I usually use the translate feature on my iPhone for reading, but for this repost, I’ve used Google Translate. While some nuance may be lost, I hope the “gist” remains clear. I haven’t parsed every linked source yet, but I find myself in deep agreement with Gustavo Horta’s critique of “Demo-cracias.”
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When Radical Politics Leave Women Behind
Crickets and Cold War Propaganda
The Great Lecture Hall in the Sky: Michael Parenti (1933–2026)
The Great Lecture Hall in the Sky: Michael Parenti (1933–2026)
Michael Parenti died today at 92, peacefully, surrounded by family.
On Noam Chomsky and the Powerful
The Ignoble Nobel: from Hitler to Kissinger to Machado
Much to the disappointment of US President Donald Trump, on 10 October the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado.
Michael Parenti called it the “Nobel Peace Prize for War.”
Related:
María Corina Machado is the female Javier Milei (aka US Puppet)
Michael Parenti – Capitalism as a Totalitarian Social Order
UK: A Working Class Experience of Alien Abduction! (18.11.2025)
The capitalist will say (and do) anything that justifies the endless accumulation of profit. To this end, the emphasis of individualism is vital – as it is through this loss of collective identity that humanity learns to routinely brutalise its own existence and being. Inflicting pain and harvesting gain is the only permitted exchange which locks out all other modes of possible interaction. Love becomes a limited commodity which can be bought for a short time period before the clock runs out and its flow dries up.
UK: A Working Class Experience of Alien Abduction! (18.11.2025)
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Choreographed Dissent
How Reform Rebrands Power Without Redistributing It
Notice: This is not an endorsement of Mr. Reagan. What strikes me is how long it’s taken some folks to catch on—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was never the political outsider she was marketed to be. I remember watching these videos years ago. Even then, it was clear her role was never to disrupt the machinery, but to redirect dissent—to shepherd disillusioned voters back into the Democratic fold. The Justice Democrats weren’t a rupture; they were a renovation.
You can’t change the system from within.
Read More »The Indifferent by Antonio Gramsci
The Indifferent by Antonio Gramsci
I hate the indifferent. I believe, as Frederich Hebbel did, that ‘living means being partisan’. There can’t be men [sic] who are men alone and exist outside of the city. To really live means to be a citizen and to take part. Indifference is abulia, is parasitism, is cowardice. Indifference isn’t life. This is why I hate the indifferent.
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