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Marxist Fundamentalism A return to academic gobbeldygook Preparing a lecture on the Frankfurt School and hearing the echoes of hardline Marxists such as Gabriel Rockhill and John Bellamy Foster, my… Read more.

“We” (those who have been “properly” educated  within our democratic nation states) know relatively little about the historical unfolding of so-called “terrorist movements”. Usually they just appear out of nowhere.… Read more.

It is now several months after nations in Western Europe have declared to increase their spending on “defence”. Is there any army in the world that is officially labelled “offence”?… Read more.

It is quite logical to connect the concept of kenotic solidarity to those of alienation (Marx) and decreation (Weil). For Marx, alienation appears first as an obstacle to solidarity, because… Read more.

Just because post-apocalyptic life requires a new kind of solidarity (derived from kenotic debt) does not mean that it will necessarily be realized. However, where kenotic solidarity grows, so does… Read more.

It should be clear by now that we live in post-apocalyptic times. From the outset, the discipline of Sociology was created to deflect us from thinking apocalyptically, because it could… Read more.

On November 2, 1917, the Balfour Declaration was published. With it, the goal of the European Zionist movement—“A land without a people for a people without a land”—was implicitly adopted… Read more.

The Terminator films had already painted a scenario of what would happen if the CFWM© discovered that humans are dispensable. Torday, it is no longer a question of if, but… Read more.

The Cyber-Fossil-War-Machine © (CFWM) accelerates planetary destruction. Planetary health has a low value to the CFWM because it does not depend on it much to sustain itself. It may still… Read more.

The role of the military-industrial complex has dominated the organization of global capitalism throughout the 20th century. A few things need to be taken into account here. First, the military-industrial… Read more.