about us

We are radical in both the mathematical sense in which we look to get to the root issues that define politics today, and also in the sense that we recognize that change is necessary. And we are poly in the sense that we look at the many paths through the forest.

Our plan is to host a dynamic archive of articles and audio recordings in the furtherance of alternative political dialogue in America and in the world.

Technical quality is high on our list of concern; articles will be well-edited, nicely formatted in a consistent style, and easily printable, with consistent page numbers for academic referencing. Audio recordings will be of high quality, available in mp3 and ogg formats.

Wherever possible, this site will embrace Free software and open standards, both in the file formats archived on the site and in the tools used to create the files.

If you notice an error of any kind in anything you've downloaded from our servers, be a good commoner and let us know so we can fix it. Or if possible, fix it yourself and send it to us.

information commons

This site is a dedicated participant in -- and theoretical defender of -- the information commons. More specifically, wherever possible content on this site is released under a Creative Commons License.

The information commons is based on three core values: No one owns it; Everyone can use it; Anyone can improve it. The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license used widely on this site works within existing copyright law to protect these core values. For details, follow the link above to the Creative Commons website. For more detailed theoretical analysis of the commons (and of enclosure), check The Commoner.

why this site?

Now imagine what the society would be like if the two groups in power were insane, to the extent that the belief structures of millions of people can be personified, analyzed, and diagnosed from a psychological perspective.

This society, i believe, exists today in the United States. There are the Democrats, there are the Republicans, and there are the Disenfranchised. We see the systemic disenfranchisement on many levels, from the vacuous political dialogue in the mass media, to overwhelming pressure that a vote for a candidate other than the Democrat or the Republican is a wasted vote.

The ambient noise level of official lies, of utter fabrication -- from the "magic bullet" theory of Kennedy's assassination to Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq -- only feeds this morasse of nothingness where true communication is impossible and meaning beyond the superficial is increasingly difficult to discover.

It is outside of this morasse of noise, of verbose meaninglessness and mystification that radicalpolYtics.org engages in dialogue.

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