The new Red Scare
Palmer 1919. McCarthy 1950. 2026: a faceless memorandum. How Washington declares its own opposition a foreign network.
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Current analyses and commentary on political events – from geopolitics and the rise of the far right to class struggle, consistently from a Marxist perspective.
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Palmer 1919. McCarthy 1950. 2026: a faceless memorandum. How Washington declares its own opposition a foreign network.
Fascism sought to suppress class antagonism by command and perished in the attempt. Democracy achieves the same through competition, voting rights, and consumption. Trump and the AfD have no need for systemic change.
Fascism? For what? Read More »
Marxism grasps why capitalism ruptures nature, but even socialism can exploit it. It needs environmental ethics to grant non-human nature real value.
Who Speaks for nature? Read More »
Marxism explains capitalism’s ecological damage, but socialism needs environmental ethics to value nature beyond human use and prevent all domination.
The Mass Line and Theories of Knowledge Read More »
The EU is tightening its deportation policy: “return hubs”, violence and pressure against refugees are not a break with supposedly European values, but the consequence of an order that sorts people by usefulness and sells exclusion as values-based policy.
Europe’s values and their victims – on deportation Read More »
Workerism sees the working class as the
bearer of emancipation,
but revolutionary subjectivity emerges through political practice and organization, not automatically from economic struggle
or structure.
Workerism: There is no revolutionary subject Read More »
Neoliberalism has turned culture into a commodity. As ideology fades, profit replaces meaning. Without renewed philosophy and cultural engagement, technocracy, populism, and passivity will shape the future.
Where is the ideology today? Read More »
A history of Hezbollah: from regional resistance to a Bonapartist pillar of the system.
In three months, the United States has turned Venezuela into its colonial territory in what is arguably one of the most brazen forms of subordination of the 21st century.
Venezuela: 100 Days as a Vassal State Read More »
On Prisons The punitive system functions as a tool for the ruling class to maintain their status quo. Disobediant workers are criminalized while incarceration fails to provide public safety. This is a guest article by Chris Alfonso, whose Instagram you can find here. We thank him for this fantastic piece. Although abolitionism in the contemporary
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