capitalism
Oligopoly capitalism: angry men, idiots, and fascism
Dear friends,
With the increase in Musky headlines, I cant help but offer a christmas posting on oligopoly capitalism. This,
Aidan Cornelius-Bell
Kaurna Yarta
I’m a social scientist and activist looking to create systemic change that serves the proletariat. I care about compassion, justice, genuine equity, reciprocity and radical social change.
capitalism
Theorising the revolution: formulas, lexical gaps, and feminism
Dear friends,
I have been thinking about labour and the nature of exploitation. Not the political party, though they could
post
The postal service
Dear friends,
In an almost bourgeois fugue state today I felt rising rage at the para-privatisation of the postal service
compassion
Wealth vs solidarity, and the need for compassion
Dear friends,
I have been thinking about the how the corporate class, the bootlickers, the “upper middle class” and others
optimism
Optimism as antidote to despair
Dear friends,
I have been thinking about optimism and despair. Actually, I’ve been reading on optimism over despair [1]
mind reader
Feature experiments
I’m trying something a little different on the web view of mind reader. I’ve introduced (manual) ML based
health care
CEOs and death
Dear friends,
Overnight in the US a person killed a private health care company’s CEO [1]. The suspicion, of
housing
Housing and economic mythology
Dear friends,
When you think about it, a striking indictment of capitalism’s fundamental absurdity is that, humans remain the
social media
The kids aren’t alright – they’re banned
Dear friends,
Yesterday the ALP passed into law legislation that bans all young people from social media [1]. This has
genocide
On immunity and the ruling class
Dear friends,
I woke to news that France was refusing to arrest Netanyahu despite the ICC’s ruling on his
populism
Spectacular populism, technology, and division
Dear friends,
The acceleration of populist movements globally presents an interesting contradiction for analysis. Populism, a peculiar (if increasingly popular)
hegemony
Liberals, whinging and performance politics
Dear friends,
I’ve been “experiencing” liberal American post-election analysis on every form of media I visit. I’m sure
identity politics
Identity politics and the crisis of working class solidarity
Dear friends,
We live in a time of intensifying identity-based conflict, where every social and political issue becomes refracted through
fascism
Fascism returns, and it’s everywhere all at once
Dear friends,
I’ve heard a few (bad) hot takes on US politics lately and this has really got my
linux
Some thoughts on Fedora on a Yoga
Dear friends,
We’re doing a tech one today – why not. My tech journey over the last year has seen
democracy
It can’t happen here
Dear friends,
It is happening here. The polarisation, the extremism, growing xenophobia and racism, anti-intellectualism, hatred, violence and climate-denialism. These
the economy
“For the economic policies”: the reason you may no longer have any rights
Dear friends,
I accidentally engaged with some US election coverage in the last 24 hours. Amidst flitting between various streaming
youth culture
Singing gently to my soul: on youth alienation and precarity under late capitalism
Dear friends,
What the heck do I have in store for you today? Well naturally I have been enjoying pop
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