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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

NinaIllingworth August 18, 2024 affordable housing, blog, budget, CA4, California, capitalism, carceral state, Civil Rights, cruelty, Democratic Party, Dystopia, executive order, FA1, fascism, Gavin Newsom, Grants Pass v Johnson, homeless encampments, homeless sweeps, housing crisis, human rights, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, photo op, police state, Politics, SCOTUS, Unhoused

Nina-Bytes: California Über Alles

As the California governor threatens to defund counties that won’t do encampment sweeps, it’s time to call Newsom’s war on unhoused people what it is: fascism.

Blog Climate Crisis Fascism Social Media

NinaIllingworth August 11, 2024August 11, 2024 America PAC, Amerikan Musik, anti-regulation, BBC, blog, CA4, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, FA1, fascism, fascist billionaires, GOP, longtermism, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neonazi, News, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, plutocrats, Propaganda, social media, TESCREAL, trans rights, Twitter, UK Politics, UK riots, US politics, X

Matchstick Man in a World on Fire

A recent BBC article asked “what’s Elon Musk’s game?” Unfortunately, the piece didn’t bother answering the question, so Nina is here to do it for them.

Fascism Police State Politics Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth August 10, 2024 abortion rights, anti-LGBTQ persecution, Balaji Srinivasan, CA4, capitalism, Captured States, Christian nationalism, FA1, fascism, GOP, LGBTQ rights, Mark Robinson, MP6, Network State, Nina Illingworth, North Carolina, police state, Politics, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, San Francisco, Tech authoritarianism, The New Republic, Truthout, US politics

Nina-Bytes: No Half Measures

Once again George Monbiot is making the argument against oligarchy and climate crisis; it’s just a shame he won’t be honest about the solution to these problems

Picture of a wealthy capitalist it top hat and tails, dancing romantically with a skeletal soldier holding a reaper's scythe.

Books Capitalism Quotes Theory

NinaIllingworth August 29, 2023 2008 Financial Crisis, antifascism, Book Blog, Books, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, David Graeber, Debt, FA1, fascism, genocide, geohell, History, mutual aid, neoliberalism, oligarchy, Propaganda, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, revolution, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, The War on Sharing, Theory

Quickshot Quotation: Debt and Rebirth

Building off a Graeber quote from Debt, Nina briefly touches on the war on sharing, the idea killing machine, and why we discuss alternatives to capitalism.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

NinaIllingworth August 28, 2023August 27, 2023 Alexander Cooley, analysis, banking, billionaires, blog, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, Cory Doctorow, dark money, Finance, John Heathershaw, kleptocracy, lobby groups, money laundering, MP6, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, philanthropy, pig empire, Pluralistic, Politics, Propaganda, public relations, Ricard Soares de Oliveira, Second Gilded Age, SuperPAC, think tanks, transnational, TUSN

Nina-Bytes: Bagmen for the Transnational Oligarchy

Nina highlights the open structures of power the uber rich use to control our society in broad daylight with the help of a Cory Doctorow article about bagmen.

A modern picture of a man in a business suit, walking past a flattering stone mural of Mussolini and the fascist Italian army, during World War II.

Capitalism Fascism News Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth August 26, 2023 AIM, Amazon, American Identity Movement, Bailey Ross, Boogaloo movement, CA4, capitalism, corporate power, DeVos Family, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist militias, Jason Wilson, Judd Legum, Mark Zuckerberg, MP6, News, Orlando Magic, Popular Information, Rebecca Crosby, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Shopify, SuperPAC, Tesnim Zekeria, Tess Owen, The Guardian, Vice News

Mini-Theory Blog: Let’s Start at the End

In order to understand the news in hellworld, you first have to understand why rising fascism, climate crisis, and Covid eugenics are all the same problem.

Picture of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's smirking heads, posed back to back.

Capitalism media Social Media Theory

NinaIllingworth August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 AI, antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, Cory Doctorow, Elon Musk, enshitification, Facebook, fascism, free internet, information environment, left wing organizing, left wing theory, LLM, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, social media, ST2, Theory, Twitter, walled garden

Mini-Theory Blog: Escaping the Garden

A brief discussion about how leftists online should respond to fascist billionaires attempting to transform the internet into walled gardens and propaganda ops.

Blog Capitalism Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 9, 2022 Alexis de Tocqueville, anticapitalism, blog, CA4, can't separate liberalism from capitalism, capitalism, civics, Civil Rights, class war, contradictions of capitalism, Democracy, Democracy in America, democratic rights, Freedom, human rights, ideology, liberal ideology, liberalism, liberalism is a capitalist ideology, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, political economy, Political Theory, Politics, practice of liberalism, ST2, the Enlightenment, Theory, theory and praxis, wage slavery, why liberalism fails the exploited

Mini-Theory Blog: Practical Realities

What happens when the ideals of liberalism contradict with the reality that it’s subordinate to capital accumulation? There’s no need to ask; you’re living it.

Canada Capitalism FotB Podcast

Scurvy December 8, 2022 anticapitalism, blog, bread price fixing scandal, British Commonwealth, CA4, Canada, Canadaland, Canadaland COMMONS, capitalism, CC3, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate greed, decolonization, dehumanization, exploitation, extractive capitalism, extractivism, FotB, Friends of the Blog, genocide, grocery monopoly, Indigenous Rights, land theft, monopoly, monopoly power, neocolonialism, Podcast, price fixing, resource imperialism, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, stolen land, WD7, Weston family, white supremacy

Scurvy’s Selection – Canadaland COMMONS: Monopoly

In this week’s Selection, Scurvy steps back to look at the larger issues of monopoly power and resource imperialism, with help from the folks at Canadaland.