Index of Names
and Subjects

A

• accelerationism, 193–97, 200–201, 203–4, 206–7, 362, 560, 566
• Adorno, Theodor, 442
• agrarianism. See yeoman farmers and agrarianism
• alienation, 74, 155, 170–74, 227, 321, 325, 330, 359, 389, 468, 563
• Allen, Theodore, 178, 184, 191
• Althusser, Louis, 135, 266, 271, 274
• American Revolution, 259, 318, 320, 323, 459, 462–63, 577
• Amish, 134–35, 137, 512, 514
• anarchism, 19, 94–107, 109–12, 142, 226
• anti-natalism, 346, 429, 520, 535, 552
• antiracism, 39, 181, 191, 223, 319, 400, 406, 429, 473
• antisemitism, 156, 171, 281, 284, 332, 371–72, 377–81
• Arendt, Hannah, 498, 519, 530, 533, 536, 551–53, 555
• Aristotle, 199
• audience capture, 285, 291, 310, 335, 352, 363, 368
• Austin, J. L., 576
• automation, 127, 137, 196, 236, 239, 499, 547–48

B

• Bacon’s Rebellion, 178, 180, 183, 185
• Bakunin, Mikhail, 96, 99, 103
• Banks, Jennifer, 532–33
• base and superstructure, 128, 168, 395, 425, 544
• Bateman, Oliver, 3–4
• Baudrillard, Jean, 128–29, 131, 225, 501, 503, 529, 537, 543, 594
• Bauer, Susan Wise, 552, 582
• Benda, Julien, 108
• Berry, Wendell, 177, 187–91, 538, 542–43, 548–49, 552, 583–86, 590
• Bezos, Jeff, 5, 234–35, 560
• Biden, Joe, 55–58, 60–61, 110, 444–45
• big Other, 4–6, 234, 239, 265–68, 270–71, 273–77, 283, 440, 591, 594
• Big Romance, 510, 512, 514, 516
• birth rates, 16, 29–30, 83, 374, 428–30, 477, 523, 533, 551, 555
• Black Lives Matter, 52, 107, 181
• Bolsheviks, 118, 120, 142, 146–47, 153–57, 173, 200–201, 259, 300, 327, 372, 376–77, 542
• Bookchin, Murray, 99, 101–2, 110
• Bourdieu, Pierre, 94, 103, 106, 246, 344, 402, 415, 440–41, 446
• bourgeoisie, 159–62, 205, 234–35, 298
• Brahmin Left, 311, 316, 393
• Burke, Edmund, 102, 108
• Burnham, James, 422, 456, 594
• Butler, Judith, 59, 68, 70, 288
• Buttigieg, Pete, 55, 60

C

• capitalism, 12, 17, 19, 26–28, 30, 65, 139, 159–61, 193–207, 209, 215, 308, 311, 314–15, 335, 355, 376, 395–96, 421–22, 425, 427, 560–62
• Carlson, Tucker, 4, 258, 593
• Carnegie, Andrew, 230, 302–3, 522
• Carney, Mark, 328–29
• Carney, Timothy P., 517
• castration culture, 185, 265, 291, 339, 345, 347–48, 509, 512–13, 520, 523, 555
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 313, 317, 442–43, 445, 447, 450, 453, 455
• Chapo Trap House, 3, 411–14, 418
• Chesterton, G. K., 111–12, 511, 589–90, 594
• Chomsky, Noam, 70, 99, 101, 210, 271
• Christianity, 9, 142, 207, 250–51, 261, 273, 324, 377, 434, 475, 506, 526, 540, 552, 561
• chud, 335, 411–12, 414, 416, 419
• CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• civilization, 33, 102, 108, 341, 348, 422, 428–29, 475, 540, 554, 570
• class consciousness, 148, 150, 160–61, 170, 174, 230, 308, 317–18, 365, 560
• class-first left, 3, 45–47, 51–53, 55, 58–59, 62–71, 73, 75–76, 78, 84–85, 327, 527
• class struggle, 20, 116, 143, 201, 260, 300–301, 318, 355, 378, 406, 563–64
• Clinton, Bill, 414
• Clinton, Hillary, 52–55, 57–58, 66, 184, 271, 330
• COINTELPRO, 445
• Comintern, 104, 148, 153
• commodity fetishism, 135, 216
• Common Ground, 537, 540–41, 550
• communism, 139–41, 149, 153–54, 156–58, 163, 166, 193, 196, 198, 200, 204, 206, 210–12, 216, 313, 315–17, 322–23, 326, 389
• conservative socialism, 248–49, 252, 255–56, 261
• conspiracy theory, 371, 405, 428, 439–46, 448
• Constant, Benjamin, 108
• contained opposition, 5, 357, 368, 453–55, 467, 469
• Corbyn, Jeremy, 69, 329
• cosmopolitanism, 171, 174, 205, 371–77, 379–93, 395, 397–98, 406, 408–9
• creators, political, 98, 109, 281, 285–86, 310, 356–58, 360–63, 368–69
• cultural capital, 24–25, 247, 315, 355, 359, 373, 376, 384, 393, 458
• culture war, 13, 46–48, 50, 67, 69, 72, 80, 82, 85, 88, 225, 236–40, 249, 254, 256, 269, 282, 295, 309, 313, 335, 527, 552
• Cutrone, Chris, 133, 223, 238

D

• Dasein, 506, 544–46, 551
• Davis, Angela, 59–60, 68, 70, 203, 321
• Dean, Jodi, 564
• Declaration of Independence, 323, 462–64
• decolonization, 70, 182, 191, 318, 322
• Deleuze, Gilles, 525
• democracy, 143, 147, 150, 166, 210–11, 253, 325–26, 390, 424, 444, 464, 558–59
• Democratic Party, 40, 57–58, 61, 68, 107, 154, 180, 212, 260, 267, 333, 413
• democratic socialism, 67, 70, 115, 122, 152, 175, 210, 312, 326, 374, 558, 593
• Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), 4, 36, 39, 50, 77, 81, 249, 279–81, 293, 328, 593
• Democrats. See Democratic Party
• dialectics, 133, 135, 222, 425, 461, 520, 527
• discursive Taylorism, 232, 236, 238, 240, 448
• disposition, 93–95, 98, 101–3, 106, 109–10, 290, 505–6
• diversity, 10, 17, 30, 164, 248, 267, 355, 382, 384, 397–99, 401–4, 428, 458
• doxa, 266, 269
• DSA. See Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
• Du Bois, W. E. B., 179, 300–302, 343–45, 347, 583
• duopoly, 5, 32, 35, 128, 130–31, 184–85, 191, 266–67, 269–74, 418, 496, 552, 592

E

• Edelman, Lee, 528–29
• education, 24, 81, 127, 301–3, 362, 366, 384, 390, 392–94, 414, 473–74, 477, 479, 481, 570–74, 576, 582–83
• Ehrenreich, Barbara, and John Ehrenreich, 230, 234–35, 593
• elite overproduction, 24, 34, 47–48, 294, 307–8, 311, 316, 326, 336, 473, 486
• energytime, 495, 497, 501, 503–4
• Engels, Friedrich, 14, 115, 126, 134, 201, 307, 316
• enjoyment, 1, 186, 223, 225–26, 228–30, 236–39, 266, 268, 270, 274–76, 510
• Enlightenment, 96, 105–6, 194, 323, 325, 342, 459, 463
• Epstein, Jeffrey, 439, 441–42
• existentialism, 141, 374, 378, 390, 418, 495, 505–7, 546, 552–53

F

• false consciousness, 130, 132, 162, 167, 170, 172–73, 207, 320, 365, 395
• family, 16, 19, 28–29, 201–2, 228, 275, 345–46, 373, 383, 400, 423, 426, 430–31, 437–38, 475, 477, 488, 491, 514–15, 518–19, 522–23, 534, 552, 586
• farming, 200, 538–40, 542, 547, 572, 575–76, 581–84
• fascism, 149–50, 156, 186, 256, 312
• FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 180–81, 183–84, 190, 445
• feminism, 200–201, 215, 471–73, 477, 480–81, 489, 492, 527
• feral time, 495, 497, 501
• Feuerbach, Ludwig, 123, 125, 221
• Fisher, Mark, 234, 240, 275, 352
• form-of-life, 342, 574
• Foucault, Michel, 447, 454, 525, 539
• Fox News, 43, 51, 54, 82, 85, 235, 277, 363
• fractured mass. See post-class fractured mass (PCFM)
• Frank, Thomas, 182, 187, 229, 231, 413–14
• Freud, Sigmund, 173, 216, 268, 377
• Furedi, Frank, 224

G

• gender identity and transgender issues, 35, 41, 77, 82–83, 85, 237, 252–55, 323, 377, 389, 419
• al-Gharbi, Musa, 45, 307, 309, 354, 376, 394, 403, 427, 472–73, 593
• Goldman, Emma, 96, 101
• Goodhart, David, 393–94
• Graeber, David, 100
• Gramsci, Antonio, 317
• Great Awokening, 73, 87, 279, 293–94, 326, 336
• grifters and grifting, 351, 356–58, 366, 370, 442, 446
• Guevara, Che, 151, 462

H

• habitus, 103, 290, 299, 344, 376, 384, 402, 413, 440–41, 447, 458
• Hamilton, Alexander, 146, 570–71, 580, 588–89
• Hampton, Fred, 180–81, 183, 187, 190, 323
• Harrington, James, 199
• Harrington, Mary, 510
• Harris, Kamala, 55, 58–61, 68
• Hegel, G. W. F., 94, 592
• hegemony, 159, 165, 213, 246, 275, 292, 317, 375, 454–55, 458–59, 468–69, 529, 542
• Heidegger, Martin, 93–94, 103, 129, 135, 418, 497, 505–6, 532, 544–46, 552, 581, 587
• historical materialism, 119, 142, 145, 168, 207, 215
• Hitler, Adolf, 43, 156, 186, 227, 272, 379
• homesteading, 581, 584, 586, 588–89
• Horne, Gerald, 318, 325, 459
• hyperstition, 414–16, 418, 576, 588–89

I

• identity politics, 53–54, 70, 87, 136, 211, 214, 217, 231, 239, 248, 280, 299, 304, 307, 319, 423
• illusio, 441, 449
• immigration, 49, 56, 204, 255–56, 281, 329, 363–66, 371, 374–75, 382–83, 390, 394–99, 402–6, 409, 428
• imperialism, 26, 70, 88, 110, 121, 147–48, 151–52, 163, 174–75, 215, 300, 323, 353, 367, 542
• internationalism, 139, 145, 148–54, 156–67, 169–75, 204, 374, 378, 380, 388–89, 394–95
• Israel, 65, 69–70, 77, 252–53, 284, 328, 332, 380–81

J

• Jefferson, Thomas, 199, 460, 463, 570–76, 578–86, 588, 590
• Jeffersonianism, 146, 569, 571–73, 580–83
• Judeo-Bolshevism, 156, 372, 376–77

K

• Kant, Immanuel, 94, 105–6, 339, 342, 530, 545
• Kierkegaard, Søren, 340, 342, 345, 347–48, 515
• Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 541
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 39, 323
• Kołakowski, Leszek, 14, 594
• Kropotkin, Peter, 70, 96, 335
• Kun, Béla, 154–56

L

• labor aristocracy, 180–81, 185, 318, 323
• labor power, 80, 135, 187, 199, 210, 228, 231, 238, 298, 346, 413, 495–97, 501–2, 546, 555, 579, 588
• Lacan, Jacques, 140, 224–25, 228, 268, 505
• Land, Nick, 193–95, 198, 206, 415
• Lasch, Christopher, 69, 311, 425, 488, 534–35, 594
• left unity, 58, 60, 66, 73, 75–76, 354
• Leftist Industrial Complex, 334, 351, 357
• legitimation, 455, 460–65, 467–68
• Lenin, V. I., 70, 104, 115, 117, 131–32, 142, 147, 153–55, 157, 159, 186, 197–98, 299–300, 314, 316, 579
• Leninism, 115–17, 119–22, 140, 148, 150, 180, 201, 203, 223, 226, 304, 313–15, 317, 359–60, 362, 374, 559
• Levinas, Emmanuel, 132, 532–33, 552–53
• Liberal Rumspringa, 185, 189, 339, 346, 512–15, 520, 555, 584, 589
• liberalism, 21, 26, 59, 68, 94, 107, 122, 141, 212–14, 217, 233, 239, 351, 358, 371–72, 376, 381, 383, 407, 422, 424, 462, 512, 526
• limitarianism, 207, 251, 561
• Lincoln, Abraham, 260, 460–61
• Liu, Catherine, 229–30, 593
• Lukács, Georg, 234, 317
• Luther, Martin, 105
• Luxemburg, Rosa, 377–78

M

• Machiavelli, Niccolò, 131, 288
• MacIntyre, Alasdair, 6, 552, 585–86, 589–90, 594
• Mamdani, Zohran, 69, 253
• Mao Zedong, 148, 163, 184, 423, 462
• Maoism, 62, 116, 120, 150, 180, 226, 312–13, 359, 362, 437
• Marcuse, Herbert, 203, 525
• Marx, Karl, 115–16, 122, 126, 131, 135, 139–40, 197, 199, 210, 212, 216, 224–25, 307, 316, 434
• Marxism, 115–23, 125, 133, 139–46, 150, 153, 163, 167–68, 170–71, 173–74, 193, 196–97, 200–218, 235, 308, 312–14, 316–17, 319–20, 527
• master signifier, 1, 3, 5–6, 226, 569
• McGowan, Todd, 223, 225–26
• McLuhan, Marshall, 128–29, 225, 501, 587
• medicalization, 16, 77, 84, 237, 253, 281, 433, 435–36
• Merchant right, 311, 393
• meritocracy, 127, 224, 229, 231, 233, 303, 339, 345, 573
• multi-faction pluralism, 245, 247, 250–52, 255–56, 260, 262–63, 326, 565
• Mumford, Lewis, 587
• Musk, Elon, 73, 235
• Mussolini, Benito, 142–43, 186

N

• Nagle, Angela, 56, 229, 236, 239–40
• natalism, 202–3, 346, 348, 429, 518, 520, 533, 535, 552–56
• natality, 5, 190, 345, 510–11, 516, 519–20, 526, 532–33, 535–37, 549, 551–56
• natality pill, 345–46, 509–11, 516, 520
• nationalism, 9, 120, 143, 148–54, 157, 159–70, 173–74, 374, 378, 380, 388–89
• NDP. See New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada
• neoliberalism, 26, 142, 212, 233, 250, 407, 414, 421–22, 424
• New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada, 40, 50, 293, 329
• New Left, 28, 67, 96, 136, 277, 324, 593
• Nietzsche, Friedrich, 93–94, 216, 340, 342, 344–45, 347–48, 515, 533, 535, 592
• nihilism, 318, 325, 327, 431, 437, 455, 457–59, 465–66, 468, 525, 529–30, 537
• Nolte, Ernst, 156
• nurture and exploitation, 548–49, 584

O

• Obama, Barack, 57, 66, 232, 239, 271
• Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 48, 253, 332–33
• Old Left, 126, 132–33, 135–36, 209, 593
• Olsen, Regine, 340, 515

P

• patriarchy, 5, 26, 29, 31, 78, 288–89, 308, 424, 471, 473–86, 488, 490–92
• PCFM. See post-class fractured mass (PCFM)
• Peterson, Jordan, 132, 525, 527
• Piketty, Thomas, 23, 311, 393–94, 424
• Plato, 107, 265, 276, 393, 499, 573
• Platypus Affiliated Society, 223, 235, 238
• pluralism. See multi-faction pluralism
• PMC. See professional-managerial class (PMC)
• Polyface Farm, 539–40, 581
• populism, 88, 182, 213, 229–30, 249–50, 252, 262, 312, 317, 325, 367, 390, 562–63
• post-class fractured mass (PCFM), 5, 105, 126, 129–30, 184–85, 419, 501, 529, 546
• post-left, 1–7, 32, 36–37, 209, 211–12, 214–15, 217, 221–22, 226, 360, 438, 496, 500, 591–94
• post-woke left, 46, 49, 72, 80–82, 84, 86, 284–85, 290, 292, 326
• Postman, Neil, 552, 571, 585, 587–88
• postmodernism, 104, 132, 234–35, 391, 525–27, 529–30, 537, 549
• Postone, Moishe, 135, 587
• pro-civ, 5, 101, 108, 341–42, 552, 554
• professional-managerial class (PMC), 26–27, 59, 74, 127, 228–30, 232, 234–36, 241, 288, 297–99, 304, 315, 330, 339, 416, 447
• progressivism, 28, 31, 53, 85, 88, 204, 206–7, 212–13, 227, 248, 252, 263, 300, 302, 371, 407, 422, 425–27, 430–31, 487
• proletarianization, 199–200, 202–3, 205–6, 299, 560, 566–67, 572
• proletariat, 118–19, 136, 144, 154, 159, 162–63, 167, 197, 199, 201, 205, 209–10, 299–300, 566
• Protestantism, 94, 104–5, 307, 343, 518
• Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph, 96, 103, 140

R

• radical responsibility, 36, 38, 185, 227, 276, 291, 339, 348, 417, 447–48
• Randolph, A. Philip, 56, 329–30
• Randolph, Thomas Mann, 582
• Reagan, Ronald, 251, 262, 407
• rebel priest class, 5, 71, 339, 342, 344–48, 533, 535, 553, 555–56, 573
• Reed, Adolph, Jr., 75, 181–82, 223, 232–33, 321, 593
• regenerationality, 553–55
• regenerative agriculture, 509, 541, 552, 554–55, 575, 581
• religion, 28, 142–43, 168, 170, 173, 377, 380, 383, 386, 430, 434
• rent. See rent and rentiers
• rent and rentiers, 72, 426, 429, 563–67
• Republican Party, 51, 61, 66, 69, 82, 248–49, 252, 260, 262, 271, 298, 332, 435, 461
• ressentiment, 128, 185, 191, 236, 270
• Rockefeller, John D., 230, 302–3, 522
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 300, 303
• rootedness, 152, 168–71, 173–75, 382, 384, 387–89
• rootless cosmopolitan, 5, 139, 151, 170–71, 174, 371–72, 374–77, 379–84, 386–90, 397–98, 406, 408–9
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 102–3, 541
• Rumspringa. See Liberal Rumspringa
• Russian Revolution, 120, 155, 157, 259

S

• Sahlins, Marshall, 541
• Sakai, J., 177–81, 183–85, 187–88, 190, 318, 325
• Salatin, Joel, 538–40, 552, 581–86, 590
• Sanders, Bernie, 3, 36, 46, 51–62, 65, 69–70, 75, 181, 184, 204, 222, 225, 227, 236, 251, 253, 256, 260, 262, 271, 330, 333, 365, 374, 411–12, 414, 418, 527, 579
• Sartre, Jean-Paul, 234
• SCAD. See State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD)
• Schmitt, Carl, 21
• scholabor, 108, 495–97, 501, 504
• scholē, 108, 495, 497–98, 501, 503
• schooling, 101, 130, 231, 273, 303, 305, 477, 504, 536, 582
• Scott, James C., 100, 132, 542–43
• segregation, 38, 232, 385–86, 399–403, 554
• self-censorship, 74, 240, 279–80, 285, 289
• settler colonialism, 177, 179–85, 187–91, 318–19, 321, 323, 404, 461, 542
• slavery, 178, 196, 318, 461, 499, 521, 574–76, 581
• Snowden, Edward, 444–45, 450–51
• social democracy, 19, 49, 118, 140, 150, 210, 240, 407, 424, 559
• socialism, 115, 140, 145, 148–49, 151–52, 159, 165, 168–69, 175, 198–99, 207, 248–49, 252, 255, 260–61, 326, 407, 500, 557–60, 563, 567, 569–71
• soil, 136, 260, 526–27, 537–41, 546, 548, 550–52, 555, 570, 572
• solidarity, 159–63, 172–75, 178, 183, 319–20, 397
• Sorel, Georges, 142–44
• Soviet Union, 120, 148–49, 158, 163–66, 231, 313–14
• Stalin, Joseph, 134, 149, 157–59, 227, 299, 313
• Stalinism, 20, 36, 116, 121, 143, 147, 151, 157–58, 214, 371, 380
• State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD), 444–45
• Stirner, Max, 96, 528
• Studebaker, Benjamin, 198, 206, 245, 249, 565, 593
• symbolic capitalists, 65, 311, 315, 334, 376, 391, 396, 447–48

T

• T3 institutions, 526, 546
• Talented Tenth, 300–301, 343–44
• Taylorism, 221, 231–33, 236, 238, 240, 301–2, 448
• Technopoly, 570, 573, 581, 585, 588–89
• Third World, 150–51, 359, 424
• thought taboos, 10, 67, 86, 279–80, 291–92, 295
• timenergy, 101, 126–27, 135–36, 184, 228, 236, 238, 241, 266, 413, 495–507, 517–18, 522, 530, 543–44, 546–48, 555–56, 569, 579–81, 587–88
• Todd, Emmanuel, 474–75, 477–79, 481–82, 488–91
• trans issues. See gender identity and transgender issues
• transgender issues. See gender identity and transgender issues
• Trotsky, Leon, 377
• Trotskyism, 115–16, 122, 201, 203, 208, 226, 377
• Trump, Donald, 42–43, 51, 53–56, 58, 61, 66, 73, 110, 230, 232, 236, 271, 312, 332, 365, 401
• Tutt, Daniel, 228, 230

U

• Unger, Lukas, 177, 184, 187–88, 190
• university, 72, 455, 457, 469, 574, 583–84
• USSR. See Soviet Union

V

• Vampire Castle, 234, 240, 351–52, 361
• vanguard, 12, 27, 86, 117–18, 149, 156, 312–16, 336, 366, 390, 558, 567
• Varoufakis, Yanis, 140, 210
• vasectomy, 347, 509
• vicious retrojection, 5, 418, 553

W

• wages for housework, 59–60, 202–3, 321
• Walz, Tim, 72, 293
• Weber, Max, 343–45, 347, 518
• white supremacy, 26, 42, 52, 180, 256, 319, 324
• Wilson, Woodrow, 127, 230, 300–301, 303
• woke tendency, 47, 50, 56, 58, 62, 65, 72–76, 79–80, 85, 257, 282, 290, 292, 294
• wokeism, 36, 45–52, 62, 64–65, 67, 71–76, 79–81, 84–89, 182–83, 257, 265, 280–85, 287–88, 290–94, 307–8, 312, 315–17, 319, 324, 326, 328–30, 333, 351, 422
• wokeness. See wokeism
• Wolff, Richard, 70, 140, 210
• Wood, Gordon S., 459, 576–78, 588
• working class, 57, 63, 78–79, 162, 172, 206, 235, 255, 258, 262, 308, 316–17, 322, 331–32, 365–66, 369, 397, 407, 413, 442, 482
• world revolution, 131–32, 145, 147–49, 153, 155, 158, 163, 165–66, 174–75, 205, 210

Y

• Yarvin, Curtis, 194–95, 234, 593
• yeoman farmers and agrarianism, 155, 187, 199, 475, 552, 572, 574, 580–81

Z

• Zinn, Howard, 324–25, 458, 576
• Žižek, Slavoj, 131, 140, 198, 206, 221, 225, 240, 265–66, 268, 270, 275–77, 495–96, 500, 548, 581