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The Pivot Point
The Pivot Point The massive economic shock following the banking collapse of 2007–8 is the direct cause of the crisis of confidence which is affecting almost all the institutions of western representative democracy. The banking collapse was not a natural event, like a tsunami. It was a direct result of man-made systems and artifices which […]
This is Water
This is Water There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other […]
Name the State
Name the State The number one problem of all public debate about politics and economics is the failure to name the state. If this would change, so would public opinion. There is no shortage of examples. People talk about health care for all, solving climate change, providing security in old age, universal educational access, boosting […]
Government to Facebook Pipeline Reveals a Corrupt Mix of Social Media and the State
Government to Facebook Pipeline Reveals a Corrupt Mix of Social Media and the State The next time someone tells you that “Facebook is a private company” ask them if they know about the dozens of government employees who fill its ranks. As the Free Thought Project has previously reported, the phrase “Facebook is a private […]
How Social Media Is Becoming an Arm of the State
How Social Media Is Becoming an Arm of the State Say the wrong things and you might get kicked off of your favorite social media platform. Tech titans Apple, Facebook, and YouTube have wiped out talk-show host Alex Jones’s social media presence on the Internet. But the social media crusades weren’t over. Facebook recently took […]
How Social Media Is Becoming an Arm of the State
How Social Media Is Becoming an Arm of the State Say the wrong things and you might get kicked off of your favorite social media platform. Tech titans Apple, Facebook, and YouTube have wiped out talk-show host Alex Jones’s social media presence on the Internet. But the social media crusades weren’t over. Facebook recently took […]
The State weaponizes education to create ignorance
The State weaponizes education to create ignorance Independent Education: the crisis and the crossroad A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason. Formal debate, science, and law all flowed from that source. A common bond existed in some schools of the […]
The Commons, Short and Sweet
The Commons, Short and Sweet I am always trying to figure out how to explain the idea of the commons to newcomers who find it hard to grasp. Here is a fairly short overview, which I think gets to the nub of things. The commons is…. A social system for the long-term stewardship of resources […]
Amazon’s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism’s Drift to Neo-Fascism
Amazon’s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism’s Drift to Neo-Fascism In Part 1 of our investigative series on Surveillance Capitalism, MPN spoke to author Yasha Levine and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and its fusion with the U.S. state apparatus. In our next installments, we will continue […]
What Lies Beyond Capitalism and Socialism?
What Lies Beyond Capitalism and Socialism? The status quo, in all its various forms, is dominated by incentives that strengthen the centralization of wealth and power. As longtime readers know, my work aims to 1) explain why the status quo — the socio-economic-political system we inhabit — is unsustainable, divisive, and doomed to collapse under […]
UK Thought Police: Detaining Opponents “For The Public Good”
UK Thought Police: Detaining Opponents “For The Public Good” Would you want your government to decide who can and cannot enter your country based on how popular their political views? Would you trust any individual to police on your behalf what speakers are “conducive to the public good?” The UK Home Office feels it is […]
You Hate the State, But Do You Hate Politics? How Self Deception and Coalitions Affect Society
You Hate the State, But Do You Hate Politics? How Self Deception and Coalitions Affect Society Our ancestors weren’t nice people. They kept slaves, looked forward to wars and sent people to concentration camps. It is easy to dismiss them as moral retards, but that would be setting the bar way too low. Slavery is […]
We Live in Revolutionary Times
We Live in Revolutionary Times Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun. The most recent, and perhaps most important, network challenge to hierarchy comes with the advent of virtual currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin. Since ancient times, states have reaped considerable benefits from monopolizing or at least regulating the money created within their […]
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 7. Capitalism, the state and historical progress
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 7. Capitalism, the state and historical progress Continuing with my history of the world… Earlier, I characterised the emergence of capitalism in relation to the transformation of the four medieval figures of the lord, the peasant, the merchant, and the […]
