“Is This Even Capitalism Anymore?”
Social democracy, fascism, and state communism are a lot more similar, in certain structural ways, than any of them want to admit.
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In Defense of the F-Word
There are elements of neoliberalism that we consider fascistic. Let’s start calling them by their name.
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The Worst Direction for Politics
A neofascist economic vision would aim to reconstitute the nation as a fully integrated organic unity capable of fighting for supremacy in global competition–a zero-sum struggle among states (and militaries) aiming to secure adequate markets and resources that they alone can exploit.
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Neoliberalism Eats Its Own Children
Unless people have a sense of what these contradictions mean, there’s just as much of a chance they’ll move into embracing fascism as there is that they’ll move into a more radical conception of democracy.
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Look Toward Kobanê
I see how alive the revolution in Rojava is, and also the discrepancies that come with it. Under a dictatorship, everyone is supposed to think alike. Here there are varied perspectives, communicated freely and openly.
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Short Story: “Winterthur”
Tim had convinced even himself that Swiss society was more open and tolerant than America with its smiling corporate fascists and their military police. In Switzerland, colorful, militant dance demonstrations were so common!
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Confluences
We must acknowledge intriguing connections currently being made between disparate and distant movements. Our task now is to make these confluences much more concrete, combative, and contagious.
Know Your Enemy: Debunking Neoliberal Mythology
Neoliberals don’t feel threatened by the fact that stuff just keeps getting worse, as long as they can convince people to keep doing the same things—more markets to fix markets.
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“The World We Live in Is Created by Slavery”
The Atlantic economy was qualitatively different in terms of the work that was demanded, the absolute treatment of people as chattel, the brutality, the equation of forced labor with skin color, the distances traveled, and the massive number of people who were ripped out of their homes.
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Brazil: Continuing Protests Highlight FIFA Abuses
The World Cup has turned into this monster; they’re coming into foreign countries and causing hundreds of thousands of forced evictions so that rich companies can benefit from building unnecessary stadiums.
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