BITTERLY DIVIDED: THE SOUTH'S INNER CIVIL WAR
I was going to skip today, then I ran into this post from Noel Ignatiev...and here I am. Today Theoretical Weekends is not Theoretical at all, but historical. It is also a book review. Actually,...
View ArticleTHE HUMAN GOAL IS TO ACHIEVE THE MOST FREEDOM POSSIBLE
I believe this belongs at Scission Cultural Monday thingie. The title, if nothing else contains the word "Dancefloor," so there you go.I can't come up with an introduction, so I will just use the...
View ArticleTHE WINTER GAMES ARE VERY PRETTY AND VERY DESTRUCTIVE OF THE EARTH
Ah, the Olympics. I confess to enjoying the view, but unfortunately the Olympic view is anything but helpful to the environment. The winter games, especially look beautiful, but think about it for a...
View ArticleWHAT'S NEW ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR ISN'T
The real meaning of the Korean War. Stopping Communism reaching Kansas.Growing up in Kansas, I breathed a sigh of relief to have been saved from the horrors of communism. Then those dirty Reds got me...
View ArticlePAY YOUR PROBATION OFFICER OR GO RIGHT TO JAIL / INCARCERATING THE POOR
Its prison friday and my homey Billy Berkowitz has a piece that I'm stealing and putting here for you.What he will be telling you about today is how the private probation and parole system has managed...
View ArticleMULTITUDE OR WORKING CLASS
It's Theoretical Weekends (which I am considering moving to Monday and combining with Cultural Monday, since they seem to be converging). Often, but not always I use the term multitude.Yes, I picked...
View ArticleON THE ORIGIN OF WHITE SUPREMACY
AN OLD AND EARLY PUBLICATION FROM THE SOJOURNER TRUTH ORGANIZATIONFirst, some housekeeping news. I am eliminating Cultural Monday. I am moving Theoretical Weekends from Saturday to Monday and...
View ArticleTHE MURDER OF JORDAN DAVIS: THE ONGOING RACE WAR, WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Last week, we once again saw that it is apparently okay in white supremacist America to gun down a young, black male if you are white. Apparently playing your music too loud is reason enough to get...
View ArticleLYNCHINGS, WHITE WOMEN, WHITE SUPREMACY - THEN AND NOW
It is day three of a week long series of articles dealing with white supremacy and/or white skin privilege in the USA. Today we take a look at the history of lynching...and the role of white women....
View ArticleTED ALLEN CRITIQUES THE PSYCHO-CULTURAL CONCEPTION OF "WHITE IDENTITY"
JOHN BROWN AND HIS COMRADES FIGHTING WHITE SUPREMACYTHEY GOT ITToday I present the fourth in this week's series of articles dealing with white supremacy and white skin privilege. This one is very long...
View ArticleTALKING ABOUT WHITE SKIN PRIVILEGE AND WHITE SUPREMACY
THINK IT ENDEDTHINK AGAINToday wraps up the official week long effort of presenting you with different looks at various aspects of white skin privilege and white supremacy. It will, of course, not...
View ArticleBULLETIN: A TIME TO MOURN, A TIME TO ACT: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE UKRAINIAN...
I'm not saying this is necessarily the best, but it is something. The following open letter to the Ukrainian left is worth reading and is from LeftEast. You should note that it contains several links...
View ArticleTHE TENNESSEE VW VOTE: COULD IT BE THAT WORKING PEOPLE HAVE GOOD REASONS FOR...
IS IT POSSIBLESHE KNOWS SOMETHING YOU (AND I) DON'TFor Theoretical Monday today I can actually provide you with something that is not full of jargon, does relate to a current event, and is rather...
View ArticleTHE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VIETNAM WAR COMMEMORATION IS ABOUT THE FUTURE
YOU BETCHYA MARGEWow, it is hard for someone like me to believe that FIFTY FREAKING YEARS AGO I was out protesting against the USA war on Vietnam. Fifty years, are you kidding me. Wow, we have sure...
View ArticleTHE FIGHT AGAINST ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND ECOCIDE IN FLORIDA
Earth First protesters on Monday chained themselves together at the entrance to Florida Power and LIght (FPL) headquarters in Juno Beach disrupting company operations. They were making a stand against...
View ArticleA NEW NAZI INTERNATIONAL, CZECH REPUBLIC, THE UKRAINE, AND BEYOND
A NAZI INTERNATIONALE TAKES SHAPERomani people make up officially roughly 0.4% of the population in the Czech Republic - that would be about 41,000 in all. Yet they get blamed for almost everything...
View ArticleTHE JOURNEY OF LARRY "KEY" MITCHELL
Larry "Key" Mitchell refers to himself more as more a “prisoner of politics” than a “political prisoner." That is an interesting delineation. Mitchell's story which he relates below is the story of...
View ArticleTHE SCIENCE, THE LIES, AND THE DANGER OF NEUROCAPITALISM
It is Theoretical Monday here at Scission. With the situation heating up in the Ukraine, and unending, often uninformed debate tearing apart the left, I am going boldly...somewhere else...
View ArticleSOUTH AFRICA (THE WORLD): RAPE, PATRIARCHY, AND THE GENDER WAR
Rape is so common in South Africa that we have developed a “rape culture” that allows us to dismiss, joke about or condone rape. Rape has been normalized to such an extent that victims - which now...
View ArticleTHE ATOMIC BOMBING OF INDIAN COUNTRY: "I AM BECOME DEATH, THE SHATTERER OF...
The USA still had to kill tens of thousands of Japanese civilians and all that, but World War II effectively ended one day in New Mexico.On Monday morning July 16, 1945, the world was changed forever...
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