Working Class

Why Are Intellectuals Divorced from Working People?

This article is a transcript of a presentation for a panel on the subject, hosted by the International Manifesto Group, the Critical Theory Workshop, and the Midwestern Marx Institute, with other presentations from Gabriel Rockhill, Radhika Desai, Glenn Diesen, and Noah Khrachvik. ​The question we are exploring today, concerning the divorce of intellectuals and the […]

“We’ve Cut Carbon Emissions by Decimating Working-Class Communities,” Says GMB Union Leader as He Blasts Net Zero

The leader of the GMB union, Gary Smith, has blasted Net Zero, saying: "We’ve cut carbon emissions by decimating working-class communities. The Left has been hoodwinked on this."
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Vacation Autopsy

There’s something about a mass-market Luxury Cruise that’s unbearably sad. Like most unbearably sad things, it seems incredibly elusive and complex in its causes yet simple in its effect: on board the Nadir (especially at night, when all the ship’s structured fun and reassurances and gaiety ceased) I felt despair. — David Foster Wallace, A […]

What’s It All About, Alfie?

Set in postwar London, Alfie features Michael Caine as a chauffeur bent on promiscuity. After impregnating his girlfriend he takes off on vacation. He continues his life of womanizing, but he can’t hide forever. A misfortune strikes and Alfie is forced to face the product of his ways. This not the crux of the question, […]
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In the Crevasses Between Submission and Revolution (Part II)

Summary of Part I In Part I, I argued that the relationship between political subordination and revolution is ill-conceived if framed in a dualistic way. We are either totally submissive or at the other extreme there is revolution. However, following the work of James C. Scott’s great book Domination and the Arts of Resistance I claimed that […]

The Ides of Bureaucrats and Blue State Idiots!

So., why is the Ides of March bad luck? If you want to avoid death or worse, 1,000 cuts, beware the ides of March. The date was certainly unlucky for Julius Caesar, who was assassinated in front of the Roman senate on March 15. William Shakespeare dramatized the event in his play about Caesar with […]
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May Day is International ‘Thank a Worker’ Day

“As far as I’m concerned, those people don’t exist.” — Arizona Republican Governor Jack Williams, telling farm workers they’d be arrested if they were to strike and boycott during harvest seasons (May 1972). May Day harkens back to celebrations of spring, a renewal and fertility. In Rome, I witnessed one such event: the festival of […]
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Remembering the 1877 Strikes

The Great Upheaval grew out of their intuitive sense that they needed each other, had the support of each other, and together were powerful. This sense of unity was not embodied in any centralized plan or leadership, but in the feelings and action of each participant. — Jeremy Brecher, Strike! 1972 Although Critical Race Theory is […]
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