Academic leftists can’t get over their addiction to statism. We don’t need no federal anything. Worker power, not state power. The ruling class needs to get out of the way so workers can create their own jobs.
“Progressives” need to stop begging the state for a few more crumbs and get on board with the revolution.
There are few more pertinent examples of “crony capitalism” that the transit industry.
Kshama Sawant, of the Trotskyist Socialist Alternative, takes on the Amazon uber-capitalist empire. So early 20th century. She bashes both the Democrats and property taxes in this.
It’s back to the 19th century for grocery workers. Grocery stores are the new coal mines and grocery store chains are the new Ebenezer Scrooge. Even the Voice of the Deep State/CIA/Bezos more or less admits it. Abha Bhattari The Washington Post Doug Preszler wasn’t thinking about risk […]
Check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As I scrawl the sloppy copy for my latest manifesto on a window pane between my thoughts on string theory and Kevin Bacon’s connection to 9/11 (Madoff made him […]
A reader summarize very well what I think are some of the problems with orthodox or mainstream libertarianism: As I see it, the two major failures are: 1. Despite nominal recognition that state and corporate power are intertwined, too often libertarians will go to bat to defend the […]
Twenty years ago, I was arguing that the anti-globalization/anarchist left should cultivate the anti-globalist right as its natural allies, and that the cultural differences between the two were largely irrelevant because of those, you know, classic anarchist principles of anti-statism, free association, decentralization, federalism, etc. I continued making […]
Kulinski correctly points out that Sanders’ is as popular as he is not because of his supposed “hard left” fans, but because of his appeal to independents, swing voters even disaffected Trumpians. Populism and radical centrism are to the left of neoliberalism. Predictably, I’ve heard some from the […]
This is a somewhat interesting discussion even if it is still within the paradigm of lame-ass reformism. The four basic pillars of an authentic revolutionary movement in the US would be a) anti-imperialism and solidarity with global self-determination movements; b) solidarity with all enemies of the state; c) […]
Let’s make it 85%. “Hell, no, we won’t pay!”
Jimmie Dore is a pretty impressive guy. In this, he actually admits that Nancy Pelosi is worse than Trump, and that Obama was worse than Mitt Romney. It’s almost unheard of for someone on the US Left to have that level of perspicacity. He’s simply recognizing that neoliberals […]
A Bernie guy takes the first tepid step away from Democrapic Party liberalism toward…a third party! As if we don’t already have plenty of those. In the past, I’ve advocated that actual revolutionaries infiltrate minor parties and other mainstream or relatively mainstream organizations for the purpose of bending […]
I suspect Bill Lind is probably right provided we don’t get another wave of COVID-19 in the fall season. By William S. Lind Traditional Right December 31, 2020 That was the year that was; it’s over, let it go. And boy, are we happy to see the last […]
This analysis is fairly spot-on. Hopefully, the Sanders experience will motivate many “progressives” to move in a more radical direction by recognizing neoliberals as the main enemy, rejecting the Democratic Party, rethinking pathological rightwingophobia, and focusing on issues of state, class, and empire instead of “wokeness.” Perhaps some […]
The warring tribes finally found something they can agree on: Medical martial law. The Atlantic Countries are taking extraordinary measures to slow the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these measures limit individual freedom and may also violate rights guaranteed by national constitutions. Italy’s complete lockdown, enforced by criminal penalties, […]
Don’t vote or vote third party. Boycott the ruling class parties. A choice between the Adelson Party and the Soros Party is no choice at all.
The curse of modernity, I guess. © Adriano Machado/REUTERS Brazil’s Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandetta attends a news conference, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brasilia, Brazil April 7, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado Brazilian health officials confirmed the first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by […]
A key difference between the populist/progressive/social-democratic left and the populist-right is that the populist-right represents cultural, demographic, generational, and economic sectors that are in a state of decline, shrinking in size, and have been losing power for decades. Ultimately, “right-winginess” is a failed strategy for this reason. For […]
What’s most amazing is that after the Democraps conspired to cheat Sanders out of the nomination, the Bernie partisans seem to have rolled over and taken it. I have long argued that a serious left-wing movement in the US would need to a) recognize the neoliberal establishment is […]
Paul Gottfried provides a pretty good overview of US political history at the beginning of this. I don’t entirely agree with Halsey English’s paleonconnish/paleolibertarianish interpretation of US political history, but he’s correct with his observation that the traditional US republic is largely moving toward integration as province into […]
If “progressives” had any backbone at all, they would either boycott the upcoming election or vote for one of the minor parties after the Democraps conspired to prevent Sanders from getting the nomination, and allowing themselves to be “out-lefted” by Trump on the class issues. But they won’t […]
Awesome! I’ve been wanting to see a general strike by fast-food workers for decades.
Trump “out-lefts” the Democrats.
Carlson had some pretty good commentary tonight on the growth of the surveillance state during the present crisis.
This isn’t bad. Kyle calls out “progressive” sellouts and SJWs at the same time.
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Wild price action and unprecedented interventions once again characterized this holiday-shortened trading week. Oil prices whipsawed lower Thursday on concerns about expected oil production cuts from Russia and Saudi Arabia. But the general trend for most other assets, including metals and equities, […]
A combination of ruling class sabotage and the inherent weaknesses of a “left” that is more worried about Orange Man and the Deplorables rather than actually attacking the ruling class.
I don’t know that Biden even qualifies as a “fake populist.”
Did Alexandria come through after all?
As I would have suspected. New York Post The federal government is classifying the deaths of patients infected with the coronavirus as COVID-19 deaths, regardless of any underlying health issues that could have contributed to the loss of someone’s life. Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the […]
Soap distribution continued among the poor workers in Bangladesh by anarcho-syndicalists.
“There are reports that the virus has now reached the isolated Yanomami tribe of Brazil, but these stories often throw up far more questions than answers. Knowing just how murderous the globalist ruling class can be and the manner in which it has brutally killed its enemies around […]
Funny.
Kulinksi nails it.
By Paul Gottfried Chronicles While researching a book on antifascism, it became clear to me that the contemporary left has strange ideas about what earlier leftists believed. This is especially true in the ascription of a certain timelessness to intersectional politics, which today’s antifascists are all about. In […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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