Review: Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

For good and ill, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story is a product of the current crisis of capitalism. On the one hand, this crisis forced Moore to try and go beyond liberal critiques of a single issue, the usual fare for his documentaries. Thus, in his latest documentary Moore aimed to critically examine [...]

The New Left and the Working Class

Towards the end of a rather long drive home to my parents’ house, I turned on some of the local radio stations I’ve missed while living in another state. Tiring pretty quickly of the classic rock station I listened to at work hours each day for years, I turned the radio to NPR, where [...]

Billy Bragg's Internationale

The revolutionary message of “the Internationale” was separated by a huge chasm from the practice and ideology of most of those who lay claim to it. That is, until Billy Bragg transformed it into a song that Social Democrats and reformed Stalinists could really relate to. [...]

Howard Zinn: A Political Obituary

Howard Zinn is dead. While my own political development has led me down a different road than the one Zinn traveled for so long, he was so clearly such a good and kindly man that I can’t help but feeling a bit morose. His family and friends have my most sincere condolences.

That said, [...]

The capitalist International Socialist Organization, part 2

More anecdotal (and amusing) proof that the ISO has nothing to do with socialism, this time from an article published last year in the Bowling Greet State University newspaper:

A new political campus group is not supporting any of the presidential hopefuls. Its members want a new government altogether.

BG Socialists founder and integrated [...]

Madison, Wisconsin cracks down on state capitalists

“City of Madison cracks down on socialists,” proclaims a recent headline in the Madison-area weekly Isthmus. A provocative headline indeed (I flipped straight to the article), but certainly not an accurate one.

While the police may be targeting certain politicos by enforcing, apparently selectively, a city ordinance banning the placement of “articles on sidewalks,” [...]

Fools, Financial and Otherwise

As I made my internet rounds yesterday, I had the misfortune of coming across the following text, evidently put out by a Russian group called “Alternatives.” Nothing I’ve seen indicates that this text or Alternatives have anything to do with today’s Financial Fool’s Protest, but as this group and the groups in London are [...]