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

Books Essays media Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth May 31, 2019November 5, 2022 anticommunism, antifascism, austerity, Books, CA4, Canada, capitalism, Chris Hedges, Citizen's United, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, class war, climate catastrophe, COINTELPRO, cold war, corruption, Deep Dives, democratic rights, Essays, FA1, fascism, FBI, Glenn Greenwald, Greece, Ibram X Kendi, inverted totalitarianism, Jane Mayer, Jim Crow, lobbying, Margin Notes, mass surveillance, Media, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, plutocrats, quotations, Quotes, Red Scare, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the Palmer Raids, UK, Wages of Rebellion, War on Terror, Yanis Varoufakis

Margin Notes: Wages of Rebellion and the Inversion Perversion in the Pig Empire

A deep look at the way the underlying logic behind our rights and freedoms are inverted to help the wealthy few at the expense of the many – featuring a quotation from “Wages of Rebellion” by Chris Hedges.

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.

Books Can't You Read Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 8, 2019November 5, 2022 2020 Election, America is still segregated, American history, anti-racism, blockbusting, book review, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, colonialism, colorblind racism, covert white supremacy, Donald Trump, Economics, exploitation, FA1, fascism, History, history of racist ideas, Ibram X Kendi, JA5, Joe Biden, neocolonialism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, NIMBYism, Nina Illingworth, Not In My Back Yard, Offsite Writing, Politics, Racism, racism is profitable for some, racist ideas, Reviews, segregation, Social Justice, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the economics of racism, white supremacy

Stamped From the Beginning, NIMBYs & Blockbusting

Links to an offsite review of Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning, and a discussion about NIMBY liberal racism in the context of the 2020 election.

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.

Climate Crisis Neoliberalism Patreon War

NinaIllingworth April 30, 2019November 5, 2022 activism, CA4, capitalism, capitalism is mass murder, CC3, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, colonialism, Doomer poetry, emotional writing, environmental activism, Essays, extinction event, extraction of rents, FA1, financialization, fossil fuels, globalization, Imperialism, informal writing, JA5, Journals, killing people for profit, left wing theory, Left Wing Theory Page, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Marxist historian, mass murder, neocolonialism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, plutocracy, Protest, Rent Your Life, rich people are trying to kill you, Socialism, ST2, technocracy, Theory, war, war on the environment, WD7, We Live Lies, yes it's that bad

No Illusions (About How Bad It Is)

A link to a Patreon Blog essay discussion the bald-faced reality that rich people are absolutely trying to murder you for profit.

Books Can't You Read Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth January 19, 2019November 5, 2022 African slavery, America as a corporation, America as a public private partnership, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, blog, Books, British Crown, Can't You Read, capitalism, chattel slavery, Christianity and colonialism, colonialism, colonists, colonization, cotton, Crown sponsored corporations, Essays, European colonialism, FA1, fascism, firearms, firearms and white supremacy, foundational myths, genocide, guns, Imperialism, Indigenous nations, Indigenous people, informal writing, JA5, land theft, legacy of colonialism, legacy of fascism, Loaded, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, mass murder, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Quotes, Racism, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Second Amendment, settler-colonial corporate enterprise, slavery, Social Justice, ST2, the project of colonialism, US history, war, white supremacy, whiteness

Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded & America as a Corporate Enterprise

A link to an offsite essay about Roxanne Dubar-Ortiz’s “Loaded” and the true and terrifying origins of the American capitalist project.

Books Can't You Read Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 6, 2019November 5, 2022 activism, anti-racism, Assata Shakur, Assata was framed, Assata: An Autobiography, attacks on protesters, Black Panther Party, Black power, blog, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, Civil Rights movement, COINTELPRO, coverup, Cuba, establishment power, exile, exploitation, FA1, FBI, federal police, frame up, Hoover, informal writing, JA5, liberal antiracism is a joke, liberalism, liberals, lie, MLK, Police, police state, policing, Racism, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, state power, the myth of tolerance, war on the Black Panthers, white liberals, white moderate

Assata is Innocent & the Myth of Moderate Liberal Tolerance

A link to a short Can’t You Read discussion about the innocence of Assata Shakur and the failure of white moderate liberal anti-racism.

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

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Police State

NinaIllingworth March 14, 2018November 5, 2022 anarchists, austerity, Black Identity Extremists, death penalty, death squads, Democrats, dog whistle, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, fake terror threats, fake war on cops, fascism, FBI, hate crime, Howard Dean scream, JA5, Jeff Sessions, Justice, Mass incarceration, McResistance, Media, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, opioid crisis, police state, Politics, Racism, radical Islam, reactionary violence, Republican, revanchist, Rodrigo Duterte, ST2, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Vichy Democrats, vigilante justice, war on drugs, white nationalism

Strung Out and Hunted Beneath a Killing Moon

I’m back and this time we’re staring into the dark abyss of Trump’s unhinged comments about seeking the death penalty for drug dealers as an answer to the American opioid crisis.