Happy Birthday Michael Harrington!
I am proud to honor a great man. He was a big influence on my life as well as on leaders of our country. These are some of the things Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Had to say on his...
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Space -- the final frontier: A reminiscence of Star Trek
Awhile back, I wrote a diary on Star Wars, as a sort of critique of what happened to space opera and as a reminiscence of when I used to read that stuff back in high school. I wasn't going to write a...
View ArticleOn movement goals, climate change, and what to do
This diary was provoked by a short article in Common Dreams, "On Climate, Humanity Must Rise Up Against 'Collective Shrug of Fatalism," by staff writer Jon Queally.Overcoming "fatalism" about climate...
View Article"We don't have time" -- against bourgeois "solutions" for climate change
We don't have time to do anything effective about climate change. So let's do something ineffective and call it a day. We can get the greenhouse gas emissions down 5% with a cap-and-trade scheme, buy...
View ArticleReclaiming the climate debate from political extremes
On Thursday of last week, Mark Lynas responded to The Guardian's decision to publish excerpts of Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything" in a response-piece titled "We must reclaim the climate change...
View ArticleThe critique of relationships
Relationships and natureMuch recent literature labels this time in which we live as the "Anthropocene Era" -- the term refers to a specific era of natural history in which human beings institute...
View ArticleAbout that emerging right-wing divide on climate change
In a recent piece posted to the Grist website, David Roberts tells us that "there's an emerging right-wing divide on climate change."Now I suppose that by "right wing" Roberts means Republicans,...
View ArticleDoes anyone remember the Diggers?
This diary is motivated by another by One Pissed Off Liberal : Giants on the Land: The full story of the hippies He writes: The full story of the hippies is much more complex than what is commonly...
View ArticleDemocratic Socialism and religion
If your perception of modern society is anything like mine you see decay and degeneration in all our institutions. One of the most obvious is religion. We see again and again organized religious...
View ArticleHuman evolution and world systems theory: are Nations going to be obsolete?
I am revisiting some ideas about the evolution of human society in the context of a world facing ecological disaster. Recent times have already shown clearly the failure of the "Nation" concept in the...
View ArticleThe Fate of Greece and "Green Capitalism: The God That Failed."
Dear Readers:This is a commentary upon Greece, the Greek drama, which affects us all, know it or not, because it is the first genuine challenge, however clumsy, to austerity at national election polls....
View ArticleDrill baby drill!
As we march faster and faster toward the point of no return (or past it?) we certainly need to drill for and burn more oil! Why criticize this bold step forward? After all we democrats need to stick...
View ArticleThe theater has a new show: The Stock Market
The ecosystem and the climate are just not competitive with the programmed theater. it is so much fun to watch. If you want to get a feeling for what really matters to people just keep reading...
View ArticleJust published: Global Insanity Redux. Its meaning for the 2016 election.
The follow up paper to our book just came out in the latest issue of Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. Here is the abstract: In our book Global Insanity we argued that...
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Uruguay does the unthinkable, rejects TISA
The country that recently set the standard by legalizing marijuana, and that was the first in South America to set up a welfare state, rejects the status quo again. Earlier this month Uruguay’s...
View ArticleFour reasons to anticipate postcapitalism
You know, postcapitalism -- the coming period of existence after the capitalist system has run its course, after Bernie Sanders'"political revolution" has outstripped Sanders' current promises, and...
View ArticleBook review: Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life
Book review: Moore, Jason W. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. London and New York: Verso, 2015. Print. Many readers of my diaries here at DailyKos.com will...
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Deflation, negative interest rates and the derivatives mountain
In a press conference last week, Fed Chair Janet Yellen was asked about negative interest rates. Yellen dismissed the possibility, but also said if "we found ourselves with a weak economy that needed...
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Book review: Peter McLaren, Pedagogy of Insurrection
Book review: McLaren, Peter. Pedagogy of Insurrection: From Resurrection to Revolution. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. Print.Back in 2012 I suggested that, at least at the Federal level (and indeed...
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A Bright, Flashing Warning Sign
Imagine for a moment that some salesman offered you a deal. They are willing to let you loan them money, and would only charge you a nominal fee plus a small rate of interest for the transaction. In...
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