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On Petty-Bourgeois Ideology: Social Democracy to Fascism
What is the Petty-Bourgeoisie & What is their Aim? The petty-bourgeoisie is a sub-stratum of the bourgeoisie class who own their own means of production. They are inherently capitalist, yet they cannot be said to have the same power and influence in the marketplace as larger capitalists. This leads to a group which, while fundamentally…
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Work Hours in the United States
How We Perceive Work & Why In the United States, work is seen through a contradictory lens. It is both the bane of a person’s existence and that which defines them. It is also vital to the American economy that workers work hard, yet it is also necessary that there are those workers who are…
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Racial Profiling Now Legal in Arizona
Events in Arizona The American people learned Tuesday that the state of Arizona has passed a bill, now sitting on Governor Janice Brewer’s desk. This bill, should it become law, would result in the racial profiling of all Hispanics and Amerindians in the state of Arizona because it only specifies that the local authorities check…
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Review: “Enemy at the Gates”
Personal Reflection: “The Reds” as the Good Guys I was about ten years old when my mother took the family to see Enemy at the Gates (2001). For one, this was the first time in my life that I was exposed to the Soviet Union as being the “good guys” rather than the place the…
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Legalize Industrial Hemp
Legalize Industrial Hemp for American Jobs and ProsperityAmerica is confronted today with a plethora of problems, many of which can be solved by ending a sixty-year-old policy rooted in racism and corporate greed. We are speaking, of course, of the industrial growing of hemp, also known as cannabis, for industrial purposes as well as medicinal…
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Confederate History Month: The Right’s Whitewashing of a Racist Regime
Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia declared this April as Virginia’s “Confederate History Month.” Virginia is not the first state to practice this. The states of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Georgia all commemorate the Confederate States of America. The CSA, as Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens describes, was a “new government . .…
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On the Coal Mine Explosion in West Virginia
The worst mining accident in the United States since 1970 has occurred in West Virginia. It has been reported that the company, Massey Energy, and the Upper Big Branch Mine specifically has been cited at least 300 times in the past two to three years for violations of OSHA safety standards. Furthermore, the lack of…
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Republican National Committee Chairman Lives it Up like a King
Roman Decadence Revisited Historians study the decadence of the ancient Roman Emperors with gusto these days, gleefully recounting ancient historical tales, some truth and some falsehood, of the enormous wealth of the Emperors, the various assassinations and poisonings of rival family members they engaged in, their debauched sex lives, enormously rich diets, jaw-dropping spending habits…
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Videotape of Imperialist Massacre Revealed
Tape Released, CIA Seeks to Shut Down Website On Monday April 5, 2010, the website Wikileaks.org released a video showing American forces firing at civilians and journalists on a Baghdad street. On the lead-up to the leak, the American Intelligence community was hellbent on discrediting Wikileaks and discussing ways to undermine its policy of anonymity.…
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The Myth of the “Middle Class”
The American Understanding of Class On the rare occasion that social class emerges in contemporary political discourse, class is seen as being a “ladder” with three main tiers: upper, middle and lower. Within these tiers, there are usually two or three rungs, dividing each “class” itself into upper, middle, and lower sections. So, instead of…
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