Completing the democratic revolution
In the global North, we are indoctrinated from an early age in the ideological morés of liberal capitalist electoralism, the…
Author: Some dero
Rising above the thinking behind Climate Change: World-Ecology and Worker’s Control
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” – Albert Einstein In even attempting…
Murdoch and the IPA Politicise Freedom in Battlelines for Next Year’s Elections
Originally published on Counterpunch. Ongoing protests over Victorian state government lockdowns and vaccine mandates are emerging as fodder for ‘moral…
Challenging the entrepreneurial discourse around women home-based workers’ empowerment
This article explores dominant entrepreneurship discourse and practice surrounding informal women home-based workers, and their relationship to goals of individual…
Ideological coping mechanisms in the end-times
End of days-type periods are hardly unknown throughout history; the fact that empires rise and fall is a truism, a…
Liberal Capitalism is Dead
From its beginnings out of the European Enlightenment, Liberal capitalism was based on a promise of progress through justice predicated…
The Neoliberal Virus
This article originally appeared at Counterpunch. To date, and to the extent that alleged political leaders have even tried to…
The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Springer 2020)
About this book This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working…
Social Ecology in the Capitalocene
New journal piece from yours truly at the revamped website for the journal of the Institute of Social Ecology, Harbinger.…
New LP—’Get Rich or Try Sharing’
Have just finished a new album—’Get Rich or Try Sharing.’ Can be had for the princely sum of 5 bucks…