Walls as Weapons, Property as Death
If people can get beyond the fears and policies that perpetuate this world of security, then maybe we could get beyond that dead-end. Or we’ll just all die at the dead-end together.
Neoliberalism
The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence
We have to understand the violence of policing within a long continuum of ongoing, foundational, colonial, imperial, racist violence that produces the US political economy.
Manipulating Everything and Everyone
“Is this an ad or is it an article?”
The Fight Is in the Countryside
Since politics has finally defeated the economy in Russia, instead of solving problems with employment and wage arrears the regime feeds people stories about war with the West. During a war, it is unpatriotic to demand payment of back wages. Only internal enemies would behave this way.
The Awful Purgatory of Authoritarian Non-Consolidation
“I’m not even sure this can be called a system, because there aren’t very clear institutionalized rules for participation. It’s not just a lack of democratic channels of representation. The regime doesn’t have a clear social coalition of groups that have a vested interest in its presence or in its policies.”
Subvert Everything
There are resources within the university, both intellectual and material, that we can steal in order to sustain our survival.
Take the Money Back!
“We’ve got this mythology that somehow there is a shortage of money, because money is a commodity and we have to compete for it, but that isn’t what money is. Money represents relationships.”
A Disaster for the Whole World
“Go figure what is causing hunger. You’re displacing smallholder farmers from their land; you’re arresting them and charging them as terrorists if they protest; and then their lands are given away to foreign investors to grow what? Sugar and cotton.”
The Syrian Revolution, at Street Level
“A lot of the people who picked up weapons knew it was a mistake. Violence alienates certain key constituencies who the revolution needs to win over. It scares the West, and makes them more likely to stick with Assad—which is why he provoked it.”
A World Free of Work Or No World At All!
Post-work and post-carbon economies are going to be two key pillars of any future left over the coming decades.