Programming Time After Capitalism A large part of what makes hobbies enjoyable is that, freed from the profit motive, practitioners work at the pace they choose, allowing them to experiment, mess up, quit, and start over. My
Politics Land of the Free, My Ass Under the new guidelines, travelers who are selected by its officers for additional screening could be asked to unlock their electronic devices for inspection or provide passcodes. They will be asked to disable
Politics God Bless Us Everyone Working seventy hours a week is about close as you can get to being back in the nineteenth century without a time machine. When most people hear about this situation, they immediately think
Politics The Perils of Authoritarian Censorship Lately, there have been a lot of Twitter bannings and flagging of videos on YouTube which discuss why white nationalism is wrong. Sadly, this is something I was afraid would happen. Since the
Politics Accumulation Through Dispossession Jones is a reminder that the migration narrative in Britain needs a rethink. Those who came from the colonies were not foreigners. Britain was an empire, not a nation, and every single colonial
Politics Mutual Aid Over the next month, Luis, Christine, and ARECMA, took over the group’s storm-ravaged hilltop center and set up the Proyecto de Apoyo Mutuo (Project for Mutual Aid). I flew back home to
Politics Ephemeral Alliances I’m reading through Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread, and I can’t help but feel like he predicted leftist Twitter: Possibilists , Collectivists , Radicals , Jacobins , Blanquists , will be thrust together , and waste time
Politics Anti-Fascism Also, many of their followers think that this is a game, that this a joke, that they can come off the Internet and into the streets without this having very serious implications. And
Politics Silver Spoons At that time the contracts for farms ran for a long time, often for ninety-nine years. The progressive fall in the value of the precious metals, and therefore of money, brought golden fruit
Politics Download More Proles Contrary to public perception, the economy doesn’t actually need that many more programmers. As a result, teaching millions of kids to code won’t make them all middle-class. Rather, it will proletarianize
Religion/Spirituality Racism and Homophobia in the KC Pagan Community: The Asatru Folk Assembly For two months, however, I have been combating racism and homophobia being brought to my community. It has taken over my time I reserve for blogging and, in the past few weeks, sleep
Politics A Foundation, Not a Net Under laissez-faire capitalism, income is only distributed to the factors of production, i.e. labor and capital. If you don’t own a whole bunch of capital or have the capacity and opportunity
Politics Fiat Currency, Socially Necessary Labor Time, and Other Causes for Revolution I’m currently reading through Capital, Volume 1 by Karl Marx, and I’ll readily admit that it’s not always an easy read for me. Theoretical complexity isn’t usually an issue
Politics What Is Antifa? A Scholar Of the Movement Explains Disruption is necessary for social movements. It’s used precisely to make it clear that business as usual can’t move forward without some kind of change. In the end, the growing struggle
Politics Socialism at Play Alas, it turns out that the crucial component of informational capitalism is distribution. Conglomerates like Apple, Sony, and Microsoft quickly adapted to this peaceful seizure of the means of production. They opened their
Politics On Queer Liberation vs. LGBTQ Rights I have mixed feelings on assimilation. On the one hand, to borrow from Harry Potter lore (as I so often do), I am a Slytherin. I prefer to blend into crowds rather than
Politics In Charlottesville, the Local Jewish Community Presses On For half an hour, three men dressed in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic rifles stood across the street from the temple. Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could
Politics Enough Is Enough: Fighting a White Supremacist Culture I am not confident in my ability to speak eloquenty or cogently on the events of this past weekend in Charlottesville. I am too fucking angry to be a critic, an essayist, or
Politics Wrestling All Night with an Angel In digging through old notes, I came across this piece of writing I was putting together right after the 2016 Presidential election. My emotions were raw, and I was trying desperately to make
Politics What Socialism Means The constant cries of “socialism” for every government program from the American right has really diluted the meaning. Socialism refers to a system where sectors of the economy and basic aspects of human
Politics Why We Should Fear University, Inc. Rather than painting student activists as censors — trying to dictate who has the right to say what and when — we should instead see them as trapped in a corporate architecture of managing offense.
Politics The Full Fruits of Our Labor Be warned that what follows is undoubtedly socialist. This makes sense because these days I identify unabashedly as a libertarian socialist / anarcho-communist. Feel free to grasp your pearls, fall back on your fainting
Politics The Importance of Collective Action While reading through the archives over at Treehugger, I came across this bit of wisdom that I think has broader applications than just environmentalism and global climate change: Inevitably, if we look solely
Politics Liberation For me, the week started on Dr. King's birthday. I found myself pondering the frightening level of inequality in the nation I call home. Black folks are over five times more likely to
Politics How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul The result today is a paradox. At the same time that the nation has achieved perhaps the most tolerant culture in U.S. history, the destruction of the anti-monopoly and anti-bank tradition in