Sucking up to the boss: Trump as an Archetype
Jonathan Woolley, on Trump as the big-daddy boss archetype.
Spring Is Coming
The first snowdrops pushing their heads up in my garden, emerging in the space of the few hours I'd been away. The evenings are growing lighter, the days lengthening steadily. Even amid despair, there is hope.
Class Divides and Cultural Revolutions
When I compare the present moment in the US to China’s Cultural Revolution, it’s not from the perspective of a defender of capitalism or the status quo. It’s from a perspective that seeks class abolition and complete social revolution, not just cultural radicalism.
Should “gig drivers” be Employees?
If you don't vote for Prop 22, you'll still have to live with the fallout from AB5. If you do vote for Prop 22 you're a fool that wants something worse than a boss. A boss you owe money to.
Workers Elegy
We swallow antibiotics as indiscriminate as our pesticides
And vote which color to paint our bombs.
Urbancentrism
…as if there was a huge dome around the metropolis that prevents access to other places, or that transforms other places into utopias disconnected from reality which can be accessed only from time to time in dream
What's Pan-africanism got to do with Marxism?
The fight against Eurocentrism is a struggle against the naturalization of racial oppression in the social condition of the worker. For this reason, Pan-Africanism is a necessary understanding of class struggle.
When They Bought Us Out
From Shane Burley: "white supremacy exists not external to the class, but as a perversion of its own interests."
Faerie Queens, Worker Revolts, and the FBI
What do men dressed as women giving eviction notices in the name of a faerie queen and the FBI have in common?
"Standard in the Industry": Patheos and Normalizing Corporate Abuse
It’s a problem when we think we have no power in dealing with corporations. That’s what the words “standard in the industry” and “boilerplate” are meant to do. They’re meant to make us feel powerless. But we do have power. We have power when we are informed. We have power when we use our voices, and when we use our feet. We have power when we act together.
Front Groups Kill the Revolution: Activism, Honesty, and Radical Tactics
Sophia Burns questions the ethics and efficacy of revolutionary front groups.