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A Treatise on Ethical Seriousness and the Work of Liberation

Our opposition to lifestylism, performativism, purity culture, and political unseriousness, and the constructive meaning of our post-leftism. By Vaarla Ona Our frustration: What exhausts us is the expectation that good intentions should settle questions about what people actually support. Someone can be compassionate in their immediate relationships while defending political arrangements that expose others to exploitation, exclusion, or violence. Their […]

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Against Apathy: Rejecting Apolitical and Political

I have very little patience for people who describe themselves as apolitical or politically nihilistic, especially when they want to enter a community that is explicitly progressive. The problem is that describing yourself as “outside politics” usually means refusing to think seriously about the social conditions that shape everyone’s lives. Politics is not limited to politicians, and parties. It includes […]

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Social revolution, Dual power, and Prefiguration

Social revolution is not just taking power. It is changing what power is, where it lives, and how people relate to one another. Social revolution means moving from a society where people are governed from above to one where people increasingly govern themselves. Dual power means building institutions that ordinary people can rely on instead of depending entirely on institutions […]

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There is no clean answer.

Today, I don’t know if any of you have been paying attention, but one of the big conversations right now is around Hasan Piker expressing what a lot of us who’ve been paying attention have been thinking: if the next election comes down to Gavin Newsom versus JD Vance, we are absolutely fucked regardless of who you pick. And, a […]

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How Social Liberals Stall the Struggle for a Better World

Social liberals often endorse incremental reforms that leave the deeper architecture of exploitation intact. They champion diversity initiatives in corporate boardrooms without questioning capitalism itself; they support modest police oversight while rejecting demands to radically shrink or abolish carceral systems. Their solutions treat symptoms, not causes. Closely tied to this is a liberal fetishization of civility and “both sides” dialogue. […]

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Blackness, Tokenism, and Allyship

Your question appears to critique how some white individuals selectively ally with Black individuals who appear less confrontational or more assimilated, while avoiding more vocal and assertive Black voices. You suggest this occurs because those vocal individuals compel deeper introspection into uncomfortable aspects of whiteness, such as colonial legacies and systemic racism. This phenomenon can be examined through the lens […]