Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lost and Found: The Republicans Haven’t Lost Their Conservative Minds
CounterPunch, 3.24.2023 Once you look beyond the ‘chaos’ in Washington, what you see is the work not of nihilists, but committed ideologues fully determined to impose their reactionary vision of what America should be on [...]
Herr Trump’s Having a Fascist Freakout Over a Possible First Indictment in Manhattan
The Paul Street Report, 3.21.2023 “They’re Killing Our Nation” The fascist blood-libel QAnon fan and twice-impeached putschist Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors” Trump last week responded in predictable asinine but lethal fashion to the possibility that [...]