What in the hell …

So several folk around this corner of the bloggiverse are going to use some fancy web technology to coordinate us reading some Marx together, to up our interaction density. I’m pretty sure we’re going to read ch25 of v1 of Capital. Other folk are of course welcome to join in. The idea is simple - read the chapter, post on it, read others’ posts, make comments and conversation. Should be fun. (more…)

My sympathies decline a good deal at the edges of the bargaining unit, so to speak, but I recognize that that some bosses are worse than others. It’s still important to read these in a way that ups one’s anger, not lessens it - other bosses are not better because some are inhumanly evil.

One of these days when I finally feel like I’m ahead of the curve on at least some of the things I have on my plate (and when I’ve stopped mixing my metaphors) I’d like to work up some of the following. And so, notes to self. (more…)

If I made a laundry list of the influences that shaped my gut level impulses about intellectual and cultural stuff, punk rock and marxism would be really close to the top. (more…)

The Obama-kkkrats and their nazi marxist death panel fascist socialism… they must be stopped! The roots of their power lie in an institution whose communist tinge is only too obvious: the fire department, with their red trucks and their identical uniforms. We must band together to stop them! Only by abolishing fire departments can we truly prevent socialized medicine.

For some reason some of this stuff popped into my head as I was walking my dog tonight, I figured I’d type it out. (more…)

So on one of those stupid social networking sites I got into an argument with a guy I know. I quipped something to the effect that let’s say we agree for the sake of argument that ‘the public option’ for health care is socialist, and that anything socialist is bound to fail. The same basic reasoning (or rather, “reasoning”) would mean that the fire department, police, and military are both socialist and bound to fail. A guy I know responded with a version of my titular question. I wrote a long reply, long enough that I figure I’ll toss it up here. (more…)

I don’t like politicians but this is pretty awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8&e