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CARL BEIJER
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A substack on socialism and other things. Subscribe for full access! HIPPIE-PUNCHING 2021 A line of criticism that’s popular in the discourse these days goes something like this: Some socialists smear their critics by pointing to a handful of reactionaries — the worst bigots, the most dangerous militants, and the most deranged conspiracy theorists — and pretending that all of their political opponents are like that.They will call you a fasci THE DATA FOR PROGRESS CABINET TRACKER NOTES (FINAL update: 1/21/2021) UPDATE (12/22/2020) - Another bizarre development in Data for Progress’s late additions to the list: they appear to have added Janet Yellen and Xavier Becerra after Biden nominated them.I’ve laid out the details here.. Also: Politico reports that Joe Biden will appoint Bruce Reed as his deputy chief of staff. This marks a major blow to Data for Progress and TWO CRITIQUES OF "THE LEFT" Put this way, it’s easy to see how one critique is simple, coherent, factual, and fits well within ordinary ideas about working class politics — while the other has nothing to do with any of that, and relies instead on odd rules of linguistic prescription (how we may and may not use “the left”); bizarre sweeping generalizations that place Michael Parenti and Joe Manchin in the same NOBODY CARES ABOUT "WOKENESS" If all you had to go by was conversations in the media and statements by politicians, you would have to conclude that something called “wokeness” is the defining issue of our time. A WORD ON PRIVATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Last Friday, when I appeared on The Majority Report to talk with Sam Seder about socialism, our conversation eventually turned to property.And in an effort to draw a clear distinction between capitalist and socialist perspectives, I framed it in a way that ELEVEN WAYS TO IMPROVE TWITTER The blocker will still get a notification about the blockee’s quote-tweet like she would for any other; people who follow the blocker, however, will never SOME CLARIFICATIONS ON POLITICAL LABELS PSEUDO-CATEGORIES. Having outlined a basic socialist framework for categorizing political positions, let’s look at the second table. Here, I outline four major pseudo-categories that make little sense from a socialist perspective, but that remain popular under capitalism precisely because of their role in justifying it.This is why I think we ought to avoid invoking these pseudo-categories WHAT IS THE POST LEFT? They're an internet clique waiting on a check. I’ve held off from writing this for a while, but since I’m asked about it so frequently — and since some journalists are confused about the matter — I suppose that I ought to sketch out what some of us have in mind when we refer to “the Post Left.”CARL BEIJER
Writing on socialism, contemporary politics, and other things. Subscribe for full access to paywalled articles and more than fiveyears of archives.
CARL BEIJER
A substack on socialism and other things. Subscribe for full access! HIPPIE-PUNCHING 2021 A line of criticism that’s popular in the discourse these days goes something like this: Some socialists smear their critics by pointing to a handful of reactionaries — the worst bigots, the most dangerous militants, and the most deranged conspiracy theorists — and pretending that all of their political opponents are like that.They will call you a fasci THE DATA FOR PROGRESS CABINET TRACKER NOTES (FINAL update: 1/21/2021) UPDATE (12/22/2020) - Another bizarre development in Data for Progress’s late additions to the list: they appear to have added Janet Yellen and Xavier Becerra after Biden nominated them.I’ve laid out the details here.. Also: Politico reports that Joe Biden will appoint Bruce Reed as his deputy chief of staff. This marks a major blow to Data for Progress and TWO CRITIQUES OF "THE LEFT" Put this way, it’s easy to see how one critique is simple, coherent, factual, and fits well within ordinary ideas about working class politics — while the other has nothing to do with any of that, and relies instead on odd rules of linguistic prescription (how we may and may not use “the left”); bizarre sweeping generalizations that place Michael Parenti and Joe Manchin in the same NOBODY CARES ABOUT "WOKENESS" If all you had to go by was conversations in the media and statements by politicians, you would have to conclude that something called “wokeness” is the defining issue of our time. A WORD ON PRIVATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Last Friday, when I appeared on The Majority Report to talk with Sam Seder about socialism, our conversation eventually turned to property.And in an effort to draw a clear distinction between capitalist and socialist perspectives, I framed it in a way that ELEVEN WAYS TO IMPROVE TWITTER The blocker will still get a notification about the blockee’s quote-tweet like she would for any other; people who follow the blocker, however, will never SOME CLARIFICATIONS ON POLITICAL LABELS PSEUDO-CATEGORIES. Having outlined a basic socialist framework for categorizing political positions, let’s look at the second table. Here, I outline four major pseudo-categories that make little sense from a socialist perspective, but that remain popular under capitalism precisely because of their role in justifying it.This is why I think we ought to avoid invoking these pseudo-categories WHAT IS THE POST LEFT? They're an internet clique waiting on a check. I’ve held off from writing this for a while, but since I’m asked about it so frequently — and since some journalists are confused about the matter — I suppose that I ought to sketch out what some of us have in mind when we refer to “the Post Left.”CARL BEIJER
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HIPPIE-PUNCHING 2021 A line of criticism that’s popular in the discourse these days goes something like this: Some socialists smear their critics by pointing to a handful of reactionaries — the worst bigots, the most dangerous militants, and the most deranged conspiracy theorists — and pretending that all of their political opponents are like that.They will call you a fasciCARL BEIJER
A substack on socialism and other things. Subscribe for full access! THE WOKE SEMANTICS PROJECT WHAT IS WOKE? SOCIALISM - “Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows itwe can’t just say ‘Republicans are going to call us socialists no matter what, so let’s just run as out-and-out socialists.’That’s not the smartest thing to do.” - (James Carville, Vox)HIGH CORPORATE TAXES - “The woke left turn of much of corporate America has us thinking about a long-ago Journal headline A WORD ON PRIVATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Last Friday, when I appeared on The Majority Report to talk with Sam Seder about socialism, our conversation eventually turned to property.And in an effort to draw a clear distinction between capitalist and socialist perspectives, I framed it in a way that THE PROGRESSIVE-POPULIST HORSESHOE The strategy is simple: 1) Concede that various symptoms of capitalism are indeed a problem. If you are a progressive, for example, you can complain about inequality or monopoly or various identitarian antagonisms that are fomented by capitalism. WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THIS GOP "REALIGNMENT"? Matt Stoller says that “There’s disdain for paying attention to debates on the conservative side of the aisle, as if it’s all in bad faith.” I suppose that this extremely vague statement is probably true. But I’ve paid very close attention to these debates for decades now, and that is precisely why I am skeptical about his rhetoric about some kind of Re THREE POINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF CAPITALIST IDEOLOGY A lot of the socialist media criticism I see floating around in the discourse these days tends to get a few analytical points right — for example, that media products will tend to express the interests of their sponsors. But it often gets a lot very, very wrong. Often because basic midunderstandings about the structure of the modern media industry, occa NEERA TANDEN MUST DROP OUT Neera Tanden must drop out Her divisive candidacy threatens an early blow to Biden's Build Back Better agenda. MOST POLIPSYCH PUNDITRY IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT Most polipsych punditry is complete bullshit It's good for narrative building but has zero basis in reality.CARL BEIJER
Carl Beijer. About People. Writing on socialism, contemporary politics, and other things. Subscribe for full access to paywalled articles and more than five years of archives. You can email me at cwbeijer@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @carlbeijer.CARL BEIJER
A substack on socialism and other things. Subscribe for full access! THE DATA FOR PROGRESS CABINET TRACKER UPDATE (11/23/2020) - Data for Progress has joined a few other groups in launching a petition against appointing Bruce Reed as the head of the Office of Management and Budget. While they are likely to spin this as a victory if Biden declines to do so, this would be a goalpost shift from the proposals floated in the Progressive Cabinet Project. WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THIS GOP "REALIGNMENT"? This is the same coalition conflict Republicans have dealt with for decades. Matt Stoller says that “There’s disdain for paying attention to debates on the conservative side of the aisle, as if it’s all in bad faith.”. I suppose that this extremely vague statement is probably true. But I’ve paid very close attention tothese debates
HIPPIE-PUNCHING 2021 A new twist on a very old right-wing smear. A line of criticism that’s popular in the discourse these days goes something like this: Some socialists smear their critics by pointing to a handful of reactionaries — the worst bigots, the most dangerous militants, and the most deranged conspiracy theorists — and pretending that all oftheir
NOBODY CARES ABOUT "WOKENESS" If all you had to go by was conversations in the media and statements by politicians, you would have to conclude that something called “wokeness” is the defining issue of our time. WHAT IS THE POST LEFT? The Post Left is openly hostile to various factions that they lump together as “the left” — not just Democrats and liberals, but radical groups like anarchists and socialists as well. Rhetorically they adopt the bog-standard positioning of the self-identified independent: they are uniquely free-thinking equal-opportunityoffenders who
ELEVEN WAYS TO IMPROVE TWITTER So here, in no particular order: eleven ways to improve Twitter. 1) LIMIT PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT A USER’S FOLLOWERS AND FOLLOWS. Displaying the count of a user’s total number of followers encourages clout-chasing. Displaying information about who a user follows encourages follow-policing. To fix both problems Twitter should restrict what A WORD ON PRIVATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Last Friday, when I appeared on The Majority Report to talk with Sam Seder about socialism, our conversation eventually turned to property.And in an effort to draw a clear distinction between capitalist and socialist perspectives, I framed it in a way that J.D. VANCE AND THE "AFFLUENT" POOR Vance says that he is talking about “class”, but there just isn’t any way to to get any information about class from his chart - even if we use AC’s dubious definition. In fact, it’s even worse than that, because “the affluent” isn’t even a reference to class: it’s a direct reference to wealth. And while the right rollsout
CARL BEIJER
Carl Beijer. About People. Writing on socialism, contemporary politics, and other things. Subscribe for full access to paywalled articles and more than five years of archives. You can email me at cwbeijer@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @carlbeijer.CARL BEIJER
A substack on socialism and other things. Subscribe for full access! THE DATA FOR PROGRESS CABINET TRACKER UPDATE (11/23/2020) - Data for Progress has joined a few other groups in launching a petition against appointing Bruce Reed as the head of the Office of Management and Budget. While they are likely to spin this as a victory if Biden declines to do so, this would be a goalpost shift from the proposals floated in the Progressive Cabinet Project. WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THIS GOP "REALIGNMENT"? This is the same coalition conflict Republicans have dealt with for decades. Matt Stoller says that “There’s disdain for paying attention to debates on the conservative side of the aisle, as if it’s all in bad faith.”. I suppose that this extremely vague statement is probably true. But I’ve paid very close attention tothese debates
HIPPIE-PUNCHING 2021 A new twist on a very old right-wing smear. A line of criticism that’s popular in the discourse these days goes something like this: Some socialists smear their critics by pointing to a handful of reactionaries — the worst bigots, the most dangerous militants, and the most deranged conspiracy theorists — and pretending that all oftheir
NOBODY CARES ABOUT "WOKENESS" If all you had to go by was conversations in the media and statements by politicians, you would have to conclude that something called “wokeness” is the defining issue of our time. WHAT IS THE POST LEFT? The Post Left is openly hostile to various factions that they lump together as “the left” — not just Democrats and liberals, but radical groups like anarchists and socialists as well. Rhetorically they adopt the bog-standard positioning of the self-identified independent: they are uniquely free-thinking equal-opportunityoffenders who
ELEVEN WAYS TO IMPROVE TWITTER So here, in no particular order: eleven ways to improve Twitter. 1) LIMIT PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT A USER’S FOLLOWERS AND FOLLOWS. Displaying the count of a user’s total number of followers encourages clout-chasing. Displaying information about who a user follows encourages follow-policing. To fix both problems Twitter should restrict what A WORD ON PRIVATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Last Friday, when I appeared on The Majority Report to talk with Sam Seder about socialism, our conversation eventually turned to property.And in an effort to draw a clear distinction between capitalist and socialist perspectives, I framed it in a way that J.D. VANCE AND THE "AFFLUENT" POOR Vance says that he is talking about “class”, but there just isn’t any way to to get any information about class from his chart - even if we use AC’s dubious definition. In fact, it’s even worse than that, because “the affluent” isn’t even a reference to class: it’s a direct reference to wealth. And while the right rollsout
CARL BEIJER
Carl Beijer. About People. Writing on socialism, contemporary politics, and other things. Subscribe for full access to paywalled articles and more than five years of archives. You can email me at cwbeijer@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @carlbeijer.CARL BEIJER
A substack on socialism and other things. Subscribe for full access! HIPPIE-PUNCHING 2021 A line of criticism that’s popular in the discourse these days goes something like this: Some socialists smear their critics by pointing to a handful of reactionaries — the worst bigots, the most dangerous militants, and the most deranged conspiracy theorists — and pretending that all of their political opponents are like that.They will call you a fasci A WORD ON PRIVATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Last Friday, when I appeared on The Majority Report to talk with Sam Seder about socialism, our conversation eventually turned to property.And in an effort to draw a clear distinction between capitalist and socialist perspectives, I framed it in a way that THE WOKE SEMANTICS PROJECT Moving forward, I’ll be using this post to keep track of innovative new uses of the word “woke”, if only to demonstrate that a process of semantic generalization is indeed taking place. Since this is going to be a sporadic and sometimes tedious project I won’t send out emails with every new update, but I’ll send out a tweet from THE PROGRESSIVE-POPULIST HORSESHOE The strategy is simple: 1) Concede that various symptoms of capitalism are indeed a problem. If you are a progressive, for example, you can complain about inequality or monopoly or various identitarian antagonisms that are fomented by capitalism. If you are a right populist, you can complain about alienation, or about the economicstresses that
GENDER, LANGUAGE, AND LEFT STRATEGY The left has already won much of the war over gender and the English language. This may come as a surprise to people who are caught up in today’s endless controversy over pronouns, but over the past hundred years leftists were fighting over gendered nouns as well.. The gist of the problem is that we had a whole vocabulary of nouns — often(though not alwa
NOTES ON A FAILED SURVEY ABOUT SOCIALISM Perhaps there's a reason that it failed! If you caught my recent appearance on Majority Report — or if you happen to be one of the people who I contacted about it — you may recall that I have been working on a survey about socialism. Specifically, over the past few weeks, I have been asking wonks and media types the following fourquestions:
THREE POINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF CAPITALIST IDEOLOGY Three points on the production of capitalist ideology. A lot of the socialist media criticism I see floating around in the discourse these days tends to get a few analytical points right — for example, that media products will tend to express the interests of NEERA TANDEN MUST DROP OUT It is only a matter of time until Neera Tanden’s bid to lead the Office of Management and Budget runs headlong into a wall of at least 51 Senators. Her fate was sealed the moment Democratic Senator Joe Manchin announced that he would cross party lines and join Republicans in opposing her nomination. As a courtesy, the White House has issued CARL BEIJERCARL BEIJERARCHIVE New Top What is Carl Beijer? The dark money behind right-wing "woke capitalism" rhetoric An anti-communist front-group for business PR staffed with Koch apparatchiks is running a major messaging campaign. Nobody cares about "wokeness" Yet another poll showing how detachedmedia discourse is
CARL BEIJER
Carl Beijer. About People. Writing on socialism, contemporary politics, and other things. Subscribe for full access to paywalled articles and more than five years of archives. You can email me at cwbeijer@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @carlbeijer. THE DATA FOR PROGRESS CABINET TRACKER UPDATE (11/23/2020) - Data for Progress has joined a few other groups in launching a petition against appointing Bruce Reed as the head of the Office of Management and Budget. While they are likely to spin this as a victory if Biden declines to do so, this would be a goalpost shift from the proposals floated in the Progressive Cabinet Project. WHAT IS THE POST LEFT? The Post Left is openly hostile to various factions that they lump together as “the left” — not just Democrats and liberals, but radical groups like anarchists and socialists as well. Rhetorically they adopt the bog-standard positioning of the self-identified independent: they are uniquely free-thinking equal-opportunityoffenders who
WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THIS GOP "REALIGNMENT"? This is the same coalition conflict Republicans have dealt with for decades. Matt Stoller says that “There’s disdain for paying attention to debates on the conservative side of the aisle, as if it’s all in bad faith.”. I suppose that this extremely vague statement is probably true. But I’ve paid very close attention tothese debates
ELEVEN WAYS TO IMPROVE TWITTER So here, in no particular order: eleven ways to improve Twitter. 1) LIMIT PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT A USER’S FOLLOWERS AND FOLLOWS. Displaying the count of a user’s total number of followers encourages clout-chasing. Displaying information about who a user follows encourages follow-policing. To fix both problems Twitter should restrict what PSEUDO-MATERIALISM AND CLASS IDENTITY Uncoupled from real material analysis, class labels just play liberalism's rhetorical games. Carl Beijer. Jun 16, 2020. Share. Share. Years ago, Matt Bruenig wrote a short but important essay on the problem of identitarian deference (ID). In brief, Matt points out a recurring premise in our discourse: that people associated withcertain
NOBODY CARES ABOUT "WOKENESS" If all you had to go by was conversations in the media and statements by politicians, you would have to conclude that something called “wokeness” is the defining issue of our time. TWO CRITIQUES OF "THE LEFT" The concern-troll critique. The two conceptions of “left” spelled out above are indeed at odds. But opponents of capitalism must not, for some reason, insist that “left” refers exclusively to their politics, and that the champions of capitalism — liberals and progressive Democrats among them — A WORD ON PRIVATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Last Friday, when I appeared on The Majority Report to talk with Sam Seder about socialism, our conversation eventually turned to property.And in an effort to draw a clear distinction between capitalist and socialist perspectives, I framed it in a way that CARL BEIJERCARL BEIJERARCHIVE New Top What is Carl Beijer? The dark money behind right-wing "woke capitalism" rhetoric An anti-communist front-group for business PR staffed with Koch apparatchiks is running a major messaging campaign. Nobody cares about "wokeness" Yet another poll showing how detachedmedia discourse is
CARL BEIJER
Carl Beijer. About People. Writing on socialism, contemporary politics, and other things. Subscribe for full access to paywalled articles and more than five years of archives. You can email me at cwbeijer@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @carlbeijer. THE DATA FOR PROGRESS CABINET TRACKER UPDATE (11/23/2020) - Data for Progress has joined a few other groups in launching a petition against appointing Bruce Reed as the head of the Office of Management and Budget. While they are likely to spin this as a victory if Biden declines to do so, this would be a goalpost shift from the proposals floated in the Progressive Cabinet Project. WHAT IS THE POST LEFT? The Post Left is openly hostile to various factions that they lump together as “the left” — not just Democrats and liberals, but radical groups like anarchists and socialists as well. Rhetorically they adopt the bog-standard positioning of the self-identified independent: they are uniquely free-thinking equal-opportunityoffenders who
WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THIS GOP "REALIGNMENT"? This is the same coalition conflict Republicans have dealt with for decades. Matt Stoller says that “There’s disdain for paying attention to debates on the conservative side of the aisle, as if it’s all in bad faith.”. I suppose that this extremely vague statement is probably true. But I’ve paid very close attention tothese debates
ELEVEN WAYS TO IMPROVE TWITTER So here, in no particular order: eleven ways to improve Twitter. 1) LIMIT PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT A USER’S FOLLOWERS AND FOLLOWS. Displaying the count of a user’s total number of followers encourages clout-chasing. Displaying information about who a user follows encourages follow-policing. To fix both problems Twitter should restrict what PSEUDO-MATERIALISM AND CLASS IDENTITY Uncoupled from real material analysis, class labels just play liberalism's rhetorical games. Carl Beijer. Jun 16, 2020. Share. Share. Years ago, Matt Bruenig wrote a short but important essay on the problem of identitarian deference (ID). In brief, Matt points out a recurring premise in our discourse: that people associated withcertain
NOBODY CARES ABOUT "WOKENESS" If all you had to go by was conversations in the media and statements by politicians, you would have to conclude that something called “wokeness” is the defining issue of our time. TWO CRITIQUES OF "THE LEFT" The concern-troll critique. The two conceptions of “left” spelled out above are indeed at odds. But opponents of capitalism must not, for some reason, insist that “left” refers exclusively to their politics, and that the champions of capitalism — liberals and progressive Democrats among them — A WORD ON PRIVATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY Last Friday, when I appeared on The Majority Report to talk with Sam Seder about socialism, our conversation eventually turned to property.And in an effort to draw a clear distinction between capitalist and socialist perspectives, I framed it in a way thatCARL BEIJER
New Top What is Carl Beijer? The dark money behind right-wing "woke capitalism" rhetoric An anti-communist front-group for business PR staffed with Koch apparatchiks is running a major messaging campaign. Nobody cares about "wokeness" Yet another poll showing how detachedmedia discourse is
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Carl Beijer. About People. Writing on socialism, contemporary politics, and other things. Subscribe for full access to paywalled articles and more than five years of archives. You can email me at cwbeijer@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter @carlbeijer. WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THIS GOP "REALIGNMENT"? This is the same coalition conflict Republicans have dealt with for decades. Matt Stoller says that “There’s disdain for paying attention to debates on the conservative side of the aisle, as if it’s all in bad faith.”. I suppose that this extremely vague statement is probably true. But I’ve paid very close attention tothese debates
TWO STRATEGIES FOR DEFENDING FREE SPEECH There are two strategies for defending free speech. Since everyone who reads this lives under the ideological domination of liberalism, it’s easy to conclude that there is only one strategy for defending free speech — the liberal strategy — and that this is the only possible strategy.Which explains why, if you don’t buy into the liberal strategy, liberals will conclude that you simply THE WOKE SEMANTICS PROJECT Moving forward, I’ll be using this post to keep track of innovative new uses of the word “woke”, if only to demonstrate that a process of semantic generalization is indeed taking place. Since this is going to be a sporadic and sometimes tedious project I won’t send out emails with every new update, but I’ll send out a tweet from SOME CLARIFICATIONS ON POLITICAL LABELS First, the ideology of capitalism. This is just the tangle of beliefs, narratives, unexamined assumptions, framings, etcetera that rationalize the global domination of capitalism: certain ideas about property, meritocracy, freedom, and so on. This ideology is ubiquitous around the world; in the United States, it’s shared by Republicansand
THE PROGRESSIVE-POPULIST HORSESHOE The strategy is simple: 1) Concede that various symptoms of capitalism are indeed a problem. If you are a progressive, for example, you can complain about inequality or monopoly or various identitarian antagonisms that are fomented by capitalism. If you are a right populist, you can complain about alienation, or about the economicstresses that
NOTES ON A FAILED SURVEY ABOUT SOCIALISM Perhaps there's a reason that it failed! If you caught my recent appearance on Majority Report — or if you happen to be one of the people who I contacted about it — you may recall that I have been working on a survey about socialism. Specifically, over the past few weeks, I have been asking wonks and media types the following fourquestions:
THREE POINTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF CAPITALIST IDEOLOGY Three points on the production of capitalist ideology. A lot of the socialist media criticism I see floating around in the discourse these days tends to get a few analytical points right — for example, that media products will tend to express the interests of NEERA TANDEN MUST DROP OUT It is only a matter of time until Neera Tanden’s bid to lead the Office of Management and Budget runs headlong into a wall of at least 51 Senators. Her fate was sealed the moment Democratic Senator Joe Manchin announced that he would cross party lines and join Republicans in opposing her nomination. As a courtesy, the White House has issuedCARL BEIJER
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7/22/19
YET ANOTHER STUDY DEBUNKS THE POPULAR "BIASED ELECTORATE" MYTH Conventional wisdom on the liberal-left holds that bias among voters is so prevalent that it creates a disadvantage at the polls for women and people of color running for office. The numbers, however, beg to differ. In _The Electability Myth_, a new study of the 2018 US election, The Reflective Democracy Campaign (RDC) has found that other groups have a slight _advantage _over white men among the voters - and systematic _disadvantages _that have historically kept them off theballot.
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SOCIALISM ISN'T THE OPPOSITE OF LIBERALISM - AND IT ISN'T LIBERALISM2.0, EITHER.
Ideologically, capitalism relies on one simple proposition: that property can be held privately. As Marx put it, all criticism of capitalism "is ultimately reducible to criticism of private property as a barrier and obstacle" to collective management. It is the right of private property that the bourgeoisie exercises in its control of the means of production, and in its accumulation of capital; it is the right of private property that denies the rest of us access to the commonwealth. With private property, capitalism inevitably follows; without private property, capitalism cannot survive.Read more »
7/12/19
LIBERTARIANS ALWAYS TRY TO CO-OPT THE LEFT. WHY HAVEN'T WE LEARNEDFROM THIS?
There's a simple way to recognize how class struggle is demoted to a secondary concern among the US left: look at how we fight other forms of oppression, and consider how it would look if we fought capitalism the same way. Sometimes you see parallels - for example, in left organizations that exclude avowed capitalists just as they exclude avowed racists and sexists - but quite often you see cleardouble-standards.
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7/8/19
GLOBAL GREEN NEW DEAL MEDIA ROUNDUP Some coverage of my new paper for People's Policy Project, The GlobalGreen New Deal
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Cooper
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The Intercept
* AOC’s Green New Deal Is Just the Start. Next Let’s Make ItGlobal
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Truthout
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I'll be updating this list as more coverage appears.7/4/19
CAN'T STOP ALIENATION BY TRYING TO END AUTOMATION An extraordinary amount of our interactions with other humans takes place in the context of economic activity - while we are consuming, working, conducting transactions, exploiting labor, and so on. And because these activities proceed according to the rules of capitalism, capitalism exercises a profound influence on our social lives. When I am shopping and I strike up a conversation with a service employee, for example, the rules of capitalism impose a powerful incentive on the way they respond to me: they need to try to get some of my moneyfor their boss.
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7/3/19
DAILY POLLING DRAMA ISN'T TEACHING YOU A THING Seven polls of the Democratic primaries that have rolled out since themost recent debate:
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7/1/19
THE OLIGARCHS WON'T GIVE YOU PEACE George Soros and Charles Koch have announced "a new foreign-policy think tank" - the Quincy Institute - that "will promote an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing." What can we actuallyexpect?
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6/26/19
ARE SANDERS SUPPORTERS ACTUALLY EQUATING ELIZABETH WARREN WITHHILLARY CLINTON?
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6/26/19
THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE WILL COST TRILLIONS - NOTBILLIONS
While the reception to my Global Green New Deal paper with People's Policy Project was overwhelmingly positive, I noticed three trends that confirmed a longstanding suspicion:Read more »
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