Parasite Empire Unravelled
Hiroyuki Hamada So before Covid, a local school where one of my kids used to attend had prominent race issues. Namely, teachers were being accused of being blind to...
The Great Reset: The end of Capitalism as we know it
Sean Stinson To suggest that there has been an overreaction to the coronavirus pandemic may be the understatement of the century. The spark that began as a rational fear...
The Battle of Seattle was Fought by the Pro-war “Left” in Northern Syria
The politically correct obsession with the policing of language by the postmodern cult of identity politics is excluding the working class from the conversation and counteracting its revolutionary potential....
(Neo)Liberalism and its Discontents
Frank Lee FROM CLASSICAL LIBERALISM TO NEO-LIBERALISM The contemporary neo-liberal coalition consisting politically of a centre-left, centre, and centre-right – what we might call the neo-liberal blob – has...
REVIEW: Creative Destruction – How to start an economic renaissance
Frank Lee CYCLES OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION A recession is defined in economics as two or more quarters of negative growth. A depression, on the other hand, comprises a sharp...
No Class
John Steppling In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.”...
A Taxing Question: Re-reading Piketty
This book by Thomas Piketty was first published in 2014 and became an instant best seller. It had taken the author some 15 years to research and complete, and...
The Tale of Two Karls
Vladimir Golstein We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act...
Economics: Class War by Another Name
Frank Lee The terrible case which … socialists are able to make out against the present economic order of society demands a full consideration of all means by which...
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: cosy seasonal tale or passionate condemnation of unfettered capitalism?
Today we think of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as a cosy piece of traditional seasonal fare, replete with steaming puds and roasted goose and comfortably easy lessons about...
A thought on Culture as an Integral Part of the Conditions of Existence
by Norman Pilon Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing...
It’s The Economy Stupid: The Gathering Storm
by Frank In the face of deteriorating global economic conditions the financial and economic powers-that-be seem fixated on policies which are both ineffective and inappropriate. Anyone who entertains the...
