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Venezuela and Tensions of the Left
A while back there was a Reddit argument between a Marxist and an anarchist. They were having the usual debate about what happens when a movement takes state power. The anarchist said something along...
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Drop the Faux Condi Controversy Already
The internets are up in arms that Dropbox has named Condoleezza Rice to their board. What the hell is the point? Newsflash. Companies are “led” by awful people. I have written before about working for...
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Identity, Decolonization, and Justice
A friend of mine posted this to facebook. One of the commenters asked how far back we are supposed to go. The thing about colonization, land grabs, genocide, slavery, gentrification – whatever...
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Airbnb – Profiles of Gentrification
I’m going to an event in New York this June and I was thinking about using Airbnb. But then I saw this article. As many as 7,500 San Francisco housing units are kept off of the rental market and are...
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Unincorporate the Worst Company in the World
Adbusters has a new thing. They are asking us to vote on the worst company in the world. The idea is to have a campaign to revoke their corporate status. They are calling it the birth of the corporate...
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Reparations and Aspirations: In Response to Coates and Connolly
Thanks to Ta-Nehisi Coates, people are talking about reparations. Which is great. But we appear to be dancing around what facing our history would necessarily mean for our future. And we don’t appear...
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Hijacking the Sharing Economy
There have been a slew of articles lately about how services like Airbnb and Lyft signal the “rise of the sharing economy.” Forbes says it is “unstoppable” and includes a cover that asks “Who wants to...
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On the BRICS Bank and Missed Opportunities
You have probably heard about the new BRICS bank. There were a lot of celebratory posts on my Facebook and Twitter feeds. I can’t say that really surprised me. But I am a little disappointed. I can...
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How Consumers Choose Their Corporate Masters
Nonprofit Quarterly has a piece about how nonprofit nursing homes outperform for-profit ones. It got me thinking about the categories that we put organizations into and the criteria by which we judge...
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Robots and Revolution
On Friday I put up a link to Kevin Carson’s post called Capitalism, Not Technological Unemployment, is the Problem. He says, The problem arises, not from the increased efficiency, but from the larger...
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What Do You Mean By Leader? Why Don’t You Just Say That Then?
How is it that so many people are stuck in The Highlander method of getting things done? Let’s just strike the word leader from our vocabulary. No more Oprah comments about leaderlessness in social...
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Thinking of Calling 911? Reconsider.
In 2012, Prison Culture posted a little story.* The author’s friend wrote: I saw a toddler running down Ashland barefooted and wearing very little clothing. No one was in sight. A month ago, I know...
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If Education is Indoctrination, How Do We Refuse?
For about five years now, I have been volunteering with an adult literacy program in DC. That is a couple hundred Monday nights that I spent reading (mostly) black history with my “learner.” (The...
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