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Longtime C4SS fellow Gary Chartier will be meeting his critics to discuss his 2023 book Christianity and the Nation-State: A Study in Political Theology at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association on Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 6:00-7:50 p.m., Westin St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell St., San Francisco CA 94102, room TBA. – CHRISTIANITY…
Populism: The Two-Headed Serpent
“Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organization that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism” — Joseph Stalin Bernie Sanders’ nativist tendencies are in the news again. When asked in a recent interview if Trump had done anything right so far,…
Ethnic Cleansing Apologetics at the Wall Street Journal
More Degrowth Dogma 
Degrowth: The Conceptual Confusion Continues
Laurance Labadie’s “Is Credulity Sweeping the World?”
Is Credulity Sweeping the World? Somewhere in his book, What is Property[?], Proudhon tells of a Parisian of the 17th century who heard it said that in Venice they had no king. This struck him as so absurd and ridiculous that he nearly killed himself from laughing. He wondered, I suppose, what sort of chaos…
Diversity and Harmony
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil…
Communizing Society With Consumer Cooperatives
Reconciling the Insights of Marx and George
A Comparative Review “Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” – Karl Marx, Capital Volume One; Chapter 10 “The association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times . . . So long as all the increased wealth…
Book Review: Assets in Common
Therapy for Radicals
An Orientalist History of Transmisogyny
Landback
Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate: With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official…
The Rentier Economy, Vulture Capital, and Enshittification
Karl Hess: A Life on the (Right) Left (and Right)
Intellectual Property: A Libertarian Critique — 2nd Edition (2009, 2023)