Nate's blog

Article that appeared in the book The End of the World as We Know It?

This blog post raises some questions posed by the election of Kshama Sawant to Seattle City Council and related developments, questions for people who are pro- and who are anti- this kind of electoral effort.

Lots of people who start Karl Marx's Capital get stuck somewhere in the early chapters of volume 1. In this post, I make some suggestions about how to get unstuck and read the whole book.

Article from the Industrial Worker newspaper on fast food strikes in the U.S.

This blog post argues that "No politics" is a bad idea and an inaccurate description of the IWW.

Book review about Franco Berardi's The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy

Blog post about anti-foreclosure and eviction struggles, and reformism and radicals in mass movements more generally.

In this post I argue that we should build organizations that can't be used as instruments for enforcing capitalist social relationships.

Speculative remarks on political trends in the present U.S.

Blog post about the idea that planning and capitalism are different things.

Blog post about lacking vocabulary to talk about important economic changes we've experienced, and how that lack of vocabulary hurts us.

Nate Hawthorne takes a look at how labor-capital structures of negotiation have changed in response to worker militancy and the state changing how it deals with what capitalists do. Along the way he gets into Joe Burns' new book, the ILWU-EGT conflict, the Occupy movement and 'direct unionism'.

Nate Hawthorne on the libertarian communist milieu and the language we use.

Article speculating on possible outcomes in Occupy, current anti-austerity struggles, and radical involvement.

Article on political metaphors and imagery

Blog post about Marx's Capital, what it is and isn't, partially in reply to Joseph Kay.

This article discusses the idea that the experience of struggle and direct action transforms people.

Blog post about Occupy Wall Street, deportation, and demands.

An article by Nate Hawthorne responding to 'Is reform possible?' on whether significant reform is possible in contemporary capitalism, how it could happen and why it is important to consider the question.