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Elliot Sperber is an attorney, teacher, and researcher/writer focusing on legal theory, political theory, and human rights.

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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Beyond Reparations - Ferguson and Actual Justice This article discusses the issue of reparations in the context of the killing of Mike Brown, and argues that actual justice requires not only reparations for all people, but reparations in the form of the decommodification of our society.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 11, 2014
The No-State Solution to Israel, Palestine and the World Among other things, this article discusses the nature of imperialism, nationalism, and emancipatory politics in the context of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, and argues that since the nation-state is an instrument of war, a meaningful peace necessitates not a one state or a two state solution, but the supercession of the nation-state.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Fighting Without Winning, Winning Without Fighting This article argues that the most effective way to resist war (and the class war that subsumes particular wars) is by radical noncooperation in general, and by a general strike in particular.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 18, 2014
Trickle Down Civil War This article discusses the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the harms it is expected to cause, and its relation to national sovereignty, abuses of executive power, and a critical concept of democracy, among other things.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 7, 2014
Preconditions for an Actually Democratic Society This article examines the meaning of the concept of democracy, and argues, among other things, that democracy requires certain basic material conditions; moreover, it argues that because democracy is the regime of the inalienable, and capitalism is the regime of the alienable, the two are fundamentally opposed. From that point, the preconditions for an actual democracy - and a basic income law - are discussed.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 3, 2014
This Is Not a New Year a critique of celebrating the ancient roman/christian calendar
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 16, 2013
Israel, Palestine, and Mexico - Solidarity at the Guadalajara International Book Fair Amidst considerable controversy, the Guadalajara Book Fair honored the State of Israel this year. Mexican writer and activist Malu Huacuja del Toro discusses the context of the book fair, and publishes the plea for peace - written for the event by writer Elliot Sperber - that she read there.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 9, 2013
Kill the Landlord, but Save the Man This article discusses the relationship between the genocide, and cultural genocide, of Native Americans and landownership, and argues for a just redistribution of wrongfully concentrated real property.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 29, 2013
Thanks for Giving What? Commerce or Community? Among other things, this article discusses Thanksgiving's relationship to Black Friday, and the contradictions in US history, particularly the contradiction between commerce and community.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 25, 2013
The Sleepwalkers Are Revolting This article discusses the ongoing sleep deprivation epidemic, and how it results in an inability to think which is deeply related to ongoing political problems
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 7, 2013
Russell Brand and the Necessary Planetary Adjustment This article discusses Russell Brand's call for revolutionary change, and its relation to the issue of voting, and the concept of law, among other things.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Russell Brand and the Leader Question This article discusses Russell Brand and the question of whether social movements need leaders, or need no leaders.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The Concept of Crises This article discusses the concept of the crisis and analyzes contemporary crises in light of its historical meaning.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 13, 2013
The Spirit of Columbus - Jesus Christ, Columbus, and the US Constitution This article discusses the Catholic Church, Columbus, and the US Constitution. In addition to arguing that they share extremely similar structures, it points out that they share a similar exception as well.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 7, 2013
THE SURPRISE PARTY (the ACA, the Tea Party, Occupy, and the Shutdown Showdown) This article discusses the interrelations between Obamacare, the shutdown, the Tea Party, the Occupy movement, and the need for an emancipatory politics.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 23, 2013
Fukushima Economics Among other things, this article discusses the Fukushima Economy - the toxic, capitalist economy - as it relates to the minimum wage, and argues that even if the wage is raised, it is at best a superficial amelioration of long-term, systemic problems that require radical change
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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 9, 2013
Kaiser Obama - From WWI to WWIII This article discusses Barack Obama's foreign policy, compares the present rush to war with Syria to the lead up to World War I, and considers the possibility of nuclear war, among other things
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Freedom and Jobs, or Freedom from Jobs This article discusses the fundamental antagonism that exists between freedom and jobs.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 26, 2013
Hey Idiot! This article discusses the double meaning of the term idiot - i.e., fool and heteronomous subject
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 22, 2013
Snowden - Knowledge (of Metadata) Is Power This article discusses the relationship between knowledge, hidden knowledge/secrets, state secrets, and power.

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