The Hijacking of History
This article originally appeared in the October 2001 issue of Direct Democracy, a publication of Demokratisk Alternativ. For many people involved in the worldwide struggle against capitalism, the past two …
Popular Education for a Free Society
This article originally appeared in the October 2001 issue of Direct Democracy, a publication of Demokratisk Alternativ. For many people involved in the worldwide struggle against capitalism, the past two …
In August 1999, just a few months before the newly invigorated anti-capitalist movement scored a provisional victory in Seattle, an unemployed white supremacist named Buford Furrow shot a group of …
Because too much thinking, unwavering autonomy, makes conforming to the administered world difficult and causes suffering, countless people project this suffering, which is in fact socially dictated, onto reason as …
Continue reading “Redeeming Reason: Domination and Reconciliation in Dialectic of Enlightenment”
(this article co-written with Jay Driskell) Note: This piece was originally written in 1997, before Seattle and the re-emergence of a radical grassroots international movement explicitly opposed to capitalism, at …
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(This is an abridged version of the workshop I gave at the NASCO conference on cooperatives in Ann Arbor each November from 1997 to 2003. As I pointed out to …
(This article originally appeared in the North American Green journal Synthesis / Regeneration in 1997.) At the beginning of the decade the German Green Party was on the verge of …
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