Link to an article by Rob Urie:
Tag: Politics
Rob Urie – American Fascism
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
Matt Taibbi – Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing
Rob Urie – Elections and the Illusion of Control
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
Matt Christman – The Horror and the Hopefulness of “Chapo Trap House”
Link to an interview of Matt Christman, co-host of the podcast Chapo Trap House, conducted by Micah Uetricht:
“The Horror and the Hopefulness of Chapo Trap House“
Bonus link: Diamondback Interview
Boots Riley’s Dystopian Satire “Sorry to Bother You” Is an Anti-Capitalist Rallying Cry for Workers
Link to an interview with Boots Riley:
W.T. Whitney – Climate Change
Link to an article by W.T. Whitney Jr.:
“Climate Change: What About the Marxists?”
Bonus links: “This Changes Some Things” and “Survival of the Richest”
Arun Gupta – A Tale of Two Tweets
Link to an article by Arun Gupta:
Bonus links: “Sorry, Bernie, We Need Radical Change” (this article does a good job summarizing the seemingly non-replicable quirks that led to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary election victory, but succumbs to reliance on self-defeating populist demonizations) and Crowds and Party
Zola Carr – Medicalizing Society
Link to an article by Zola Carr:
Bonus links: “Are We Governed By Secondary Psychopaths?” and “The War Inside Your Head” and “Mental Health and Neoliberalism” and “Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists With a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?” and “Social Service or Social Change?”
Slavoj Žižek – Quote about Democratic Socialists
“what do democratic socialists effectively want? The rightist reproach against them is that, beneath their innocent-sounding concrete proposals to raise taxes, make healthcare better, etc, there is a dark project to destroy capitalism and its freedoms. My fear is exactly the opposite one: that beneath their concrete welfare state proposals there is nothing, no great project, just a vague idea of more social justice. The idea is simply that, through electoral pressure, the centre of gravity will move back to the left.
But is, in the (not so) long term, this enough? Do the challenges that we face, from global warming to refugees, from digital control to biogenetic manipulations, not require nothing less than a global reorganisation of our societies?”
Slavoj Žižek – “The US Establishment Thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Too Radical – With an Impending Climate Disaster, the Worry Is She Isn’t Radical Enough”