Many agree that the flash floods and landslides that occurred in three provinces in Sumatra were not natural disasters, but rather ecological ones. Nature cannot be solely blamed when the State's political decisions caused these disasters, rendering them unmanageable and costing thousands of lives. When the disaster struck
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
Long before Nazism became the definitive symbol of antisemitism, despotism, and xenophobia, an earlier generation of far-right ideologues was already constructing conspiracy theories and promoting the expulsion and extermination of minority populations. Today, with the rise of democratic right-wing populism and the normalization of illiberal conservative ideas, an odd ripple
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&
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Reflections on the August-September Wave of Demonstrations in Indonesia
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
Recently, Indonesia has been shocked by news of the ban on flying the black flag from the Japanese anime and manga created by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece. One Piece has long been a growing companion for Indonesians. Although it originates from Japan, it is deeply rooted in Indonesian culture. The
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
01: Digital Futures Sometime in the near future, data centers will be established in the United States and China to house the many digital nations that were once island nations from around the world. These nations, lost to the rising waters of climate catastrophe, are targeted by digital nationalists and
Historically, social change was fuelled by widespread distress—poverty, class oppression, and economic disparity—leading to peasant revolts. These revolts typically focused on immediate local targets, such as high taxes and exorbitant interest from landlords, but were inherently limited in scope and lacked a comprehensive revolutionary plan to end oppression
