- American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War on America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
- American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
- The "Anarcho-Liberal"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The diversity of the global justice movement is undeniable, but to the extent its prominent intellectual voices represented broader trends, we can see the crystallization of a new type of radical that would come to prominence on the Left. The reconfiguration of the Left at the end of the twentieth century created a void. The “anarcho-liberal” filled it.
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Brexit and the Diseased Liberal Mind
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The enraged liberal reaction to the Brexit vote is in full flood. The anger is pathological -- and helps to shed light on why a majority of Britons voted for leaving the European Union, just as earlier a majority of Labour party members voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader.
- Burying the White Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda. The white working class is a zombie that doesn't know it's dead. Or if it's not fully zombified yet, its members are all too busy cleaning their AR-15s and posting racist comments on YouTube to vote for a progressive. That is, if they're not already on the Trump bandwagon, which they probably are. At least that's what the Democratic Party wants you to believe.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1945
Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil.
- The Crisis of Color and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
- The Dying Days of Liberalism
How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Project
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
It's not a small thing that has fallen here, not merely the defeat of Hillary Clinton and Americans rejecting Obama’s "legacy". We are dealing with a series of institutions, an expert class, and a network of political and corporate alliances, that is being shaken beyond repair. We are in the earliest days of a historical transition, so it's not clear what is coming next, and the labels that have been proliferating demonstrate confusion and uncertainty -- populism, nativism, nationalism, etc.
- The Emerging Progressive Majority
Introduction to 'Framing the Future'
Resource Type: Article
A large group of Americans favor both progressive policy and conservative philosophy. As a result, they may side with either progressives or conservatives, depending on how a political question is framed.
- The Failure of American Liberalism
After the Great Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
- Grand narratives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Those who reject 'grand narratives' have simply bought into the hoariest grand narrative of all, the one which says that capitalism is all-powerful and eternal.
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- How Neoliberal Fundamentalism Helped Make Trump President
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A common, headache-inducing media narrative has surfaced since the election in 'mainstream' liberal U.S. publications they can no longer trust, such as The Washington Post or New York Times: that the true decline of U.S. democracy, the true dominance of U.S. corporate power in public life, and the true deterioration of the 'American Dream' has at last begun to arrive with the victory of Donald Trump.
- The Illusion of Democracy
Liberal Journalism, Wikileaks And Climate Deceptions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirding’, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
- John Locke Against Freedom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
John Locke's classical liberalism isn’t a doctrine of freedom. It's a defense of expropriation and enslavement.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
- The Liberal Defence of Murder
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
A searching examination of the influence of the "pro-war Left" on US foreign policy.
- Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
- The liberal way to run the world - "improve" or we'll kill you
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Since 1945, more than a third of the membership of the United Nations - 69 countries - have suffered some or all of the following. They have been invaded, their governments overthrown, their popular movements suppressed, their elections subverted and their people bombed. The death toll is estimated to be in the millions. This has been principally the project of the liberal flame carrier, the United States.
- Liberalism as Class Warfare
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Liberals, as guardians of the status quo, are class warriors on the side of economic mal-distribution and the immiseration of the labouring classes and poor for the benefit of the rich.
- Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
- Liberals - Liberalism - Liberal Left: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Liberals and Ultra-leftists: A Marriage Made in Hell
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
What liberal defenders of ultra-left violence don’t realize is that it’s not the Nazis legally marching down main street that will sabotage U.S. democracy, but the paramilitary police state that will crush all legitimate dissent. Ultra-left violence plays into what apologists for police militarization have been saying all along -- that the police have to keep ahead of the increasing violence in the streets with updated weapons and paramilitary training. Ultra-left violence, far from stopping fascism, enables it. It makes martyrs of the right and helps white supremacists recruit more angry right wingers to their cause, just as every wedding party the U.S. bombs in the Middle East recruits angry family members to the jihadis. With every violent clash between ultra-left and ultra-right, the militarized police will grow stronger … and they’ve got minorities and peace activists in their sights.
- The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
- The New Anti-Liberals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Our Generation
Volume 19 number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Our Generation
Volume 21 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- The Party of Eros
Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
King looks at radical theorists -- Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown -- who have attempted to deal with the intersections of eros and power.
- The Passion of Richard Seymour
Book Reviews of "The Liberal Defence of Murder" and "UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchen" by Richard Seymour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The books of Richard Seymour skewer the predictable platitudes and puncture the sanctimonious pretensions of the "Pro-War Left," what was a transatlantic confederacy of journalists, public intellectuals, and bloggers that championed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a "humanitarian intervention."
- The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Hobbes to Locke
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A fundamental reinterpretation of political theory from Hobbes to Locke which emphasizes the role of liberal political theory in justifying the appropriation of property to private ownership.
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- The Poverty of Liberalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Quotes about Democracy
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed to be politically, socially, and morally unacceptable yet simultaneously where inequalities are quite neatly organized along racial lines?
- Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- The Socialist Register 1969
Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1969
- The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- The Socialist Register 1978
Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- The Socialist Register 1981
Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- The Socialist Register 1987
Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Socialist Register 1992
Volume 28: New World Order?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Socialist Register 1993
Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1993
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1997
- We need popular participation, not populism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Wainright dissects the problems with liberal democracy and argues for real democratic self-government.
- What's the Matter with Liberalism?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A critique of the principles of contemporary liberal democratic societies. Liberalism is focused on "individual rights" but it is very hollow. Beiner's reflections include liberalism in Europe and North America.
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