The Global Teach-In

By Jonathan Michael Feldman, June 20, 2025 Warfare and Welfare: A Misremembered Convergence Esbati writes: “the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s are decades of rearmament. But this is also in many places a time for improved real wages and for the simultaneous expansion of social welfare systems.”¹ The timeline is accurate—but misleading. Sweden’s capacity to expand…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, June 15, 2025 Introduction  The escalating tensions between Israel and Iran have generated polarized narratives that often obscure rather than illuminate the complex realities at stake. While legitimate criticism of Israeli policies—particularly regarding Gaza—remains essential, some commentators have responded by promoting misleading claims that effectively whitewash Iran’s authoritarian regime. This analysis…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 19, 2025, Updated April 20, 2025 Source: AI generated program developed by this hosting platform. Today I asked the Chinese-based deepseek program a series of questions related to the Swedish left’s positions on Hamas. I wanted to explore whether my views about part of the Swedish left could be substantiated…

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AI-Experiments to Re-Anchor I-Phone Production to the United States and The Triple Failure By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 13, 2025 In an article by  Tripp Mickle and Ana Swanson in The New York Times, “Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics,” the head of Apple Tim Cook argued that it was too difficult to…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 6, 2025 On April 5, 2025 large-scale protests took place against Donald Trump’s regime. These protests have been described as being “oppositional,” but a movement of deconstruction is not sufficient for leveraging systemic power on the scale wielded by the Trump regime. These protests are but a first step to…

Continue readingBoycott Trump Regime Capital: Using AI to Improve Social Movement Design

By Jonathan Michael Feldman, March 9, 2025 A Case Study in Left Militarism As should be obvious, Russian transgressions in Ukraine have violated international law, basic conceptions of human rights and democracy. The military mobilization in Europe which has accompanied the response has come at a great cost to other security needs. The Trump Administration…

Continue readingAnti-Imperialism as Militarism: A Response to Michael Karadjis and the Discourse of Left Militarism

By Jonathan Michael Feldman, March 4, 2025; Updated March 5, 2025 The Swedish TV program Agenda offers another non-debate on European militarism on March 2, 2025. The Lost Peace and Popular Opinion Today I had a rather long discussion with DeepSeek, the Chinese AI chat service, about a core argument related to why the West…

Continue readingThe Moral Hypocrisy of the West: Territorial Sanctity Disposable in Kosovo but not Ukraine

By Jonathan Michael Feldman, December 21, 2024 Celebrations of Powerlessness On December 20, 2024 I noticed the following item on sale at the Union Square holiday market. That’s Union Square in Manhattan in New York City. This display itself is an ironic statement. This location has historically been one of New York City’s most important…

Continue readingLuigi-Mangionites: Celebrations of Powerlessness as Social Amnesia

By Jonathan M. Feldman, December 3, 2024 On December 2, 2024, persons protesting Israel’s policies in the Middle East were met with three police cars as a testimony to the state’s commitment to silence persons banging drums (and/or chanting slogans). The scene was Stockholm University, outside the window of my office. While the drum-beating potentially…

Continue readingNORMALITY IS VERY DANGEROUS: POLICE AND TV DON’T HELP: The Palestine Question and the Nuclear Question in Sweden

By Jonathan Michael Feldman, November 23, 2024 Deconstruction that Displaces Reconstruction A colleague recently remarked that various persons in the Left often have no ideas about how to organize society differently or that they lack proposals for solving problems. This issue is just another way of arguing that much of the left is involved in…

Continue readingThe “Rents of Superficiality”: Capitalism and the Left Professional Class