All posts by Austin Smidt

Cautioning Trojan Horse Socialism in The Year of Our Bernie

Austin Smidt | May 7, 2019

I can’t stand political Eeyorism. Much like the lovably, ever-depressive Eeyore’s parade-raining, the tendency to quash political optimism attached to perceived momentum is a stagnating online political trope. Irony aside, here’s some rain for my fellow anti-capitalists: Trojan Horse [...]

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