Fred Guerin
Avi Lewis, Radical Change and Party Politics
When Avi Lewis decided to move to electoral politics and bring the latter into dialogue with progressive ecological movements I cheered...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 26, 20211 min read
There is Nothing 'Theoretical' About Critical Race Theory
When scientists use the word ‘theory’ they are usually referring to something abstract or hypothetical, yet to be fully verified by...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 16, 20212 min read
On Possible and Sustainable Futures
I’m neither pessimistic nor fatalistic by nature. That we should endeavor to soberly assess the way we have raised the planets...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 16, 20212 min read
The Amazon Workplace: Planned Worker Obsolescence
You have, no doubt, all heard the expression 'planned obsolescence': in other words, the planning or designing of a product that has only...
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Fred Guerin
Jun 3, 20213 min read
Avi Lewis: The 'Leap' from Movements Into Party Politics
There is a necessary and potentially productive tension between progressive movements and political parties. When they lack leadership or...
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Fred Guerin
May 29, 20213 min read
Israel is Losing The Propaganda War
If there is one thing that has become abundantly clear over the course of 54 years of occupation, war crimes and apartheid in the...
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Fred Guerin
May 28, 20213 min read
On Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Democratic Eco-Socialism.
There is a common misconception that capitalism without neoliberalism would be fine. But it is important to recognize that capitalism,...
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Fred Guerin
May 22, 20216 min read
The Politics of Philosophy
The German-American Harvard political philosopher Leo Strauss once said that “philosophy is the attempt to replace opinion by knowledge,...
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Fred Guerin
May 10, 20214 min read
The Racist, Neoliberal Roots of Garrett Hardin's 'Tragedy of the Commons'
Back in the early 80's as a young philosophy student, I read an article by the ecologist/ biologist Garrett Hardin entitledThe Tragedy of...
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Fred Guerin
May 7, 20213 min read
China as Existential Threat...Again
“The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil…” George Orwell 1984 When space debris from a Chinese rocket is predicted to...
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Fred Guerin
May 6, 20213 min read
Colombia: Mass Protest and Police Violence
Yet another US-backed neoliberal fascist regime is in chaos. In the midst of a pandemic when Colombians are dying at a rate of 500 per...
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Fred Guerin
May 5, 20213 min read
COVID-19 Big Pharma & TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property)
Whoever is left on the planet that thinks Bill Gates is a great philanthropist concerned with human health and well-being through his...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 29, 20214 min read
Globalism, Nationalism and Neoliberal Capitalism
“You know, they have a word, it sort of became old-fashioned. It’s called a nationalist, And I say, ‘Really? We’re not supposed to use...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 29, 20214 min read
The Loveable Saul Goodman
Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman (Better Call Saul) is the exemplar of the shyster lawyer—a knavish pettifogger and con man who is happiest...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 24, 20212 min read
We Are What we Make of Ourselves
I know that many socialists and Marxists take it on faith that human beings are inherently benevolent and compassionate, and that...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 23, 20213 min read
On Dogma and Thinking Freedom as a Critical Practice
The moment that wise or edifying teachings arrived at through the crucible of individual thinking experience are set down into doctrine,...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20214 min read
Some Post-Verdict Thoughts on Defunding Police Forces
It was a good day...a day of righteous vindication, relief after a tense three-week trial, and a moment of much needed closure. Police...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20212 min read
Why Blow the Whistle?
Back in 1972 Ralph Nader defined whistleblowing as “an act of a man or a woman who, believing in the public interest overrides the...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20212 min read
Weapons of Mass Destruction
No, I’m not talking about nukes or ballistic missiles. What I’m talking about is yet another American mass shooting, another outcry of...
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Fred Guerin
Apr 22, 20213 min read
The NDP and Genuine EcoSocialism
The April 2021 federal NDP convention has come and gone. There were a number of progressive resolutions put forward and passed—reflecting...
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