I was making no such insinuation, as any reasonable person can see. I was reacting to your plain statement or at least clear implication that you no longer see capitalist profit as the major driver of

But now both Russia and China are capitalist--and both the Russian and Chinese systems grew out of conditions previously existing in their allegedly non-capitalist "socialism." So Isn't world capitali

This is the oldest trick in the book and is probably the driving force behind that great gateway to entrepreneurship, the gig economy.

Thanks for pointing out the pseudo-complexity(heightening the false objectivity) of the actual scale, which I did misread. My argument, however, is substantially correct and I am not sure that the cor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/08/they-are-preparing-war-an-expert-civil-wars-discusses-where-political-extremists-are-taking-this-country/ There's a lot to reject in this very proble

Worth a look/listen. Why isn't "the left" pointing out the obvious cause of "our discontent"? https://www.facebook.com/democracyatwrk/videos/728024855159443

Oops. 1966.

One reason for the incredulity was the sub-parodic character of the 1/6 manifestations . It was a riot of incompetent narcissistic exhibitionists--for example the idiots who ostentatiously scaled the

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