Reading Time: 6 minutes Defenders of the free market say capitalism is the only economic system that could possibly work. A variety of counterexamples both from the U.S. and around the world throw that assumption into doubt.
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Put your mouth where your money is: The real-world ethics of a socialist band
Reading Time: 5 minutes It begins with a strum. A simple strum that could be a guitarist, early to rehearsal, waiting for bandmates to arrive. A nonchalant, off-the-cuff melody of moving octaves around a sustained tone, 30 seconds with no perceivable tempo or direction. Then, a tempo is decided upon, and one by one the other six bandmates join […]
Posted inPolitics
Why do we keep blaming the poor for their poverty?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Is poverty’s root cause more nurture than nature?
Posted inSatire
BREAKING: Billionaire declares war against oligarchs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gotham’s billionaire prince Bruce Wayne shocked the world today by publicly admitting that he is Batman. Over the years, he’s protected the good people of the city from street thugs to psychotic supervillains. Bruce Wayne dropped another bombshell as well — he is hanging up the cape. No longer will Batman perch on high buildings […]
Posted inWar and Peace
The DSA is wrong on Ukraine: Why this socialist supports NATO
Reading Time: 5 minutes Those who criticize the U.S. for expanding NATO eastward overlook the right of all people, including Ukraine, to democratically choose their own destiny.
Posted inPolitics
Does Socialism Ever Work?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Here is another guest article from J Enigma. Massive thanks to him and all my guest posters. A while back, I wrote a guest piece for this blog entitled “Socialism Always Fails?” It did pretty well and engendered some discussion, but I think in that piece I danced around a core question and I want […]
Posted inCartoons, General
Resistance is Feudal
Reading Time: < 1 minute We may change system names from time to time, but it seems we tend to revert to the same basic formula. Anyway, I’m no political scientist. Blah blah blah. Resistance is feudal.
Posted inPolitics
“Socialism Always Fails”?
Reading Time: 7 minutes [This is a guest post from J Enigma – enjoy]. The other week I was engaged with an individual on Facebook arguing the merits of employing a universal healthcare system (why yes, I am American. How did you guess?) Normally this is a waste of time, but I wasn’t doing anything else and so I […]
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Christianity Is Hated by Socialists and Capitalists alike…?
Reading Time: 2 minutes This particular comment came from a conservative Christian friend of mine elsewhere. I will set it out before talking about it: Christianity is hated by socialists and capitalists alike because it centres meaning in a place that is beyond the self and so is not biddable by these two controlling forces. Where the centre is […]
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Democratic Socialism, Southern Style
Reading Time: 4 minutes A conversation with local political candidate Dennis Prater