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Jim Crow Murica: Trumpian Toxicity Lingers
As we celebrate MLK day and ponder what he dreamt for America, we remain mired […]
The Phases of the Corporate Welfare Era: 1970’s to the present
An old blog post of mine from 2016, The Welfare State Goes Corporate, Pt. I, […]
Consumerism and Addiction
The whole point of consumer culture is to incentivize people to buy things or frequent […]
The De-Evolution into Idiocracy, Pt I
Though Biden won and the insurrection on the Capitol did not succeed in giving the […]
Socialism: Reform’s Better than Revolution
Socialism can be defined as the social or community-based control over the means of production […]
The Bolshevik Betrayal of Socialism and Creation of Totalitarianism
LENIN’S EXILE YEARS In the summer of 1914, the socialist movement suffered the worst […]
While Europe Was Napping: Muslims Do Math and Science, Part I
When the Roman Empire collapsed in 476 C.E., Germanic tribes took over the Western portion […]
The Origins of Social Democracy
Social democracy came about as a synthesis of socialism and parliamentary democracy beginning in the […]
The Strange “Morphing” of Marxism into Fascism
Definitions of Fascism Fascism is a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and […]