For reasons unknown to me I just dropped by Jacobin, the internet's leading socialist magazine. My visit reminded me of why my dropping bys are so rare.
The site's main middle post — complete with a very serious-looking Oliver Stone photo! — revealed itself in text thusly: "[Oliver] sat down with Jacobin to discuss JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, his new documentary that exhaustively makes the case that the national security state, including the CIA and FBI, killed John F. Kennedy — not a lone shooter."
I ventured no further. The opposite case has been exhaustively and conclusively made for decades.
The top left post is titled, simply, "Lower the Crime Rate." Alas, Jacobin deprived me of enlightenment as to the method or methods involved in lowering the crime rate. (It seems much or some of Jacobin, The People's Salvation, is paywalled at $20 a year; or, and I loved this, for $50 you can subscribe with "Solidarity." Either way, your ethereal goodness will cost you.)
Whatever. I suspect poverty's causation of crime — imposed by heartless capitalism, which globally has lifted billions from dire privations — was exhaustively and conclusively made by Jacobin to the exclusion of all other socioeconomic and environmental factors: family cohesiveness, a family's criminal history, drugs, alcoholism, truancy, racism, mental illness or intellectual deficiencies, age, population densities, peer pressure, temperate vs. intemperate climates, and probably at least a dozen other causes cited in the subject's literature. This is not to suggest that poverty is some sort of side-causation. But ... Solidarity! Of thought.
And whose crime? Poverty cannot account for the white collar variety.
The more ideology I encounter in politics and media — whether left or right — the more I detest it. It's lazy, limiting, and societally damaging.