Minority of the Opulent
When one is attempting to explain our very anti-democratic electoral college to someone from outside the US, there is usually a strong desire to explain it away, to claim it is a safeguard on Democracy. We are told it is…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Category Socialism
The Leftover Left and their obsession with newspapers
Harry’s Place lampoons the bizarre tendency of current day revolutionary socialist groups to use their party newspaper as a primary means of organizing. A standard method for recruitment, one that has remained unchanged since prior to the Russian Revolution in…
Milk not Jails
It’s a bit ironic that the purveyor of “Freedom and Democracy” around the world incarcerates more people per capita than any nation on the planet. The staggering growth of the prison industrial complex over the past thirty years is mind…
Reclaiming the Dream
The folks at Brecht Forum are paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a special screening of two classic documentaries: At the River I stand and The Negro Protests. If you want to remember Dr. King for the…
Bad ideas on the left
Harry’s Place riffs on Bob From Brockley’s list of influential left ideas, focusing on the five bad ideas. I found these two points to be of particular interest. The belief that one’s enemy’s enemy is one’s friend A senior member…