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MAGA civil war: on fascism and capital

A Christmas Miracle: Elon fails to kill this site

The US is an empire. Is it the only empire?

MAILBAG: On the moral responsibility of individual capitalists

Republican feudalists and the Democratic status machine

Liberalism's futile plan for "The Groups"

2024: The Year In Posting

Material politics do not ignore language

The deal with Russia that Ukrainians would support

The wokest Americans are poor and didn't go to college

Briana Boston's charges are an act of petty revenge

Was CEO Brian Thompson a killer?

Polling firm afraid to ask about CEO shooting

A note on Shor's ridiculous study of donor partisanship

Security costs worth it for the rich

UnitedHealth CEO meets same fate as many of his clients

The neo-feudalism of homeless confiscation

Was Marcus Aurelius wrong about lasting fame?

There's no discrediting the centrists

Have a class-conscious Thanksgiving!

Socialism and the rhetoric of revolt

Determinism in the USSR, Part 3: Stalin's will

Bernie Sanders should launch a third party

The partisan consumer sentiment flip is underway

Another bad Israel vote for AOC

Determinism in the USSR, Part 2: Marx's evolution

Lame duck Biden's recklessness in Ukraine

Blame centrists for toxic identitarianism

Determinism in the USSR, Part 1: Introduction

Tyson vs. Paul unveiled the true horror of capitalism

Election 2024 vindicated the Marxist theory of ideology

Reprints

If the left had a Joe Rogan, Democrats would despise him

What the Democratic Party should do (but won't)

Harris lost because of the economy, not because of "wokeism"

Now is the time for pointing fingers

Liberal Democrats only have themselves to blame

Exit polls show income realignment

Identitarian deference and the Muslim vote

25 YEARS OF BLOGGING!

Boycotts always hurt workers

Presidential endorsement: Claudia de la Cruz

"Democracy is at stake" messaging only works in a democracy

Remember the last time Bezos intervened in a presidential election?

Why are Soros and Thiel funding Compact?

The point of protest voting isn't to "pull Democrats left"

Really existing socialism 2: On crime

Study: bourgeoisie and PMC still significantly right wing

Depression and the peasant-brains who ridicule it

Would Democrats tolerate these wars under Trump?

Democrats can win unions - they just don't want to.

Some clarification on "pre-distribution"

Has Joker 2 finally killed the incongruous music cliche?

Introducing: the referrals leaderboard

Today's chart: Disposable income vs. consumer sentiment

There's no evidence of sexism among black men towards Kamala Harris

Eric Schmidt is telling the truth about climate

Was the father of modern linguistics a survivor of sexual abuse?

This is the CARES election

Kamala Harris' demographic crosstabs are extremely weak

On triggering and reasonable accomodation

Will BRICS act to stop Israel: Nasrallah edition

Putin closes the proxy-war loophole

Once again: no, socialism is not liberalism

Fascism and daddy issues

Lesser-evil politics make assassination attempts more likely

The anti-Haitian panic is not a persuasion problem

They'll rehabilitate Donald Trump, too

Actually we will probably colonize Mars

Election of losers

No, the Copernican Principle does not apply to time

Zach Beauchamp finally accepts the "economic anxiety" theory of Trump

"Useful idiots" is historically anti-communist rhetoric

Save the Internet Archive - abolish private property

Labor Day Special: 20% off of subscriptions!

Socialists should support Brazil's Twitter ban

Reviewed: Bluesky

Dem marketing team declares fascism menace over

Why polling on Bidenomics is still shaky

How should Marxists think about charity?

Why typographic humor doesn't age well

Voters don't care about macroeconomic indicators

Voters don't care about macroeconomic indicators

The limits of political "strategy"

The limits of political "strategy"

Voters are more concerned about the economy than anything

Democrats: Capitalism isn't the problem and we have no solution

Really existing socialism 1: On the abolition of private property

The trials of Sohrab Ahmari

Minnesota voters reject Will Stancil politics

Some notes on that reader survey

New York Times: the US is not trying to defeat Russia

Justice Department finds Google guilty of capitalism

Russia has fought different wars for different reasons

Vance's "childless left" comment was a coordinated New Right talking point

No, socialism is not "neighborliness"

Irony: Matt Yglesias accuses the left of mental illness

Most Americans don't have a problem with DEI

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Liberalism is the real "irony poisoning"

Some brief notes on the new Democratic "weird" slogan

Stancil campaign plagued by dubious fundraising, dangerous campaign strategy

No, "equity" is not Marxism

Support for endless war in Ukraine is collapsing

Reader survey

"DEI candidate" is a losing attack, but can Dems take advantage?

Ten ways for Kamala Harris to win my vote

Just tell the damn truth

The gerontocracy and its vultures

MAILBAG: What's a socialist to do about guns?

Trump bends the knee to Silicon Valley with Vance pick

Isn't this what 2nd Amendment guys want?

Does "extreme" just mean "not liberal"?

A Twitter boycott probably will not work

The Party decides

The "ableism" defense of Joe Biden is hopelessly confused

They don't care if Trump wins

Should Bowman have risked his seat for Palestine?

Ukraine's antiwar faction begins to take shape

No, Chomsky's politics aren't "America bad"

Zionism as textbook barbarism

On Chomsky

RIP @carlbeijer, 2012-2024

Trump's conviction is a victory for the left

The "recession" gotcha is a pathetic defense of Bidenomics

Give humanitarian aid convoys into Gaza a UN military escort

Crowdfunding cannot save progressive media

Quincy's poll on negotiations in Ukraine is fine

On the political psychology of killer chimpanzees

Occupation and capitalist ideology

Some PR advice for protesters

The socialist case against unionism does not apply to DSA

Ten right-wing myths the antiwar movement has obliterated

Don't let them turn Palestine into a free speech debate, Episode 2

Why does Tom Cotton think he can intimidate anyone?

Class consciousness, rationalism, and the rise of peasant brain

On abortion, a rare weakness for Triangulating Trump

Why are lesser-evil voters scolding Biden for adopting their logic?

Ketamine therapy: promising, needs regulation

Compact's respectable nationalism

What do DEI, CRT, wokeness, and cultural Marxism have in common?

The creepy exhibitionism of the horny right

Piketty contradicts Noah Smith on China, Noah cites him anyway

More "woke people are unhappy" pseudoscience

"Government tyranny" criticism of the TikTok bill is reactionary

Yglesias is misrepresenting a study to blame the left for the right

Socialism and the age of endurance

There is no such thing as a peacetime vote

Neo-Nazi activists claim to have raised $15,000 for Will Stancil (UPDATED)

Richard Hanania is hilariously confused about professional wrestling

The Ukrainian influencer complex

The United State is never going to give Ukraine enough aid to defeat Russia

What thermodynamics teaches us about free will

Notes on Tucker's interview with Putin

Why is Israeli propaganda so incompetent?

Why are you so lazy?

Matt Yglesias's sorry sales pitch

Left politics and the closing of the liberal mind

DeSantis supporters will bend the knee to Trump

Why does the IRS say that dead people have "rights"?

Fetterman and the socialist litmus test

Impeach Biden

Is CNN's Israel policy legal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act?