I was being offensive to political marxism. I’m a terrible person
What is the “Asiatic Mode of Production”? What is the meaning of an Orientalist binary in the midst of historical materialist dialectics? Does the existence of an Orientalist binary reflect…
Don’t say bad things about cancel politics around the Australian left
Banned from a left subreddit for saying bad things about banning people for saying things you don’t like. Could you write the logic of Australian leftists as fiction? Doubtful. If…
Facts about Western Sydney University
Via https://www.reddit.com/r/academia/comments/1nr29zc/what_are_your_worst_stories_of_academics_just/ cf. https://classautonomy.info/violent-silence-the-erasure-of-history-and-justice-in-global-climate-policy/
Pointers from the ALP on how to erode rights
‘Power grab’: Labor under fire over new move to cut off Centrelink paymentshttps://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/labor-under-fire-over-new-move-to-cut-off-centrelink-payments/fxtw14lr2 This is how you erode rights: attack the least saintly first. If you come to the aid…
Australian politicians love weaponised idpol [updated 29.10]
Change to be forced on ‘violent, misogynist’ CFMEUhttps://web.archive.org/web/20250804065450/https://michaelwest.com.au/news/change-to-be-forced-on-violent-misogynist-cfmeu/ The former good-old-boy Laborites are heinous woman-haters, therefore union-busting is okay. The woman-haters who turn a blind eye to the structural violence…
Peak liberalism: women are an untapped human resource
Australia’s women remain an untapped resource in the hunt for productivityhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/24/women-economic-reform-roundtable-productivity-australia ‘Female empowerment is more than just ‘nice to have’, as I was once told in the halls of parliament.…
Teaching critical thinking, time to hit panic button
One of many reasons not to even try to teach in this crackhead country, every demagogue and technocrat is a fucking expert on teaching. Militant ignorance and a habit of…