This is a commonly used phrase. The bourgeois franchise is the right to vote in a bourgeois democracy. QED.

The weird English constitution as it emerged from the so-called Glorious Revolution and reached its high point in the situation described by Bagehot in the 19th C. is IMO no better or worse than any o

Escalates? Who is escalating what? You have accused me of vague and unsubstantiated crimes in the past, which are irrelevant to the present and which are beginning to look like character assassination

I haven't insulted anyone. As to the silent majority of the offended, I think they are a figment.

And yet the Putin army is clearly threatening to destroy Zaproziye. Since when has Putin shown even the slightest concern for the welfare of ordinary Russians? The Putin government of course is a trai

What you posted was so ambiguous that it could be taken to mean a great many things--everything I said makes sense, although your airy one-liner didn't. As I see it, I was doing you a favor. Read my p

What precisely is the application of this truism to any particular situation or set of circumstances? As it happens, I don't believe that a "left" Russia would be the result of Putin losing his genoci

What, to Popular Frontism--which worked extensively with Democrats? All solutions currently on offer beg the question of forming popular organizations with physical and political clout. A Popular Fron

No loss in any case, any more than la Dugina. But does this signify Putin successfully whacking back the faction or factions of bosses who are out of line? I agree with John that the fragmentation of

The Graeber book/ideas had a lot of "mindshare" and so IMO still does the "prefigurative" Occupation stuff. If we see any further mass demos along the lines of the Floyd protests, it may come up again

This article as it stands is a well written motherhood statement with which it is impossible to disagree. Will it be useful in persuading workers to become more radical? Maybe. The devil is in the det

Neville Roy Singham is the founder and former chairman of Thoughtworks, a privately owned global IT consultancy that delivers custom software, software tools, and consulting services to Global 1000 co

Apparently Reimann is impeached and disqualified from speaking on any subject if anything sketchy can be imputed to anybody associated with any source he uses. Imagine the chilling effect that might h

That's a question that you and your kind should ponder deeply.

I don't find the temperature of this discussion to be particularly heated, and cannot agree that my comments about the likely neoliberal "liberation" of free enterprise to meet the need for new nukes

If this is meant to be a reply to my questions stated above, with the best will in the world, it isn't. When I suggested that "nuclear" might not be safe under capitalism, I meant specifically the new

It seems clear that Putin has to go sooner or later. The real question is whether anything resembling even reform let alone revolution will ensue. In the United States, the victory of Trumpism or equi

If you'd just stopped there, I think we could all agree. One last time: 1) You've apparently had some sort of kerfuffle with Boynton so are trying with some others to get him unfrocked. I have a high

I had some ideas about that some years back. Part of it was the notion that you can't trust many nuclear "experts"--even IMO brilliant ones like Kirk Sorenson--because they are all "entrepreneurs" and

I didn't catch the reference in the article to the Berdyansk group. I only noticed stuff about the Azovs, who are clearly not an actual partisan group. tThanks Michael for including this link!!