If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

An effective regulatory system today would be one guided by a few basic premises that can be applied flexibly but also universally.

It's hard to achieve that, especially in a free society, but it's been done, and that's the kind of thing that activists in the IWW have to work against, right on the shop floor. It's not so simple, but it's been done before.

Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.

If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a major crime to send a kind of shot across the bow saying you can't do this anymore. Not the best thing in the world, but not a major crime, either. So, I think at the very least there should have been an inquiry into what happened. But just joining the bandwagon about how we're finally standing up to crimes in Syria, that's ridiculous.

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.