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Where are the strong women socialists feminists of today?

-by NoahSince Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, we're all thinking of the horror the victims are going through, but my mind has turned to other things as well.

I’m back!!
It has recently been reported that Senator John McCain has an aggressive brain tumor. Not long ago I would have thought: “Good. It’ll be great to be rid of that neanderthal reactionary bastard!”

With the power of the telecom thieves and my cellular phone, and, viola, I am conversing via text and downloaded images with my 21 year old daughter on the Island of Cozumel, with her mother, stuck in the maelstrom of tourists and a denuded ecosystem.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper applauds as he delivers his annual State of the State address in Denver. Dissatisfied with Democratic fortunes in the Trump era, a group of prominent Democrats is forming an organization outside the formal party structure with the goal of winning again in Republican-dominated middle America. Calling itself “New Democracy.” (AP/Brennan Linsley)
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Sometimes when I’m kneeling on the outermost rocks in my favorite cove in Big Sur, the spray hitting me in the face and the endlessly popping champagne stallions rearing up on both sides of the cliffs, I feel one with this powerful dynamic being called Earth. I understand that, though I will disappear, it has been a great privilege to have been here. The Earth will go on, regenerate, prevail. If necessary, it will shake off the “disease” of humanity, as my favorite movie hero, Agent Smith of The Matrix, called us.

An anti-government protester holds a shield brandished with photos of President Nicolas Maduro, government officials and a gun sight, during clashes with security forces in Caracas, Venezuela, July 22, 2017. (AP/Fernando Llano)

Human Evolution of the Mind Is Like a Hind Teat on a Texas Bull…

My starting point here may seem rather remote from the question posed in the title of this essay, but certain background subjects must be given attention before addressing that question.
Thorstein Veblen [1857–1929] closed his “Some Neglected Points in the Theory of Socialism”1 with this paragraph (p. 74):

Spontant kan man tycka att Riksrevisionen bör granska Transportstyrelsen och dess företrädare mycket noga. För visst kan man misstänka korruption i en så våldsamt misskött upphandling.Men jag tror att detta är en mer svensk historia. Det handlar om högre myndighetschefers inkompetens - som blommat ut utan att en enda sedelbunt bytt ägare. Om politiker vars uppblåsta självbild är på väg att spricka i sömmarna.