Fabius
The planetary ecosystem is in crisis. Humans brought it there. What are we going to do about it? These are three enormous simplifications, the latter two of which in particular have produced endless disagreement: which humans produced the crisis? Which “we” can and should do something about it,...
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Max Elbaum is a friend and sometime political mentor. He's also the author of Revolution in the Air, the definitive history of the "New Communist Movement" within the New Left, a tendency that has been broadly influential on my politics as well. So I always pay close attention to his comments on...
Peter Frase
I swore I wasn't going to do this, but here I go joining in with the endless commentaries on Bernie Sanders, who has at long last announced his candidacy for a Presidential election almost two years away. To get one thing out of the way: I support Bernie Sanders. I will vote for him in the...
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I was pleasantly surprised with the response to my last post (thanks Red Wedge and Commune and the Art and Labor podcast). But there was one specific misinterpretation that I want to try to clarify. It arises specifically among the "normie" socialists I was targeting in my previous intervention,...
Peter Frase
"our power isn't in being less different or strange...it's in making strange things seem possible". The above statement, though today often attributed to antifa mascot Gritty, was actually made by Kate Griffiths of the Red Bloom Communist Collective. It reiterates themes discussed in a wonderful...
Peter Frase
Some recent discussion on Twitter has me thinking again about one of my longstanding projects, and something I want to do at book length soon: the contradictions of building social democracy. My basic outlook, as described in the linked essay, is that the socialist project must be conceived in...