My friend Geoffrey and I are going to start reading (in his case, re-reading) Marx's Capital together. I feel like there's a whole layer of theory and analysis that he's privy to that is beyond me, thus far, and it's beyond me because of a lack of reading.
I know I can grok this stuff, no problem; I just gotta educate meself! 
It's going to be ( Read more... )

So I'm currently working on finding the connections between anarchism and communism; I think the anarcho-syndicalist model, in which workers take over and then collectively own/share everything in society, is a great example of the anarcho/commie synergy.

For my next trick, I shall prove the connections between radical Christianity (as in ( Read more... )

Today, all the signs of Obama celebrations made me think of three things that kept me ruminating all day:

1 - Huzzah! We have a new president! But he's still the President of the United States. That means he's the Emperor. He's gonna be a much more compassionate, benevolent emperor than ones we've had in the past, but as much as I'm crazy about the ( Read more... )