Essays
What to Do About NGOs?
NGO professionalization isn't just a strategic problem — it produces class relations within movements. An analysis of XR, the animal movement, prison abolition, and trade unions.
Bred Into Existence: Reproduction, Property and Class Rule
Factory farming isn't corrupted husbandry but reproductive labor appropriated through ownership — a class mechanism older than capitalism that "humane" reform can't dissolve.
How Class Rule Generates Imperial Forms: A Framework
This article outlines my attempt to integrate imperialism theory, ecology, feminism, animal rights, endogenous money and domain-specific knowledge that pertains to the question how class rule reproduces and spreads.
Disciplined into Deserving: Education and the Reproduction of Meritocratic Reasoning
Grading, ranking, credentialing: how the form of schooling under class rule trains people to think they deserve what they get.
Symptoms Disguised as a Diagnosis
MacIntyre diagnosed modern moral incoherence correctly. He misidentified the cause as philosophical rather than material and his remedy thus fails.
More to Lose Than Our Chains: Class Rule and the Problem of Worker Ambivalence
For roughly 150 years, the socialist and communist left has organized around one foundational assumption: that our proximate fight is with capitalism. I believe this assumption is wrong
Innocence and the License to Kill: How Class Rule Produces Its Moral Categories
This essay examines one such category — innocence — and argues that it is the form in which meritocratic reasoning is applied to the question of who may be harmed.