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

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Capitalism media Social Media Theory

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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 Fascism Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth November 16, 2022November 16, 2022 anarchism, anarchist theory, antifascism, become ungovernable, blog, Civil Rights, collaborators, Democracy, FA1, fascism, instagram, left wing theory, legal fascism, Little Eichmanns, Mini Theory Blog, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, police state, Politics, resist fascism, rigged oligarchy, SCOTUS, Social Justice, social media, Socialism, ST2, Theory, top down fascism, US Midterm Elections, US politics

Mini-Theory Blog: Primary Front

Today’s Instagram Mini-Theory Blog features a few words on why democracy can lose at the ballot box, but that’s not where fascism wins.

Blog Climate Crisis Politics Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: The Kids Are Alright

In our Mini-Theory Blog, Nina talks about the secret good news that came out of a US Midterm election season that still saw fascism claw closer to power.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: Play it Again, Sam

Editor’s note: Our Mini-Theory Blog is a weekday feature on Instagram that examines one key left wing idea, theory, or concept in 2200 keystrokes

Blog Fascism Politics Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: Eichmann Shrugged

In today’s edition of our Instagram Mini-Theory Blog we’re talking about what it does, and doesn’t mean, if and when fascists seize power through elections.

Books FotB socialism Theory Walker

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Evolving Together: Why You Should Read Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid by Chris Walker

Today we welcome back Chris Walker, whose book review encourages us to explore reading leftist theory as an evolution; with an assist from Petr Kropotkin.

Neoliberalism News Police State Social Media

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In the Aggregate: A Neofeudalist Dystopia

In the Aggregate is back, and we’re on a mad dash through the palaces of reaction, violence and wealth; recapping Nina’s social media analysis in October.

Blog FotB Site Updates socialism

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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.

Media Madness News Social Justice Videos

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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

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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.

Essays Neoliberalism Politics socialism

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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.

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