Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Rotten to the Heart: Authoritarian Chickens Roosting at Home
Counterpunch, June 8, 2018 Yes, He’s Awful Much of what liberals say about Donald Trump and the chilling political moment the Trump presidency represents is true enough. Trump really is the arch-authoritarian malignant narcissist that [...]
Needed Now: A Real and Radical Left
Truthdig, May 30, 2018 It’s “socialism or barbarism.” So wrote the brilliant German Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg in 1915. The 20th and 21st centuries have borne her out. The list of barbarian horrors that have disfigured the [...]
The ‘Values,’ ‘Vision,’ and ‘Democracy’ of an Inauthentic Opposition
Consortium News, May 3, 2018 Never underestimate the capacity of the United States’ Inauthentic Opposition Party, the corporate Democrats, for self-congratulatory delusion and the externalization of blame. Look, for example, at the Democratic National Committee’s [...]
How the Left Can Gain Footing in White America
Truthdig, May 16, 2018 Near the end of his life, the great civil rights and anti-war leader and democratic socialist Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that the “real issue to be faced” in the United States was [...]