TIME FOR A MILITANT RESPONSE TO ANTI-ROMA RACISM
The Romani people have suffered from discrimination, racism and hatred for so long that sometimes it just seems like that is the way things are.Well, it is not the way things should be.Did you hear...
View ArticleKARL MARX AND THE IROQUOIS - FRANKLIN ROSEMONT
Ever read much of Karl Marx's Ethnological Notebooks. I bet not and that is too bad. Today, in Theoretical Weekends at Scission, we will take a peek at them through the eyes of Franklin Rosemont....
View ArticleFROM REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA WITH LOVE: "WE ARE TAKING NOT ART BUT COMMUNISM TO...
Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge (1919)Produced By: El LissitzkyThere can be really only one reason I am posting the piece today which you will find below. It's because Monday is for Culture here at...
View ArticleJUST WHO IS THE REAL ENEMY
Scission doing a Christmas article, no, really, what's up with that. Read on...What may be the absolutely most amazingly stupid thing about the entire human race is its inability to realize its...
View ArticleSYRIA, FASCISTS, AND MISERABLE CONDESCENDING LEFTISTS
The Syrian civil war/revolution has become sort of the backdrop, default position on the evening news. When there is a spot to fill, well, you can always stick in Syria.I'm sticking in Syria today,...
View ArticleFEAR AND LOATHING IN PARIS, TENNESSEE
I know it is Prison Friday, but I hope I can be forgiven for running a piece that really isn't appropriate for today. It's just that, well, you will see.You may have heard about the brutal assault on...
View ArticleTHE LABOR OF THE MULTITUDE AND THE FABRIC OF BIOPOLOTICS----ANTONIO NEGRI
Theoretical Weekends is here with one of those long pieces of obtusivity (made up word, there) which I wonder if anyone actually reads. They get high marks on the blog hits, but really, are that many...
View ArticleSTALIN ALWAYS KNEW BEST...
" ... what the editor would prefer is preferable." ---JACQUES BARZUN Joe Stalin was an editor...and a literary critic. You don't usually think of him that way, but it makes sense...
View Article2014: MAY IT SEE...
2014: MAY IT SEEA MIGHT BLOW STRUCK AGAINST RACISM, WHITE SUPREMACY AND WHITE SKIN PRIVILEGE...THE MULTITUDE REIGN DOWN A BILLION FISTS ON GLOBAL CAPITAL AND PATRIARCHY...ALL OF US WAGE A MIGHTY WAR...
View ArticleWESTERN AUSTRALIA WANTS TO KILL GREAT WHITE SHARKS...AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT...
Well, this is an interesting way to start the New Year that probably few expected from Scission. We are going down under (although what we will be learning about happens elsewhere as well) where in...
View ArticleWOMEN IN SOLITARY: IT IS CRIMINAL
It is Prison friday here at Scission. I've written about the horrors of solitary confinement before. Usually when we think about it, we think of some lone guy stuck in a hole somewhere forever....
View ArticleLEIL-ZAHRA: THE SYRIAN DOUBLE REVOLUTION AND THE EURO-LEFTIST DOUBLE IMPOTENCY
Theoretical weekends at Scission turns to a woman I "met" recently. Leil-Zahra Mortada is "just a blogger" to some, but she seems more than that to me.So today Scission turns to her for a much needed...
View ArticleFROM REVOLUTION AGAINST NATURE TO COMMUNISM WITH A NON-HUMAN FACE
Cultural Monday's is the weirdest day for me. Sometimes I totally don't get what I am posting. Sometimes I get it, but wonder if it worth paying anything. Sometimes, I think it is really cool. This...
View ArticleTHE EXCEPTIONAL SECURITY STATE AND THE MULTITUDE
Most of what you will read in the attached article below you probably read somewhere else. What makes the piece to come scary is the fact that the author has put it all together in one salad bowl full...
View ArticleAFRICAN MIGRANTS TO ISRAEL, "WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS TOO"
The scene should hugely embarrass all Israelis and all the Jewish (and other) supporters of the State. The scene is that of tens of thousands of African immigrants demonstrating, demanding to be...
View ArticleUNSAFE ABORTIONS ARE KILLING HAITIAN WOMEN
I remember a time when all abortions were illegal in the USA. I remember when only certain states allowed any abortions. It scares me to see us rapidly approaching those times today because, if for...
View ArticleMENTALLY ILL PRISONERS AND THE GOOD PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA (AND ELSEWHERE)
It is Scission's Prison Friday edition and today we turn to the state of South Carolina. On Wednesday, this week, a state judge ruled that the treatment given mentally ill prison inmates in that state...
View ArticleNAZI IDEOLOGY AND ECOLOGY/ BLOOD AND SOIL
Well, here it is theoretical weekends. I have not read what I am posting today, so we can check it out together. It looked interesting, so whatever.I notice my regular daily posts have been getting...
View ArticleORSON SCOTT CARD, GENOCIDE, AND THE REAL WORLD
ISN'T THIS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAY?There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously...
View ArticleFROM COLOMBIA: "NO ONE HAS EVER ASKED US IF WE WANT THE MINE OR NOT"
This post is going to look different. The story is unfortunately a familiar one.Global capital, this time in the form of huge mining companies, is destroying the lives of the people of Colombia. They...
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