The Lame Left: Seventeen Afflictions

The Paul Street Report, January 26-March 2, 2023 Call me an American revolutionary Marxist, socialist, and/ or communist. Just  don’t tell me I’m “on the [US-American] left.” Part of the problem here is that the dominant US media politics culture has let the neo-McCarthyite right dilute the term “the left” so far as to mean [...]

By |2023-06-08T12:11:59-05:00June 6th, 2023|Articles|

Gee It’s Nice Your State is Blue, the War on Abortion’s Still Coming for You

 The Paul Street Report 2.23.2023; CounterPunch, 3.1.2-23 Let’s have a look at the latest development in the Christian fascist Amerikaner campaign to re-impose the full pre-Roe v.Wade female bondage of forced motherhood, paying special attention to the sickening “Weimar” role of the Democratic Party and its allied “choice” organizations/NGOs. Recall how the dismal Dems and their [...]

By |2023-03-02T15:40:18-06:00March 2nd, 2023|Articles|

The Horrors of Capitalism: A House Resolution You Won’t Be Hearing About Anytime Soon

The Paul Street Report, 2.17.2023 Eighty-six House Democrats were right to reject the insane United States House of Representatives resolution that denounced the alleged “horrors of socialism” two weeks ago. The measure was introduced by a far-right Florida representative and backed by the entire Republikaner House caucus.  It is yet another sign that the Republican [...]

By |2023-03-02T14:53:51-06:00March 2nd, 2023|Articles|

Let’s Get Over “It Can’t Happen Here”: Amerikaner Fascism isn’t Missing a Beat

The Paul Street Report, 2.13.2023 Here are four overlapping forms of denialism in US-American political life today: denial of how militantly authoritarian/fascist the Republican Party has become; denial of how undemocratic the US political system is; denial of how determined the Republi-fascist “Amerikaners” (I’ll explain my use of this term below) are to defy majority [...]

By |2023-03-02T14:46:32-06:00March 2nd, 2023|Articles|

Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address: A Marxist Response

The Paul Street Report, 2.8.2023 I have been told by liberals and progressives that the nation’s leading strikebreaker Joe Biden “knocked it out of the park” with his State of the Union Address last night. It was “Joe’s FDR moment,” marked by populist attacks on the under-taxed super-rich, a defense of Social Security and Medicare, [...]

By |2023-02-24T17:34:53-06:00February 24th, 2023|Articles|

“There’s Always Hope”: On Biden, Crump, and Pie in the Sky

CounterPunch, 2.3.2023 There is no end of parliamentary cretinism among the liberals. + Lenin, 1912 The dispossessed of this nation – the poor, both White and Negro – live in a cruelly unjust society. They must organize a revolution against that injustice. + Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967 And so a leader who arguably owes his presidency to [...]

By |2023-02-24T17:31:14-06:00February 24th, 2023|Articles|

The Whole Damn System

The Paul Street Report, 1.30.2023 Ask yourself: how long are you willing to put up with this?… This country's police continue to kill more and more and more people, every single year… Even for a unit full of Black cops, the humanity of Black people counts as nothing. Because… THIS IS AMERICA. THIS is the [...]

By |2023-02-24T17:17:29-06:00February 24th, 2023|Articles|

Kill Capitalism Before It Kills Us

CounterPunch, 1.27.2023 “It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and then of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism” – Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time, 1994 What kind of culture is it which pushes distraction, in its ordinary selection even of news, to the point where [...]

By |2023-02-24T17:08:20-06:00February 24th, 2023|Articles|

Is “Authoritarianism” Really “Being Revealed to be Weak” Around World?

CounterPunch, 1.20.2023 Beware of elite academics who tell you that things are better for democracy and the common good than they really are. Commenting last week on connections between (a) the US-American fascists Steve Bannon and Donald Trump, (b) the January 6the Capitol Riot, (c) the Brazilian fascist Bolsonaro family, and (d) the fascist attack [...]

By |2023-02-24T17:04:12-06:00February 24th, 2023|Articles|
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