Welcome

...to my Secret Commonwealth. I've taken the name from Robert Kirk's 17th Century essay about the lingering beliefs in faery in Scotland, but that's otherwise quite irrelevant. What I’m after here is the notion of a secret commonwealth dissenting against the conformity of the neo-liberal consensus and the tyranny of the Market. I believe another world is possible. I believe that another country is, too. For all their bitter struggles over social issues, the two wings of the American Business Party are neo-liberal to the core, which is one reason the Democratic-wing can’t get any traction against Republican-wing domination: to do so would go against what used to be (and still should be) called the Money Power.

About my politics, I am a non-doctrinaire reformist leftist, sometimes socialist, sometimes anarchist, sometimes anarcho-syndicalist, always environmentalist, and always a democrat with a small “d.” Red, black and green, mixed together.

Of course, being in a minority amidst the ruins of capitalist triumphalism, sometimes I just need to vent. I hope to do it articulately. Considering the appalling condition of the U.S., there will be a lot of discuss.