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Potemkin politics are fake politics. Indivisible shills for the Democratic Party as faux progressivism. Leninism practices vanguardism, substitutionism, “democratic centralism” and frontism as sham socialism. That’s the Left. On the Right: the Tea Party…
Potemkin politics: “Lefty” Hooligan, “What’s Left?”, May 2025
POTEMKIN POLITICS Grigori Potemkin was a Russian cavalry officer, Czarist Minister, aristocrat, governor-general of “New Russia” and lover of Catherine the Great. In 1787, during Catherine’s inspec…
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May 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Potemkin politics are fake politics. Indivisible shills for the Democratic Party as faux progressivism. Leninism practices vanguardism, substitutionism, “democratic centralism” and frontism as sham socialism. That’s the Left. On the Right: the Tea Party…
Very nice when a blog I do for libcom gets put on the top featured page top slot! They're pretty good about being supportive in that way. It's a treat for me. libcom.org/article/refl...
April 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Very nice when a blog I do for libcom gets put on the top featured page top slot! They're pretty good about being supportive in that way. It's a treat for me. libcom.org/article/refl...
April 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Very nice when a blog I do for libcom gets put on the top featured page top slot! They're pretty good about being supportive in that way. It's a treat for me. libcom.org/article/refl...
I discuss variations on “flooding the zone,” from the old football strategy to the current rightwing GOP blitz. The Long Sixties/Seventies operated a de facto “flood the zone” strategy. The Left’s best bet is to develop our own “flood the zone” game plan.
Flood the Zone: “Lefty” Hooligan, “What’s Left?”, April 1, 2025
The comedian George Carlin once made an extended comparison between football and baseball in which the militarism of the former is contrasted with the playfulness of the latter.* He concluded: In f…
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April 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I discuss variations on “flooding the zone,” from the old football strategy to the current rightwing GOP blitz. The Long Sixties/Seventies operated a de facto “flood the zone” strategy. The Left’s best bet is to develop our own “flood the zone” game plan.
I reprint my column “abolishing work” (MRR 129/2-1994). I crush the idea of “rights” & establish the concepts of “working class as a class” & “working-class self-emancipation.” I defend working class revolution to abolish wage labor & capitalism. FUCK WORK! wp.me/p4OYG-R9
Abolishing work, MRR 129, Feb 1994: “Lefty” Hooligan, “What’s Left?”, March 2025
A REPRINT OF MY FEBRUARY 1994 MAXIMUM ROCK’N’ROLL COLUMN ABOLISHING WORK This column is a departure from my usual “hard news” format for MRR’s theme issue on work. Don’t worry, it’s onl…
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March 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I reprint my column “abolishing work” (MRR 129/2-1994). I crush the idea of “rights” & establish the concepts of “working class as a class” & “working-class self-emancipation.” I defend working class revolution to abolish wage labor & capitalism. FUCK WORK! wp.me/p4OYG-R9
I discuss cults, comparing the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous to the cult of capitalism, moving on to Pynchon’s take on interregnum, specifically “centralized ruthlessness” of totalitarian regimes v utopian possibilities of historical libertarian socialist systems. wp.me/p4OYG-QI
Interregnum: “Lefty” Hooligan, “What’s Left?”, February 2025
I don’t drink. As of this February, I haven’t had a drink in fifteen years and one month. Five thousand five hundred and ten days to be exact. Not to sound all Alcoholics Anonymous about it because…
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February 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I discuss cults, comparing the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous to the cult of capitalism, moving on to Pynchon’s take on interregnum, specifically “centralized ruthlessness” of totalitarian regimes v utopian possibilities of historical libertarian socialist systems. wp.me/p4OYG-QI