If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some way or other. If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways. Religious fundamentalism is a classic example.

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

President Barack Obama, to his credit, has given - issued personal pardons in deserving cases. But he should go far beyond. He should proceed to what is in fact an urgent necessity: to grant a general pardon to 11 million people who are living and working here, productive citizens in all but name, threatened with deportation by the incoming Donald Trump administration. This would be a horrible humanitarian tragedy, a moral outrage.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.