The state is synonymous with sovereign political power; that is the state is the institution which claims the exclusive legal right to control over violence within a delaminated territory. States are a fairly new institution given that for most of the time human beings have existed they have lived in
The United States has captured Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro and his wife to try them in New York on drug trafficking. This was done via a large-scale military operation in which US forces bombed Venezuelan territory, at the time of writing it is unclear how many Venezuelans were killed. The
One feature of human consciousness is that mental states such as beliefs and desires are "about" other things. Fear of spiders is about spiders. My belief in freedom and justice is about freedom and justice. A thirsty person's desire for water is about water. This aboutness
Recently Majesty of Reason, a philosophical YouTube channel run by a Philosophy PHD student hosted a debate on the philosophy of mind between materialist philosopher David Papineau and dualist philosopher Brian Cutter. The philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of consciousness, it concerns questions
Democratic socialism is a polysemous phrase, that is a phrase with multiple partly related senses. Socialism is polysemous in itself, but in its case it's arguable that only one of those senses is useful for categorizing a real ideological phenomenon. In the case of democratic socialism, the phrase
US president Donald Trump recently designated antifa a terrorist organization. Antifa is a loose social movement based around opposition to right-wing politics. For Trump the move is mostly an extension of his attempt to turn the United States into a right-wing autocracy, similar to Orban's Hungary and Putin&
Global south countries have recently experienced an explosion of generation Z unrest. No longer willing to deal with corruption, inequality, and lack of basic services Generation Z has convulsed Peru, Madagascar, Morrocco, Nepal, and the Philippines. They have taken their symbol from the manga One Piece in which a pirate
Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim democratic socialist running for New York City mayor. He has been smeared for his pro-Palestinian stance being a Muslim active in US politics where even as Israel's genocide in Gaza unfolds before our eyes, the political establishment of the United States is still
Anarcho-Syndicalism is the main revolutionary strategy of the historical Anarchist movement. The oldest Anarchist international organization: International Workers' Association, is Anarcho-Syndicalist. Anarcho-Syndicalism was the framework in which Anarchism achieved its biggest political success in the form of the social revolution which took place during the Spanish Civil War from
On the day this is being written MAGA leader, Trump confidant, and founder of conservative organization Turning Point USA was killed by a shooter during a public Q and A. Political violence in the United States is on the rise with this not being the only political assassination this year
Donald Trump has repeatedly failed to get the magic deal he wants between Russia and Ukraine enlarging the disturbing prospect that this one, as John Mearsheimer says, will be decided on the battlefield. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and over a million displaced by the invasion of