Category Archives: Political Theological Analysis
Seven Theses on the 2024 US General Election
Something is wrong. The Right has spent the past four years doing everything it can to discredit claims of election fraud and manipulation (by making false and in fact incredible claims). And this is a tactic made for manipulating the … Continue reading
Matter Strikes Back: Thoughts on the Current Conjuncture
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind (Marx and Engels 1848/1978. Virtual … Continue reading
Stay the Course: Why the Popular Front is Permanent and Why Maximalism is Always a Mistake
Introduction As we celebrate the victory of the Democratic Party in the 2020 US General Election —and the end of the disastrous Trump government— it is important to be clear regarding what has and what has not changed —not because … Continue reading
What is at Stake in the 2020 US General Election?
As the 2020 US General Election approaches, the United States and the world stand at a crossroads, faced with a decision which may well be the most momentous in their history. It is a choice between freedom and slavery, fascism … Continue reading
Pandemic Reflections: Civilizational Transitions and Political Strategy
Capital, like all gods, believes itself to be immaterial, a purely formal, autonomous intelligence operating in accord with inexorable laws which which always and everywhere maximize accumulation, which terminates in a point at which it becomes infinitely productive and utterly … Continue reading
Resisting Neoliberal Hegemony
Nicholas Kristof, in an end of the year column entitled “This Has Been The Best Year Ever,”. (New York Times, 28 December 2019) presents compelling, but ultimately deceptive evidence that: “In the long arc of human history, 2019 has been … Continue reading
Civilization and Revolution
Civilization and Revolution: it is rare indeed to hear these two terms joined by a conjunction. The term “civilization” is invoked most often by conservatives defending the values of a particular civilization or perhaps by liberal cosmopolitans hoping to trade … Continue reading
Just How Deep Is the State, After All?
The concept of the “deep state” has, since the 2016 US General Election, become one of the principal pivot points of political discourse in the United States. For the Right, it has become a a principal political target encompassing the … Continue reading
The Problem of Communism, the Contradictions of Historical Materialism, and the Contributions of the Frankfort School
Humanity seems, once again, poised to turn the gate of hope into a valley of despair. The material conditions for a genuinely human life, in which all of humanity is gradually freed by technological progress from the burden of the … Continue reading
Against Third Worldism
Third Worldism[1] is, it seems, making a comeback. Never mind that the peasant wars which formed the mass base for the communist led national liberation movements of the last century all generated patterns of socialist construction which were ultimately … Continue reading