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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King

Friday, August 3, 2018

Capitalism: Class No Class















The election of Donald Trump fractured the American Left. The abandonment of class analysis in response to Mr. Trump’s racialized nationalism left identity politics to fill the void. This has facilitated the rise of neoliberal nationalism, an embrace of the national security state combined with neoliberal economic analysis put forward as a liberal / Left response to Mr. Trump’s program. The result has been profoundly reactionary.--RU

Rob Urie analyzes why class issues always get swept under the rug when the duopoly picks sides in its recurring mud fights.

Andrew Levine slaps Russophobia silly in the essay of the day.

The weekend's whole enchilada.


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