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

NinaIllingworth August 4, 2024August 4, 2024 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, antifascism, blog, Christian Zionism, CUFI, FA1, fascism, GOP, Mini Theory Blog, Moms for Liberty, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nina Illingworth, Opus Dei, Politics, Project 2025, Propaganda, Proud Boys, Silicon Valley, Tech-authoritarians, the Heritage Foundation, Theory, Triumph of the Will, Trump, Umberto Eco

Fascism: A Patchwork Mockery of Movement Politics

Despite propaganda to the contrary fascist movements are neither unified in rhetoric, nor uniform in appearance; what binds them is violent reactionary hatred.

Image of graffiti saying "No Cop City" on a concrete lane divider, covered in slightly overgrown forest plants and grasses. Image is posterized.

Activism Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth September 11, 2023September 10, 2023 1985 MOVE Bombing, 2020 Uprising, abolition, activism, anarchism, Bill Barr, Chris Carr, Civil Rights, COINTELPRO, Defund the Police, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, George Floyd, Haymarket bombing, IWW, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Justice, labor organization, McCarthyism, Michael Reinoehl, Occupy Wall Street, Police, police state, RICO Act, Social Justice, ST2, Stop Cop City, The War on Sharing, Theory, Tortuguita

Mini-Theory Blog: the War on Sharing Escalates in Georgia

Nina talks about why attempts to criminalize protest itself and anarchist ideology in Georgia, are part of America’s long war on sharing and the left.

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Books Capitalism Quotes Theory

NinaIllingworth August 29, 2023 2008 Financial Crisis, antifascism, Book Blog, Books, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, David Graeber, Debt, FA1, fascism, genocide, geohell, History, mutual aid, neoliberalism, oligarchy, Propaganda, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, revolution, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, The War on Sharing, Theory

Quickshot Quotation: Debt and Rebirth

Building off a Graeber quote from Debt, Nina briefly touches on the war on sharing, the idea killing machine, and why we discuss alternatives to capitalism.

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Capitalism Climate Crisis Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate power, Covid, Eugenics, extractivism, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, funding fascism, global boiling, Malthusianism, Mini Theory Blog, oil, pandemic, pig empire, Propaganda, ruling class, ST2, the fascist creep, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Let’s Start at the End

In order to understand the news in hellworld, you first have to understand why rising fascism, climate crisis, and Covid eugenics are all the same problem.

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Capitalism media Social Media Theory

NinaIllingworth August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 AI, antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, Cory Doctorow, Elon Musk, enshitification, Facebook, fascism, free internet, information environment, left wing organizing, left wing theory, LLM, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, social media, ST2, Theory, Twitter, walled garden

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 Capitalism Pandemic Theory

NinaIllingworth December 14, 2022 anti lockdown protests, anti-fascism, anti-vax death cult, anticapitalism, blog, capitalism, Charles Koch, China, Covid 19, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, Covid is not over, dark money, Eugenics, fascism, fascist ideology, herd immunity is fake, high church of capitalism, IMTB, instagram, killing grandma for profit, Koch network, Kochtopus, labor rights, Mini Theory Blog, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new cold war, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, paying fascists to reopen the economy, pig empire, profits over people, Propaganda, QAnon, Socialism, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Capitalism, Covid, and the Fascist Creep

The biggest Covid story the media isn’t reporting is the fact that right wing billionaires are funding the campaign to pretend it’s over, for their own profit.

Blog Capitalism Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 9, 2022 Alexis de Tocqueville, anticapitalism, blog, CA4, can't separate liberalism from capitalism, capitalism, civics, Civil Rights, class war, contradictions of capitalism, Democracy, Democracy in America, democratic rights, Freedom, human rights, ideology, liberal ideology, liberalism, liberalism is a capitalist ideology, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, political economy, Political Theory, Politics, practice of liberalism, ST2, the Enlightenment, Theory, theory and praxis, wage slavery, why liberalism fails the exploited

Mini-Theory Blog: Practical Realities

What happens when the ideals of liberalism contradict with the reality that it’s subordinate to capital accumulation? There’s no need to ask; you’re living it.

Blog Fascism Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth December 6, 2022 abolition, Amerikan Musik, bipartisan white supremacy, blog, concentration camps, decolonization, FA1, fascism, free market fundamentalism, instagram, JA5, Justice, Mass incarceration, migrant crisis, Migrant Rights, Mini Theory Blog, nativism, neoliberalism, neoliberalism breeds fascism, Nina Illingworth, Politics, private prisons, racialized incarceration, Social Justice, ST2, the War on Migrants, Theory, US politics, WD7, white supremacy, xenophobia

Mini-Theory Blog: Unspoken Agreements

A brief look at how bipartisan immigration policy and migrant concentration camps pave the way for fascist politics to succeed in the Pig Empire.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Theory

NinaIllingworth November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 accumulation of capital, anticapitalism, anticapitalist theory, blog, CA4, capitalism, capitalism as religion, capitalism doesn't create wealth, capitalism versus climate, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, colonialism, commons, contradictions of capitalism, crisis of capitalism, ecofascism, ecological collapse, extractivism, extractivism will kill us all, fascism, forced labor, free market fundamentalism, genocide, looting of the commons, Mini Theory Blog, Nina Illingworth, organized looting, pig empire, rentier class, slavery, Socialism, ST2, stealing, The End of the Line, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: The End of the Line

What happens when capital’s refusal to resolve its most pressing contradiction threatens the entire species? Our response to climate crisis holds the answer.

Blog Climate Crisis Pandemic Theory

NinaIllingworth November 24, 2022 anticapitalism, blog, boiling frog, CA4, capitalism, Capitalism and Climate Crisis, Capitalist Propaganda, CC3, climate catastrophy, Climate Crisis, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, covid isn't over, death cult, ecofascism, Eugenics, fossil fuels, genocidal intent, genocide, instagram, long covid, mass murder for profit, medical science, Mini Theory Blog, Nina Illingworth, no plan to save humanity, pandemic, pig empire, pretend is not a strategy, racialized outcomes, Social Justice, social media, ST2, Theory, white supremacy

Mini-Theory Blog: Genocidal Outcomes

Talking briefly about the ways the Pig Empire’s inadequate Covid 19 response forecasts our ecofascist future under impending climate catastrophe.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Theory

NinaIllingworth November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 all billionaires are oligarchs, anarchism, anticapitalism, anticapitalist theory, billionaire fascists, blog, CA4, capitalism, carbon emissions, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, exploitation, extractivism, FA1, fascism, global warming, instagram, labor class, leftism, Mini Theory Blog, misogyny, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, pig empire, revolutionary theory, rigged oligarchy, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, the Patriarchy, Theory, why you should be anticapitalist

Mini-Theory Blog: First Order Consideration

Today we’re trying to succinctly answer the most important question of our time; why you should be an anticapitalist if you don’t want to die for rich people.

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