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Nicolas Villarreal

Those Who Make History

When societies enter periods of chaos, the contingencies of history can change the world. These are the times of heroes.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on May 4, 2022February 24, 2023

The Chaos of Science in Power

Science has become a bank for political legitimacy. It hasn’t survived intact.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on June 7, 2021November 16, 2022

Small Business’s Class War Could Finish Off American Dynamism

As neoliberal reforms broke the back of American labor, they also created a growing class of small business owners. Now, that class has come back to haunt both big business and the establishment which created them.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

How Capitalist Giants Use Socialist Cybernetic Planning

Socialist Chile’s Project Cybersyn prefigured the cybernetic economic planning now used by capitalist giants like Amazon and Walmart. But the future of cybernetic planning can either empower workers or enslave them.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on September 23, 2020September 23, 2020

The New Managerial Class Is Not a Class at All

The concept of class isn’t arbitrary. It’s based on a unique stream of income and a distinct class ideology. The rising managerial elite have neither of those things.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on June 18, 2020October 9, 2021

The Luxuries We Can No Longer Afford

America has lost sight of the basic difference between wants and needs. Public needs, rather than private wants, should drive our allocation of capital.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on April 24, 2020May 13, 2020

Do You Feel Lonely?

The sexual revolution, individualism, and technology have all been blamed for our social pathologies, especially widespread loneliness. But the underlying problem is an economy which cannot sustain deep social fabric.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on March 9, 2020May 13, 2020

Who Has Authority in the American State?

The locus of legitimate authority in the American state is increasingly unclear. A reconfiguration of Marxist thought on the state reveals how elites interact with it, and also the state’s power to shape the elite itself.

Nicolas Villarreal Posted on January 8, 2020September 18, 2020
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