They accept the menu handed to them by the dominant order and choose “somewhere in between,” mistaking this shallow triangulation for thoughtful moderation. In doing so, they reveal themselves not as political strategists or philosophers, but as petty idealists—small in vision, limited in courage, and content to exist as middle managers of systemic injustice.  

Our Struggle  is a militant theoretical series dedicated to dismantling the illusions that pass for politics in our time. It refuses the comfort of spectacle, symbolic resistance, or shallow identity performance. Instead, it seeks to build a strategic framework grounded in material conditions, emotional clarity, and the sober recognition that we are, in fact, at war—against entrenched power, liberal containment, and the internalized habits that dull insurgency before it begin

[Rather] than leaving these spaces feeling that the traumatic event has been adequately addressed, [a trauma metaphysic remains].

Elaina Erola won the Maria Spiridonova Remembered Writing Contest with her essay "What Their Spirits Know," but check out the runners-up!

The elite decide who and how many will be remembered, and who and how many will be forgotten. 

The place for Native American women is treacherous. We no longer live on the battlefield fighting our enemies, but...

Given the intricate interplay between alexithymia and dissociation, PAQ-S emerges as a potentially powerful tool [for working with DID].

Stephen Pearl Andrews, columnist for The Errant Compass, reflects on poets and poetry. Poets as provocateur? Poetry as terror? Read and see.