Why Kamala Harris Lost: The Utter Bankruptcy of Neoliberalism and the Democratic Party

By Tu'Che Kapone To analyze why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 Presidential eelection to Donald Trump is, at heart, an exercise in dissecting the pathology of a political system that rewards hollow ambition, sidesteps principle, and neglects the working masses. Harris’s defeat to a man who epitomizes America’s basest impulses—racism, militarism, and unbridled corporate greed—might... Continue Reading →

The Coming Attack On Iran

According to Article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (N.P.T.), all signatory member nations possess the “inalienable right” to “develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination.” As a signatory nation, the Islamic Republic of Iran is entitled to this most basic right, just like any other nation.

Walking on Two Feet: The Maoist Model of Socialist Development

The rise of China over the last two decades has compelled some economists to consider it a model of development that other industrializing nations should follow. Those lacking a basic understanding of political economy often refer to China as a “socialist” or “communist” country, and therefore mistakenly associate China’s economic system with “socialism.”

The Dialectics of National Liberation

It is a paradox of third world nationalism that the nation itself was more or less forged by colonial partition and then later become a force of emancipation for the colonized. In this sense, the nation must be understood as both a product of colonialism and a form of resistance to it. Nationalism, then, in... Continue Reading →

Reflections On Orientalism

By Prince Kapone Western Europe became rich and powerful, in large part, by colonizing, exploiting, and otherwise subjugating the people and lands of the so-called “Orient.” Prior to the 1500’s, every region of the world was at a relatively equal level of development, with the West even being backwards in relation to the East. However, with the emergence of capitalism in... Continue Reading →

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