Styx is regrettably demonstrating that he doesn’t know the first thing about the actual condition of the economy. We are currently experiencing the Latin Americanization of the US economy, and the economies of the developed world are experiencing re-feudalization. This a process that transcends ordinary partisan or ideological […]
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.
This is a pretty good illustration of how industrial/managerial capitalism has undergone the transition to financial/digital capitalism. Benjamin Tucker demonstrated over century ago how to go about attacking all of this. Attack patent, copyright, and intellectual property law. Attack the currency monopoly and the centralization of control over […]
In other news, Americans also believe the grass is green and the sky is blue.
The Democrats are the party of the financial elites and tech-oligarchs, with the professional-managerial class and their primary constituents, and the Republicans of the part of old capitalism, with the with post-bourgeois proletariat (the dying working to middle classes) as their primary constituents. The kind of old-fashioned 19th/20th […]
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 […]
Because the Democraps are the party of the techno-oligarch sector of neoliberal “woke” state-capitalism, just as the Republicans are the party of fossil fuels and “old capitalism,” and the social democrats pushing ideas like the “Green New Deal” are the party of “progressive-capitalism.”
For some time, I have thought that The American Conservative is the most “left-wing” of any mainstream US publication. TAC is a lot closer to Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin or even Dwight McDonald, Gore Vidal, and Normal Mailer than the FOX News creeps. Most formally “liberal” or […]
Remember that Commies have always denounced anarchists as “petite bourgeoisie.” By Will Collins The American Conservative It’s been a brutal year for locally owned shops and restaurants. The COVID-19 outbreak and the accompanying lockdowns shuttered storefronts and exiled customers. Pandemic relief efforts aimed at small businesses were ruthlessly […]
By J. P. Cortez Charlotte, North Carolina (September 3, 2020) – A national precious-metals dealer has teamed up with a sound money policy group to help students pay for the ever-increasing costs of college. Money Metals Exchange has joined with the Sound Money Defense League to offer the […]
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 […]
Resistance to the surveillance state involves attacking the full range of the power elite.
This interview provides a pretty good description of life inside a modern feudal manor.
A four-month moratorium on rent collection. Trump tries to strengthen his electoral chances, and the media tries to hush it up.
An effort to bring the Scandinavian model of state-capitalism to America. The recently deceased Marxist YouTuber Michael Brooks argued that the global capitalist class seems to be experimenting with different political models, including conservative nationalism (Orban, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Salvini, Putin, Xi, Duterte, Trump), technocratic neoliberalism (the dominant model […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Public and private pension plans face a dual crisis. The first and most obvious threat to pensioners is that defined-benefit vehicles are severely underfunded. By one estimate, pension systems taken as a whole are $638 billion in the red. Some are in […]
“National-populism” is not going to be any more successful at rolling back the globalization of neoliberalism than throne and altar traditionalists were successful at rolling back classical liberalism, the industrial revolution, and the rise of modernity.
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange As the Federal Reserve embarks on a new campaign to raise inflation rates, markets may be in for a change in character. On Wednesday, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced that the central bank would be targeting an inflation “average” of 2%. By […]
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.
The Democrats are basically the same as the neoliberal parties in Latin America and slightly to the right of the neoliberal parties in Europe. Kim’s correct that the Republicans are moving slightly leftward while the Democrats are moving rightward.
Is a 1789 moment on its way? Krystal and Saagar discuss 1 million jobless claims as CEO confidence increases and billionaire Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk’s bank accounts surpass $200 and $100 billion, respectively.
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 […]
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 spectacle of neocons and Trumpists shooting at each other does not sound entirely unappealing. Saager’s analysis in this is pretty solid. The GOP, barring radical changes, seems destined to be a regionally based fringe party in what will amount to a one-party state.
Uh, dude, they were done with “blue-collar workers” in 1972. You’re almost 50 years behind the times, bro. Dutton strategy, dude, Dutton strategy.
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, […]
This is a funny story. When are these folks going to stop taking this electoral shit seriously? At least 100 million Americans already have.
The headline says it all.
The 2024 Election: Spencer/AOC for the Dems and Loomer/Greene for the Repugs.
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 […]
It’s interesting how modernity has been able to not only normalize but elevate to superior status what virtually all traditional religious, ethical, and philosophical systems considered to be sinful or shameful. By Alex Mayyasi Aeon.Com ‘A banker and a theologian’ sounds like the start of a bad joke. […]
The bottom line is that the Bill of Rights needs to be expanded to include corporations, universities, public sector agencies, and social media platforms, as these are just the economic, academic, bureaucratic and technological arms of the state, and antidiscrimination law needs to be expanded to include political […]
By Christopher Jencks New York Review of Books According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans living in poverty is higher today, in 2016, than it was in the late 1960s. In 2015 I argued in these pages that these “official” poverty statistics are extremely misleading.1 When […]
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, […]
“You’ll be subsisting on a diet of Ramen noodles but at least Orange Man won’t be prez,” said the Democraps.
And that’s a privilege I certainly plan on exercising. Sanders’ performance in the panel of former presidential candidates is pathetic. I stand with the 100 MILLION Americans who do not vote, i.e. the future constituents for the Revolutionary Anarchist Alliance of North America (RAANA).
Krystal and Saager are great at critiquing the bankruptcy of the ruling class. It’s too bad all they offer in its place is lame Scandinavian social democracy or East Asian mercantilism. A program like this hosted by a serious left-anarchist (like David Graeber, Carne Ross, or Cindy Milstein) […]
The upper strata proletariat has been destroyed by outsourcing and the global economy and now the petite bourgeoisie has been destroyed by the pandemic-inspired state-induced depression. All that’s left are the ruling class, professional-managerial class, lower proletariat, and lumpenproletariat.
Trump has embraced the FAUX News tactic of attacking everything as “socialism.” Ironically, while it’s fashionable among the chattering classes to compare Trump to Hitler, his supporters are more analogous to Communist voters in Weimar, i.e. traditional working-class folks hit hard economically by the aftermath of WWI and […]
The punk rock anarchist ethos of “do it yourself” very much applies the exercise of “class struggle” in the present world economy. The objective should be to agitate for more and more zones of economic and political autonomy. By Mark Frazier Progress.Org The rapid technological and economic changes […]
This book explains how traditional nation-states that have their roots in the Treaty of Westphalia and came into full fruition in the 19th era of classical liberal are largely being absorbed into a transnational framework in which other institutions assume a hegemonic position. The “populist-nationalist” movements that have […]
This book is not perfect by any means, but it’s the best academic work for explaining how the global capitalist empire actually works. It is important for radicals to avoid both the anti-Eastern propaganda perpetrated by Western elites, and the view that the East is somehow an alternative […]
I agree with much of Lind’s analysis but his solutions seem a bit implausible. He calls for strengthening labor unions and religious institutions, the two institutions that are arguably the most in decline at present. His general economic paradigm amounts to “economic nationalism” (mercantilism), i.e. the standard “let’s […]
The discussion of the actual politics of Weimar in this is important. The real backers of the National Socialists were the managerial classes and ideas industries of Weimar, in collusion with sectors of the industrial class and the military, in the same way our educated elites, tech-oligarchs, and […]
Anyone who wants to understand social class in modern America (and the modern West generally) has to read Joel Kotkin, Sam Francis, Michael Lind, Paul Fussell, and David Brooks’ writings on “bourgeois bohemians.” ——————————————— Joel Kotkin’s latest book is now available at Amazon. Our society is being rapidly […]
My general view of liberal and left welfarist proposals is pretty much the same as my view of conventional conservative and libertarian “tax cut” proposals. Medicare for All is not something I am going to go to the barricades for (whether in support or opposition) but I wouldn’t […]
What an idiot. At least Sean Hannity and Noam Chomsky finally agree on something, lol.
Bars and restaurants are one of the largest sectors of the economy in terms of lower-level working-class employment.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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