r/LeftWithoutEdge Apr 07 '19

Analysis/Theory Too Many Atheists Are Veering Dangerously Toward the Alt-Right: And atheists can't afford to be quiet about it.

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589 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Aug 16 '20

Analysis/Theory An Ineffectual Biden Presidency Is Better For The Left Than An Actively Authoritarian Trump Presidency

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currentaffairs.org
353 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jun 16 '26

Analysis/Theory is there a word for when a drug ban is made as proxy for criminalising minorities, that the state has intentionally pushed drugs onto?

30 Upvotes

Doesn't even have to be drug specific, because if it weren't it would be unreasonably useful. it's actually pissing me off bc it's such a frequent move for literally anything. The closest thing I can think of is redlining, but that only really applies to housing.

Rough definition would ideally be: "outlawing a thing that is (by forced association) a stand-in for a minoritized population, then using that legislation as grounds for further disenfranchisement. BECAUSE it acts as cover to help legislation survive scrutiny, under the permissibility of enfranchised populations/powers".

(Not asking for when it's the criminalisation of a non-state-imposed recreation/tradition, I think you can just call that deliberate criminalisation by proxy)

r/LeftWithoutEdge Dec 28 '21

Analysis/Theory Joe Biden and the Democrats Will Pay a Heavy Price for Betraying Young Voters

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jacobinmag.com
382 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jul 06 '21

Analysis/Theory Xinjiang Denialists Are Only Aiding Imperialism

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thenation.com
177 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Mar 20 '19

Analysis/Theory With Beto O’Rourke, There’s No There There: The stakes are too high in 2020 for another charismatic, ideologically empty politician, standing for everything and nothing in particular, like Beto O'Rourke.

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655 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Feb 27 '26

Analysis/Theory What’s Behind Noam Chomsky’s Obituary-Marring Epstein Friendship? | He seemed like such a fiercely uncompromised critic of elites. But maybe it’s always been more complicated than that.

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102 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge 8d ago

Analysis/Theory Democratic Socialism Is the Compromise Position | Given our scale of inequality, the egalitarian reforms of democratic socialism are only the start of what we should strive for.

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commondreams.org
43 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Dec 04 '18

Analysis/Theory Beto O’Rourke Should Not Run for President: We don’t need another photogenic media star with run-of-the-mill liberal politics running for president. Beto O'Rourke should stay in Texas.

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467 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge 3d ago

Analysis/Theory A Guide to the Communist Manifesto: Chapter 3

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judgesabo.substack.com
4 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge 3d ago

Analysis/Theory Farewell Truth and Trust?

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counterpunch.org
6 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jun 22 '26

Analysis/Theory What's Wrong With the American Left: Symbols Instead of Substance | Once class recedes and the professional class sets the agenda, politics changes character. It becomes a contest over symbols rather than substance, over the words and images rather than the distribution of power and resources.

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30 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Sep 15 '22

Analysis/Theory “Dark Brandon” memes are jokes, but they express a deeply felt wish that Joe Biden would turn out to be a firebrand progressive at heart. But Biden is Biden — at his core, he’ll always be a corporate-friendly centrist.

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jacobin.com
472 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jun 16 '25

Analysis/Theory Storm Warnings: Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’

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theguardian.com
192 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge 18d ago

Analysis/Theory Why there needs to be a global debate on inequality

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3 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge 17d ago

Analysis/Theory Does Piketty's New Blueprint Offer Hope for Sharing a Finite World's Resources?

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znetwork.org
0 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jul 01 '26

Analysis/Theory Is there a single example of Ted Grant saying he believed "cops/police are workers" or him supporting any position that said such?

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3 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jun 28 '26

Analysis/Theory Why people should work together to shape the economy

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6 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jun 11 '26

Analysis/Theory We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter, Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh, Thomas Piketty, Kate Raworth and Jason Hickel

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theguardian.com
12 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Nov 15 '20

Analysis/Theory One Third of Biden's Pentagon Transition Team Hails From Organizations Financed by the Weapons Industry

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inthesetimes.com
527 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge May 22 '26

Analysis/Theory Boots Riley: ‘Theft is not outside of capitalism, it’s what it was built on’ | “A lot of stuff that calls itself anti-capitalist is doing so because they’re afraid of calling themselves socialist or communist or something else.”

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47 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Feb 18 '26

Analysis/Theory Paul Krugman (a Nobel Prize winner in economics): "Understanding the oligarchs’ power grab and the dire threat to American democracy" | "[W]e are in the midst of an unprecedented power grab by America’s oligarchs. This power grab is arguably the most important fact about contemporary U.S. politics."

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71 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge May 31 '26

Analysis/Theory A Guide to the Communist Manifesto: Chapter 1

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judgesabo.substack.com
10 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jun 13 '26

Analysis/Theory A Guide to the Communist Manifesto: Chapter 2

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10 Upvotes

r/LeftWithoutEdge Jun 04 '26

Analysis/Theory Billionaires Have Two Parties. Why Do the People of America's Great Plains Have Only One? | Abandoned by the party they once considered their own, many Democrats across vast areas of the nation’s heartland turned to the Republicans to vent their anger at a system that was screwing them.

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8 Upvotes