Robert Bohm | Real Progressives

Battling Racism Beyond the Election

BLM, Joe Biden, protests & the still-illusory moment of true racial reckoning.

October 6, 2020

David Walker’s Appeal

Introduction David Walker (1796?-1830), a free black man, parented by a slave father and a freedwoman, was born, and raised in Wilmington, North Carolina, although

July 15, 2020

Through The Distortion, Flickerings of Illumination

As these examples show, our overseas mass killers, the military, provide the U.S. persona with an edgy chaos that’s psychopathically hip in a Training Day meets Apocalypse Now sort of way.

July 25, 2018

Not Radicals, but Self-Propagandizers & Fashionistas

This analysis may seem pessimistic or cynical to some. It isn’t. It is merely a description of a specific phenomenon: life at the center of the Empire, life in what used to be called “the belly of the beast.”

May 6, 2018

Identity Theft & the Body’s Disappearance, Part 2

Our flesh no longer exists in the way it once did. A new evolutionary stage has arrived.

April 8, 2018

Identity Theft & the Body’s Disappearance, Part 1

This is the new socialization, identity eugenics, in action.

April 7, 2018

Techno Capitalism: A Fever Burning Everywhere

This is the information storm that never ends. How should progressives and other leftists navigate it? How should anyone navigate it?

March 24, 2018

Discard the Fiction in the Coffin — Find the Real MLK

But King wasn’t killed for being a dreamer. He was killed for being an uppity mass movement leader dedicated to transforming society by confronting white supremacy.

January 14, 2018

Freeing the Nation’s Foundation Story from its White Supremacist Chains

This means that moving forward on this issue requires a massive rewrite of U.S. history in order to show the ways in which white supremacy has defined the nation from the beginning. It also means confronting all the nation’s institutions in order to root out white supremacy’s hidden presence within them.

August 18, 2017