Socialism, in all its forms, intrinsically compels one to take up the cause of animals, no matter what fuels your ideology. Environmentally, capital production of meat and animal products competes with petroleum for the most sordid, hellish conception of an industry one could conceive.

In Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower,  seeing the apocalypse as unfolding now means seeing the reality of catastrophe even when it is not (yet) made viscerally obvious to you.  

An effective protest seems to comprise three general points – it is targeted, constant, and disruptive. We are not here to simply ignore or be dictated to, we are a group with shared collective interests.

If the most moral thing a ’serious novelist’ can do is not shy away from injustice, but instead to hold a viewfinder up to it, then Hubert Selby, Jr. is one of the U.S. literati’s patron saints.

Neuromancer, a novel by William Gibson, is considered by many to be one of the progenitors of the cyberpunk genre.

The SPD’s forgotten ‘symbol war’ against the Nazis reveals the origins of modern propaganda and its intimate links to populist politics. In 1932, populism nearly beat the Nazis at their own game.