Saying "No" to the World: The Sclerosis of the Modern State

There’s a lot of reason to feel gloomy about the world. It feels like we’re back where we started. This summer has been unprecedentedly hot and unpleasant in some parts of the world (the heat wave in the pacific northwest has been terrible, obviously – but some parts of Russia above the arctic circle recorded temperatures as high as 48 Celsius. That’s 118 degrees Fahrenheit.) What we see is that, throughout the world, but especially in North America and Western Europe, there is a dwindling of state capacity. We can see this in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, we have seen this in regard to climate change.

CommentaryCameron SummersAugust 25, 2021Covid-19, climate change, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Neoreaction a Basilisk, Elizabeth Sandifer, George W. Bush, If Crisis Or War Comes, TRASHFUTUREComment

The American Blindspot

One thing that I feel explains not only a great deal of why so many well-meaning young people fail to grasp the nature of the world around them, but also why so much American political discourse is utterly useless: Americans simply cannot do anything like a materialist analysis of current events.

Commentary, AnalysisCameron SummersOctober 14, 2020Materialist Analysis, James Baldwin, Karl Marx, Murray Bookchin, Navajo Nation, Food Desert, climate change, Uber, Zombie Firms, TRASHFUTURE, Libertarianism, Gavrilo Princip, Basil Zaharoff, America, Native AmericansComment