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Blog Capitalism Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth May 22, 2025May 23, 2025 austerity, authoritarianism, Big Beautiful Bill, blog, budget, CA4, capitalism, Christian nationalism, class war, courts, dictatorship, Donald Trump, El Salvador, FA1, fascism, GOP, Justice, labor class, law, Mike Johnson, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, Politics, reconciliation bill, Republican Party, Robert Reich, SCOTUS, US Congress, US Constitution

Nina-Bytes: Reconciliation and a US Enabling Act

Under the cover of darkness House Republicans slipped a provision into their budget bill that would, at least temporarily, allow Donald Trump to be a dictator.

Austerity Blog Capitalism Politics

NinaIllingworth May 13, 2025May 20, 2025 austerity, Big Beautiful Bill, budget, CA4, capitalism, CBO, class war, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, GOP, healthcare, labor class, looting, means testing, Medicaid, Mike Johnson, MP6, murder, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, Politics, poverty, reconciliation bill, Republican Party, SNAP, social programs, theft, US Congress, US Senate, work requirements

Nina-Bytes: Theft, Murder, and the GOP Reconciliation Budget

The GOP is giving rich people hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks and they want to pay for it by slashing healthcare and starving poor people.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Theory

NinaIllingworth November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 all billionaires are oligarchs, anarchism, anticapitalism, anticapitalist theory, billionaire fascists, blog, CA4, capitalism, carbon emissions, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, exploitation, extractivism, FA1, fascism, global warming, instagram, labor class, leftism, Mini Theory Blog, misogyny, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, pig empire, revolutionary theory, rigged oligarchy, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, the Patriarchy, Theory, why you should be anticapitalist

Mini-Theory Blog: First Order Consideration

Today we’re trying to succinctly answer the most important question of our time; why you should be an anticapitalist if you don’t want to die for rich people.

Blog FotB Site Updates socialism

NinaIllingworth May 12, 2021November 5, 2022 a business designed to lose money, A Little Help From My Friends, anarchism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Announcement, anti-racism, anticapitalism, antifascism, blogging, burning money, capitalism, Chris Walker, class consciousness, class war, content notice, critical theory, critical thinking, decolonization, Facebook, FotB, Friends of the Blog, hot take economy, intersectionality, IWW, JA5, labor class, labor class content, left wing politics, left wing theory, leftism, Marxism, more articles, more content, MP6, new writers, NIDC Project, Nina Illingworth, sharing, Site Updates, social media, solidarity, ST2, the dark art of outrage clicks, the tyranny of rent, Twitter, volume posting, whiteness

Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends

After five long years of trying to go it alone on my eponymously named website, I’m finally in a position to compensate some Friends of the Blog to help produce more content; find out more inside.

Essays Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos

NinaIllingworth February 1, 2021April 22, 2025 analysis, CA4, capitalism, class war, Essays, Fight for $15, film sessions, JT Chapman, labor, labor class, labor rights, left wing Youtube, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Media Madness, minimum wage, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, owner class, Picture Show, Politics, poverty wages, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Second Thought, Six Things I Think, Socialism, ST2, Theory, Video, we are labor class, working class, Youtube

Film Sessions: Minimum Wage Debate Explained by Second Thought

Looking at the secret class war hidden inside the debate around the American minimum wage, with a new video by Second Thought.

Can't You Read Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 24, 2020April 17, 2025 analysis, anti-racism, antifa, Assata Shakur, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Can't You Read, class, class war, coalition building, critical race theory, democratic socialism, Denise DaSilva, diverse coalitions, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Emma Goldman, Essays, FA1, identity politics, JA5, James Baldwin, labor class, leftism, Malcolm X, marginalized leftists, Michelle Alexander, MLK, MP6, Nell Irvin Painter, neofeudalism, neoliberal identity politics, neoliberal multiculturalism, neoliberalism, non white leftists, Offsite Writing, Op-Ed, Opinion, organizing, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, The Black Panthers, the Invention of the White Race, the labor class left, the Sanders left, Theodore Allen, Theory, WD7, weaponized identity politics, WEB Du Bois, whiteness

Essay: On Whiteness, Identity Politics & the Pig Empire Left (Link)

A longer, heavily sourced essay about why vast portions of the labor class left need to get over their reactionary ideas about what identity politics actually means; before history and shifting demographics leave them behind.

Essays media Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 15, 2020April 17, 2025 $15 minimum wage, 2024 US Election, Adolph Reed Jr, Alex Jones, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, anti war, anti-establishment right, anti-globalization, antifa, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Bidenism, Black Lives Matter, CA4, class reductionism, class theory, class warfare, climate catastrophe, Covid 19, Covid eugenics, Democratic Party, Essays, informal writing, intersectionality, Jimmy Dore, Joe Biden, labor class, left wing organizing, left wing theory, leftism, Mea Culpas, Media, Medicare for all, neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, online drama, online left, Opinion, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, police violence, Politics, populism, progressive caucus, social media, Socialism, the Sanders left, Theory, Tulsi Gabbard, Twitter, universal healthcare, Wall Street corruption, Youtube

Essay: On Mea Culpas, the Populist Alliance & the Young American Left (Link)

A link to a (free to read) Patreon Blog essay that looks at online Twitter drama, declaring war on Bidenist neoliberalism and why anti-identity politics populism is cancer for the left.

Books Can't You Read Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth November 21, 2020April 17, 2025 a Marxist analysis of fascism, ACAB, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, blog, Book Blog, Books, books about fascism, capitalism, capitalism breeds fascism, class war, communism, communist writing, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, Fascism What It Is and How to Fight It, great books, great Marxist thinkers, Hooverism, how to fight fascism, labor, labor class, left wing theory, Leon Trotsky, Leon Trotsky quotes, liberal democracies, Marxism, Marxist Theory, Marxist writing, neoliberal authoritarianism, neoliberalism breeds fascism, PDF, police state, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Socialism, socialist writing, ST2, the fascist moment, Theory, Trotsky quotes, Trumpism

Book Blog “Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It” by Leon Trotsky

A short Book Blog on Can’t You Read featuring Leon Trotsky quotes, a blurb about Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It, and a link to read the book.

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.”

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth April 6, 2020April 16, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Andrew Cuomo, anti establishment, Bernie Sanders, CA4, class, class and race, class war, class warfare, coronavirus, coronavirus relief package, corporate takeover, Corporation America, Covid eugenics, Demolition Man economy, Econ, economic segregation, Essays, illegitimate, Iowa Democratic Party, JA5, Joe Biden, Joe Biden Drop Out. Democratic Party, labor, labor class, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, organizing around class, Patreon, Patreon Journal, Politics, revolution, rigged, service industry, Social Justice, social media, ST2, The Skinny, whiteness

Link: The Skinny – Crisis And Class War, April 2020

Link to Nina’s latest collection of social media essays. In this edition: economic segregation, the importance of organizing around class and why the 2020 Dem Party nomination contest is already illegitimate.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth October 28, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Bernie Sanders, Bircher nonsense, blog, Brooks Brothers Riot, CA4, class war, confronting fascism, democratic socialism, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, fascism, history of liberalism, how liberalism works, labor class, left wing theory, liberalism, Liz Warren is a muppet, Matt Gaetz, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, PMC, political history, Political Theory, Politics, Professional Class, professional managerial class, Socialism, technocratic incrementalism, technocrats, The Skinny, Theory, Trump impeachment, US politics, why liberals lose, working class

The Skinny: a Liberal Lexicon

A collection of informal journal writing; this time we’re talking about liberalism and the American political imagination.

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