The specter of the coming economic crisis is not a new one. It is the ghost of the past, haunting a new generation; a demon that refuses to be exorcised, yet which possesses the present society. To say that it has been with society since its inception, however, would be…

Labor unions have won a historic victory. At least this is what the liberal news media has told us. Twenty Starbucks locations have unionized in the past few weeks, and the first Amazon warehouse was unionized in New York previously. The organization of workers has certainly increased of late. …

With my work in organizing, the question has always been “how do we raise class consciousness?” To get to that, we need to understand what class consciousness even is, and how one gains it. What exactly does it mean to be class conscious? The question can only be answered through…

The problem of capitalist society is the problem of alienation. It is the process of social collapse and the cause of increased turmoil, a thing most professional academics do not study, and certainly don’t bring to others. Alienation derives from the term Entfremdung in Marx, which means literally “the making…

The development of conditions in America’s rural regions are often difficult to reconcile with revolutionary theory and practice. The development of conditions in the hinterlands of the United States are frequently overlooked, despite the importance these places might play in a revolutionary situation. The strategies of Che Guevara and the…

The Hundredth Anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre approaches this weekend. The death toll of the massacre is staggering: 200 black people were killed. Generally, the public assumes this was a one-off style event, a single out-of-the-blue blip on the racial landscape of the 1920’s. Often those I’ve spoken to have…

In the last couple of weeks, Israel has bombed Palestine. It has leveled hospitals, relief organizations, and government buildings, and prevented the delivery of international aid to the country whose two million people are now without food, water, homes, and safety. The state of Israel has resumed its blockade, denying…

Previously, the buzzword was liberalism, and now it has become democracy. It’s difficult to listen to mainstream media without hearing the branding of “This is undemocratic!” “That is undemocratic!” The focus on democracy has long been used to hide other issues which are far more pressing to people living their…

Recently, I had the opportunity to listen to a historian who studied the human effects of war. He had studied PTSD in soldiers who fought in wars, and whether PTSD was an inevitable result of war. He believed that this was the case, although the public support for the war…