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Essays Neoliberalism Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth November 14, 2019November 17, 2022 Affordable Care Act, Amazon, anticapitalism, austerity, Ayn Rand, Big Tech, bribery, CA4, colonialism, corporate power, corruption, debt slavery, domestic policy, Economics, Essays, extractivism, Ferguson, financialization, left wing theory, lexicon, medical insurance, Medicare for all, monopoly power, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Obamacare, Offsite Writing, panopticon, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, policing for profit, private surveillance, privatization, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rents, social safety nets, special economic zones, ST2, subsidies, taxation, Theory, Theory Discussion, Uber, Wall Street bailout, Walmart

Link: Theory Discussion A Working Definition of Neofeudalism – New Essay

As dystopian as neoliberal capitalism is, adding coercion and corporate recapture to the mix has created a new form of anti-labor extractivism: neofeudalism.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth October 28, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Bernie Sanders, Bircher nonsense, blog, Brooks Brothers Riot, CA4, class war, confronting fascism, democratic socialism, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, fascism, history of liberalism, how liberalism works, labor class, left wing theory, liberalism, Liz Warren is a muppet, Matt Gaetz, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, PMC, political history, Political Theory, Politics, Professional Class, professional managerial class, Socialism, technocratic incrementalism, technocrats, The Skinny, Theory, Trump impeachment, US politics, why liberals lose, working class

The Skinny: a Liberal Lexicon

A collection of informal journal writing; this time we’re talking about liberalism and the American political imagination.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth May 29, 2019November 5, 2022 1996 Telecom Act, American history, cable news, class, class war, corporate media, Debunking the Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press, Essays, Fantastic Lies, for profit media, forever war, History, Iraq War, Jeff Bezos, Joe Hill, journalism, Julian Assange, left wing theory, Media, media lied us into war, media lies to you for power, media myths, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, mythmaking, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Propaganda, rich people own the media, ST2, The Post, The Post is a narrative building movie, Theory, Vietnam War, war, Watergate, Wikileaks, WMDs, yellow journalism

The Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press

A short Patreon essay about why corporate media-created narratives about their own role in checking the powerful are bunk.

Patreon Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth May 18, 2019November 5, 2022 African Americans, anti racist intellectuals, anti-racism, anticapitalism, Black America, Black Intellectuals, Black Power Movement, capitalism, Civil Rights movement, civil war, class war, COINTELPRO, Economics, economics of racism, Essays, exploitation, FA1, Fred Hampton, genocide, how to get shot in America, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Jim Crow, Kwame Ture, left wing theory, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, MLK Jr, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Police, police state, Propaganda, race and class for the undercaste, racialized incarceration, Racism, Racism is profitable for the rich, racist propaganda, slavery, Social Justice, social sciences, Socialism, ST2, street racism, structural racism, the Black experience in America, The FBI killed Malcolm and Chairman Fred, Theory, WD7

“How to Get Shot in America” on Patreon

A link to one of my best essays, discussing how talking about where racism, meets capitalism, often results in assassination by the cracker aristocracy.

Neoliberalism Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth May 4, 2019November 5, 2022 anarchism, antifascism, bosses, bourgeoisie, bourgeoisie values, CA4, capitalism, casino lottery, class, class in America, class politics, class theory, class war, definition of class, Essays, exploitation, extraction, global capitalism, labor, labor class, left wing theory, Leftist Theory, living conditions, manager class, Marxism, Marxist Theory, middle class, modern class, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no war but class war, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, overseer class, Patreon, Patreon Blog, petite bourgeoisie, pig empire, PMC, Politics, poverty, Professional Class, ruling classes, slavery, Socialism, ST2, the class war never ended, the owner class, Theory, wage slavery, you are probably not middle class

A Functional Class Framework for Modern Western Leftists

A Patreon Blog essay that updates the terminology of class warfare and explains why you probably aren’t middle class if you’re reading this.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth December 12, 2018November 5, 2022 capitalism, Chomsky, context, corporate media, Essays, Fantastic Lies, framing, independent media, Inventing Reality, longform writing, manufacturing consent, Media, media bias, media manipulation, media studies, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, myth of a free press, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no free press, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Propaganda, right wing press, Socialism, ST2, Theory

Essay: Lying Without Lying (Link)

A link to a 2018 Media Theory essay on Patreon that I wrote about the manipulation of framing, context & depth to lie without lying in the media.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2018November 5, 2022 a new mainfesto for the end of the world, activism, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, anti-imperialism, anticapitalism, Bigotry, capitalism vs the climate, climate catastrophe, climate disaster, Corporatism, Essays, Evil, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, global deregulated capitalism, Imperialism, Jair Bolsonaro, Media, Naomi Klein, NATO, neoliberalism, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oligarchy, OODS, Que Se Vayan Todos, rhetoric, ST2, Steve Bannon, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Theory, they must all go, Trump, Trump Administration, war, western Europe, Western fascism

Praxis of Evil: Words As Weapons

Editor’s Note: I have spent many nights over the past five months ruminating on just how I would explain my

Climate Crisis Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth March 8, 2018November 5, 2022 austerity, bribery, bribes, CA4, Chicago School, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, Corporatism, elites, endless war, Essays, FA1, globalization, government, horror, Imperialism, informal writing, Journals, machine, Middle East, Milton Friedman, money in politics, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Op-Ed, personal, psychological torture, Rants, rich people mean you harm, skeptics, ST2, the Watchmen, Theory, Thompson, update, war, wildlife, writer, writer's block, writing

The Hammering In My Head

A short essay channeling Thompson to talk about why rich people are absolutely trying to kill you for literally pennies on the share.

Blog Essays media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth February 1, 2018November 5, 2022 American Civil War, blog, civil war, conservative, corporate media, Democrats, Essays, FA1, Facebook, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Fox News, GOP, informal writing, Jonathan Chait, Journals, liberals, Media, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, Politics, Rachel Maddow, Republican, Sean Hannity, ST2, Theory, Tom Friedman, tribalism

Facebook Journal: Two Truths

An informal essay from early 2018 about fascism, neoliberalism, tribalism and media falsehoods.

Essays Neoliberalism News Theory

NinaIllingworth November 29, 2017November 17, 2022 600M dollar CIA contract, A Brief Thought, abuse, Amazon, Amazon vs the World, anti-labor, anticapitalism, austerity, bidding, Black Friday, bribery, brutal work culture, business, CA4, capitalism, carnivore, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, class warfare, corporate welfare, could computing, dancing monkeys, death of Democracy, Democracy, Econ, Economics, elites, Essays, exploitation, feudalism, Foxconn, free money, fuck Jeff Bezos, government for elites by elites, graft, Jeff Bezos, Koch Bros, labor, labor law, labor rights, legalized bribery, libertarian, low wages, market share, Meme, money in politics, monopoly, National Razor Now, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new Gilded Age, News, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, on the take, online retail, Op-Ed, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, retail, rich people, right to work, ripping off the tax payer, scam, Six Things I Think, Socialism, special economic zone, ST2, tax credits, tech bro, tech industry, Theory, Washington Post, workers rights

A Brief Thought: An Empire of One

I’m back with a look at the growing power of Amazon founder and Washington Post CEO Jeff Bezos; being the richest man on earth has it’s advantages but is catering to corporate elites killing US Democracy? In a word, yes.

Essays media Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth January 17, 2017November 5, 2022 1955, 1963, 1968, activism, Alabama, America hero, anti-inequity, anti-injustice, anti-poverty, anticapitalism, arrested 29 times, assasination of MLK, assassinated, Bigotry, Black Lives Matter, Black Pride, BLM, Bloody Sunday, Chicago, Civil Rights, coporatism, corporate media, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Essays, establishment narrative, GOP, hero, historical revisionism, holiday, housing discrimination, housing laws, I have a Dream, JA5, Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King Jr, Media, MLK, MLK Day, Montgomery bus boycott, negative peace, Nina Illingworth, non-violent resistance, Op-Ed, Opinion, pacifism, Poor People's Campaign, Racism, Rants, Republican Party, resistance, respectability politics, SCLC, Selma to Montgomery marches, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, the South, Theory, think piece, Vietnam War, voting rights, white supremacy

A Brief Message to My Fellow White People About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Nina takes a brief look at the ongoing de-radicalization of a great American hero on MLK day