Fascism is real. It lurks around the edges of American politics and society, threatening to invade and overwhelm. But Trump is a strongman, a Caeserist. I discuss the differences between Fascism and strongman politics so relevant here and around the world.

Riffing on “nothing radicalizes like pigs in the park.” Flashback confronting ML vanguard politics with what I call picnic politics: organizing in San Diego’s punk scene, self-activity and self-organization, guerrillaism, the Democratic/Republican duopoly.

I take on the “La Migra” regime of Border Patrol, INS, DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the bipartisan Democratic/Republican consensus. A reign of terror—persecution, prosecution, detention, deportation, misery—both parties collude in.

“Property is theft!” French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon wrote and punk band TSOL sang. In this MRR column reprint I delve into the differences between private property vs personal property and how to socialize the former to strengthen the latter.

In Comrade Motopu's https://t.co/4LKuRt0xaX review of Stephen D'Arcy's book "Frege and Fascism," D'Arcy argues that German mathematician and Nazi Gottlob Frege successfully used his scientific rationalism to prop up fascism's irrationalism.

Affinity groups: the be-all end-all to anarchist organizing? Overview of affinity group as organizing form/strategy for social change, focusing on the Spanish Civil War, the Long 60s/70s, their role in anti-nuke power movement, the 1999 Battle of Seattle.

Potemkin politics are fake politics. Indivisible shills for the Democratic Party as faux progressivism. Leninism practices vanguardism, substitutionism, “democratic centralism” and frontism as sham socialism. That’s the Left. On the Right: the Tea Party…

A firsthand account of the weekly Tesla Takedown protests by Comrade Motopu, from Hawai’i, the bluest state, about hostile MAGA tourists. https://t.co/KEIWRpUkLX

I discuss variations on “flooding the zone,” from the old football strategy to the current rightwing GOP blitz. The Long Sixties/Seventies operated a de facto “flood the zone” strategy. The Left’s best bet is to develop our own “flood the zone” game plan.

Trump calls Tesla boycott ‘illegal’ and says he’s buying one to support Musk

I reprint my column “abolishing work” (MRR 129/2-1994). I crush the idea of “rights” & establish the concepts of “working class as a class” & “working-class self-emancipation.” I defend working class revolution to abolish wage labor & capitalism. FUCK WORK! https://t.co/fMmLCakFCW

I discuss cults, comparing the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous to the cult of capitalism, moving on to Pynchon’s take on interregnum, specifically “centralized ruthlessness” of totalitarian regimes v utopian possibilities of libertarian socialist systems.

Comrade Motopu slays it with this scathing critique of Amber A’Lee Frost’s book Dirtbag and its fetishization of the New Deal hardhat working class. Frost is part of a post-Left anti-woke contrarian reductionism that plays footsies with red-brown politics. https://t.co/WnjgKqdmsy

KIRKUS REVIEWS: “[P]acks a lot of information into a small space—it’s a virtual singularity, one might say—but it doesn’t stop it from snapping into action-packed fight scenes in the blink of an eye.” https://t.co/M8Axk1ZwyD

My January 2025 column I discuss radical history from 1981 to the present covering the Counter-Globalization Movement and Occupy Wall Street bracketed by capitalism’s decline from neoliberalism to national “populist” capitalism. Build the Trump resistance!

How can we NOT celebrate when an oppressed people rise up and a repressive regime falls!

Resisting Trump by using Nixon and 60’s/70’s youth uprisings for background, then moving on to the Cold War and neoliberalism and finally to Trump’s strongman agenda. I conclude with a list of immigrant anti-deportation resources. Build The Resistance!

Sound advice from @SpencerSunshine

This column I talk about America’s rightward political drift culminating in Trump’s recent wannabe strongman politics. I use the metaphor of cowboy politics throughout. As we approach Election Day I’m hoping for some solace while anticipating the worst.