What Are You Afraid Of?
What do spiders and capitalism have in common? Fear, perception, and media shape our understanding of the world, from arachnophobia to class warfare.
What do spiders and capitalism have in common? Fear, perception, and media shape our understanding of the world, from arachnophobia to class warfare.
Don’t cross the picket line when there’s a labor dispute. And if you have the opportunity, give a striking worker a sandwich.
The next time you see a frog, remember that no matter how small you are, there’s always hope for you to persevere against the largest and most powerful enemies.
The ruling class wants us fighting each other over our frustration with life under capitalism. The best thing we can do is learn together and understand how the mechanisms of bureaucracies work.
In comic books, wealth is a superpower. Superheroes and villains can perform super-powered acts of labor, or they have access to other people’s labor.
Every subject always comes back to the struggle between labor and capital, even bananas.
Mushrooms are a way to symbolize nature’s interconnectedness. Leninism is the study of the interconnectedness of nature.
Symbols of an oppressive empire need to be discarded. The masses can’t rally behind a banner that excludes them.
It almost feels like there will never be a revolution, but that’s exactly what every ruling class has said about every revolution.
The world is changing right before our eyes. Not only can we guide that transformation, but our very presence in that change means we control its direction.