Short Fiction – DANGER FROM HEAVY SEAS

English coast; great splendid roar of the waves battering the cliffside, the rush of wind, the howl of despair from across the freezing sea – over there within the abyssal sky nothing, brother, but death and slow and squalid death at that, and here, at your back, the verdant Jerusalem, the fields where in ancient...

Market Stalinism – The Danger Of Limited Revolution

What’s the limit of a revolution? That’s the question that keeps coming to me – in a decade or more of continuous international stagnation, in which everything in many developed countries is largely the same, but shabbier, as it was in 2008 or so, we can find that outside of that developed bubble things have...

The Danger of the Safety Valve – The Kuomintang, The Labour Party, And The Downsides Of Effective Opposition

I read an article a while back about the relative decline of the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party, in Taiwan – widely-documented as a party in trouble owing to a multitude of factors, from its own corruption and incompetence both in office and out, its dirty role in Taiwan’s dictatorial past which it has never...