A Sound Ecological Policy Cannot Be Achieved Within a Capitalist Framework
Christian Stache interviews Victor Wallis about resistance in the German Hambach Forest, class politics, technology, progress and an ecological-economic conversion.
As a Child of Deaf Adults: Problems with Identity Politics from a Progressive Perspective
Today’s dominant progressive tastemakers seem to feel that identity politics should either be bought wholesale, or you’re not a progressive.
One Year Later: Reflections on #MeToo
Social movements, like revolutions, tend to follow a similar cycle in the process of rewiring certain beliefs and norms of behavior. This cycle goes as follows: right-to-centre, centre-to-left, left-to-far left, back to centre, back to right.
Much Is Lost
By: Hendrik van der Breggen At the beginning of the film Lord of the Rings, as forces of darkness gather
Senator Orrin Hatch Time Travelling to 1851
Mission to Correct America’s Timeline by Changing the Past Don’t Feed The Animals, A Series of Satirical Musings by: Josh Lorenzo
Petroleum Junkies of the World, Unite!
by Craig Collins I’m a fossil fuel junkie. I drive a car and use electricity. My computer, TV, telephone, refrigerator,
On the Strange Agreement Between Artists and Trump Administration: Doubts About the International Criminal Court
Art of Politics, Politics of Art, A Series By: Jeanette Joy Harris In this series, Jeanette Joy Harris looks at how artists
Wholesale Crimes
by Victor Wallis In their 1979 book The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and the late Edward
Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance
Globalization and capitalist growth are powered by abundant fossil fuels. As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase.
Catabolic Capitalism: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
In a growth-less economy, the profit motive can have a powerful catabolic impact on society. The word "catabolism" comes from the Greek and is used in biology to refer to the condition whereby a living thing feeds on itself. Catabolic capitalism is a self-cannibalizing economic system.