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Misplaced Necessities: A Reply to Slavoj Žižek

Tracing how Žižek’s own crisis diagnostics increasingly lead toward a politics of institutional preservation and securitarian mediation, Raphael F. Alvarenga argues instead that universality emerges through political struggle, institutional transformation, and class recomposition across difference.

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Abolish Blue Power

Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle.

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We rejoin Charlie and Bryce for a recap on what has transpired since the Your Party founding conference

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Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”

Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile and fragmented labor, whose efforts only further intensify the imperial and capitalist crisis.

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The Catechism for American Power

Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power.

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Letter: Socialist Integrity and the Pigs

June 5, 2026

““Here lies the heart of the authoritarian dimension of neoliberal politics: the structure of the state may vary, the political personnel and its behaviour too, what is essential …”

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Letter: Anti-AI Manifesto

June 3, 2026

“About a month ago, I finished writing a work titled “The Anti-AI Manifesto.”I have published it in two versions, a complete version that is some sixteen thousand words …”

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Letter: Record Profits from Chaos - How Big Oil Cashes In on the Hormuz Shutdown

June 1, 2026

“In the spring of 2026, working families across the United States are confronting yet another sharp rise in energy costs. Big Oil is shifting the burdens of this …”

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