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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Picture of a large, modern Pig Empire city about to be submerged under a tsunami wave as very small people run away from the waterline in the foreground.

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate power, Covid, Eugenics, extractivism, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, funding fascism, global boiling, Malthusianism, Mini Theory Blog, oil, pandemic, pig empire, Propaganda, ruling class, ST2, the fascist creep, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Let’s Start at the End

In order to understand the news in hellworld, you first have to understand why rising fascism, climate crisis, and Covid eugenics are all the same problem.

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Capitalism media Social Media Theory

NinaIllingworth August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 AI, antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, Cory Doctorow, Elon Musk, enshitification, Facebook, fascism, free internet, information environment, left wing organizing, left wing theory, LLM, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, social media, ST2, Theory, Twitter, walled garden

Mini-Theory Blog: Escaping the Garden

A brief discussion about how leftists online should respond to fascist billionaires attempting to transform the internet into walled gardens and propaganda ops.

Blog Capitalism Pandemic Theory

NinaIllingworth December 14, 2022 anti lockdown protests, anti-fascism, anti-vax death cult, anticapitalism, blog, capitalism, Charles Koch, China, Covid 19, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, Covid is not over, dark money, Eugenics, fascism, fascist ideology, herd immunity is fake, high church of capitalism, IMTB, instagram, killing grandma for profit, Koch network, Kochtopus, labor rights, Mini Theory Blog, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new cold war, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, paying fascists to reopen the economy, pig empire, profits over people, Propaganda, QAnon, Socialism, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Capitalism, Covid, and the Fascist Creep

The biggest Covid story the media isn’t reporting is the fact that right wing billionaires are funding the campaign to pretend it’s over, for their own profit.

Blog Capitalism Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 9, 2022 Alexis de Tocqueville, anticapitalism, blog, CA4, can't separate liberalism from capitalism, capitalism, civics, Civil Rights, class war, contradictions of capitalism, Democracy, Democracy in America, democratic rights, Freedom, human rights, ideology, liberal ideology, liberalism, liberalism is a capitalist ideology, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, political economy, Political Theory, Politics, practice of liberalism, ST2, the Enlightenment, Theory, theory and praxis, wage slavery, why liberalism fails the exploited

Mini-Theory Blog: Practical Realities

What happens when the ideals of liberalism contradict with the reality that it’s subordinate to capital accumulation? There’s no need to ask; you’re living it.

Canada Capitalism FotB Podcast

Scurvy December 8, 2022 anticapitalism, blog, bread price fixing scandal, British Commonwealth, CA4, Canada, Canadaland, Canadaland COMMONS, capitalism, CC3, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate greed, decolonization, dehumanization, exploitation, extractive capitalism, extractivism, FotB, Friends of the Blog, genocide, grocery monopoly, Indigenous Rights, land theft, monopoly, monopoly power, neocolonialism, Podcast, price fixing, resource imperialism, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, stolen land, WD7, Weston family, white supremacy

Scurvy’s Selection – Canadaland COMMONS: Monopoly

In this week’s Selection, Scurvy steps back to look at the larger issues of monopoly power and resource imperialism, with help from the folks at Canadaland.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Theory

NinaIllingworth November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 accumulation of capital, anticapitalism, anticapitalist theory, blog, CA4, capitalism, capitalism as religion, capitalism doesn't create wealth, capitalism versus climate, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, colonialism, commons, contradictions of capitalism, crisis of capitalism, ecofascism, ecological collapse, extractivism, extractivism will kill us all, fascism, forced labor, free market fundamentalism, genocide, looting of the commons, Mini Theory Blog, Nina Illingworth, organized looting, pig empire, rentier class, slavery, Socialism, ST2, stealing, The End of the Line, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: The End of the Line

What happens when capital’s refusal to resolve its most pressing contradiction threatens the entire species? Our response to climate crisis holds the answer.

Analysis Capitalism Pandemic Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 23, 2022 analysis, anticapitalism, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, Captain Trips, class war, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid 19 primer, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, Covid is not over, culture war, doctors, epidemiology, genocide, Global Pandemic, homicidal capitalism, Jessica Wildfire, killing people for profit, labor rights, Media, medical science, neofeudalism, Nina Illingworth, OK Doomer, pandemic, Politics, QAnon, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, US politics, virus denial as politics

Mini-Theory Blog: First Order Consideration

Today we’re trying to succinctly answer the most important question of our time; why you should be an anticapitalist if you don’t want to die for rich people.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

NinaIllingworth November 16, 2022 Abdul El-Sayed, anticapitalism, antifascism, Biden Administration, Big Oil, blog, CA4, capitalism, capitalist realism, climate apocalypse, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, climate science denial, Covid 19, dark money, Democratic Party, ecofascism, Eugenics, FA1, fascism, fascist conspiracy theories, for profit healthcare, fossil fuel industry, free market fundamentalism, genocide, GOP, Great Replacement Theory, green jobs, Jacobin, medical debt, medical insurance industry, money in politics, MP6, neofeudalism, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, pandemic, Politics, Republicans, Ricardo Gomez, Socialism, ST2, the GOP is fascist, The New Republic, Theory, Trumpism, US Midterm Elections, US politics

Nina-Bytes: Things Left Unsaid

You can learn a lot by listening to what American politicians talk about during elections; but sometimes, what they won’t talk about reveals a whole lot more.

Blog Capitalism Labor Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 14, 2022November 17, 2022 anticapitalism, blog, CA4, capitalism, capitalism will kill us all, capitalist realism, child labor, class war, defensive democracy, defensive voting, Deregulation, exploitation, free market fundamentalism, Great Depression, Josh Fiallo, labor, labor rights, labor theory, late capitalism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new Gilded Age, Nina Illingworth, organized labor, Packers Sanitation Services, pig empire, PSSI, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, revolutionary theory, Robber Barons, Second Gilded Age, Socialism, ST2, sweatshops, The Daily Beast, Theory

Nina-Bytes: Impact Statement

In Nina-Bytes we’re looking at yet another US government report that demonstrates our leaders are trying to kill us for capitalism in the face of climate crisis