Leftist Corner
This is where I write about politics and economics from a leftist perspective. Class, labor, automation, housing, and the contradictions of capitalism. Not every post ends up here on the main blog. There's an RSS feed just for these, separate from the main blog feed.
ICE Is Twenty Years Old and It Should Not Exist
August 6, 2026Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not an old, neutral institution. Congress created it in 2003, gave it almost no independent oversight, and has watched it spend two decades expanding its own reach. Here is the history, and the case for abolishing it.
Free Tuition, Locked Gates
July 15, 2026The richest colleges in America are making themselves tuition-free. That is a real win, but free tuition alone will not open doors that generations of exclusion kept shut.
The Fatal Flaw in Silicon Valley's AI Gold Rush
November 15, 2025Tech giants are investing $400 billion in AI infrastructure while cutting thousands of jobs. This analysis explores the economic contradiction at the heart of automation: why replacing workers with machines may undermine the very source of profit, threatening both value creation and consumer demand in capitalism's latest transformation.
Amazon blamed AI for cutting 30,000 jobs while posting record profits and raising CEO pay 37%. We break down the Marxist economics behind tech layoffs: how automation intensifies worker exploitation, why the "AI made us do it" narrative hides class warfare, and what the Luddites can teach us about who really benefits from technology. This is surplus value extraction with algorithmic cover.