Terminator: No Fate But What We Make
For every Darth Vader there’s a Luke Skywalker, for every Sauron there’s a Frodo Baggins, for every Skynet there’s an entire resistance ready to challenge it.
Zeta Violet Koloskzi
State and Revolution Book Club
Real Progressives is holding a five-week book club on Lenin’s State and Revolution. We encourage those who have not read the book to join us. We also invite those who have already read it to come, not only to study it further, but to help those of us still struggling to learn.
Guerrilla War of the Rings
A guerrilla war has three phases: mobility, equilibrium, and overtaking. The Lord of the Rings film trilogy perfectly mirrors these stages.
Lightsabers, Camera, Action
Are movies being made as artistic expressions of human creativity—or just because they’ll make money?
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.
How to Make a Po’boy
Don’t cross the picket line when there’s a labor dispute. And if you have the opportunity, give a striking worker a sandwich.
All Frogs Go To Heaven
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.
Why Does the DMV Suck?
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.
Who Would You Hench For?
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.
What Does a Banana Taste Like?
Every subject always comes back to the struggle between labor and capital, even bananas.
