This makes for interesting propaganda from the Sinophobe “realist” wing of the ruling class, but it has cause and effect in reverse. China would be nothing without the support of Western capital. No Western investors, no Western borrowers, no Western export markets, no Western consumers=No China. It’s as […]
My enemies from the Antifa often do not realize what good pan-secessionists they actually are. By Andy Ngo, The Postmillennial Black Lives Matter-Antifa and other left-wing extremists have repelled police and created a new “autonomous zone” in north Portland to protect a house being illegally occupied by squatters. […]
2021’s encore to 2020?
I don’t care about electoral politics, but I wish Yang luck on this. Some pretty good economic analysis in this.
The ruling class keeps trying to tighten the screws.
This is a must-listen for anyone who is interested in the relationship between the state and the oppression of blacks, particularly the relationship between economics laws, housing laws, and drug laws. Williams’ “The State Against Blacks” is a must-read. Another similar book that is quite good is Sowell’s […]
The problem I have with Sinophobes like Saager is that they have cause and effect in reverse. The CCP is powerful to the degree that the Atlanticists enable them. Saagar Enjeti shares his concerns about how Joe Biden’s administration will deal with China.
We need a moratorium on rent, medical bills, student loans, credit cards, student loans, utility bills, car payments, and back taxes. What now have is a government-induced depression with a major resource grab by the ruling. Reparations being the only viable solution (except for another wave of direction […]
It is obvious enough that “big capital” is using the pandemic as a means of eliminating its competition from “small capital” and the petite bourgeoisie, which is why it is not surprising that right-libertarians and small “c” conservatives, for whom small capital is a primary constituent, are the […]
Ain’t gonna happen. Look for a genuine armed insurgency based in rural America to emerge at some point in the future like the similar insurgencies that have traditionally existed in remote areas of Latin America as the US class system increasingly begins to look like Latin America’s class […]
Krystal on how you can be a billionaire and still be a loser.
Meek reformists begging for a few extra crumbs for the peasants.
More “let them eat cake” shenanigans from Princess Nancy Antoinette.
By Colin Todhunter, Counterpunch The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of rich and powerful land speculators and agribusiness corporations. Smallholder farmers are being criminalised and even made to disappear when it comes to the struggle for land. They […]
Globally, the lockdowns have had the effect of colonialism on steroids. By Kelsey Piper, Vox The coronavirus pandemic that’s shattered lives throughout high-income countries is hitting the developing world as well. But while many of the world’s poor countries affected by the virus have imposed the same social […]
New York Times bestselling author and Columbia University Ph.D. Tom Woods delivered these remarks to about 100 state legislators, whom he urged to be the voices of the truly voiceless in the debate over the correct response to COVID.
Some more pan-secessionist direct action. This is the equivalent of seminarians going on strike against the Church during the Middle Ages. Indigo Oliver, In These Times At the end of November, members of the Columbia University-Barnard College chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) launched a tuition strike […]
Oil bunkering, another great form of lumpenproletarianism, agorism, and pan-secessionism. Predictably, the Council on Foreign Relations has a hair up their ass about it. By John Campbell, Emily Mangan, Council on Foreign Relations After resuming from recess, the Nigerian Senate pledged to increase the country’s oil revenue by […]
These coal bootleggers sound awesome. This is the kind of thing that needs to be going on today. “Coal bootlegging” sounds like one of those ultimate middle finger activities. Ripping off energy companies while flipping off eco-totalitarians. By Louis Adamic, LibCom.Org A fascinating look at an alternative ‘economic […]
The discussion of trade in this is pretty good. Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim share their thoughts on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Tax The Rich” merchandise.
By Maria Aurelio, Left Voice On Thursday over 200 million workers held a one day general strike in India. They were joined by farmers in mass actions across the country against the right-wing government of Narendra Modi. On Thursday, some 200 million workers held a one day general […]
The ruling class’ “let them eat cake” attitude continues. Duh? Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim share their thoughts on the $908 billion stimulus plan unveiled by lawmakers, as well as the proposal being circulated among Republicans by Mitch McConnell.
Trump is Ross Perot’s revenge on the Democrats and Republicans. Assistant Editor at American Greatness, Pedro Gonzalez, discusses the impact of Donald Trump’s abandonment of the 2016 populist mandate.
There are a lot of nuggets of substance in this commentary from Kulinski. As Kyle points out, many Latinos are following the pattern of “white ethnics” like the Irish, Germans, and Poles in the sense of becoming increasingly assimilated into the Anglo-culture. One thing Kyle doesn’t mention is […]
By Henry George, Quillette A review of Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class by Paul Embery. Polity, 216 pages (November 2020) In the 2019 British general election, the Labour Party was eviscerated, losing 60 seats and handing the Conservative Party a massive 80-seat majority. The […]
By Donald J. Boudreaux, Wall Street Journal America has lost one of its greatest economists and public intellectuals. Walter Williams died Wednesday morning after teaching his final class at George Mason University on Tuesday. He was 84. For 40 years Walter was the heart and soul of George […]
Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to comments by former Trump campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who says Trump’s coronavirus response cost him the election.
By Julian Siravo In 2019, Autonomy – a UK-based think tank that focuses on the future of work and economic planning – was tasked with developing a strategy to future-proof the economy of the Comunidad Valenciana, one of Spain’s largest regions. The report was commissioned by the region’s […]
Imagine that. Saagar Enjeti explains how Joe Biden’s economic team gives Americans a glimpse at how the Biden Administration will govern.
I generally find the ancap/libertarians vs libsoc/ancom debate to be irrelevant, though interesting on a sufficiently abstract level, because neither side gives due recognization to the fact that governments and corporations are part of the same ruling class apparatus. It’s like two medieval anarchists arguing over, “Who should […]
An illustration of why the Goofy Gills approach fails in just over two minutes.
One of the very best books on the modern American police state. I would add to it the works of Radley Balko, John Whitehead, Richard Lawrence Miller, and the late William Norman Grigg. “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book by […]
I’m not convinced there needs to be a “libertarian electoral strategy.” I generally support third parties, from libertarians to greens to communists to transhumanists, as chaos agents but that’s the only real value I see in them. Listen to Tom Woods host the debate here. David Stockman, who […]
Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the Bay Area epitomize nascent totalitarian humanism (“socially liberal, economically feudal”). By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh | The Oregonian/OregonLive City contractors on Tuesday removed the final remnants of a sprawling encampment along the outskirts of Laurelhurst Park, where about 100 people lived for months […]
By Lucien van der Walt This article responds to criticisms of the broad anarchist tradition in International Socialism, an International Socialist Tendency (IST) journal. I will discuss topics such as the use of sources, defending revolutions and freedom, the Spanish anarchists, anarchism and democracy, the historical role of […]
Kevin Carson is an American social theorist, self-proclaimed economist and anarchist-without-adjectives. In this episode we discuss his book The Desktop Regulatory State, alongside discussions on capitalism, post-capitalism, anarchism, hierarchy and organization.
By Philip Ridley The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) self proclaimed “Great Reset” is shaping the way governments around the world have responded to Covid-19. It sets the precedent for a “New Normal” where our Human Rights can be arbitrarily suspended for temporary or permanent states of emergency that […]
A problem with Pinker’s argument is that it is not in the interest of any state or ruling class anywhere to adopt libertarian values of any kind, except rhetorically for purposes of self-legitimation, or as something that can be co-opted and bent toward other purposes. Of course, measuring […]
Things aren’t going to well. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze a report that highlights trends in the diagnosis of diseases of despair in the United States.
What is there to expose? It’s right out in the open. Author, Zephyr Teachout, discusses her new book, ‘BREAK ‘EM UP: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money.’
There is usually a direct correlation between unemployment rates and incumbent victory/defeat in presidential elections. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss how unemployment drove voters in the Presidential Election.
By Roderick Long, Center for a Stateless Society Defenders of the free market are often accused of being apologists for big business and shills for the corporate elite. Is this a fair charge? No and yes. Emphatically no—because corporate power and the free market are actually antithetical; genuine […]
Class-based politics is going to make a big comeback in the future given the trends that class relations and economic life generally are following. This doesn’t mean class politics will supersede political, cultural, or ethnic conflict. It will just be another ingredient in the mix. Regrettably, the rising […]
19th century, here we come! Only with 21st-century surveillance technology. Krystal’s comparison of Amazon to a nation-state with its own CIA is spot-on. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center that show the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on […]
There are sectors of Wall Street that are moving toward a more faux-populist economic paradigm (the same way some Big Tech folks have embraced the UBI) because they realize the present trends will generate serious instability in the future. The same way Roosevelt was able to secure the […]
Once again, the new robber barons. By Meagan Day, Jacobin A trillion dollars could maintain wages at pre-crisis levels for all workers in America, enabling people to stay home and stop the spread of the virus, for four months. Instead, it’s gone into the personal piggy banks of […]
The robber barons of the 21st century. By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Vice Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements. A […]
The split between the managerial class and the “post-bourgeois proletariat” identified by Sam Francis 25 years ago. By Aaron Zitner, Wall Street Journal The job and wage growth that President Trump hoped would propel him to a second term was particularly strong in metropolitan America. Yet the Americans […]
Krystal and Saagar break down the GSA’s official recognition of the Biden presidency as well as President Trump’s half-hearted acknowledgment of defeat.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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