The Strategic Activist
You don’t defeat the enemy in one fight, you grind down their political and moral foundation until holding the status quo costs more than yielding to change.
Op Ed
Dragon Ball Zeta
A mix of nostalgia and persistent rooting for a character clearly has a powerful effect on our worldview. When media persistently tells us to root for something, it affects us. This is true for cartoons, but more ominously, it’s true for politics as well.
Sex Work & Vice City
The revolution isn’t an action-packed thrill ride like in video games. It’s a long, slow process where one class builds itself up. And that begins with how we treat each other.
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.
The High Intellectual Barrier to Socialist Consciousness
If socialism is to be a mass movement, it must speak in the language of those it seeks to organize.
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.
The Unseen Labor of Liberation
The real story of social change isn’t found in the explosive moments that make history books, but in the countless ordinary hours that make those moments possible.
Lightsabers, Camera, Action
Are movies being made as artistic expressions of human creativity—or just because they’ll make money?
The SupraState That Saved the Lying Ancap Messiah
How Milei tamed inflation (for now) not through markets and austerity imposed suffering, but through the very Leviathan he claims to despise.
