By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society Today (Oct. 28) Rachel McKinney, a friend who works as professor of philosophy, complained on Twitter that she was trying to create a midterm exam and “blackboard is complete fucking garbage. No intuitive way to break up questions into sections, […]
Two of the very best representatives of their respective positions debate. An oversimplification of my general view would be that Libertarians are right about the state and microeconomics. Marxists are right about macroeconomics and economic history. Some highlights: -Friedman sounds like he’s discussing economics but Wolff often sounds […]
Krystal and Saager are always hoping to be able to unite the working class around “populist” (welfarist and trade protectionist) issues. I don’t think that will happen. The culture war divisions are so deeply entrenched that there is no buying anyone’s way around them. Class divisions will become […]
The most important part of this is the evidence that the candidate that raises the most money is no longer the guaranteed winner. What I think that means is that cultural, ideology, and socioeconomic divisions are so wide that politicians can’t simply buy their way around these anymore. […]
By Chris Walker, Truthout A group of at least 200 Trump supporters, many of them armed, gathered outside an elections center in Arizona on Wednesday night, demanding access to see ballots after a false rumor spread online alleging that their votes weren’t being counted. The group congregated outside […]
While I don’t care for the vulgar libertarian economic outlook of Reason, they get so many things right on both state and class issues, often much, much more so than the “left” (a low standard to be sure). By Eric Boehm, Reason The most expensive ballot initiative campaign […]
By John M. Dejak, Chronicles In the summer of 2003 my bride, our three little kids, and I headed to Chicago for that all-important summer job after my second year of law school. We acquired a “summer lease” for an apartment on North Orchard Street in the highly sought-after […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the latest Coronavirus cases and discuss how it could impact voter turnout.
According to the data cited in this, “education” (which is really just a euphemism for social class) is becoming a greater fault line than race and gender. Who would’ve thought? Journalist, Zaid Jilani, weighs in on analysis of pre-election polls that show “Joe Biden gains among white voters […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The global coronavirus pandemic has accelerated several troubling trends already in force. Among them are exponential debt growth, rising dependency on government, and scaled-up central bank interventions into markets and the economy. Central bankers now appear poised to embark on their biggest […]
By Jeffrey Tucker, American Institute for Economic Research Every pre-modern society assigned to some group the task of bearing the burden of new pathogens. Usually, the designation of the unclean was assigned based on race, language, religion, or class. There was no mobility out of this caste. They […]
By Tessa The peasants are getting fat, and they are breeding! Oh no. What is “the Great Reset”? The Great Reset is a massively funded, desperately ambitious, internationally coordinated project led by some of the biggest multinational corporations and financial players on the planet and carried out by […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss reports that U.S. States face the biggest cash crisis since the Great Depression.
By Dean Spade, Truthout/Verso Books When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a crisis in the U.S. in early 2020, people all over the country started coordinating to deliver groceries and prescriptions to vulnerable people, making and distributing masks and hand sanitizer, and raising money for people who were […]
The New Black Panthers were accused of this some years back. By Ella Fassler, Truthout In preparation for potential voter intimidation this year, the Women’s March, Working Families Party, Movement for Black Lives Electoral Justice Project, United We Dream and other organizations are mobilizing “election defenders” to de-escalate […]
The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses why the Left will never, in all likelihood, abolish the state. This is a continuation of an earlier episode we did with Keith Preston on “Does the left advocate a police state” but this time we state our own views. The left, compared […]
Saager’s class analysis in this is pretty good although Krystal points out the limitations of the de facto “Sailer Strategy” that Saager is advocating. Saagar Enjeti digs into a New York Times report that details who is donating to Joe Biden’s campaign.
The labor aristocracy threatens a tantrum if their favorite Tweedledee doesn’t win. Why aren’t these fuckfaces organizing a general strike REGARDLESS of who wins the idiotic election? By Candice Bernd, Truthout The 100,000-member MLK Labor Council, an AFL-CIO regional body of labor groups representing more than 150 unions […]
By Harriet Barber, Telegraph More people will die of hunger caused by the pandemic than of coronavirus this year, according to a report from Oxfam. An estimated 122 million of the world’s poorest people could be plunged deeper into hunger and poverty, equating to 12,000 extra deaths a […]
I’m not that big on the welfare statism of “Rising” but their critiques of the “let them eat cake” attitude of the ruling class are usually fairly accurate. Saagar Enjeti explains why he believes a stimulus won’t get passed.
A ruling class unity regime that squeezes out “radicals” from the Left and Right. Krystal Ball weighs in on reporting that alleges Joe Biden is vetting Republicans to serve on his cabinet.
Author, David Goodhart, discusses his new book, “Head, Hand and Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect.” He also discusses the hardships many blue collar workers are facing.
The social democratic “party” pretends anyone gives a damn about their perspective. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a recent bi-partisan letter sent to both chambers of Congress expressing concerns about having corporate leaders and campaign donors hold Senate confirmed offices in a Joe Biden administration.
The right-wing of neoliberalism vs the Trumpian faux populists. Saagar Enjeti gives his thoughts on how Republicans are repeating history by distancing themselves from President Trump in case of a presidential defeat. He also explains how this may hurt the GOP in the future, despite a Joe Biden […]
By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society The calculation problem, as stated by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, has been central to most libertarian arguments against non-market or non-price forms of economic coordination. The Misesian variant, argued in Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth and Socialism, […]
I would prefer neither as both are rapidly becoming corporate fiefdoms which is part of the reason why I am an anarchist. Nor do I see any need to take advice from some neoliberal mouthpiece and neocon stooge like Stephen Moore. We’re supposed to be the United States […]
Reasonable people typically understand that multiple values of parallel importance can co-exist at the same time and that a sensible approach to value conflicts is to make reasonable tradeoffs. Preventing the spread of a serious illness is a value. Preventing an economic meltdown is a value. Preventing government […]
Executive director of American Compass, Oren Cass, discusses the “deadly sins of the right and left.” He also explains why American politics needs an overhaul.
And the entire political class, corporate class, media, and power elite says, “We don’t give a damn.”
This is one of the best critiques of American culture I’ve seen to date. The problem with ruling classes that adopt a “Let them eat cake” attitude is that they tend to not come to a happy ending. Ask the Bourbons and the Romanovs. By Alex Bash (academiccomposition@gmail.com), […]
Elect a con man, get conned. That’s how it works. Huff Post political reporter, Daniel Marans, explains why Donald Trump’s support has dwindled in states that led him to victory in 2016.
More of the same. Imagine that. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss recent developments about Joe Biden’s potential presidential cabinet and watch his campaign’s latest rap battle advertisement.
From a post on social media: “The issue of war is mostly a non-issue for most voters these days. I even talked to one guy on here who rabidly hates Trump and when I brought up the issue of neoconservative/neoliberal warmongering, his answer was basically “what’s with your […]
It’s interesting how anticapitalism is starting to grow on the Right because many have realized the corporations are not their friends. Conservatives are always wondering why they are unable to effectively resist the leftward totalitarian drift. I would argue it is because they accept many of the same […]
By Christopher Whalen, The American Conservative During the vice presidential debate between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Michael Pence, the former claimed that she was the only one in the race who had “prosecuted the big banks.” This was completely wrong. In fact, as California attorney general, […]
It is fashionable for critics of the corporate state to lambaste neoliberals and supply-siders for supposedly adhering to “free-market fundamentalism.” “Free-market fundamentalism” is something you find among the lower to middle levels of the capitalist class or the petite bourgeoisie, and sectors of the lower middle to the […]
By Lee Drutman, Five Thirty Eight To anyone following American politics, it’s not exactly news that Democrats and Republicans don’t like each other. Take what happened in the presidential debate last week. President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden did little to conceal their disdain of one […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The Federal Reserve is warning investors in no uncertain terms that higher rates of inflation are coming. Yet markets, for the most part, have disregarded that warning. Bond yields, for example, remain well below 2% across the entire duration range. Stock market […]
More wonderful economic news. Washington Post economics reporter, Jeffrey Stein, gives an update on the stimulus negotiations and breaks down the jobs report numbers.
As Nelson Rockefeller said in 1959, “You take the average guy making $100,000 a year . . .”($893,189 today) Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Joe Biden’s tax cut proposals and explain who they would impact. They also react to a CNBC article which breaks down how much […]
Geez, I can’t imagine why. Editor-in-Chief of Gallup, Mohamed Younis, explains which issues are most important to voters this election cycle. He also discusses why the economy continues to top the list for most voters.
Saagar Enjeti discusses how President Trump and Congressional Republicans reacted to the pandemic. He also explains how the President is becoming a more “conventional” Republican.
This is my assessment of the recent piece by Peter Gelderloos at Crimethinc, “Preparing for Electoral Unrest and a Right-Wing Power Grab.” The Crimethinc article is a great companion piece to the recent commentary by It’s Going Down (which I critique here) and Three-Way Fight (which I had […]
By Keith Preston Dissident Voice The issue of healthcare reform is one that is consistently identified by opinion polls as being among the most important to Americans. The United States continues to be the only fully industrialized nation that lacks a public healthcare system, a feature of modern […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Bad actors within certain segments of the retail precious metals industry continue to prey on people who are looking to acquire gold and silver bullion. Regulators in 30 different states recently joined together with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and filed an […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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