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Eric Schechter’s LSD trips in 1969 made him several different people. And his 2005 textbook compared several different kinds of mathematical logic. These experiences may have paved the way for his political awakening, which began in 2006. It was triggered partly by the revelations of Bush’s lies about the Iraq war and about global warming, and partly by several events in Eric’s personal life that gave him both time and motivation to think about a lot of things. Among his inspirations were the psychology writings of George Lakoff and Charles Eisenstein, though he is to the left of both of them on economics. He now sees the 10,000-year-old institutions of hierarchy and property as the root of all evil, so he identifies himself as an anarcho-communist – more specifically, a John Lennonist. His reasons for wanting to end capitalism overlap with Marx’s reasons, but are more brief. Most of his essays are at http://LeftyMathProf.org.
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report