Reason in Revolt

Recent posts

Jul 16, 2022
Why “Socially Responsible Investing”, divestment campaings, and other schemes are doomed to fail
I recently read a blog post analyzing various purported “socially responsible investing” (SRI) products and showing how they were anything but.…
Mar 24, 2022
The 7 coordinates of human society
There is a nice idea – which I learned from the work of David Harvey (or in podcast form) – of analyzing society in terms of a number of “moments”, or aspects of society at a given moment in time.…
Feb 8, 2022
The capitalist class is not the primary enemy
A lot of socialist rhetoric focuses on framing the capitalist class as the primary enemy of socialists and of the working class.…
Jan 1, 2022
Using mathematical language to strengthen the movement towards communism
In a series of blog posts I have written, and probably in more that I will write in the future, I explain my understanding of Marxist ideas in partially mathematical terms.…
Jan 1, 2022
Words and ideas are material
During the most recent DSA meeting, a comrade argued against expelling Jamaal Bowman by stating that the resolution to expel him was “resolutionary socialism” – that is, that those who proposed it were just doing a lot of huffing and puffing, and not seriously engaging in the task of building real power.…