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

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NinaIllingworth May 12, 2021November 5, 2022 a business designed to lose money, A Little Help From My Friends, anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Announcement, anti-racism, anticapitalism, antifascism, blogging, burning money, capitalism, Chris Walker, class consciousness, class war, content notice, critical theory, critical thinking, decolonization, Facebook, FotB, Friends of the Blog, hot take economy, intersectionality, IWW, JA5, labor class, labor class content, left wing politics, left wing theory, leftism, Marxism, more articles, more content, MP6, new writers, NIDC Project, Nina Illingworth, sharing, Site Updates, social media, solidarity, ST2, the dark art of outrage clicks, the tyranny of rent, Twitter, volume posting, whiteness

Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends

After five long years of trying to go it alone on my eponymously named website, I’m finally in a position to compensate some Friends of the Blog to help produce more content; find out more inside.

Fascism Justice Media Madness Videos

NinaIllingworth May 1, 2021November 5, 2022 America First internet talk show, America First PAC, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, cat boy enthusiast, censorship, Civil Liberties, conspiracy theorist, edgelord, election interference, eliminationism, FA1, far right online extremism, fascism, fascist conspiracy theories, FBI, film sessions, Fox News, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Groyper, Groyper Army, hate speech, homophobia, human meme, inciting a riot, inciting violence, JA5, January 6th 2021, Justice, left wing Youtube, mainstreaming fascism, mainstreaming fascist propaganda, Media Madness, Michelle Malkin, MP6, Nick Fuentes, Nick Fuentes is probably going to jail, Nick Fuentes is the hate nerd, Nick Fuentes should be in jail, Nina Illingworth, no fly list, no service list, obstruction of justice, Offsite Writing, online extremists, political violence, Propaganda, Racism, Republican, sexism, Social Justice, Stop the Steal, Thought Slime, Tucker Carlson, Video, white genocide is a nazi conspiracy theory, white nationalism, Youtube

Film Sessions: Who Weeps for the Hate Nerd?

In this offsite essay we’re looking at a video by Thought Slime that helps explain why you shouldn’t defend Nick Fuentes from the consequences of his actions.

Can't You Read Essays Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth April 26, 2021November 17, 2022 abolish the police, ACAB, anti protest laws, Black Lives Matter, BLM, CA4, Can't You Read, Chauvin trial, crimes by police, Defund the Police, Democrats, Derek Chauvin, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascist cops, fascist police state, fire em all, George Floyd, George Floyd Protests, George Floyd was murdered, guilty, JA5, Joe Biden, Little Eichmanns, Marxist analysis of policing, murderpigs, murders by police, neoliberal authoritarianism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig, Police, police reform, police state, police violence and capitalism, policing and capitalism, racial justice, racism and capitalism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, Social Justice, ST2, state sponsored murder, Temitope Oriola, the GOP is fascist

No Justice, No Peace on Can’t You Read

A Recommended Reading essay on CYR that talks about why police reform is dead even after the Chauvin verdict because you can’t reform capitalist exploitation.

Fascism Media Madness Social Justice Videos

NinaIllingworth April 19, 2021November 5, 2022 1619 Project, American exceptionalism, Amerikan Musik, anti-blackness, antisemitism, bad scholarship, Charlie Kirk, Cultural Marxism, Donald Trump, early American history, FA1, fascism, film sessions, Founding Fathers, Hooverism, ideological justification for fascism, JA5, legacy of slavery, lie, McCarthyism, Media Madness, MP6, mythology, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, patriotism, patriotism is fascism when it smiles, Racism, revisionist history, right wing conspiracy theories, selective quotations, Shaun Vids, Skull Boy, slavery, slavery apologia, Social Justice, ST2, the 1776 Commission Report, Trumpism, Video, white nationalism, white supremacy, whiteness, writing Black people out of history

Film Sessions: the 1776 Commission Report and Cultural Marxism

Our latest Film Sessions post on Media Madness features YouTuber Shaun, the 1776 Report, and Trump’s parting attempt to re-create Hooverism in America.

Blog Books Can't You Read Fascism Reviews

NinaIllingworth April 18, 2021November 17, 2022 American Civil War, American history, anti-brown racism, anti-Mexican racism, Book Blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, colonialism, crackers, Donald Trump, ecofascism, exploitation, FA1, fascism, Frederick Jackson Turner, genocide, Greg Grandin, History, immigration, Imperialism, JA5, Jim Crow, Latin America, manifest destiny, Mass incarceration, Migrant Rights, migrants, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, police state, Politics, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, settler colonialism, slavery, ST2, the American Revolution, the border, the border wall, The End of the Myth, the Frontier Myth, the Frontier Thesis, the New Forever War, the thirteen colonies, the War On Terror, Trump's wall, Trumpism, WD7, white supremacy, whiteness

Book Blog: The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin

Book Blog featuring a review & analysis of Greg Grandin’s “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” on Can’t You Read.

media Neoliberalism Police State Theory

NinaIllingworth April 11, 2021November 17, 2022 Alex Shephard, American colonialism, American Prospect, AP News, Aviva Chomsky, Baltimore Sun, Biden's Central America policy, Branko Marcetic, CA4, Central America, colonialism, concentration camps, Daniel Denvir, Donald Trump, Edward Herman, FA1, family separation policy, fascism, foreign policy, Greg Grandin, immigration, Imperialism, jails for kids, Joe Biden, John Washington, Jonathan Lemire, Josh Boak, Jude Joffe-Block, Latin American, manufacturing consent, Marcia Brown, Media, Mehdi Hasan, Mexico, Michael Parenti, Migrant Rights, migrants, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, MSNBC, nativism, neoliberalism, New Forever War, Noam Chomsky, Nomaan Merchant, PBS, pig empire, police state, Politics, prison industrial complex, pro-business Central America policy, Propaganda, propaganda model, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Reich, Six Things I Think, Social Justice, soft power, ST2, Stephen Miller, the border, The Intercept, The Nation, The New Republic, the wall, Theory, war, WD7, white nationalism, white nationalist immigration policy

Six Things I Think: A Bipartisan Propaganda Frontier

An extremely granular look at the how the propaganda model predicts the mind-warping media discussion around the so called “migrant crisis at the border.”

Media Madness News Social Justice Videos

NinaIllingworth April 3, 2021November 5, 2022 African Americans, American racism, anticapitalism, capitalism, capitalism is racism, Charles Mills, class and race, colonialism, critical race theory, Du Bois, Emerican Johnson, FA1, film sessions, identity politics, intersectionality, JA5, left wing theory, left wing Youtube, Marxist analysis, Media Madness, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, NonCompete, Offsite Writing, Peggy McIntosh, power dynamics, racialization, Racism, Reviews, Robin DiAngelo, Sara Ahmed, settler colonialism, social hierarchies, Social Justice, Sociology, ST2, systemic analysis, Theory, Tom Nicholas, Video, What The Theory, white as default, white supremacy, white supremacy and capitalism are a pair, whiteness, whiteness is invisible to many white people

Film Sessions: Digging Up Roots on Media Madness

Our Film Sessions feature is back; Nina looks at the concept of “whiteness” with a little help from What the Theory’s Tom Nicholas, over on Media Madness.

Media Madness socialism Theory War

NinaIllingworth March 31, 2021November 17, 2022 anti-Indigenous policy, Antony Blinken, Bolivia, Catholic Church, christian fundamentalism, Christian nationalism, CIA, coup, Edward Herman, Essays, Evo Morales, FA1, FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Fantastic Lies, fascism, fascist coup, foreign policy, Imperialism, Jacobin, Jeanine Áñez, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Latin America, left wing theory, lie, Luis Arce, Luis Fernando Camacho, MAS, Media, Media Madness, Media Theory, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, OAS, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Pig Empire imperialism, practical examples of a propaganda model, Propaganda, propaganda model, propaganda theory, re-writing history, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, regime change, Six Things I Think, Socialism, soft power, ST2, The New Old Forever War, Theory, US backed coups, US imperialism, USA, WaPo editorial board, war, war mongers, Washington Post, WD7

Bolivian Stroke: WaPo’s Imperialist Memory Games on Media Madness

A heavily sourced Media Madness essay about the propaganda model and renewed Pig Empire efforts to undermine the socialist government of Bolivia.

Personal Police State Site Updates Social Justice

NinaIllingworth March 27, 2021November 5, 2022 Alex Reid Ross, anti-trans propaganda, back to work, blog, blogging, Capitol Hill coup attempt, censorship, Depression, emo ramblings, FA1, Facebook, Facebook Journal, fake antifascists, fake leftist, fascism, feeling attacked, frustration, Glenn Greenwald, isolation, Jesse Singal, Jimmy Dore, mercenaries, MP6, Nina Illingworth, online left, online political influence ops, personal, police harassment, police state, reactionaries, shadow war, silencing, Site Updates, Social Justice, social media, targeting, where I've been, writer's block

Facebook Update: I Caught A Sad

A Facebook update on where I’ve been for the last couple weeks that unfortunately, ongoing online censorship forces me to reprint here on my website. Vaguely personal.

Essays Neoliberalism Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2021November 5, 2022 $15 minimum wage, Afghanistan War, Andrew Perez, anti war, anti-labor, anti-racism, anti-war protests, anticapitalism, antifascism, Arizona, Arizona Democrats, austerity, Bernie Sanders, Biden White House, Blue Dog Caucus, CA4, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corruption, Covid 19, culture war, David Sirota, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Economics, electoralism, Essays, Fight for $15, filibuster, forever war, gone Washington, GOP, Green Party, Iraq War, Jacobin, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, left right alliance, left wing theory, let them eat cake, liberalism, Marxism, minimum wage, Mitch McConnell, MP6, neoliberalism, Paula Swearengin, Political Theory, Politics, populism, Progressive, progressive movement, progressive politics, Ralph Nader, reformers, reformism, Republican Party, Senate politics, Socialism, ST2, the Daily Poster, Theory, Thumbs Down, Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, US Federal Minimum Wage, US Senate

Fool Me Twice: Kyrsten Sinema and the Poverty of Progressive Politics

A deeply sourced essay about progressive politics, acts of betrayal, and the need for an explicitly anti-capitalist mass movement in the Pig Empire.

Can't You Read Journals Police State Theory

NinaIllingworth March 9, 2021November 5, 2022 American left, analysis, anticapitalism, austerity, blog, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism is a cult, class analysis, class war, COINTELPRO, counter insurgency, counter intelligence, democratic socialism, FA1, fascism, fascism and the police work together, growing left, info graphics, informal writing, Journals, left wing theory, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Marxist historiographic analysis, mass surveillance, Meme, Michael Parenti, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, personal, police harassment, police state, reaction, reactionaries, reactionary violence, Socialism, ST2, state sponsored repression, stress, systemic analysis, that's why we call them reactionaries, the war against the left, The War on Sharing, Theory

The War on Sharing: Thunderheads

Nina breaks ground a new journal feature that combines Marxist socio-political and historical analysis with emo ravings about a society largely ignorant of capitalism’s purpose.