While scorn for hippiedom and sixties culture was always a feature of the punk movement, rarely was this disdain expressed as cleverly as in the Dead Kennedys’ 1980 song “California Über Alles.”| Compact
Your Party is tentatively open to a Green alliance.| New Statesman
Andrew Beck has articulated a thick version of the assimilation of immigrants (rightly so, in my view) that harkens back to the spirit of Americanization that was prevalent from the Founding to roughly the 1960s. Louis Brandeis, a liberal and political ally of the detestable Woodrow Wilson, expressed this common idea of assimilation in his... Read more about: We Need Patriotic Assimilation The post We Need Patriotic Assimilation appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
On August 11, President Trump officially declared an emergency in the District of Columbia. Violent crime had reached such levels that he was compelled to utilize authorities granted to him under Section 740 of the Home Rule Act, which requires the D.C. Metropolitan Police to be put at the president’s disposal for up to 30... Read more about: The Fight the Radical Left Wants The post The Fight the Radical Left Wants appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
Corbyn and Sultana’s left-wing alternative is slowly emerging. But tensions persist.| New Statesman
We’re still seeing a lot of angry leftists whining on social media about the announcement several days ago that Planned Parenthood is closing its facilities in Louisiana. You heard about that, right? Planned Parenthood will close its two clinics in Louisiana on Sept. 30 as the organization faces funding challenges under President Trump’s tax and spending package. Planned […]| The Hayride
The hype behind an alternative left-wing party is just that: hype.| New Statesman
In the Democratic New York mayoral candidate, left-populism has found its tribune.| New Statesman
The culture wants something from its celebrities. At first it seems like adoration. Later you understand it is something hungrier, more ancient. The Aztecs took only hearts. America demands souls. In the case of Bob Dylan... L'articolo The Lonely Way Back Home proviene da IM—1776.| IM—1776
This comes from the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. confirmation hearing on Wednesday, and it’s a pretty good example of just how ridiculous the Left has become in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s re-inauguration. Here’s Bernie Sanders, whose sell-by date expired a long time ago and whose influence on American politics is waning very quickly, starting […]| The Hayride
by Paul Cudenec An authentic mood of revolt had been swelling up in Russia for some time before 1917, with a previous attempted revolution in 1905-06 violently repressed by the tsarist regime. A gr…| winter oak
Fat folks carry the weight of the work in left spaces while our bodies and material realities are continually othered and written off. By Da’Shaun Harrison, from Wear Your Voice The post Fat People Must Become a Priority to the Left (2019) appeared first on Fat Liberation Archive.| Fat Liberation Archive
by Paul Cudenec I have always had a rather uneasy relationship with the “socialist” and “communist” left. On the one hand I have been deeply inspired by many thinkers and re…| winter oak
“Woke” once denoted an oppositional mentality. How has it come to mean something close to “square”?| OUTSIDER THEORY
An exploration of the unexamined convergences between the radical philosophical tendency known as accelerationism and mimetic theory.| OUTSIDER THEORY
Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" is often cited as the progenitor of the censorious left, but its real ideological heirs are now on the right.| OUTSIDER THEORY
How the most promising leftist of her generation lost her political identity.| Intelligencer
The ‘most feminist government’ in the history of Spain abandoned women, and Sunday's election doesn't look like it will change things. The post Spain’s leftist government may be renewed, leaving women’s rights behind appeared first on Feminist Current.| Feminist Current
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with founder of New Zealand's Women's Rights Party. The post Jill Ovens resigned from New Zealand’s Labour Party to start the Women’s Rights Party appeared first on Feminist Current.| Feminist Current
