My name is Stuart Parker. I am an itinerant political dissident and writer, currently residing in Chilliwack, British Columbia.
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For much of my life I have been an eco-socialist, a guy who believes in socialism and in fighting the omnicide. The reality is that, right now, we are all part of the world’s first self-conscious extinction event.
I was happily going about the business of running a left-wing think tank, building an eco-socialist political party and working as a university lecturer in history until 2020, and the rise of Covid-leavened authoritarianism and the hegemony of Genderwang (if you’re pretending you don’t know what this term refers to, this page probably isn’t for you).
Since mid-2020, like every other sincere Ecosocialist, de-growther, genuine Marxist and Green New Dealer, I have been assailed as a transphobe, bigot, hate criminal, “literal Nazi,” ableist, racist, Putin-supporter and Russian disinformation spreader by a fanatical religious movement, shambling around in the flayed skin of the twentieth-century Left.
When I started this blog, I was living with the daughter of Sarah Palin activists in the Tea Party-era United States. It is from that vantage point that I began writing about the collapse of the Enlightenment episteme and how the Palin and Trump movements were directly adversarial to the most fundamental aspects of the Enlightenment: empathy and empiricism.
Of course we all know how that story went: the American right was introduced to an earlier, less sophisticated, less transformative mind virus than the one gripping contemporary progressives, which is a strain more powerful than what ripped through Kansas City when I was living there.
This site contains an archive of my essays. I have deleted none, even ones I now disagree with. What you can find here is a record of my political thoughts over the past twelve years.
Today, I practice an eclectic politics, one that understands that until we counter the Global North’s slide into authoritarianism and embrace of post-politics, all other politics is impossible; politics, for non-elites, is premised on the existence of a free and democratic society.
The two main organizations I work with today are:
Los Altos Institute, the BC-based think tank I founded in 2012
Deep Green Resistance, the most important thinkers in eco-politics in the present day
Oh – yeah. I still play tabletop role-playing games. Gonna be updating my campaign resource files on here in the New Year.
