Experiments in co-operative economics started in the colonial era
THE FANTASY ROBOTS OF BOSTON DYNAMICS
Relax—we’re a lot further away from an automaton takeover than you may think
SAFE SPACE SOCIALISM
Is identity politics running wild in Boston DSA? In 1979, I attended a meeting in Boston between the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the New American Movement (NAM). Its purpose was to explore a possible merger between the two organizations. DSOC, which came from a split in the old Socialist Party, was […]
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOW OUR VERSION OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT
What Are We Going to Do About It? My wife’s family on her mother’s side are French Jews who escaped from the Germans who occupied France in 1940. First they moved from their home in Paris to the southern part of the country, which was ruled by the Vichy regime of Marshall Petain. Two […]
WHAT KIND OF REVOLUTION IS BERNIE SANDERS LAUNCHING?
Sanders’ revolution is certainly not the kind of armed insurrection that has been the dominant historical fact of the last two centuries, giving birth to nearly all countries in the world today.
