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Columbus Day Or: Some days, I wish nobody ever taught me critical thinking.

This started as a Columbus Day joke and ended as a moral reckoning. Turns out, consistency is harder than outrage—and critical thinking is a hell of a buzzkill. #anti-capitalism #antifa

"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? . We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called the economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been, projects of mutual creation." . - David Graeber

One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.

No Good Deed Goes Unpaid Or: Who covers the cost of society's moral evolution?

When America makes exploitative business models illegal, the rich still get paid. Time to change that.
#anticapitalism #economics #socialism

Hey Jack Kerouac Notes on alcoholism and longing.

Same book, different self. #recovery #addiction #alcoholism #literature #books

“The Russian Anarchists” by Paul Avrich is a history of Russian anarchist movements from the 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution. It covers figures like Kropotkin and Bakunin as well as non-hierarchical social forms like the artel.

Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” (1902) includes his firsthand observations of artels in practice. This book should be on anyone’s anarchism 101 reading list.

I’ve always understood Marxism to be state-oriented, at least until the state withers away naturally in the inevitable progression of history. For sure Marx himself was a state solution guy in his lifetime. Bakunin was the anarcho-socialist vying for control of the Internationale back in the day.

Choose Your Own Adventure Or: Do you want a tin-pot dictatorship? Because that's how you get a tin-pot dictatorship.

Americans believe stolen election narratives not out of gullibility, but because they’ve been repeatedly betrayed. The real threat isn’t misinformation—it’s earned mistrust that corrodes electoral confidence and democratic participation.
#socialism #anticapitalism

Growing Pains Or: A love letter to the Libertarian I used to be.

I had a similar journey growing up that I wrote about here. I had to learn that I value more than individualist freedom before I realized that the viable voting options on offer in the US don’t offer a platform I can support.

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There Goes My Hero Or: If we want a better world, we have to stop binge watching supervillains.

Just published a new essay on why we can’t stop watching billionaires, what that says about our fear, and how we mistake detachment for freedom.

If it resonates, please subscribe.

#anticapitalism #freedom #mutualaid #billionairebootlicking #culturewar #poweranalysis

Blue Screen Economics Or: Why America's economic OS is crashing, and how to install a better one.

Explaining political economics to technologists, or maybe the other way around. #socialism #anticapitalism

Thank You for Your Service Or: Freedom isn't free... unless you're a tax-evading, draft-dodging parasite on the working class.

I'm choosing to believe that the smart people designing the set for US Army Band Downrange knew exactly what they were doing when they played CCR's Fortunate Son for President Bone Spurs at the DC military parade on June 14. And I'm more grateful than ever for their service.

Thank You for Your Service Or: Freedom isn't free... unless you're a tax-evading, draft-dodging parasite on the working class.

I'm choosing to believe this was a deliberate jibe by Downrange, and I love them for it.