Democrats Don’t Reduce Harm: A Listhttps://medium.com/@andrewdobbs/no-voting-democrat-is-not-harm-reduction-8cda28633858Apr 8, 20203Apr 8, 20203
Nominally, I’m an indie rock guy.When I’m not listening to Cease Upon the Capitol, I often find myself spelunking in Soundcloud’s constrained, circuitous algorithms…Oct 19, 2019Oct 19, 2019
Not Us, ThemA few days ago, Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic wrote a nice little piece on a pressing internal DSA conflict.Sep 22, 201950Sep 22, 201950
what to do in des moines if you’re not a politico journalisthttps://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/lifestyle/vacation-ideas/things-to-do-in-des-moines/?noredirect=onSep 7, 2019Sep 7, 2019
please no more weedmoIn Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, the philosopher describes the world of the forthcoming 21st century as a realm where…Feb 16, 2019Feb 16, 2019
Overbored and the Cultural Reich of the 20th CenturyJ.J. Abrams made another movie. And yes, it’s blockbuster pageantry. He truly is the undisputed champion of supposedly watchable action…Nov 14, 20183Nov 14, 20183
Politics is Authoritarian. All of It.Since Trump finagled his way into the White House, the threat of “authoritarianism” has become an unremitting anxiety of the skittish…Sep 17, 20181Sep 17, 20181
Blum, Finkenauer, and the American MythIowa’s 1st District is in the midst of a Congressional toss up, a contest between the petty bourg incumbent Rod Blum and the young…Aug 15, 2018Aug 15, 2018
It’s All Infowars: A Brief Review of the News IndustryOn August 6th, YouTube finally banned alt-right charlatan Alex Jones and his conspiracy-peddling vlog Infowars. This long overdue decision…Aug 9, 2018Aug 9, 2018
ummmmmmmmm is this allowed?Yesterday, news broke that the NYC DSA endorsed Cynthia Nixon.Aug 1, 2018Aug 1, 2018
The White Reverie of Iowa Nice“The violence with which the supremacy of white values is affirmed and the aggressiveness which has permeated the victory of these values…Jul 25, 2018Jul 25, 2018
Iowans Reforming Iowan Reformism: The Status of the Iowa DSA (and Elsewhere)One of the issues DSA’s national organization faces is a lack of centrality. Each state, each region, each city, becomes an independent…Jun 14, 2018Jun 14, 2018
The Haute Culture Pop Culture of Ye“But if we consider the entire extent and depth of the class struggle it is then clear that for the writer the question is not to know…Jun 10, 2018Jun 10, 2018
Hubbell vs. Glasson: Another Evaluation***Note: Lenin’s designation of “Social Democrat” is not synonymous with the contemporary denotation of social democracy, which is a…Jun 1, 2018Jun 1, 2018
Reynolds vs. Hubbell: An Evaluation“each faction of the party of Order had to assert their joint rule, that is, the republican form of bourgeois rule.” — Marx, 1850May 25, 2018May 25, 2018
The Dialectic of KurtinitisismLiberals love ideological objectivity; liberal newspapers are financially dependent on it.May 13, 2018May 13, 2018
t-shirt make me sad :(the following is an op-ed written by young iowa republican ty dougson:Apr 19, 2018Apr 19, 2018