Essays

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.

How Class Rule Generates Imperial Forms: A Framework

More to Lose Than Their 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

Why Competing Solidarities Tend to Win

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.

Just Doing Your Job: What We Do for a Living

For decades, we've been hearing how everyone should 'take responsibility for their actions,' and that we are each responsible for our 'success' (or lack ther...

Where the Logic Is Most Complete: Animal Use and Meritocratic Reasoning

Speciesism is where meritocratic reasoning operates most completely. That's why the unlearning should start here.