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Originally posted on Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist:
Fascism has opened up the depths of society for politics. Today, not only in peasant homes but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside of the twentieth century the tenth or the…

Originally posted on P U L S E:
Re-posted from Andy Berman: Threads of My Time, the blog of longtime antiwar activist and Veterans for Peace member Andy Berman A Farewell to Arms: Till We Meet Again By Andy Berman May 11, 2016 Preface: As a…

                                                                              “Comparisons … Continue reading →

  Had a conversation with a rep from my mortgage holder this morning. It think it tells a story. The prologue is that for no good reason I totally forgot to pay my mortgage this past June. First I knew … Continue reading →

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/08/lesser-evil-politics-really-noam-hubert-humphrey/ The link above is to my article published today on Counterpunch. It is a response to: https://chomsky.info/an-eight-point-brief-for-lev-lesser-evil-voting/ I liked the title better without the Lesser Evil Politics subhead but I am often willing to let subtlety have its way … Continue reading →

Here’s an amazing piece from Ross Douthat of the NY Times for Sunday’s paper. He argues: it is good that the Republican and Democratic Parties have all these patently undemocratic gotchas and are run by the rich in secret, because … Continue reading →

After the heady days of May 1970 things mellowed in the real world and the string of strikes fueling the Student-Worker Action Committee petered out slowly. But no matter. I was 23, recently fired from my day job at the … Continue reading →