Last week I discussed the meaning of the term comrade, and this week’s blog post was supposed to be, and is, about the limits to power. When I was writing the outline for the post, I realized that the only way to talk about limits to power was to use a case study, since talking about these things in the abstract is not as meaningful as pointing to real life [...]
Last week I wrote about the importance of seizing the American identity. This week, I want to talk about the necessary tension between personal loyalty and institutional loyalty in oppositional politics. Throughout left wing politics, it’s common to hear people call for solidarity. But what does solidarity really mean? Does it mean falling in line with the loudest voices in the room, who declare their actions must be supported by [...]
First in a series on building a new consensus. The nation-state still matters. Although I have met and talked with many people in OO who believe that the nation-state is obsolete, evil and must be abolished, I do not agree. There are quite a few things that the nation-state does that I have not seen as possible otherwise. Among other things, this includes the maintenance of the physical infrastructure of [...]
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