Why the Politics of Anti-Alienation Needs Alienation to Function — In an earlier article, I talked about alienation, and how it (along with exploitation) forms part of the core of the anti-capitalist Left’s critique of capitalism. I defined it as such: the worker does not make their own decisions about what they will produce, where and how it will be…

What “Scarcity” means in economics, and why it is unavoidable — A good is considered ‘scarce’, in economics, when the amount of it that everyone could ever possibly want is more than the amount of it that exists. This is not just a function of material reality (i.e., how much of the good exists) but of our desires — how much…

What a Break in the System Reveals About it — The coronavirus is causing firms to go out of business. That is an obvious statement. Let’s pick that obviousness apart, though — the “obvious” is where all of our greatest assumptions about the world hide from us. First off, it isn’t the coronavirus itself that is causing firms to go…

From Workplace Resistance to Collective Control — A while back, I wrote an article that discussed intangible capital: Stateless Patchwork and Intangible Capital: an Explanation This is a clarification of what, exactly, I meant by “stateless Patchwork”medium.com In it, I explained the concept of intangible capital — a concept from economics that many socialists would find delightful, if they bothered to learn about it.

In Which Everything Falls Apart — This is likely the untimely end of this series. On that note, Phoebe Edith does our art. She’s great, you should check out her twitter: the other biden The latest Tweets from the other biden (@phoebe__edith). if oscar wilde and rosa luxemburg had funked, i would be the…twitter.com The last five years — maybe the last twelve — have felt like interwar period 2.0, and that is now over. Moldbug was only relevant…

In Which Mencius Moldbug has a Tenuous Grasp of Medieval History — In part one, I mostly mocked Moldbug’s obvious biases and incredible narcissism: Statist Realism: An Anarchist Analysis of Neoreaction — Part One In which I begin to read through Mencius Moldbug’s Patchwork: a Positive Visionmedium.com In part two, I mocked his horrible research, as well as his internal contradictions: Statist Realism: An Anarchist Analysis of Neoreaction — Part Two In which Moldbug is ignorant of economic history, and cannot decide whether he opposes or cheers for existing power…medium.com