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The Words We Inherit

We need to become more conscious of where our language comes from, because what we choose to say and what we refuse to say both help define who we are. Internet slang is rarely neutral: words move through communities, carry assumptions with them, and often reach us after their original context has been stripped away. Some language comes from ordinary […]

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Anti-cruelty

One of the principles we need to carry into the liberatory society is anti-cruelty. This matters precisely because liberation requires us to confront people, institutions, and movements that may be actively hostile to liberation. We are going to encounter reactionaries, authoritarians, fascists, racists, queerphobes, misogynists, and people who want to preserve systems of domination. We need to be capable of […]

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Authoritarian socialism is not liberation

One of the things we have to understand clearly is that authoritarian socialism is not the same thing as liberation, and the existence of social programs under an authoritarian state does not automatically make that state socialist in the emancipatory sense. This matters because people often point to achievements such as universal healthcare or mass education as though those things […]

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The liberatory society

The liberatory society is the society organized around the idea that people should have real power over their own lives, rather than being dominated by governments, employers, landlords, corporations, patriarchal institutions, racial hierarchies, or any other structure that treats some people as rulers and others as subjects. When we talk about the liberatory society, we are talking about one broader […]

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Against Apathy: Rejecting Apolitical and Political

I have very little patience for people who describe themselves as apolitical or politically nihilistic, especially when they want to enter a community that is explicitly progressive. The problem is that describing yourself as “outside politics” usually means refusing to think seriously about the social conditions that shape everyone’s lives. Politics is not limited to politicians, and parties. It includes […]

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We Oppose Gun Culture

We have to reject one of the most poisonous confusions in revolutionary politics: the belief that a willingness to kill proves seriousness. Too many self-described revolutionaries, especially in the United States, have absorbed the deepest assumptions of American gun culture while imagining themselves to be opposing it. They reject the flag, the police, the Republican Party, the militia movement, and […]

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Zionism, and what is to be done

Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinians! My anti-Zionism comes from the same place as my opposition to every other system of domination: no people should have to live beneath another people in order for somebody else’s national project to survive. Zionism, as it has been realized through the Israeli state, created and preserves a political order in which […]

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Antiwhiteness

Anti-whiteness is not hatred of people with light skin. It is opposition to whiteness as a political and social system. Whiteness is a historically constructed category that was used to organize privilege, citizenship, labor, property, and social status in ways that separated Europeans from Africans, Indigenous peoples, and other racialized groups. In colonial Virginia, lawmakers gradually hardened racial distinctions in […]

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Why are people attracted to such authoritarianism

A lot of people are attracted to Marxism-Leninism because authoritarian systems can look effective from the outside. They can build quickly, move resources quickly, reorganize cities quickly, punish corruption quickly, and carry out enormous projects without spending years asking whether everybody affected agrees. That speed can be mistaken for liberation. But there is a huge difference between getting something done […]

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Marxism-Leninism is not truly anticapitalist

From my perspective, Marxism-Leninism is not truly anti-capitalist because it does not actually abolish the social relationship that makes capitalism what it is: a small group controlling production while everybody else works underneath them and has little real power over the economy. It changes who owns and manages capital, but it does not fundamentally change the structure of domination. Instead […]

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Multicultural Pluralism

I think spirituality and religion have to be taken seriously in any truly liberatory society, because human beings do not live only through economics, law, and politics. We also live through meaning, ritual, grief, awe, memory, mystery, death, hope, belonging, and the question of what our lives are for. A communalist, libertarian municipalist, and democratic confederalist society cannot simply inherit […]

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I know where I come from

I do not really consider myself a leftist, and I do not consider myself a Marxist either. I am a socialist, but my socialism does not come primarily through Marx. It comes much more from utopian socialism, religious socialism, older communal traditions, Indigenous and BIPOC forms of communal life, reciprocity, mutual obligation, shared stewardship, and the idea that human beings […]

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All roads

A lot of people get stuck arguing over anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, council communism, communization theory, and all of these earlier revolutionary traditions as if one of them has to be the final answer. I do not think that is the most useful way to look at them. At their best, all of them are attempts to move away from domination and […]

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Social revolution, Dual power, and Prefiguration

Social revolution is not just taking power. It is changing what power is, where it lives, and how people relate to one another. Social revolution means moving from a society where people are governed from above to one where people increasingly govern themselves. Dual power means building institutions that ordinary people can rely on instead of depending entirely on institutions […]

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Social-revolutionary

I have been thinking a lot about how genuinely social-revolutionary communalism, libertarian municipalism, and democratic confederalism actually are. They do not just ask for a kinder version of the present world. They ask us to imagine a society that exists after capitalism, after domination, after the centralized state, after hierarchy has stopped being treated as the natural structure of human […]

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Viadescioism Definition:

Viadescioism is a living religion, spiritual philosophy, and spiritual practice founded on the sacred understanding of existence as divine, relational, and filled with Emanations of Oxakna. It teaches seekers to understand reality physically, mentally, and spiritually; to cultivate their Skaknao, or whole self; to work with Kna, the essence of being; to live through virtue, balance, harmony, and freedom; and […]

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Viadescioism, Viadescioist, and Viadescioic

Viadescioism is a living religion, spiritual philosophy, and spiritual practice centered on understanding existence physically, mentally, and spiritually. It is a whole path of being and becoming: a way of studying reality, honoring divinity, cultivating the self, practicing virtue, engaging with sacred language, and walking toward deeper divine realization. In the Viadescioic understanding, existence is not dead matter. Existence is […]

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Tech anxiety, AI art, and art

This one’s going to be unpopular but we need to say something that many people are too anxious, too angry, or too captured by capitalist fear to say clearly: AI art training is not automatically stealing. Learning from existing work is part of how art has always lived. No artist emerges from nothing. Culture is not born from sealed private […]

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There is no clean answer.

Today, I don’t know if any of you have been paying attention, but one of the big conversations right now is around Hasan Piker expressing what a lot of us who’ve been paying attention have been thinking: if the next election comes down to Gavin Newsom versus JD Vance, we are absolutely fucked regardless of who you pick. And, a […]

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The place I am writing from is not accidental. I exist after enchantment has been stripped from the world, after the Enlightenment taught us to mistrust participation and after postmodernism taught us to mistrust meaning itself. I can feel how deeply that loss shaped the way I think, the way I doubt, the way I hesitate every time I reach […]

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Differences between a commentator, an activist, a politician, and a philosopher

Many people misunderstand the differences between a commentator, an activist, a politician, and a philosopher, especially when discussing socialist ideas, and this confusion leads to unfair expectations about how each type of figure should behave. A commentator is someone who analyzes, interprets, or communicates ideas to the public shaping discourse but not necessarily organizing or legislating; figures like Bhaskar Sunkara […]

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Cold War propaganda and the very real harms committed by states

It’s difficult for a lot of people to separate the difference between Cold War propaganda and the very real harms committed by states like the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea. And this confusion affects both sides of the conversation. On one side, some people absorb old Red Scare narratives so deeply that every socialist idea gets reduced to gulags, […]

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It’s perfectly valid to say you hate AI art, to hate how derivative and hollow it feels. You don’t need to justify that dislike by reinventing what “art” means, or by appealing to some mystical idea of the artist’s soul. That kind of reasoning only distracts from the real issue. Art has never lived comfortably inside definitions of what is […]

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Reframing the Identity of America

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the identity of America, how it’s shaped by our shared culture, myths, and stories. If America were truly to change and become more progressive, part of that transformation would have to involve reframing our cultural heritage to align with new, humane, and collective values. Right now, many people struggle to feel patriotic because American patriotism […]

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Christians should center their faith and practice only on the Gospels

Christians should center their faith and practice only on the Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, because these books record the actual words and actions of Jesus himself. Everything else in the Bible, especially Paul’s letters and the Old Testament, often leads to confusion and mixed messages that drift away from what Jesus really taught. Paul’s writings were written for […]

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Entryism, Strategy, and the Limits of the Democratic Party

Entryism is a political strategy where activists or members of a movement join a larger, more mainstream party or organization to influence it from within, using its structure, visibility, and access to build power for their own goals. In the U.S., that often means socialists and progressives working within the Democratic Party, not because they believe it can be “saved,” […]

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How Social Liberals Stall the Struggle for a Better World

Social liberals often endorse incremental reforms that leave the deeper architecture of exploitation intact. They champion diversity initiatives in corporate boardrooms without questioning capitalism itself; they support modest police oversight while rejecting demands to radically shrink or abolish carceral systems. Their solutions treat symptoms, not causes. Closely tied to this is a liberal fetishization of civility and “both sides” dialogue. […]

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Against Tankheism: Toward a Serious, People-Centered Socialism

Among contemporary left-wing movements, one of the most persistent yet troubling trends is what is often called “tankie” socialism (or colloquially, “tankheism”). This term broadly refers to an uncritical, authoritarian strand of socialism that romanticizes historical regimes such as the Soviet Union under Stalin, Maoist China, or other state socialist projects — regardless of their well-documented abuses. It often defends […]

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Mental Health Is a Lifetime Need

The modern healthcare system often fails both patients and society when it treats mental health crises as short-term emergencies rather than as manifestations of chronic, systemic neglect. Simply stabilizing people for a week and releasing them back into the same hostile conditions guarantees both individual suffering and broader social breakdown, including increased crime. A serious, lifetime approach to mental health […]

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Why I Am a Communalist: Beyond Authoritarian and Libertarian Leftism

The true path forward for human liberation and ecological survival does not lie in authoritarian state socialism, nor in an unchecked libertarian individualism. It lies in building deeply democratic, cooperative, ecological communities—a vision best embodied in communalism, as advanced by Murray Bookchin. This is the most radical and genuinely progressive form of leftism, because it centers people, community, and the […]

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Conservative vs. Progressive Religion

Religion itself is neither inherently oppressive nor inherently liberatory—it is a social vessel that can be wielded in profoundly different ways. When religion is organized around conservative, authoritarian, and exclusionary principles, it becomes a tool of oppression. When organized around progressive, liberatory, and inclusive principles, it can become a force for communal care, solidarity, and justice. Conservative Religion: Why It’s […]

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There is no inherent reason to fear the word religion

There is no inherent reason to fear the word religion or the concept of organized religion itself. The problems arise from how certain religious systems are weaponized by reactionary powers—not from the existence of religion or its organization. Spirituality is fundamentally about the individual’s personal relationship with the sacred, the mysterious, or the moral dimensions of life. Religion is simply […]

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Why Work Still Matters in Socialism—and Why Capitalism Made It Miserable

One of the most common misunderstandings about socialism is the idea that in a socialist society, no one would want to work. But this assumption ignores the actual reasons why so many people hate work today. It’s not work itself that people resent—it’s the exploitation, precarity, and humiliation that come with working under capitalism. The structure of capitalism turns work […]

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Car Culture Is the Problem—Not the Solution: Why Public Transit Must Be the Future

Car culture is one of the most destructive, isolating, and resource-intensive systems we’ve normalized in modern society. It pollutes the environment, fragments communities, increases economic inequality, and turns transportation into a private burden instead of a shared right. The myth that switching to electric vehicles (EVs) will fix this problem is one of the most dangerous lies being sold by […]

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Flexitarian Veganism and the Future of Food: Why the Meat Industry Must End

Flexitarian veganism offers a practical, inclusive path forward in the urgent task of transforming our food systems. It rejects purity politics while maintaining a clear ethical stance: the industrial meat industry is destructive, exploitative, and unsustainable. From environmental degradation to labor exploitation and animal suffering, the harms of this industry are systemic and far-reaching. But rather than demanding strict dietary […]

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It’s Not the AI—It’s Capitalism: Understanding the Real Threat to Artists

Artificial intelligence is not the enemy of artists. The real threat, as always, is capitalism. AI, when properly developed and ethically applied, holds enormous potential—especially in the realm of accessibility. For disabled artists, writers, and creators, AI tools offer new ways to interact with and produce work. Text-to-speech, image generation for mobility-limited users, language processing for communication assistance—these aren’t threats […]