November Small Ball Update
A (now redundant) roundup of all of Nina’s smaller posts in October and November; including Facebook Journal and Can’t You Read links we’ve never shared until now on ninaillingworth.com.
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Rec Reads
No Forward Progress on Can’t You Read (Link)
“The Trump coup is a flop, twitchy contrarians are trying to convince you it was never fascism in the first place and a significant portion of America is about to take its eyes off the rise of a violent, reactionary fascist movement spreading across the entire Pig Empire. That’s a huge mistake according to our intrepid analyst.
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Opening Pandora’s Box on Can’t You Read (Link)
With Trump’s coup seemingly ground to a halt, it’s time to celebrate the end of the fascist moment – isn’t it? Not so fast says analyst Nina Illingworth. By combining some brief observations on the seemingly-doomed Trumpist “chicken coup,” and a link to a vitally important article by Indi Samarajiva about why even a failed reactionary coup is a disaster for a society that calls itself a democracy, our intrepid author debunks the still quite dangerous idea that we’ve survived the Swine Emperor and everything is going to go back to normal soon.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Links: Liberal Anti-Fascism in “Alt-America” and Malcolm Nance’s Russiagate Grift – New Review and Essay
Links to my latest essay (about Malcolm Nance and Russiagate) and my most recent book review (about David Neiwert’s Alt-America.)
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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.
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Matthew Yglesias is a Disingenuous Bootlicker on Media Madness
Let’s just stop for a moment and marvel at what a bloodless, mendacious piece of human pig manure Mathew Yglesias is; on Media Madness.
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Link: Theory Discussion A Working Definition of Neofeudalism – New Essay
As dystopian as neoliberal capitalism is, adding coercion and corporate recapture to the mix has created a new form of anti-labor extractivism: neofeudalism.
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