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Dec 2, 2020

The Surprisingly Radical Origins of the Eight-Hour Day and the Revolutionary Potential of Recreation

The length of the workday, and the often-alienating content that fills that length, fail to escape the notice of anyone who has ever worked for someone else. Workday alienation has been as much a theme of pop culture (e.g. movies like Office Space), and everyday conversation (e.g. “Someone’s got a…

Anarchism

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The Surprisingly Radical Origins of the Eight-Hour Day and the Revolutionary Potential of…
The Surprisingly Radical Origins of the Eight-Hour Day and the Revolutionary Potential of…

Nov 2, 2020

An Addendum on Voting and Why It Does and Doesn’t Matter

The previous post on non-hierarchical forms of organization raises a timely question: What is democratic political participation? Voting in national or local elections, after all, only serves to uphold unjust systems. Electing a more “progressive” leader may result in minor reforms that improve quality of life, but these reforms can…

Election 2020

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An Addendum on Voting and Why It Does and Doesn’t Matter
An Addendum on Voting and Why It Does and Doesn’t Matter

Oct 26, 2020

Against All Hierarchies: Part Four — Building Non-Hierarchy

In Parts One (The Inevitability of Hierarchies), Two (The Aesthetic of “Leadership”), and Three (The Coping of the Worker-Precariat), I argued that human societies, at least those based on agriculture and industry, tend toward hierarchies which may take different forms but ultimately replicate relations of exploiter and exploited. Present-day hierarchies…

Anarchism

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Against All Hierarchies: Part Four — Building Non-Hierarchy
Against All Hierarchies: Part Four — Building Non-Hierarchy

Sep 20, 2020

Why I Can No Longer Read (or Write) Fiction: Confessions of a Confused Thirty-Something

The easiest explanation is that 2020 did it. Everything that I read from other people’s imaginations or try to write from my own seems laughably simplistic and escapist compared to the infinitely complex and chaotic events that this year has thrown at us. Perhaps it’s a sign of my privilege…

Novel

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Why I Can No Longer Read (or Write) Fiction: Confessions of a Confused Thirty-Something
Why I Can No Longer Read (or Write) Fiction: Confessions of a Confused Thirty-Something

Sep 6, 2020

Against All Hierarchies: Part Three — The Coping of the Worker-Precariat

This is Part Three of a series. Part One can be found here and Part Two can be found here. Having explored the structure of hierarchies and the ideology of leadership, we now turn to the question of how individuals must suppress their humanity in order to survive these power…

Hierarchy

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Against All Hierarchies: Part Three — The Coping of the Worker-Precariat
Against All Hierarchies: Part Three — The Coping of the Worker-Precariat

Aug 16, 2020

Against All Hierarchies: Part Two — The Aesthetic of “Leadership”

This is Part Two of a series. Part One can be found here. In this section, I would like to argue that hierarchies tend to coalesce around two types of leaders: the “lifers” who concern themselves with remaining secure in their position and thus remain wedded to conservative ideas, and…

Anarchism

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Against All Hierarchies: Part Two — The Aesthetic of “Leadership”
Against All Hierarchies: Part Two — The Aesthetic of “Leadership”

Aug 1, 2020

Against All Hierarchies: Part One — Debating the Inevitability of Hierarchies

I would like to make three arguments: Organizations — whether corporations, government agencies, not-for-profits, universities, trade unions, or local businesses — tend toward the entrenchment of hierarchies. …

Anarchism

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Against All Hierarchies: Part One — Debating the Inevitability of Hierarchies
Against All Hierarchies: Part One — Debating the Inevitability of Hierarchies

Jul 21, 2020

The Triangular Rivalry of Leftist Ideology

I write this for the benefit of the intellectually curious, particularly those who have been drawn to the “left” in recent years as a reaction to the rise of Donald Trump and the failure of the “free” market to bring meaningful improvement to the lives of the working class (including…

Anarchism

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The Triangular Rivalry of Leftist Ideology
The Triangular Rivalry of Leftist Ideology

Jun 25, 2020

The Anarchist’s Reckoning: Black Lives Matter, the CHAZ/CHOP, and the Way Forward

The murder of George Floyd has raised the question that has forever plagued the Left: what is to be done? Or to be more precise: what role, if any, does the “Left” have in helping the Black Lives Matter movement? The question has been on my mind ever since the…

Anarchism

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The Anarchist’s Reckoning: Black Lives Matter, the CHAZ/CHOP, and the Way Forward
The Anarchist’s Reckoning: Black Lives Matter, the CHAZ/CHOP, and the Way Forward

Nov 14, 2019

On Optimism, Capitalism, and Passivity

I have a particular grudge against certain buzzwords, outlooks and trends. Terms like “the power of positive thinking” and sayings like, “Smile more. It will make you feel good”, and “Good vibes only” set me off like nothing else. This is all the more arresting when you consider that the…

Politics

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On Optimism, Capitalism, and Passivity
On Optimism, Capitalism, and Passivity
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