Worbs: When Political Terms Have No Meaning
Politics is the only practical discipline where none of the basic concepts have clear consensus definitions. This is why everything is so dumb. Support What Is Politics on Patreon...
View ArticleWhat is Politics, and Why Should Anyone Give a $#&%?
How can people who don't have official decision-making power exert their influence over those who do? Support What Is Politics on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whatispolitics
View ArticleThe Left-Right Political Spectrum is about Class Conflict
Most journalists and academics don't even know what left and right really mean, or why it's so important to get it right - but you will after you listen to this. Support What Is Politics on...
View ArticleProject 2025: The MAGA Plan to Take Your Freedom | Robert Reich
If Donald Trump gets back into office, every part of the government will be turned into an arm of his MAGA agenda. How? Project 2025.
View ArticleCancel Culture is Corporate Management Culture
The terms "cancel culture" and "political correctness" are used to delegitimize ideas like gender equality and racial equality by conflating them with toxic dominance behaviour practiced by...
View ArticleCancel Culture and At-Will Termination
"Cancel culture" and "political correctness" are right-wing phenomena which today are dressed up in left wing language and symbols, and which serve to reinforce relationships of power and...
View ArticleMAGA: American Neo-Fascism
In this lengthy video essay, I outline why I feel that the MAGA movement (and the alt-right) is a neo-fascist political movement at its core. - AJ Rodriguez
View ArticleHow Capitalism Becomes Feudalism (Severance and Technofeudalism)
As commerce transforms around the new rent-extracting digital fiefdoms, algorithms and AI become a way to transform skilled labor into machine-learning piecework. In Severance, technology is used...
View Article"On Thin Ice": Western Nations Crack Down on Climate Activists with Arrests &...
As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators...
View Article10 Worst Things About The Trump Presidency | Robert Reich
Donald Trump left office with the lowest approval rating of any president ever. But some people now seem to be suffering from amnesia. Let me jog your memory. -Robert Reich
View ArticleIsrael's Terrorist Attack On Lebanon: Exploding Pagers Kill Child, 10 Others,...
Imagine if such an attack had been launched on Israel. Imagine the response. Please like, comment, share - and help us take on the pro-war media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84
View Article"Anti-Capitalism" is Capitalist
*click-baity headline*, but read Capitalist Realism! We need to encourage ourselves to go further than we have gone before and push beyond vague, passive anti-capitalism towards the values and...
View ArticleA Practical Guide to Revolution
We need a social revolution to build a better future. But how is that process carried out? What tactics and strategies are needed to fundamentally transform the socioeconomic and political...
View ArticleThe REAL Tragedy of the Commons
When it comes to the question of how we organise the land we inhabit and the resources therein, we’re presented with two paths: privatisation or nationalisation. The capitalist or the State. But...
View ArticleA New Economy | New Business Models for a Cooperative Future
Watch as several organizations move towards a more cooperative future by experimenting with open and non-traditional business models. Among them are a small craft-brew coop, a peer-to-peer open...
View ArticleWorld Demands End to Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Palestine, in landslide...
The vast majority of the world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to Israel's unlawful occupation of Palestinian territory within 12 months, with 124 countries (64%) in favor, 14...
View ArticleA Hidden War: Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank
April 2024 - A war following the Hamas attacks of October 7 continues to take its toll on civilians. Israel’s stated aim in this conflict was to remove Hamas and bring hostages home. But in this...
View ArticleBlackRock: The Conspiracies You Don’t Know
BlackRock and other asset managers are profiting off of every aspect of your life. It's not a conspiracy — it's an open restructuring of society. ----- More Perfect Union’s mission is to build...
View ArticleHow to Not Be an Activist | Jonathan Smucker
Jonathan Smucker explains How to Not Be an Activist. Keynote talk from Personal Democracy Forum 2017
View ArticleHow to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites. She and the...
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