One thing that is particularly concerning is the way that many critics of “wokeness” (totalitarian humanism, which is the manifestation of postmodern critical theory) have embraced Trumpism (e.g. this #Walkaway movement) or, even worse, drifted toward the neocons (like the circle around David Rubin). Of course, equally pathetic […]
Trump is the epitome of the broken clock that happens to be right twice a day. It’s pathetic that ostensible “left-wingers” like The Young Turks are coming to the defense of the late warmonger John McCain.
As I have said many times, partisanship and/or culture war politics is merely a manufactured effort by the power elite to obfuscate any recognition of either class oppression or state repression. The conflicts over cultural and social questions are real in the sense of US society being divided […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the 2020 US election. Will power be peacefully transferred or will the break down?
This commentary relates to the article that is adjacent to this one concerning “New Age Nazis.” By Adam Ormes For the most part, this is a hideously shallow analysis, written by someone who appears to identify with the bankrupt position of liberal centrism. But even so, the author […]
Bad idea. Taking the electoral system seriously is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
One thing that I have found interesting about the pandemic is the way that so many anarchists have acquiesced to the supposed authority and expertise of scientism or the white coat priesthood, or passively accepted media narratives. In others words, they have simply deferred to the authority of […]
No matter who wins, the other side will likely claim the winner cheated, with endless legal maneuvering and probable violence being the result.
Are we reliving Weimar…or Bleeding Kansas? By Matt Purple The American Conservative There’s a scene in Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin where the author goes to visit Bernhard Landauer, the owner of a prosperous department store in Germany. The year is 1933 and Bernhard shows Christopher a vicious […]
From what I can tell, there is literally no one in any of the factions of US politics that has the slightest interest in anti-authoritarian values of any kind, except for isolated individuals. Obviously, this is true of the ruling class parties, but it is apparent enough that […]
This is like a hilarious replay of the J. Edgar Hoover vs. the Black Panthers battles of the 60s. Fat Billy goes full J. Edna. Ironically, I don’t disagree with some of his criticisms of the “Left” (broadly defined) even if he is a scumbag who was behind […]
So what? Why can’t “transracial” be a thing? The solution to both homogenized globalization (McDonaldization of the world) and authoritarian multiculturalism is actual diversity. Diversity not only on steroids but on crystal meth. By J. Edward Moreno The Hill Jessica Krug, a professor of African American history at […]
By Bradley Betters Chronicles In response to the recent riots and protests, America’s biggest companies have committed hundreds of millions of dollars to so-called racial justice organizations such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and denounced political speech on the right as hate. The conservative establishment has greeted this rise in corporate “wokeness” with […]
By Umair Haque Eand.Co Right about now, something terrible is happening in America. Society is one tiny step away from the final collapse of democracy, at the hands of a true authoritarian, and his fanatics. Meanwhile, America’s silent majority is still slumbering at the depth and gravity of […]
Too much cop-loving on the right, too much managerial state-loving on the left. By Christopher Mathias Huffington Post Before Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly opened fire on anti-racist protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night — killing two and severely injuring another — a video showed police essentially deputizing the […]
Some pretty good commentary from Kyle.
The upcoming election is going to be a total shitshow. No matter who wins the other side is going to insist the election results were illegitimate. It’s going to be the Bush v. Gore election on steroids.
Supporters and protesters lined the streets of Kenosha, Wis. as President Trump visited the city on Sept. 1. Meanwhile, the family of Jacob Blake held a block party and urged the community to come together.
So this election is basically a contest between two factions of corrupt opportunists accusing each other of fascism? Kind of like the Stalin/Trotsky rivalry?
The Weimarization of the US continues to escalate. Apparently, the person killed was some right-wing guy. Who did the killing? A leftist or BLM supporter? The cops? A rival right-winger? A random shooter? An anonymous vigilante? Oregon Live One man was shot and killed in downtown Portland as […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right The way the Presidential election is shaping up, most of the big issues will not be openly stated. They include race, with the Republicans the White party and the Democrats the black and immigrant party; socialism, with the Democrats in favor and […]
By Meagan Day The Jacobin On August 19, President Donald Trump gave a nod of approval to believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which maintains that the president is secretly fighting to save the world from an elite satanic pedophile network, calling them “people that love our country.” […]
By Paul Gottfried The American Conservative In a perceptive and properly passionate piece on why “woke capitalism is a vanguard of unfreedom,” Rod Dreher notes that American corporations have become radically totalitarian and socially destructive. In pursuit of intersectional politics and anti-white, anti-male indoctrination, corporate executives now impose […]
Totalitarian humanism as the ideology of the rising sectors of the capitalist.
This shit is fucking hilarious. This is like some atheist video featuring former Jehovah’s Witnesses talking about how Christopher Hitchens awakened them from their “dogmatic slumber” (Kant) or, alternatively, some evangelical video with folks talking about how Jesus rescued them from their drug/alcohol/porn/video game addiction.
It’s a shame that YouTubers that were once somewhat interesting are increasingly sounder like FOX News for a younger audience. Tim Pool, Styxenhammer666, etc. are more and more sounding like Tucker Carlson wannabes.
There is a discussion in this which references how both sides seem to be planning on saying the election was illegitimate if they lose.
Rand Paul has some good instincts and has obviously learned some important things from his father. But he needs to read his Lysander Spooner, Benjamin Tucker, Karl Hess, or Murray Rothbard much more carefully. Although I suspect he’s correct when he speculates about a “color coded revolution” going […]
That’s a pretty good cover for the fact that Biden can hardly talk anymore.
This #WalkAway thing is another dead end. The Left has accused #WalkAway of being a Russian front operation the same way McCarthyites used to claim everything on the Left was a Soviet front. It seems more likely that all of these “back and forth” groups are being encouraged […]
From trailer park white nationalism to shilling for Goldman-Sachs (which represents the upper strata of the global ruling class) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (the FBI-connected televangelists of the “left”). Now THAT’S upward mobility. As an ethnographer of fringe subcultures, I come across this kind of stuff […]
A reader offers the following observations on how the Red Tribe and Blue Tribe increasingly view victory by the “other side” to be inherently illegitimate, regardless of votes taken. For example, despite their objections to the Electoral College, there were Blue Tribers who were calling for the Electoral […]
The QAnon of the neoliberals.
But is the “post-bourgeois proletariat” (Sam Francis) stupid enough to fall for it? That’s the question. Krystal and Saager are unique among the journalistic class in the sense of actually being competent and truthful. Most mainstream media is neither. It’s a shame their politics are such lame reformist-statist […]
The paleconservative writer Sam Francis used to say that the Democrats were the Evil Party, and the Republicans were the Stupid Party. I’d say they’re the left and right wings of the “Evil and Stupid Party” (with both “evil” and “stupid” and “left” and “right” being relatively defined, […]
I don’t personally care who wins the upcoming election. I can see strategic advantages to victory by either side. But I strongly suspect that regardless of who wins the losing side will accuse the winning side of cheating. A reader writes: “…if [the Trumpists] are able to successfully […]
By John Whitehead In a comment to a recent post of mine (in which I ridiculed as scathingly as I could manage the dead-end of “identity politics,” the two-party system, and their attendant absurdities), a friend asked: “Lost in the ranting sarcasm is, what do you intend to […]
A reader offers the following observations: I guess the writing has been on the wall for a while now, but it’s still somewhat surreal to watch the GOP under Trump formally and officially double-down on Know-Nothingism and stupid culture-war social conservatism / law-and-orderism. To me, it appears that […]
I always thought filing charges against these two was a tactically bad idea because it makes some bourgie asshole and his psycho-bitch wife into 2nd Amendment heroes. By Declan Leary The American Conservative Overall, the first night of the Republican National Convention took a surprisingly serious tone. Senator […]
Bill Lind makes the predictable paleocon case for tsarism in the era of rising Bolshevism. Compulsory flag-worship vs. compulsory wokeness. By William S. Lind Traditional Right Thus far in the 2020 Presidential campaign, neither President Trump nor Mr. Biden has found a campaign theme that resonates with the […]
This is a funny story. When are these folks going to stop taking this electoral shit seriously? At least 100 million Americans already have.
These guys are all likely doing what their various backers and associates want them to do. Once again, the neocon/neoliberal alliance aims to purge the Trumpists while co-opting, pacifying, and marginalizing the social democrats. The emerging totalitarian humanist regime is going to be a coalition of woke capitalism […]
Maybe I’m missing something, but from what I’ve read about QAnon so far, the only things they seem to be guilty of are slight exaggerations and not knowing when to quit. It looks like the Republicans are splitting between the fringe right and those who are essentially becoming […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is, since I have heard ‘liberals’ express every conceivable opinion on every conceivable subject. As far as I can tell, you have the extreme right, who are fascist racist […]
David Graeber, a leading left-anarchist academic, has an interesting take on Trump. Read the Twitter thread here. He is a pure opportunist but sincere in two ways: 1.he is genuinely and sincerely racist; 2. He is genuinely and sincerely anti-imperialist at least in the US empire’s current form. […]
By Bill Sanderson New York Daily News Take it from President Trump’s older sister: He lies, he’s cruel, he doesn’t read, he cheated his way into college, he only cares about his base. © ED JONES In conversations recorded by her niece in 2018 and 2019, Marianne Trump […]
Embracing Trumpism as an antidote to the SJW cult is a remarkably bad idea. It’s a minor-league version of the ex-Communists who became right-wing reactionaries in the mid-20th century (which is how we got the Buckleyites and the neocons). What we need is a Stirnerite/Nietzschean left (which is […]
My People. Knight Foundation In 2016, nearly 100 million eligible Americans did not cast a vote for president, representing 43% of the eligible voting-age population. They represent a sizeable minority whose voice is not heard in our representative democracy. Most of our attention, in politics and in research, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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