An explanation of how the modern Shia identity emerged post-1979 and how a small marginalized community basically became the face of anti-Israel jihad (by LargePenis)

"Separation of Power", or "Checks and Balances": Why North Korea is a dictatorship and the United States isn't

The Birth and Death of the Black State

Want to get better at reading? Check out and critique my notes on "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren

On Path of Exile, power fantasies, and Nietzsche

Facts & Media Bias Fact Check

On Election Worship (in the USA)

Ethan Klein vs Hasanabi.

On Essential Solidarity With Sex Workers

Anticolonial Struggle in the Postsecular Age: Islamization of the Palestinian Resistance

I'm starting to hear a depressingly familiar sentiment from older millennials who have struggled

Til en proletar "anti-engelsk" / Towards a Proletarian "Anti-English"

corruption is loosely defined in capitalism, and comparisons with socialism are inherently unfair

korea vs the american occupation zone

We need a new version of *The Anarchist Cookbook* for a modern left. It would be self advertising and steal membership directly from the alt-right pipeline.

The New Atlas / Brian Berletic is a hard-right, reactionary source [cw: some antisemism]

self criticism (and some criticism) on the topic of attitudes towards the west

On upvotes and likes (requested that I put this here, a short effortpost for your enjoyment)

I have an idea for a weekly thread

If liberals wanted to beat the right, they could do so very easily.