Articles by Colin Jenkins
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The following is an email interview with author and activist, Danny Haiphong, regarding the current state of capitalism, US politics, and his new book, American Exceptionalism and...
Colin Jenkins · 1,595 views
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Rich people have always had class consciousness because... they want to stay rich. This collective consciousness led the "founding fathers" of the United States to set up systems of...
Colin Jenkins · 5,353 views
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A short summary
Colin Jenkins · 2,306 views
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"Fascism must be seen as an episodically logical stage in the socio-economic development of capitalism in a state of crisis.”
The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the...
Colin Jenkins · 1,747 views
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"Elites" aren't accustomed to adversity, being challenged, or having their birthright entitlements questioned. They coast through their prep schools and Ivy League, and slide into their...
Colin Jenkins · 1,672 views
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Peace to you; if you’re willing to fight for it”
– Fred Hampton
The “founding fathers” deliberately arranged a system of governance that would protect the wealthy minority from the...
Colin Jenkins · 8,028 views
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A dear friend of mine passed away in 2016. He was a lifelong revolutionary activist and quite possibly the most interesting man in the world (sorry, Dos Equis guy). His name was Kwame...
Colin Jenkins · 1,469 views
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A Review of David Gilbert's 'Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically'
Colin Jenkins · 3,737 views
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The wealthy have taken everything from us, and continue to find ways to take even more. It is never enough for them. And, year after year, their political puppets in both capitalist...
Colin Jenkins · 4,529 views
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A major internal contradiction with capitalism is that it needs workers to also be consumers. While owners (and the system in general) constantly seek to drive down wages, they also seek...
Colin Jenkins · 4,068 views
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Neoliberalism is a mature stage of capitalism - a reciprocal process of concentrated wealth taking control of the public agenda via government. Capitalist economists like Milton Friedman...
Colin Jenkins · 3,857 views
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The following is an interview with members of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM), conducted over the course of a month between July and August of 2017. We discuss their...
Colin Jenkins · 541 views
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." This quote, which has often been misattributed to Sinclair Lewis, is wise in recognizing the...
Colin Jenkins · 14,024 views
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Colin Kaepernick took a courageous and principled stand last season by kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games. This was done in response to a society that continues to...
Colin Jenkins · 5,523 views
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Disclaimer: The language expressed in this article is an uncensored reflection of the views of the artists as they so chose to speak and express themselves. Censoring their words would...
Colin Jenkins · 1,060 views
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Published as part of the Transnational Institute's State of Power 2017 report.
Colin Jenkins · 8,201 views
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Bosses don't grow on trees. They don't magically appear at your job. They aren't born into their roles. They are created. They are manufactured to fulfill arbitrary positions of power...
Colin Jenkins · 54,370 views
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Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them...
Colin Jenkins · 6,626 views
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Election seasons bring with them a renewed interest in politics. For most that couldn't care less about such concerns, election season becomes, for at least a moment, a time to reflect...
Colin Jenkins · 8,242 views
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Co-authored with Cherise Charleswell
Colin Jenkins · 549 views
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As human societies have developed over the course of history, so too have corollary systems of order. In the most basic sense, the often informal development of customs, norms and ethics...
Colin Jenkins · 409 views
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In 1885, the Knights of Labor organized a successful strike against Jay Gould's Missouri Pacific Railroad. In response to the strike, Gould famously growled, "I can hire half the working...
Colin Jenkins · 326 views
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"It is not consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness." - Karl Marx [1]
Colin Jenkins · 519 views
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The following is the third part of a multi-part series, "Applying Poulantzas," which analyzes the work of Greek Marxist political sociologist, Nicos Poulantzas, and applies it to the...
Colin Jenkins · 1,006 views
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Co-authored with David M. Fields
Colin Jenkins · 695 views
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Anarchy is synonymous with chaos and disorder. It is a term that stands in direct contrast to the archetype of society we have become accustomed to: hierarchical, highly-structured, and...
Colin Jenkins · 637 views
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The comparisons being made between the Baltimore riots this past week and the historical Boston Tea Party are wrongheaded. Baltimore residents have much more to fight for than the...
Colin Jenkins · 466 views
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A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in late-2011 may have provided a glimpse into our social and political future, if Millennials have anything to say about it. During the...
Colin Jenkins · 361 views
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"President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon..."
- Malcolm X, December 1, 1963
"Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love...
Colin Jenkins · 14,492 views
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The following is a list of attributes, both tangible and conceptual, that made the BPP an effective model for true liberty and self-determination; and, consequently, a substantial threat...
Colin Jenkins · 2,252 views
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"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class - the rich class - that's making war, and we're winning."
- Warren Buffett (2006)
In the spring of 2004, amid the thaw of a...
Colin Jenkins · 974 views
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The following is Part one of a multi-part series, "Applying Poulantzas," which analyzes the work of Greek Marxist political sociologist, Nicos Poulantzas, and applies it to the unique...
Colin Jenkins · 413 views
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Critical analyses regarding the effects of "consumerism" have been a staple of Leftist theory for the past century. The Situationist International, appearing in the 1950s as an extension...
Colin Jenkins · 870 views
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In July of this year, Barack Obama boasted of an impressive recovery the US has undertaken since the Great Recession of 2008, proclaiming, "We've recovered faster and come farther than...
Colin Jenkins · 584 views
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Dystopian narratives have long been an alluring and thought-provoking form of entertainment, especially for those who take an interest in studying social and political structures. From...
Colin Jenkins · 5,708 views
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