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“If socialism is so good, why is almost every country capitalist?” What Marcuse’s Counterrevolution Can Teach Us about Treatlerites.

The understanding of the semi-colonial status of the Black American resulted in the recognition of the need for a radically new Black nation, understood through the framework of Black Marxism.

Too many from the proletariat class have died unnecessarily in service of the bourgeois bunker or whittled their lives away constructing tunnels in the pursuit of surplus value. Bunker-busters make no such ideological demand for construction or labor. With precision and tact, they explode.

Lauren Reinhold and Colin McRoberts are running for the US House as Democrats in Kansas' first district, gerrymandered to include all of Western Kansas and Lawrence. In an exclusive interview, the Rose asked the candidates about redlines for the progressive movement.

Have you seen Markiplier’s new movie? This article isn’t about that. Not quite, at least. The double feature after the film was quite the politcal scare.

Faculty Senate has drafted a petition of no confidence in Chancellor Doug Girod and CFO Jeff DeWitt for their refusal to negotiate with the UAKU. They asking everyone at KU, including staff, faculty, students, and even alumni, to weigh in.

I will not otherwise continue to serve under an administration that governs through intimidation, manipulation, and bad-faith tactics. I will also be stepping away from Student Senate for the foreseeable future, as the conduct displayed by prospective candidates and current leadership has contributed to an atmosphere of dysfunction that I refuse to legitimize through continued participation.

In the midst of perhaps the most chaotic and crowded news cycle ever, the story that has consistently cut through the headlines is the slow, agonizing release of the Epstein Files.

When the legislature budgeted for raises for state employees, faculty and staff at KU may have expected raises. Instead, they went to a few at the top, including one administrator who may have played a unique role in appropriating the funds.

As students already struggle to pay for tuition, those attending KU are forced to pay an additional tax of over $500 a semester to fund basic infrastructure like mental health counseling and transportation services.

Unionization is the natural conclusion when an administration igrnores Shared Governance. A university that doesn’t respect its workers cannot respect its students. A university that doesn’t invest in sustainability cannot claim to care about our future.

We all agree bad things are wrong. The leaders of the conservative movement don't thing anything ought to be done about it. The fundamental differences in thought between conservatives and the left provides us all the more reason to act.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) ranks colleges based on their free speech environment. These rankings feign neutrality while excusing fascism, they do not represent the full picture of how free speech operates on campus.

To better understand Marx’s original vision for socialism, it is best to go straight to the source(s). In Marx’s “Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844” and “The Communist Manifesto”, co-written with Engels, communism is described in a number of ways – positively, negatively, tangentially, and otherwise – which can be synthesized into an understanding of Marx’s socialist vision of a post-capitalist world.

Management takes months to produce counterproposals and is often underprepared to bargin, but tell UAKU "Don't punish us for good deeds". Over a year after winning their union, there is still no contract in sight for faculty and academic staff as the University of Kansas’ management stalls negotiations.

Private equity billionaire David Booth has contributed a portion of his multi-billion dollar fortune to KU’s latest vanity project and its floundering football team.

When people imagine knitting, they picture their grandma hunching over in a rocking chair, not, this author, a nonbinary teen with a mullet. But since the pandemic, fiber arts have seen a dramatic rise in popularity with younger generations. Knitting and crochet have been dismissed as “grandma hobbies;” slow, domestic, and too feminine to be taken seriously. However, that dismissal is misogynistic, and misses the point entirely. Knitting uses intergenerational knowledge and community as a quiet rebellion against a world obsessed with speed and profit. Basically, I’m saying my knitting is punk as hell.

CapFed is a facade beyond its modular facade; it is a shell over an institution that exists to reproduce the logics it teaches and the capitalists it relies on – no matter the ‘external’ costs. It understands its role in the community, it knows it will always have support from private actors and University administration, and doesn’t care that it eliminates contingent possibilities, both practical and theoretical.

A History of Coltan Mining and Extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . To fuel its tech boom, as is its nature, the First World is preying upon the Third for its resources

Beauty is not an objective fact; it is a social construct, reified across generations and composed of endless threads of styles, genres, artists, notions, and cultures. It is an expression of ourselves and the vast diversity across humanity, united not by one standard of beauty, but by many.