CINEMA UTOPIA: Flame
“He was singled out as the only self-immolator who was driven by his ‘own moral consciousness,’ rather than, say, desperation or economic hardship.”
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Neoliberalism
Capitalism, Slavery, and Resistance
“We’ve really got to reckon with these forces, these conglomerations of power that still exist, and are still driven by the legacy of slavery. That can’t be wiped away by white people having a change of heart.”
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Is Culture Important? The Struggle Over How to Struggle
“As much as I admire the cultural revolutions of the 1960s, the forces of capitalism can easily adapt to that. In fact, they have adapted to it better than any one person in America has.”
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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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The Racism/Austerity Feedback Loop
You cannot really draw a line and say, ‘this is where the far Right starts, and this is where it ends.’ Some far-Right positions permeate the entire political field.
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Hungary: Social Catastrophe in the Making
AntiNote: This article first appeared in December 2014 on the Böll Foundation website, with link citations that we have not reproduced. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. Social Catastrophe In the Making by Bálint Misetics It is not only constitutional democracy that Viktor Orbán’s regime treats as its enemy; the Hungarian
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Meet a Syriza Candidate: Yanis Varoufakis
Unless somebody says “No” to this Ponzi austerity where we keep borrowing while cutting, we are going to end up in a postmodern 1930s. And we know very well who benefits from that kind of depression.
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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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“We Have to Understand the Game. We Are All Playing it.”
The mining companies involved in murdering people in the forest can also be running law schools, and in the law schools they have courses on the poetry of resistance.
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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.