Roy Neary, a humdrum man who has devoted himself to work and family, is suddenly transfixed by an almost beatific vision from above. …

America is in the mood for class struggle. …

Long morning coffee post coming up. A lot of people out there probably want to know more about the bubonic plague epidemic in Europe in the 14th century. There’s a bunch of good books I can think of about that period — called the Crisis of the 14th Century —…

Feeling terrible about what she’s done to Kai, Paula returns to college and gathers a group of like-minded radicals. They take the Mossbacher family hostage and successfully steal tens of millions of dollars from their bank accounts. …

News Sources (none are perfect): jacobinmag.com (occasionally indulges in China-bad-ism and is likewise dedicated exclusively to electoralism) wsws.org (a Trotskyist source which sometimes has weird takes) commondreams.org (lib but not worthless) thegrayzone.com (excellent but very prickly anti-imperialist news) counterpunch.org (excellent) monthlyreview.org (great long reads) currentaffairs.org (good leftist magazine although the…

If you glanced at the headlines in the corporate media today, you would never know it, but anti-capitalist ideologies like socialism, communism, Marxism, anarchism — whatever you want to call them — are surging in popularity among today’s youth. Roughly half of Americans under forty years of age now hold…

Dostoevsky starts off The Brothers Karamazov with a pretty baller quote from the New Testament: “Except a seed go forth and die, it abideth alone. But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.” I think this means: real sacrifice can make a major difference. It reminds me of a…

> be born into a bourgeois family in the USA in 1987 > move from New York City to Maine when you’re six; lose all your friends in the process, become incredibly isolated, and escape via books, TV shows, movies, video games, legos, etc. > family gets its first PC…

QAnon conspiracy theorists are not going anywhere. Although the movement to imprison the secretive cabal of blood-swilling pedophile elites suffered a serious setback when its messiah, Donald Trump, lost the presidency to Joe Biden, QAnon believers are winning local elections across the country, and there is a nonzero chance that…