Amerikaner Fascisation Marches On: Reflections on an Ugly April

CounterPunch, 4.10.2023 “Fascists, Fascists!”: Racial and Political Eliminationism in Tennessee Even as the Republi-fascist Party regularly and absurdly excoriates the Democrats as “socialist” and “Marxists” (supposedly terrible things to be), Democrats can hardly ever bring themselves to reasonably call the Republican Party fascist. Sometimes, however, young folks say out loud the fascist nature of the [...]

By |2023-06-07T19:02:28-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|

Don’t Laugh Off Fascism: Three Key Mistakes on Trumpism-Fascism

The Paul Street Report, 4.8.2023 It’s easy to dismiss the fascist menace stalking the United States by focusing on the outrageous wackiness and buffoonery of national-level Republi-fascist politicos like the Republicans’ leading 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump, his US House of Representatives friends Marjorie Taylor-Greene (MTG), Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boebert, and national [...]

By |2023-06-07T18:56:38-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|

Bad Thinking: Left, Center, and Right*

CounterPunch, 4.7.2023 *As I tried to finish this this essay Thursday afternoon, I kept being distracted by the spectacle of the Republi-controlled state legislature of Tennessee potentially and likely carrying out the expulsion of three democratically elected representatives: a Black man from Nashville, a Black man from Memphis, and a white woman from Knoxville. The [...]

By |2023-06-07T18:51:30-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|

Putin Leftism and Confused Anti-Imperialism: Reflections on Some Radical Failures Regarding the Ukraine War

The Paul Street Report,  4.6.2023 Dear readers: Two things: (1) as I put this essay up I am watching the Republi-fascist-controlled state legislature of Tennessee potentially and likely carrying out the expulsion of three democratically elected representatives: a Black man from Nashville, a Black man from Memphis, and a white woman from Knoxville. The representatives’ [...]

By |2023-06-07T18:39:44-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|

The “Socialist” Democrats? Seriously? Explaining a Recurrent Republi-Fascist “Smear”

The Paul Street Report, 4.4.2023 The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much beloved New Deal Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt, himself a wealthy member of the capitalist establishment, boasted that he had saved the US American profits system by overseeing [...]

By |2023-06-07T18:34:43-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|

Lawlessness in the Name of Law and Order: The Republi-fascist Response to Trump’s Indictment

CounterPunch+, 4.2.2023 The most remarkable thing about the news related to the historic indictment of Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors” Trump by a New York state grand jury in Manhattan last Thursday afternoon so far is the unhinged nature of reaction from the Republi-fascist (Rf) Party. From House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Rf-CA) to House Majority Leader [...]

By |2023-06-07T18:20:53-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|

Three Signs of Surrender: Clues to the Lack of Proper Outrage

The Paul Street Report, 3.30.2023 “You want a woman to carry around a dead fetus as she goes septic? That’s your vision of freedom for the state of Florida? That’s despicable…Where is the uprising? Where is the outrage? Where are people…Why aren’t all the women walking out and saying ‘fuck you’?” -        Florida Senate Minority [...]

By |2023-06-07T16:03:31-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|

Novel Reflections: On Dickens, Marx, Bronte, Zola, Bernie, and Orwell

CounterPunch, 3.31.2023 Recently I was slightly surprised to hear an old Marxist friend and Bernie Sanders fan declare her “unqualified love” for Charles Dickens. I’m no great fan of the anti-communist snitch George Orwell, but the future author of 1984 got it right on the famous and much-adored 19th Century British novelist in a 1940 essay that properly ridiculed the then [...]

By |2023-06-07T15:59:40-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|

Radical Reflections on France on Fire and Five Cs: Capitalism, Constitutions, Catastrophe, Climate, and Communism

The Paul Street 'Report, 3.27.2023 “The Temptation of Violence” The spoiled capitalist brat and French president Emanuel “Hot for Teacher” Macron insists that the French must work two more years before they can retire. How’s that working out? In a beautiful outburst of mass sanity and fury, masses in France have stopped work, taken to [...]

By |2023-06-07T15:53:58-05:00June 7th, 2023|Articles|
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