Last month, Instagram influencer and fashion entrepreneur Molly-Mae Hague appeared on a podcast on business-related issues. She made a fairly … Continue reading “How the Great Awokening has absorbed Millennial Socialism (or vice versa?)”

When this blog was launched over a decade ago, most of my articles were rebuttals of the latest nonsense I … Continue reading ““Yet you participate in society”: in defence of “Mr Gotcha””

The intellectual comeback of socialism After every single socialist experiment without exception failed over the past 100 years, it should … Continue reading “The socialist renaissance continues unabated”

As recently as 1981, 88 percent of the Chinese population was living in extreme poverty; today it is less than … Continue reading “Explaining China’s economic miracle”

“Hey guys, wanna feel old? I’m 40. You’re welcome”, Macaulay Culkin – the actor who is most famous for having played the … Continue reading “No, Millennial Socialists will not “grow out” of socialism”

In their 1992 book Ecocide in the USSR, Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly Jr. stated that “no other industrial civilisation … Continue reading “Book review: “Midnight in Chernobyl – The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster” by Adam Higginbotham”

In the past 100 years, there have been attempts to build socialist societies in at least 24 countries around the … Continue reading “Peru: the next experiment in Marxism-Leninism?”

Summary Millennials have long been portrayed as a politically disengaged and apathetic generation. In recent years, however, that portrayal has … Continue reading “Left turn ahead: Surveying attitudes of young people towards capitalism and socialism”

Do you know who Owen Jones is? You probably find this question bemusing. Jones is the UK’s bestselling political writer, he … Continue reading “The difference between fashionable and unfashionable socialists is not a difference of ideology – it is a difference in style, and PR savvy”