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Fascism Field Notes media Police State

Scurvy November 4, 2022November 6, 2022 abolition, All Roads Lead Here, anarchism, anticapitalism, antifascism, austerity, billionaire funded fascism, blog, Breitbart, capitalism breeds fascism, capitalism is causing climate crisis, capitalism kills, capitalist realism, Climate Crisis, climate science denial, corporate America, dark money, Democracy, ecofascism, elections, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, fascist police, fascist police state, fascist propaganda, Field Notes, fossil fuel industry, Fox News, free market fundamentalism, informal writing, internet media, JA5, Journals, lie, Mark Fisher, Media, misinformation, MP6, murderpigs, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, paywalls, pig empire, Police, police state, Politics, Propaganda, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, social media, Socialism, ST2, Stanford Prison Experiment, The Daily Caller, the end of democracy, The Outlaw Ocean, Theory, Trumpism is fascism, US midterms, US politics, voter intimidation, voter suppression, voting rights

Field Notes: This is Fine

Our man Scurvy is back, bringing you Nina’s blog writing from around the web and his hot multi-media pick of the week; a new podcast called “The Outlaw Ocean.”

Climate Crisis Fascism Journals socialism

NinaIllingworth October 30, 2022November 5, 2022 All Roads Lead Here, anarchism, anticapitalism, antifascism, austerity, billionaire funded fascism, Breitbart, CA4, capitalism breeds fascism, capitalism is causing climate crisis, capitalism kills, capitalist realism, CC3, Climate Crisis, climate science denial, corporate America, dark money, Democracy, ecofascism, eliminationism, end of democracy, FA1, fascism, fascist propaganda, fossil fuel industry, Fox News, free market fundamentalism, informal writing, internet media, Journals, lie, Mark Fisher, Media, misinformation, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, paywalls, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Socialism, ST2, Stanford Prison Experiment, The Daily Caller, Trumpism is fascism

Journal: All Roads Lead Here

A journal about why capitalist ideology is paving the way for the two great crises of our times; the rise of fascism in the Pig Empire, and climate catastrophe.

FotB Mental Health Neoliberalism Walker

NinaIllingworth July 21, 2021November 5, 2022 abolish for profit health care, Alzheimer's Disease, artificial scarcity, austerity, big pharma, CA4, capitalism, capitalism and mental health, capitalism is failing us, Chris Walker, community support, compassion, Covid, crisis of capitalism, dignity, FA1, for profit care is an oxymoron, for profit medical care, for profit mental health care, FotB, Friends of the Blog, health insurance, Huntington's Disease, intersectionality, JA5, Kafkaesque, marginalization and mental health, medical insurance companies, mental health, mutual aid, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Our Man in Duval, pandemic, personal, personal experience, police kill people with mental health issues, policing and mental health, policing is not the answer, poverty and health care, poverty and mental health, private healthcare, Psychology, racialization of health care, shared burden, solidarity, ST2, support networks, Walker

Mental Health Isn’t Profitable by Chris Walker

It’s one thing to know for profit healthcare doesn’t work; it’s another to live the experience. Walker is back with a new piece: Mental Health Isn’t Profitable.

Anarcharachnid Canada FotB Police State

NinaIllingworth June 30, 2021November 5, 2022 ACAB, activism, Anarcharachnid, anticapitalism, antifa, antifascism, apartheid regime, arresting journalists, austerity, authoritarianism, Canada, Canadian housing bubble, City of Toronto, class war, class warfare, clearing encampments, colonialism, colonizers, Covid eugenics, double-speak, evictions, FA1, FotB, fragility, Friends of the Blog, gaslighting, homeless encampments, homeless people are people, homelessness in Canada, housing crisis, housing is a human right, human rights, Indigenous people, JA5, John Tory, Lawn Order, man on the ground, mass evictions, militarized police, mutual aid, neoliberalism, No Justice No Peace, Orwellian, pepper spray, Police, police state, police violence, Protest, Rue Love Law, settler colonialism, Social Justice, ST2, Star Security, thugs for capitalism, Toronto, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Tuesday June 22nd 2021, WD7

Lawn Order at Trinity Bellwoods Park by Anarcharachnid

In the Pig Empire city of Toronto, the Mayor sent an army to evict two dozen homeless people from a safe park community; and we had a man on the ground to witness it in real time.

Journals Neoliberalism Personal Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 25, 2021November 5, 2022 ACAB, affordable housing, anti-poor propaganda, austerity, CA4, capitalism, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, cycles of poverty, dehumanization, Depression, extraction of rents, Facebook Journals, hidden effects of homelessness, homeless, homeless people are people, homelessness in Canada, homelessness in the UK, homelessness in the US, homelessness is not a choice, housing crisis, housing is a human right, humanizing the homeless, inadequate support networks, informal writing, injustice, investor class, invisible, JA5, Journals, landlords, living on the streets, mental health, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, personal, policing, Poor Laws, poverty, poverty in the Pig Empire, poverty is not a character flaw, rentier class, rents, shelters, shuffling the poor around, Social Darwinism, Social Justice, social safety net, ST2, stress, workhouse

What They Never Tell You About Being Homeless

A lengthy personal journal discussing the hidden psychological conditions inspired by homelessness and poverty in the Pig Empire.

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.

Patreon Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 20, 2020November 5, 2022 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, antifa, antifascism, austerity, backlash, Black Lives Matter, Covid 19, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, DSA, Energy and Commerce Committee, Essays, FA1, how to build power, Ilhan Omar, informal writing, Jimmy Dore, lay siege to the government, Medicare for all, Medicare for All floor vote, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, organization, organizing, organizing strategy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Politics, Protest, reactionary, rigged oligarchy, Social Justice, social media, Socialism, ST2, The Squad, Theory, Un-Civil War, uprising, white lash, whiteness

Essay: Organize or Die (Link)

A lengthy informal essay about the importance of organizing a three tiered societal movement around a radical left wing program.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism News Politics

NinaIllingworth April 16, 2020November 5, 2022 Andrew Cuomo, Anthony Fauci, austerity, authoritarian, bailout, big business, big business will kill you for profit, CA4, class, class war, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corporate takeover, coverage, Covid 19, Donald Trump, Dr Fauci, Essays, essential workers, FA1, fall guy, fascism, grift, health policy, Joe Biden, John Dean, killing grandma for Wall Street, Media, mob boss, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Nixon, Politics, Pork Reich, re opening America, Simon Says, Trump Administration, Trump war with Governors, Watergate

On Absolute Power, Nixonian Machinations & Trump’s Fascist Fulminations

A short essay examining two lines of argument emerging from Trump’s most recent unhinged coronavirus press conference and the cat and mouse game he’s playing with Dr. Fauci in order to open up the economy no matter how many people it kills.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Patreon

NinaIllingworth March 28, 2020November 5, 2022 America is a business already, American history, American independence, assault on Main Street, austerity, bailout, British Empire, CA4, capitalism, chattel slavery, colonialism, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corporate takeover, Corporation America, Essays, exterminating Indigenous people, Facebook, fascism, genocide, Journals, King George, Mastodon, Media, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Ohio River Valley, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Pork Reich, Propaganda, public trust, slavery, small business, social media, the American Revolution, the death of small business, The Skinny, Trump, Twitter, USA

Link: The Skinny – That Austerity Business, March 2020

The March 28th, 2020 edition of The Skinny; collecting three complete social media essays about capitalism, propaganda, and why American is breeding fascism – written by Nina Illingworth.

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.

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