Corporate Feudalism: A flight of fancy
Here is an old agitprop essay I wrote in 2002. Was I completely off base? I never got any feedback, as I was just leaving it on buses and trains and church bathrooms. Anyhow, I'd like to believe it's...
View ArticleKosovo
What an interesting event occurred on February 17, 2008. Kosovo declared its independence, with recognition quickly being granted by the United States, Germany, France, and several other European...
View ArticleThe notion of nation: Europe 1648, Arabs today
This is an extended comment on Richard Lyon's excellent diary, Oil Economies as Rentier States I, which starts with a brief recap of how notions of state and society developed in Europe. Perhaps it's...
View ArticleEarth Preaching
Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture - all wrapped into one big institution - that is simple common sense! When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of...
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Can We Do Better Than The Nation-State? A Renewed Look At Global Civil Society
It was when I first began grad school, the field of "global civil society" was arguably still in its infancy. For those unfamiliar with the term, global civil society"refers to the vast assemblage of...
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Flirting With Anarchy: Why the conservative obsession with “small government”...
Don’t be fooled. Conservatives aren’t in love with America or its constitution. They’re infatuated with a dangerous and misleading fallacy of small government, and committed to hollowing out the...
View ArticleThe brave new world of the phyle-centric micronation
Now that basic 17th Century Westphalian sovereignty is dead (again) in the American West, we need a new model to understand its new political order. I suggest Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and its...
View ArticleAre We The Proxy Warriors Of The Middle East?
By third grade we have figured out which group to align ourselves with to be safe on the playground and in the bathroom. WE have no intention of getting into a fight and that's why we make sure that...
View ArticleWhat is a Nation-State?
Sometimes it is good to place purely topical political issues on hold to pursue the deeper realm of political theory. I recently wrote a diary in which I reproach Bernie Sanders for using the term...
View ArticleIn search of a global-scale alignment of the progressive forces
What makes the European Leftist movement weak against the neoliberal establishment and the far-Right, is that its main components are still dedicated to a progressive internationalism through the...
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