebook formalized by Walter Bagehot.) and a body

I can understand why many on this list are either anti-Ukraine or anti the Zelensky government. In my opinion, the elaborate arguments in favor of what I see as a pro-Russian stance make no sense ulti

What "sort of imaginings" are we talking about here? Who is imagining them? What specifically are we talking about? Nothing could be vaguer or more unclear--or more laughably supercilious. Two actual

Stephen Marche opines that the Rubicon has already been crossed, and that it's all over but the shooting. Of course this Canadian is promoting his novel; still, it isn't far-fetched after the Neo-Nazi

Going straight to a constitutional convention--if that were possible--might unleash all sorts of gimmick-crazed all-American Gee Whiz bullshit that would hand a victory to the forces of the right. Som

Unfortunately AFAIK the breathless but anecdotal accounts of abysmal morale among the Russians, as presented in the "Western media," like the endlessly repeated assurances of Putin's imminent downfall

I am not a military expert, but want to point out respectfully (not proclaiming anything) that the decisive Ukrainian defeat in Mariupol has been followed by a renewed Russian offensive that AFAIK is