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Michael

About Me


You are a
Social Liberal
(83% permissive)

and an...
Economic Liberal
(3% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Socialist

My Interests

Nerd shit, Warhammer, World of Warcraft, comics, reading, enjoying good films, listening to good music, hangin with friends."Come on down to the store, you can buy some more more more more." -Kim Gordon

I'd like to meet:

Paul Sweezy, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Thurston Moore, Danny Carey

Music:

Sonic Youth, Tool, Dizzy Gillespie, NIN, Fugazi, Oscar Peterson, Pixies, Refused, The Stooges, CAN, Rage, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Kinski, The Fucking Champs, Matt Peterson's drumming

Movies:

Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shaun of the Dead, Steamboy, Ravenous, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, George Romero films, really any good Zombie flick (the social commentary is unsurpassed by anything other than documentaries)

Television:

Everything but public television is corrupted by the profit motive. It can all burn. Media in the US is a capitalist industry, if what you say offends someone, they're not going to print/show it because the people who pay for adds will pull their money out, especially if it threatens their power structure. One who would say that CNN is better than Fox News is seriously mistaken, its an illusion that a certain channel has a more "liberal" or "conservative" point of view. They are all biased towards business interest, which is antithetical to human/labor rights.

Books:

Das Capital, Wealth of Nations, The Philosophical Investigations, Imperialism Without Colonies, The Free World Collossus, Pathology of the US Economy Revisted, Steal This Idea, gimmie anything by Michael Perelman, Paul Sweezy, Marx, John Bellamy Foster, and I will eat it up.

Heroes:

I believe in a horizontal approach to any sort of organization, this means absoultely no power structure nor a hierarchy. The concept of a hero undermines this entire ideal.

My Blog

Bush bashers, c'mon people

Pardon me if this blog isn't nearly as academic, but this is something that I feel I need to talk about. So I was reading this person's blog about how they hate people who find it trendy to become dem...
Posted by Michael on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:48:00 PST

Class Warfare in the U.S.

For the last 26 years, class warfare has been waged on a scale never seen before. Although this war has existed for as long as hierarchical societies have existed, todays form is much more insidious t...
Posted by Michael on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:58:00 PST

A comparitive analysis of the Iraq and Vietnam War

IntroductionAlthough there are specific differences between US intervention in Iraq and Vietnam, both can be viewed as wars for US hegemony. However, the context in which the wars were waged is very d...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:21:00 PST

The problem with the classic/neoliberals

Neoliberal is a term that refers to one's economic position. Neoliberals started with Regan and Thatcher in the 80s, referring to their belief that government intervention in the economy is the reason...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 06 May 2006 10:25:00 PST