As we protest the erosion of worker rights in Wisconsin, the increasing burdens upon the working and the middle classes and the increasing power and privilege of the global aristocracy, many Americans nevertheless gloat and fixate upon the royal wedding. Do they not see the hypocrisy in such actions?… Read full post »

My first year of college at SUNY Stony Brook was great. I loved the professionals who taught the political science and history courses there. Many worked in high-powered United Nations, U.S. Government or NGO positions in Manhattan and they taught us much from a blended synthesis of both the a… Read full post »

1. Pat Buchanan was pushed out of the Republican Party and encouraged, by various folks, to lead the Reform Party, because the GOP wished to do two things. First, they wished to ostracize paleo-conservatives like Buchanan, because he was against free trade and the Bush family. However, he had strong… Read full post »

Many Panglossian folks out there think this is a normal, routine recession and that we will emerge from it, stronger than before, just as we did in the past after prior recessions. However, they forget that times change. Although history is certainly cyclical, it is also linear. Its true essence is… Read full post »

Last night at 2am, the light pole in front of my house fell down, for no reason at all.

The police said it had rusted, continuously, for over 15 years and nobody had treated or replaced it.

It made a horrible noise, glass all over the place. It hit… Read full post »

We have a two party system and both parties stink. However, partisans of both parties are totally unaware of how much their own party stinks, because they are too busy focusing on how much the other party stinks.

 We are seeing a gradual erosion of democratic rights and freedoms in… Read full post »

I have just read Daniel Bell's, "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism."

 It is clear that Western culture is not being destroyed by liberals and progressives. Far from it.

Our culture is being destroyed by the profit motive.

Look at Open Salon. Sex and stupidity appeal to uneducated uncou… Read full post »

I am only concerned with philosophy, ideology and truth, because these are necessary to create a socialist paradise.

 Petty interpersonal squabbles, flame-wars, dustups and similar personality nonsense violate socialist virtue.

As such, any OS writer who violates the principles of the revoluti… Read full post »

 (Mass Grave of Native American Women, Killed by Americans)

As somebody of partial Native American extraction (I am Mexican and my grandma was a full-blooded Kickapoo and my Grandfather was Mexican), I am sometimes saddened during Black History Month.

I thin… Read full post »

"By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit thus become the most effective means of driving capitalist production… Read full post »

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”

 “The beginnings will not be easy; they shall be extremely difficult. All the oligarchies' powers of repression, all their capacity for brutality and demagoguery will be placed at th… Read full post »