My name is Stuart Parker. I live in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. I consider myself to be in exile from Canada, like my comrade Meghan Murphy in Mexico City.
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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 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 three main organizations I work with today are:
Los Altos Institute, the BC-based think tank I founded in 2012
The BC Conservative Party, a coalition of anti-authoritarians in BC, from diverse political backgrounds
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.
