Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist who was imprisoned by Mussolini in 1926. He spent the next 11 years in fascist prisons writing the most innovative Marxist theory of the 20th century on toilet paper and smuggled...
Continue readingModern feminist discourse often frames patriarchy as a system sustained primarily by overt misogyny: domineering husbands, sexist institutions, abusive men, online incels, and explicit beliefs about female inferiority...
Continue reading“The most important thing about propaganda is that it is not a thing done to you. It is a thing you participate in.” Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (1962)
Continue readingNot every coup looks like Pinochet (thank fuck for that). The modern coup is a more elegant creature. It does not need tanks. It does not need generals. What it needs: control of the media, control of the judiciary, a...
Continue readingThe take: “Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. We must invade to protect ourselves.”Who said it: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Tony Blair, and most of the US Congress (a who’s...
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