The Times of Monsters (2008-2020s)
“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters” – Antonio Gramsci It may be easy to attribute the chaos of our current world to simply being a by-product of the 2020 Covid pandemic. However, the rise of populism (both right & left) has been…
Trip Through Decay via the Metrolink 91-Line
The useful part of living in the Inland Empire is you that are given a microcosm of what has happened to America these past 40 years. Neoliberalism has gutted industry and left us to the devices of domestic + multinational capital. Warehouses are everywhere, because that is what is left for the average worker in…
Cultural Rot in Post-Industrial American Society
Definitions to Know*** Neoliberalism/Neoliberal – an economic & political philosophy that gained prominence since the 1980s under Reagan which seeks to cut government spending by defunding social programs, look at life at individualistic levels, and globally integrate the economy to maintain colonial trade dynamics via free-trade deals (such as NAFTA). Post-Industrial – a society whose…
Victimhood as Commodity, Validation Politics, & Neo-Fascism
Everyone loves to be a victim: a sick statement isn’t it? Of course, victimization is not desired among people; however, what does victimization mean in our postmodern, information age? We live in a strange paradox where the word “victim” has become almost a slur while simultaneously being pursued as a means to gain social capital. …
Separating Culture, Religion, & Tradition from Politics & Ideology
Brain rot is everywhere across this country. American politics is nothing more than political theater where grown adults cry like babies on their media networks. They infect their audiences with this disease which breeds collective madness across the population. Almost as if facebook feeds, twitter timelines, instagram stories, and mainstream news networks have injected us…
Plurinational Solutions to Race & Class Transformations in America since 1970s
Definitions to know*** Neocolonial – Independent countries whose leaders (bourgeoisie) continue to sell out and plunder their population to enrich themselves. (maintaining colonialism despite being “independent”). Settler Colonialism – A type of colonialism where colonizers displace the original population so they can live there. Also involves indigenous genocide (killing of indigenous population) & exploitation of…
Biden & The New Red Scare
Biden wants family members and friends to begin reporting extremists. But what does he define as an extremist? “Anti-Capitalists” he says pose a grand threat to America; so much so that he conflates “Anti-Capitalists, Socialists, & Anarchists” with that of far-right extremists, white supremacists, and neonazis. While the neoliberal, centrist tendency is known for its…
You Cannot Escape Ideology: So Embrace It
The age of respectability politics has poisoned our revolutionary actions. Our Gen Z and Millennial generation now echo ideas of “both sides have points” because it is ultimately scared of what change looks like. Critique has been reduced to words and now our youth believes that simply saying they hate capitalism is somehow resistance. The…
Lessons from 2020: On Electoral Participation, Agitation, & Principled Mass Action
With 2022 upon us, the socialist cause has never been more urgent. As Friedrich Engels once said: “Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.” Mass death now surrounds us in the age of ecological crisis; the American people have been left to fend for themselves against higher rents,…
Caracol Future 