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Books Can't You Read Reviews socialism

NinaIllingworth October 15, 2020April 17, 2025 anarchist literature, anarchist theory, Anarcho-Syndicalism, bigger is not better, blog, Book Blog, Books, bottom up socialism, boycott, CA4, Can't You Read, class war, decentralization, Emma Goldman, General Strike, IWW, labor, labor class, Libcom, libcom dot org, militant unionism, Nicolas Walter, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Offsite Writing, other types of socialism, PDF, peasant politics, peasant rule, peasant socialism, radical unionism, read Rocker online, Reviews, Rudolf Rocker, slowdowns, Socialism, ST2, the class war never ended, Theory, Union, unionism

Book Blog: Anarcho-Syndicalism Theory & Practice

A very brief Book Blog on Can’t You Read featuring a recommendation and link to Rudolf Rocker’s “Anarcho-Syndicalism Theory and Practice.”

Blog Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos

NinaIllingworth September 29, 2020April 16, 2025 absolute boys, Against PragerU, anticapitalism, antifascism, Ayn Rand is an idiot, big government, billionaires fund fascism, blog, Briahna Joy Gray, countering free market propaganda, countering Prager U, debunking, democratic socialism, Dennis Prager is a fascist, digestible ideas, Economics, explainers, Facebook, Facebook Journals, false freedom, fascism, film sessions, freedom propaganda, freedom to sell yourself cheap, how capitalism fails us, Koch Brothers, left wing Youtube, libertarianism, Media Madness, Mike Gravel, MP6, my little leftism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Propaganda, short videos, six minute explainers, social media, Socialism, ST2, teaching leftism, The Gravel Institute, the Gravel teens, the lies wingers tell, think tanks, Video, you love to see it, Youtube, Zephyr Teachout

Film Sessions: Those Darn Gravel Teens

Links to two early Film Sessions prototype posts on Media Madness designed to help The Gravel Institute crush the fascists at PragerU; published Fall, 2020.

Blog Can't You Read Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth September 24, 2020April 20, 2025 Amerikan Musik, antisemitism, blog, Can't You Read, eliminationism, ethnonationalism, FA1, fascism, Hidutva, ideology, Jason Stanley, Media Madness, nationalism, Nina Illingworth, Social Darwinism, ST2, Theory, Trumpism, white nationalism

Fascism, White Nationalism and American Values

Editor’s note: this article was originally published September 24th, 2020 on my Media Madness blog. I’m reposting it, backdated, here on

Blog Essays Fascism News Patreon

NinaIllingworth September 13, 2020November 17, 2022 analysis, blog, blogging, Can't You Read, Essays, fascism, Homework Assignments, Journals, link collections, links to other essays, Media Madness, Media Madness blog, News, Odds and Ends, off site links, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, posts I hate making, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, short essays, small ball update, Tumblr, update

Link: September “Small Ball” Update

Link to a collection of all my recent left wing, off site writing over on my always free to read Patreon blog.

Fascism media Media Madness Police State

NinaIllingworth September 11, 2020April 16, 2025 Amerikan Musik, anti Trump protests, antifa, antifascism, Bill Barr, Bill Barr is a fundie fascist, Black Lives Matter, BLM, blog, Chad Wolf, Christian White Nationalism, Christina Carrega, civil rights violations, CNN, COINTELPRO, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Fox News, JA5, Kyle Rittenhouse, Media, Media Madness, Michael Reinoehl, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, police state, police violence, political assassination, Portland, Proud Boys, Racism, revenge killing, ST2, state sanctioned murder, the Trump administration is fascist, Trump assassinated a guy, Trump is a fascist, Tucker Carlson, U.S. Marshals Service, white nationalism

Media Madness: Law and (the Fascist) Order

A two part essay looking at stories about the Trump Regime’s open fascism that weren’t properly covered by the mainstream American media.

Fascism Media Madness Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth September 5, 2020April 16, 2025 ACAB, against the left, Alt Right, Alt Right means Fascist, Amerikan Musik, antifa, antifascism, blog, Donald Trump, FA1, far right, fascism, fascism and antifascism are NOT the same, George Floyd Protests, horseshoe theory, In These Times, JA5, Joe Biden, Kyle Rittenhouse, Media, Media Madness, Natasha Lennard, neonazi, Nina Illingworth, Noah Berlatsky, Offsite Writing, Pacific Standard Magazine, Police, Politics, protest is legal murder is not, Protesters, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, right wing extremism, right wing terrorism, Rittenhouse is a murderer, ST2, Stanislav Vysotsky, Theory, Vice News

Media Madness Blog: Hamstrung

A short but heavily sourced Media Madness blog from September 2020 that looks at the dangers of pushing horseshoe theory in the fascist moment.

Can't You Read Fascism Journals Social Justice

NinaIllingworth September 3, 2020April 16, 2025 activism, against the left, America is a fascist society, American society, anti fascism at the dinner table, antifa, antifascism, beating social Darwinism, Bircherism, blog, Can't You Read, capitalism, conservative politics, debunking fascists, deplatforming fascists, FA1, fascism, GOP, Hooverism, informal writing, Journals, McCarthyism, neoliberal authoritarianism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, opposing fascism in your every day life, Politics, primed for fascism, pushing back on reactionary thought, reactionary thought, Republican, silence is complicity, Social Darwinism, Social Justice, speaking out, ST2, the American right is fascist

Can’t You Read: The Home Front

A longer Can’t You Read journal that examines the vital importance of fighting the fascist creep on the home front; literally.

Fascism Media Madness News Police State

NinaIllingworth September 1, 2020April 16, 2025 ABC News, ACAB, additional content, Alice Speri, American Prospect, Amerikan Musik, Black Lives Matter, blog, bonus content, Brennan Center for Justice, civil rights violations, Cops, CPUSA, Defund the Police, Department of Justice, FA1, fascism, fascist cops, FBI, George Floyd Protests, George Floyd was murdered, informal writing, JA5, Joel Wendland, John Knefel, Josh Margolin, Kelly Hayes, Kenya Downs, Laura Hazard Owen, Media Madness, Michael German, neonazi cops, News, NiemanLab, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Open Democracy, PBS, Police, police state, Racism, racist cops, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Kuttner, Sam Levin, Simon Purdue, Social Justice, ST2, The Guardian, The Intercept, Truthout, violent neonazi cops, we call them pigs for a reason, white supremacists in law enforcement, white supremacy

Media Madness: Some of Those That Work Forces

This short blog post features something old, something new, and a whole lot of links that prove there’s something rotten about our boys in blue.

Analysis media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth November 22, 2019April 20, 2025 16 negative articles, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, analysis, August, Bernie Blackout, Bernie Sanders, blog, Branko Marcetic, centrist, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, FiveThirtyEight, In These Times, Joe Biden, Liz Warren, manufacturing consent, Media, Media Madness, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, September, WaPo

Analysis: The Bernie Blackout is Very Real

In the lead up to the 2020 Democratic Party Primary race, it’s time for everyone to admit the Bernie Blackout is real and MSNBC has its thumb on the scale.

media Media Madness Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth November 21, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Bernie Sanders, blog, campaigning against Bernie, CIA Pete, corporate media, Democratic Party, Dollar Store Macron, Douglass Plan, Essays, going through the motions, JA5, liberalism, Mayo Pete, Mayor Pete is kinda racist, Media, media bias, Media Madness, MP6, muppet, neoliberalism, not authentic, Pete Buttigieg, Politics, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Social Justice, South Bend, whiteness

Link: Fear, Loathing and Mayonnaise in the 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest

A link to my most recent Media Madness essay examining the mainstream media’s obviously biased coverage in favor of new Bernie-Slayer, Pete Buttigieg.

Books Can't You Read Capitalism Quotes

NinaIllingworth November 20, 2019April 20, 2025 2008 Financial Crisis, blog, book review, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, class warfare, Democratic Party, labor, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, Rendezvous with Oblivion, Thomas Frank

Books: Rendezvous with Oblivion by Thomas Frank

A book review of Thomas Frank’s Rendezvous with Oblivion and a short discussion about the wreckage of neoliberalism in modern American society.

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