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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.

Climate Crisis Essays News Politics

NinaIllingworth May 24, 2019November 17, 2022 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Alt Right, anti-climate science, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Beto ORourke, big business, border militias, Bush, capitalism, CC3, Chuck Schumer, climate change, Climate Chaos, Climate Crisis, Corporate Fascism, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialists, Deregulation, DNC, Donald Trump, Donations, DSA, ecofascism, Economics, EPA, Essays, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, fracking, GOP, Joe Biden, Koch Brothers, libertarians, Mercer family, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, Naomi Klein, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Palooka Joe, Pinkertons, plutocrats, Politics, reactionary, Reagan, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, right wing paramilitaries, Scott Pruitt, Silicon Valley, Six Things I Think, Stephen Miller, Tea Party, Tech Bros, the Green New Deal, Tom Perez, white nationalism

Six Things I Think: Tomb-World Politics Edition

Climate Catastrophe is unquestionably the single most important issue of our era; which is why it’s now become a full time culture war battleground in America.

Patreon Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth May 18, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Politics

NinaIllingworth May 16, 2019April 13, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, African Americans, analysis, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Biden is a racist, Biden worked with segregationists, capitalism, CBC, Congressional Black Caucus, democratic socialism, Essays, Fantastic Lies, forecasting, Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kingmaking, liberal establishment, Media, Media Madness, media narratives, money in politics, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, rigged, screwing Bernie, Socialism, South Carolina, the plot to stop Bernie, The War Between Us, voter demographics

Kingmaking on Media Madness

A painfully accurate 2020 Dem nomination forecast that I nevertheless managed to ignore when picking Sanders to win; on Media Madness.

Books Can't You Read Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth May 8, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Blog media Media Madness Sports War

NinaIllingworth May 7, 2019April 13, 2025 Adam Silver, Bill Clinton, Black Grantland, blog, CA4, capitalism, corporate propaganda, ESPN, Fantastic Lies, genocide, Golden State Warriors, human rights violations, Kagame is a butcher, Kevin Durant, Masai Ujiri, massacre of Hutus, Media, Media Madness, NBA, NBA Africa, NBA loves war criminal Kagame, NBA supports genocide, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Paul Kagame, pig empire, Propaganda, Rwanda, Rwandan genocide, Rwandan Patriotic Front, Sports, The Undefeated, War Crimes, war criminal, WD7, white washing a mass murderer

Bonzo Goes to Bitburg: NBA Edition, on Media Madness

A quick Blog on Media Madness about why the NBA and ESPN can get stuffed after feting genocidal killer Paul Kagame during a Warriors playoff game.

Neoliberalism Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth May 4, 2019April 13, 2025 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, 2019April 13, 2025 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, 2019April 13, 2025 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, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

Blog Books Can't You Read Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth December 29, 2018April 13, 2025 2008 Financial Crisis, activism, Alan Greenspan, austerity, Ayn Rand, bailout, banker, blog, book review, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism as religion, casino, corporate welfare, Deregulation, Essays, FEC, Federal Exchange Commission, Foreclosure Crisis, Fraud, free market fundamentalism, Griftopia, hot money, investment banking, laissez faire, Matt Taibbi, Meme, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Racism, speculators, the fraud economy, Theory

Blog: Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan & Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia

A collection of links to my writing about Taibbi’s Griftopia, including an essay about Ayn Rand & Alan Greenspan.