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 …
The Economics of Race Hatred
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 …
Redeeming Reason: Domination and Reconciliation in Dialectic of Enlightenment
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 …
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From a Critique of Corporate Power to a Critique of Capitalism
(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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Anarchism and the Cooperative Ideal
(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 …
The Political Decomposition of the German Greens
(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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