Embracing Paradox and Nuance
Iowa City, 2020, campaigning for Bernie Sanders, beloved of all Bourgeois Marxists!
As a Pisces, I really prefer to log out of reality as much as possible but herewith, my periodic attempts at assessing the (sur)reality of the British-American post-factual political farce and its global consequences…
I also write short stories and some academic stuff, mainly on structural inequalities, globalization and migration and try and go on YouTube and TikTok which I find very challenging as I have a low opinion of social media.
Here, however, I am trying to apply Marxist critical reasoning (aka being smart like Karl Marx, author of the BRILLIANT Das Capital) to confront this hyper-capitalistic, overly-individualistic, social media-imagineered world we destructive humans have conjured up to kill the Earth, several species and ourselves.
My focus will principally but not always be on democratic dysfunction and UK/US cultural and electoral politics. Sometimes I might branch out to discuss what Succession and The Wire have in common or an amazing tennis match or some breathtaking poetry (insch’Allah not AI-generated) but you will mainly find here, not-hilarious reflections on:
Corruption; social media manipulation; inequality; the exponential rise of the con artist (Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Fried etc.); migration and xenophobia; Dark Money in Politics; technology; the gig economy; precariousness; stock market shenanigans; ethics; the neoliberal destruction of the middle class; unions and union-busting; human rights; DEMOCRACY; CAPITALISM...
These are some of the areas I will opine upon from my particular POV as a very bourgeois Marxist with often-dashed aspirations to see a more just world.
MUCHAS GRACIAS!
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