American socialism cannot be modeled on the former Soviet Union, China, Cuba, or other countries with different historical, economic, and cultural de… - Michael Parenti

It is not Socialism that subverts democracy, but democracy that subverts capitalism.

In their eagerness to neutralize themselves, scholars tend to neutralize the subject matter. But history is never neutral. And relatively little of it is purely stochastic and accidental. While we need not assume there is a grand design to all that happens, we cannot rule out human agency, human intent, and political interests that are purposive in their actions. Such history does not come off as very “gentlemanly” in the patrician sense, nor very nuanced—if by “nuanced” we mean the academically trained ability to mute and dilute the brute realities of political economy and class power.

Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater than the electric use of our entire nation.