Kevin A. Carson's Blog, page 6
February 13, 2024
Critique of intellectual property
Updated version of my old paper on Intellectual Property just published
https://c4ss.org/content/59393
https://c4ss.org/content/59393
January 25, 2024
A comment about solarpunk
Doctorow's Walkaway, Demon and Freedom(TM) by Daniel Suarez, Bruce Sterling's The Caryatids, and Woman on the Edge of time by Marge Piercy, are some of the best solarpunk I've ever read. Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia novels, and Poul Anderson's "Maurai" universe, are also excellent. For nonfiction, this by Eric Hunting is probably the best: https://medium.com/@erichunting/solar...
Unfortunately, the "solarpunk" genre tends to attract two very different cultural types. The good kind is high-tech but Kropotkinian and decentralist. The bad kind likes pictures of brutalist architecture with plants growing on the outside.
Unfortunately, the "solarpunk" genre tends to attract two very different cultural types. The good kind is high-tech but Kropotkinian and decentralist. The bad kind likes pictures of brutalist architecture with plants growing on the outside.
December 14, 2023
Netanyahu's Chickens Come Home to Roost
(or how states create their own enemies). My latest at C4SS. https://c4ss.org/content/59223
December 6, 2023
The Undeclared Condominium: The USSR As Partner in a Conservative World Order
My latest research paper at C4SS. From the Intro:
Although the Right has typically framed the Soviet Union and “International Communism” as an aggressive and subversive revolutionary force, the reality is — at the very least — considerably more nuanced. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe the USSR’s relations with the West over most of its history as collusive: it has facilitated capitalist states’ repression of revolutionary forces far more than it has backed such forces.
https://c4ss.org/content/59243
Although the Right has typically framed the Soviet Union and “International Communism” as an aggressive and subversive revolutionary force, the reality is — at the very least — considerably more nuanced. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe the USSR’s relations with the West over most of its history as collusive: it has facilitated capitalist states’ repression of revolutionary forces far more than it has backed such forces.
https://c4ss.org/content/59243
November 30, 2023
November 23, 2023
No, Stossel. The Pilgrims Were Starved by a Corporation, Not by Communism.
For the first time in I don't know how many years, Reason hasn't run Stossel's ass-brained piece about how communism almost killed the Pilgrims but teh private proppity saved them. I'm not sure why. But I'm continuing the annual tradition of posting my response:
https://c4ss.org/content/22792
https://c4ss.org/content/22792
November 12, 2023
November 9, 2023
November 1, 2023
On Capital, Maps, and Terrain
My latest at C4SS https://c4ss.org/content/59160
October 31, 2023
Tantura: Birth of a Nation
Watch this to put high-sounding Israeli rhetoric about "standing against barbarism" and "the most moral army in history" in perspective.
It's a clip of excerpts from interviews with Israeli veterans of the Nakba, in which they confess to crimes against humanity.
From the independent film Tantura, about the Palestinian village of that name that was erased in 1948.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/...
It's a clip of excerpts from interviews with Israeli veterans of the Nakba, in which they confess to crimes against humanity.
From the independent film Tantura, about the Palestinian village of that name that was erased in 1948.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/...
