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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 Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 10, 2022November 17, 2022 antifascism, blog, Civil Rights, Democracy, Democratic Party, democratic rights, FA1, fascism, gerrymandering, GOP, House of Representatives, Mark Stern, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Politics, protect voting rights, racialized voter suppression, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican Party, rigged election, SCOTUS, SCOTUS coup, Slate, US Midterm Elections, voting rights, Voting Rights Act, VRA

Recommended Reading: Spoils of Culture War

Nina shares and analyzes one of the few insightful post-midterm election articles in mainstream media to ask, “wait why did the GOP take the House exactly?”

Blog Fascism Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Adolf Eichmann, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, blog, chicken coup, Civil Rights, Democratic Party, democratic rights, electoral politics, FA1, fascism, fascist coup, fascist creep, GOP, instagram, January 6th 2021, left wing theory, legal fascism, Little Eichmanns, Mini Theory Blog, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, pogroms, Politics, Pork Reich, Republicans, smash fascism, social media, Socialism, ST2, Theory, Trumpism, US midterms

Mini-Theory Blog: Eichmann Shrugged

In today’s edition of our Instagram Mini-Theory Blog we’re talking about what it does, and doesn’t mean, if and when fascists seize power through elections.

Blog Fascism Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2022November 17, 2022 Amerikan Musik, anti-trans pogrom, antifascism, antisemitism, blog, Chuck Idelson, Civil Rights, conspiracy theories, Crime, Democratic Party, democratic rights, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, GOP, Great Replacement Theory, homophobia, Jim Crow fascism, Justice, Media, MP6, National Nurses United, Nina Illingworth, NNU, police state, political violence, Politics, Pork Reich, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republicans, SCOTUS, Social Justice, stochastic terrorism, The Big Lie, trans rights, Trumpism, US midterms, voter intimidation, voter suppression, Voting, warning, Weimar America, white nationalist

Recommended Reading: Stakes on the Ground

In today’s Recommended Reading we debunk GOP-friendly political gaslighting about American fascism; the threat is real and everybody knows it.

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.