Runescape, Marxism, and Video Game Economies
The Labour Theory of Value- explained via Runescape.
On the subreddit of oldschool RuneScape (OSRS), there was a discussion going on about the value of certain items. A user...
Singapore-Let they who reject meritocracy cast the first stone!
Yet more fodder for the outrage crowd, where the harsh and damning criticism fell upon NUS, AGC and the courts for such a ridiculous excuse for letting the...
Kill are Peemies- How the Post-Left ‘Got Got’
Adolph Reed caused a minor uproar recently with an off-hand comment about one of his fellow theorists, Angela Nagle: she ‘got got’ by the reactionary side for writing...
Is the UK a Managed Democracy?
'Managed Democracy' is a term usually used to refer to the variously oligarchic post-Soviet eastern European govts that have sprung up in the wake of vast privatisation, and...
A Brief History of Nigeria’s Left
The Prolegomenon
Calibrated as a quasi-feudal petro-state, the history of Nigeria could be told as a story of post-colonial capitalism. Yet there has always been a strong current of...
The New Russian Left
“Shit’s fucked at the moment. You get armchairs writing incomprehensible bullshit about dialectics, larpers fighting “revisionists” and “trotskyists”, red conspiratards claiming all the boomer conspiracies Americans got but...
Munkástanácsok in the Midst of the 1956 Revolution
“To be liberated by others, whose leadership is the essential part of the liberation, means the getting of new masters instead of the old ones.”1 - Anton Pannekoek
Every...
Friends, Coffee, and Genocide- The Limits of “Globalization”
There for us
“Chandler is the most interesting character imo. At the beginning of the show he is already rich and is closed off emotionally, and actually is the...
Frankenstein’s Monster in Brazil- A Rant on Culture
The media here is terrible. On broadcast TV, the old and awful auditory shows seem to have given way to the far more worse genre of crime reporting:...
Straw Bricks- PMC Aren’t to Blame for Singapore’s Docile Working Class
"Nothing more than socialites masquerading as socialists"
Veteran Singaporean socialist Poh Soo Kai recalled that in his university days someone had brushed him off with this line. The insult...