Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“Race, Identity and the Political Economy of Hate”
Bonus links: “Why Liberals Separate Race from Class” and “The Politics of Identity” and “The Ideology of Postmodernism is to Present All Existing Injustice as an Effect of Discrimination” and The Trouble With Diversity and Racecraft and “Should We Care About Inequality?” and “King of the Hate Business: Inside the Southern Poverty Law Center”
“Befuddlement at the rise of reactionary forces is met with an increasingly strident insistence that there is nothing to react against, that all is well if people would only shut up and follow the directions of their betters.”
Rob Urie, “White Nationalism and the Neoliberal Order”
Bonus link: Political Struggle Quote
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“Democrats and the Crisis of Legitimacy”
Bonus links: “No Box For That” and “Malcolm X and the Democrats: Excerpts from Peter Camejo’s Autobiography, North Star“ and Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-driven Political Systems and “Fake News on Russia and Other Official Enemies”
“A political Left with a brain would be busy thinking through strategy for when the internet becomes completely unusable for organizing and communication. The unifying factor in the initial ‘fake news’ purge was criticism of Hillary Clinton. Print media, a once viable alternative, has been all but destroyed by the move to the internet. This capability needs to be rebuilt.”
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“Climate Crisis, ‘Smart’ Growth and the Logic of Calamity”
Bonus link: Review of Robert Pollin’s Back to Full Employment
Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“Wall Street and the Crisis in Greece: When Only Bad Choices Remain”
Bonus link: “Putin: U.S. Hegemony at Root of Ukraine Crisis”