marc1seed https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/22/18879174.php In my work, I often move between spaces of community and spaces of justice, and that’s challenging. It’s similar to working parents who feel like they’re failing both at home and at work. And of course, you always have to switch codes and language. But no matter where I …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/25/18879246.php People who are trapped in functional stupidity believe that they are doing good, which makes them completely resistant to correction. In such an environment, those in power no longer need to actively suppress information. They only need to create conditions under which honest information processing becomes impossible. Worse than …
Aphorirsms Against Fascism by Marc Batko, 8/24/2025 One-man rule or one-man circus is like the doors not opening on a train. One-man rule is like burning the books. One-man rule is like closing schools. Do we fix the leak or abandon the house? Trump is the civilization break, the biggest …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/23/18879198.php The pathological narcissist and distractor-in-chief followed his authoritarian playbook of lies, obscenities, threats, and insults and never prepared US communities for these earth-shaking migrations! Prices rise, exports collapse, employment plummets, and trust disappears! Trump must not be allowed to finish his second term! Trump and the US Are Paying …
20.03.2023 Qualitative Break: Why a Radical Critique of W by Norbert Trenkle [This article translated by John de Plume and Neil Larsen is available on the Internet, https://www.krisis.org/2023/qualitative-break-why-a-radical-critique-of-work-is-necessary-today/.] In capitalist society, the compulsion to work is fundamental. To survive in this society we either work for ourselves as self-employed …
https://www.krisis.org/2021/stolen-time/ Eternal growth, maximum profit, and rising share prices are the lifeblood of the economy. Without them, it immediately begins to crumble. The climate crisis reveals that growth programmed for infinity will amount to the destruction of the planet in the medium rather than the long term. Stolen Time Why …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/21/18879159.php Anyone who violates these fundamental ideological assumptions will not receive a doctorate. I personally know two very intelligent people who criticized profit maximization and compound interest in their doctoral theses. The result: both dissertations were rejected by their university supervisors. That was the end of their academic careers. Science …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/21/18879160.php Most university economists will say: I am free to think, say, and teach what I want; we have academic freedom. That is true. But only for those who have made it into the system, who have submitted to the basic assumptions in advance. Worldview in scientific garb Economics at …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/11/18878834.php The political showdown in Los Angeles is a stress test for US civil democracy. How Angelinos, Californian authorities, the judiciary, and national politics respond will determine whether the next three and a half years of Trump will be as authoritarian as he wishes—or whether a remnant of liberal democracy …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/07/18878734.php What good is it to write something courageous that shows that the state into which we are sinking is a barbaric one (which is true) if it is not clear why we are sinking into this state?… We must tell the truth about the barbaric conditions in our country, …