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de Beauvoir to Sartre. 1939.

"Democratic socialism does not die in defeat. It dies when it is translated into a language that makes it safe." Link: aliridhakhan.substack.com/p/after-the-sp… Builds on our earlier piece in Scalawag Magazine: scalawagmagazine.org/2026/01/zohran…

What pre-emptive concession purchases is not survival. It purchases the illusion of survival while ceding the ground on which survival would be meaningful.

New essay — Joshua and I on Mamdani's first 100 days. Not about collapse. About a mechanism. 🧵 The pattern is not collapsing. No spectacular surrender. What we see is pre-emption: retreat before the battle starts.

For ‘Cumulative Realities: Queer Poems for the Liberated Future,’ Kendra Allen presents “All the ghosts got loose again” scalawagmagazine.org/2025/04/all-th…

The full essay works through the postcolonial blind spot, the Paxton anatomy, and what reading this document seriously actually requires: aliridhakhan.substack.com/p/software-as-…

$1.5B US income. Zero federal tax. The philosophy and the profit model are not separable.

When a defence contractor publishes a philosophy, read it as what it is: not an argument, but a price list. On Palantir's 22-point manifesto, and what it is actually for. aliridhakhan.substack.com/p/software-as-…

Consistency is how justice is measured. Consistency is absent here. New piece: When the Law Becomes a Weapon — The Malema Judgment and the Ascendance of White Supremacy. aliridhakhan.substack.com/p/when-the-law…

I'm not arguing Malema is innocent. He was on camera. But the *scale* of the consequences — 5 years, parliamentary disqualification — cannot be understood outside who brought the case, why, and when.

AfriForum opened the case. Fought for 4 years to get the NPA to act. The magistrate gave Malema one of the most severe sentences on record for a non-lethal firearm offence. And AfriForum called it a win for "every normal South African." Whose normality?