Perhaps now, more than ever, intellectual observers of American politics and the wider public are troubled by the prospect of a second American Civil War. The increased political polarization with President Trump looking to impose executive authority over state authority and the sharp ideological divide between democratic and republican constituencies
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which toppled the US backed authoritarian regime under the Shah Iran has been an enemy of US imperialism. The intelligence community coined the term "blow back" to refer to the revolution and the regime it produced because the US backing of the
Anarchist YouTuber Andrewism presented something of a critique of working class centered politics in his most recent video, naming Anarcho-Syndicalism in specific as a form of working class politics which could serve certain important functions in the liberation of humanity from the domination of work, but would have to be
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
