Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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News
Trump’s fascist political strategy
July 27, 2020Since Trump's U.S. Senate allies protected him from prosecution during his impeachment, he has a powerful incentive to continue disobeying the law. There remain few forms of Constitutional authority to check his power.
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Politics
We cannot have the police viewing the people as the enemy
July 17, 2020Systemic racism will not end because some city leaders participate in painting “Black Lives Matter.” Those are valuable gestures, but deeper social changes are necessary.
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Politics
U.S. government’s legitimacy crisis calls out for socialist solutions
June 15, 2020The people are not waiting for politicians and pundits to decide what's possible. They're making their own demands and looking for transformational change.
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Opinion
Trump wants repression and police violence to be capitalism’s new normal
June 3, 2020For those who believe fascism is a deviation from capitalist norms, the truth has been laid bare.
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Politics
Trump administration weaponizes lies and conspiracies instead of solutions
May 26, 2020The contradiction in the Trump administration's information reflects its divided, disorganized, ill-managed, ill-tempered, and at many times imbecilic leadership.
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Politics
Trump’s anti-Chinese racist campaign strategy mobilizes right-wing extremists
April 20, 2020Because capitalism cannot operate without the labor-power of workers, the profits of the capitalist class are in danger. Therefore, the message is: Back to work.
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Politics
W.E.B. Du Bois exposed capitalist and colonialist roots of white supremacy
February 21, 2020He offered a narrative of humanity that rejects Eurocentric notions of narrow universalism and inevitability that justified the status quo.
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Opinion
Trump sinks to racist panic as China mobilizes against disease
February 7, 2020If we sink to racist xenophobia in the face of winnable battles against disease, we do not deserve to call ourselves the working class.
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