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The neoliberal ideal is inherently technocratic. People learn to be unconscious systems managers, viewing life as a network of rules and regulations divorced from any deeper moral character. This ideal

Fascism is a political & economic order of society. It is not simply a mean guy in a chair who pushes the fascism button one day. If a fascist is

A lot of people describe our press as “free & open” because it is not owned by the state. They ignore that it is owned by six multinational conglomerates whose

If I were a salaried Vox reporter I would spend more time asking why only two Democrats voted “No” last week on the 161st judge Trump has appointed to a

The term “financial literacy” is a rhetorical gimmick by capitalists to frame poverty as the failure of the individual “illiterate” rather than as the planned outcome of a social order

This might not be a popular opinion but I actually stand with these types of liberals. Obviously a Biden/Harris vote is milquetoast, but within the context of this woman’s life

A majority of the “self help” industry is just hucksters teaching people how to withstand the depravities and mind-numbing tedium and spiritual emptiness of modern day capitalism. And while we’re

Folks I regret to inform you that the funniest shit has happened. BREAKING: Hell is now privatized. Every single one of us is going to die. That's the deal. Not

A lot of talk on here about the “end of democracy” in America. I’m confused as to when the beginning of it was. The framers abhorred democracy and saw it

I can’t BELIEVE Karl Marx said:“Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and

In 1990, CBS and ABC reported on the testimony of one Nayirah al-Sabah, a Kuwaiti refugee who told of watching Iraqi troops remove babies from hospital incubators and leave them

Civility, defined as "formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech," is a rhetorical smokescreen that has no place in political discourse. Politics are the violent means by which wealth