When Russia decided to stop letting the imperial hegemon attack it (and those in its cultural diaspora) without consequence, this represented the moment the strength of American power got tested. Even two decades into the process of terminal decline of U.S. influence—a process that started with Washington’s self-destructive invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq—it was still a […]
The story of the anti-revolutionary phenomenon known as the “ultra-lefts” is a psychological story. A story about minds that have been alienated from society, then manipulated into reinforcing the same power structures which produce this alienation. Not every individual who’s gone down this tragic path will be brought to a way of thinking that’s conducive
Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine has exposed the problem that Carlos Garrido analyzes in his book The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism. As Garrido talks about, supposedly Marxist intellectuals like Zizek have responded to the conflict by calling to support NATO, portraying the alliance’s cause in Ukraine as just even though it was
The damage from a 2019 AFRICOM airstrike in Somalia that was found to have amounted to a war crime Last month, the neoconservative think tank the Eurasia Group made it clear what the State Department intends to do now that Washington’s goals in Ukraine have overall failed to be realized: shift towards a hybrid war against BRICS, and against
The argument I’m making is a structural one; an argument about what the nature of modern capitalist power looks like in the USA. After examining the systems of control that our ruling elites use to maintain the subordination of the working class; to keep an effective labor movement from emerging; I’ve concluded that we won’t
“With the great support of the Soviet Union, and our own greatest strength, we will realize the industrialization of our nation step by step!”—Chinese poster from 1953 To find how a people who’ve been economically dispossessed by international capital can defeat it, and eliminate the poverty that it’s created within their society, look to what
American Student Union National Committee Statement Supporting the Freedom of the Kononovich Brothers in Ukraine We, as Americans, openly and proudly support the freedom of the Kononovich brothers in Ukraine and denounce the unjust treatment they have endured. The arrest and imprisonment of Alexei and Ivan Kononovich reek of political motivation aimed at silencing dissent
When you understand the processes of class struggle, you see that the supposed benefits the Russia-Ukraine conflict has brought to NATO and to American hegemony—wherein NATO has been expanded while Washington’s dominance over Europe has been fortified—don’t mean international capital has achieved a victory. These events instead mean international capital has made itself better able
As soon as someone in the core of the empire commits to being serious about anti-imperialism, they have to accept that this decision will place them at the center of the class war and its perils. At no point in the history of the United States have those who’ve challenged its imperial crimes been safe
Above: an image from a Roger Waters tour The heinous actions of the imperialists, carried out in reaction to the accelerating decline of U.S. supremacy, have created an unprecedented opportunity to strike at international capital’s centers of power. The need for us to act against our ruling institutions is urgent, and how well we combat
