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Stonewall, Where A Few Transvestites Said Enough Was Enough

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKE Los Angeles Here’s a smooth summary of that evening: It was on the night of June 27, 1969, that a routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a

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Slaves Indebted to the One Percent?

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd David Graeber explains: Since antiquity the worst-case scenario that everyone felt would lead to total social breakdown was a major debt crisis; ordinary people would become so

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What Should Be the Function of Government Assistance?

The answer, according to the words of Roy Huffman: …to increase the capacity of the resource base to support private enterprise. It cannot be otherwise in a capitalistic economy. Do

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In the Shadow of the Capitalist State

Donald Worster writes about the theory of the capitalist state, and its purpose: Instead, the state has become a Leviathan in whose shadow ordinary men and women live…. In the

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Marxists & Their Slight Lapses of Perception

Donald Worster expounds: Too quickly, however, they have assumed that the state is merely a tool of a single elite

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Duncan, the Great Bear-Slayer & Great American Asshole

ADAM MICHAEL LUEBKELos Angeles This is not Duncan the bear killer, but John Muir, the lover of nature. John Muir

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For the Common Prostitute in Your Life

Salute her, or him, like this,with a significant look: I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature; Not till the sun excludes

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A Truly Inspiring Poem

The Laughing Heart, by Charles Bukowski:your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light

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