Liberal capitalism is dead. Flogging a dead horse fertilises the soil for fascism
From its beginnings out of the European Enlightenment, liberal capitalism was based on a promise...
Ben
Author of The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).
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The Neoliberal Virus
To date, and to the extent that alleged political leaders have even tried to come...
The Political Uses of Pandemic
Crisis has long had political uses for ruling groups. As I wrote in a piece...
When Injustice Becomes Law: Towards a Theory of Just Class War
“We’re not starting a class war, we’re ending one.” — Popular union placard For thousands of...
A Penal State of Mind
Australian nationalism promotes the claim of a nation-state united under the Australian flag, but thanks...
Rising Above the Thinking that Created the Climate Crisis
As a clear and present threat to humanity, the climate crisis is far too broad...
Humanity is like an Alzheimer’s patient lost in the forest
A couple of very useful quotes are attributed to Einstein. The first is his definition...
Trump and Ur-Fascism
Trump-style populism has made a strategy out of substituting superficial charm and emotional appears to...
Is politics getting worse, or are we just getting a better handle on how bad it has always been?
In assessing the present condition of things, the endemic corruption and open hostility on the...
The role of the left in the rise of far-right populism
If Trump exemplifies the use of scapegoats by the far right for the destruction of...
