Shock Poll Shows Why Trump Is COOKED In Sunbelt States
It will be hilarious if a literal dementia/early-stage Alzheimer’s patient wins the presidency by a landslide.
The Never Trumpers May Destroy Him. Then What?
If the predicted future scenario outlined in this article is correct, and I suspect it probably is, the Democrats will be the dominant party in the future, with its leadership being a neoliberal/neoconservative pro-ruling class coalition. The Republicans will be a token Tucker Carlsonized right-wing opposition party, mostly […]
Economy revealed AS A SHAM, there’s no going back
When people can no longer meet their basic needs like food and shelter is when the shit really hits the fan. Increases in food costs precipitated the Arab Spring. That a third of Americans can no longer afford their rent or mortgage payments as the moratoriums on rent […]
Job losses SPIKE, one-third can’t pay rent, depression IMMINENT
The coronavirus-related shutdown has dramatically accelerated the descent of the US into a Latin American-style class system.
Billionaires Run Off With Taxpayer Pandemic Money
No, they wouldn’t. It just couldn’t be. LOL
The Most-Loved Company in Each State
The peasants vote for their favorite manor. This is a pretty slick work of corporate propaganda. Even Raytheon is included in this, lol. By Joel Anderson Sometimes a company is more than just a business. At times, a particular brand might start as a way to capture one […]
My Immediate Fear with Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden
The worst thing about the upcoming election is that someone is going to win.
Millions of Americans go hungry as the pandemic destroys lives
By Martha C. White NBC News As jobs vanish, incomes drop and food prices rise, more Americans are going to bed hungry — and advocates warn that without intervention from Congress, those numbers could rise to a level unseen in modern times. “People who never thought they’d experience […]
Sam Harris’s Take on Systemic Racism is Dangerously Misinformed
A pretty good overview of the sociological relationship between race, class, and crime.
Trump’s new DISASTROUS coronavirus message will SINK presidency, economy
Will Trump’s legacy be that of the president who was such a dumbass he couldn’t win reelection against a dementia patient?
This Is A Great Depression
Ross Douthat & The Woke Corporate Consensus
Some actual commies discuss how the capitalist class is co-opting the protest movement.
Matt Taibbi DISMANTLES woke corporate race book ‘White Fragility’
This discussion nails it. Robin D’Angelo gets paid $12,000 per session to give a two-hour lecture to corporate employees on “anti-racism” so that corporations so pose as do-gooders while continuing to grind down the working class.
What If Black America Were a Country?
This is some interesting data. If “Black America” were a country, it would be the 31st largest nation in the world per population size, roughly comparable to England, Canada, Mexico, Japan, or Iraq. “Black America” would be 46th in income per capita, between Italy, the UAE, Russia, and […]
Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea
The important takeaway from this article is that it describes how Big Tech has now become the dominant wing of the capitalist class, as Joel Kotkin has pointed out (along with the national security state and financial sector). The ruling class is not a unified monolith, but comprised […]
The Articles of Unity – A Patriotic Plan to Save our Republic (Bret Weinstein)
Bret Weinstein seems to be a guy whose “heart is in the right place,” as a sentimentalist might say. His core idea is correct, i.e. building an anti-establishment movement that rejects incompetent/corrupt elites while rejecting dangerous authoritarians from the far-left and far-right.
Almost half of BLM protesters are white; a plurality are suburbanites
I’ve noticed this as well. But unlike most commentators on the uprising, I would make a sharp distinction between the mainstream protest movement, conventional activism like BLM, the far-left/Antifa, the far-right/Boogaloo, statue vandalizers, and exaggerated sports rioters on one hand, and the actual uprising of the lumenproletariat on […]
Remembering Capitalism’s Crimes
By Grace Blakeley Any self-identifying socialist will be met with the question at some point in their lives, how many people have been killed in the name of socialism? They might have pointed out in response that Soviet-style state socialism is about as far removed from the democratic […]
South Dakota governor calls removal of Confederate statues effort to ‘discredit’ founding fathers
Princess Kristi is merely trying to advance her position within the Trumpist Party by positioning herself as a friend of the right-wing of the Red Tribe. Obviously, the Confederacy is completely irrelevant to South Dakota (which wasn’t even a state during the time of the US Civil War). […]
Protesters block highway as Trump makes his way to Mount Rushmore
This is kind of like Netanyahu holding a campaign rally in the West Bank or Gaza. Trump is obviously trying to fuel “culture war” sympathy on the right because he knows he can hardly run on the great state of the nation. One reason why I think the […]
Tucker Carlson 2024? The GOP is buzzing
It’s going to be interesting to observe how the fracturing of electoral politics into three factions (the neoliberal/neocon duopoly, Trumpists, and social democrats) will impact the two-party system. It’s also possible a “radical centrist” faction will emerge as well (e.g. Brett Weinstein’s latest project, or Jesse Ventura’s write-in […]
Professor Richard Wolff: The coming economic crash will be like NOTHING in history
The capitalism vs socialism economic paradigm that emerged in the 19th century is outdated. Modern states have retained elements of both of these and fused into Burham’s managerial revolution and Kotkin’s neo-feudalism. The new paradigm should be neo-feudalism/managerial elite vs. anarchism. Professor of Economics Richard Wolff explains the […]
GOP Senators try to KILL Columbus Day to stop workers from having too many Holidays
Wow. Someone actually recognizes this. Democrats and Republicans are the left and right wings of the Neo-Feudalism Party.
Big business wants Facebook to CENSOR anti-establishment voices
Well, at least we know which firms to attack during the next wave of uprisings (if we didn’t already). And intra-ruling class conflict is always welcome. It’s also interesting how “hate” has become the new “obscenity.” It shows that the ruling class can always use whatever mores are […]
Getting the Police Issue Right
The main limitation of most liberal and left critiques of the police state is that these are primarily limited to dubious killings of civilians, racial disparities, and official forms of “police misconduct” as conventionally defined. And usually, these critiques are limited to the municipal police. That’s a start […]
The Coronavirus Is Also Spreading a Dark New Era of Neo-Feudalism
The important takeaways from Kotkin’s work are these three basic points: 1) class relations in developed societies are increasingly resembling those in traditional (feudal), early capitalist or “Third World” societies; 2) the oligarchs of the new high-tech industries and financial institutions have replaced the old bourgeoisie as the […]
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?
By Jodi Dean Los Angeles Review of Books IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged attachment to capitalism. Communism was supposed to come after […]
A New Book Warns of Our ‘Neo-Feudal’ Future
It’s interesting how class divisions in the US have become so wide that even the right-wing has started to pay attention, which was previously unheard of in the US. Trump got elected on an anti-neoliberal platform. Tucker Carlson often sounds like Bernie Sanders or even Noam Chomsky in […]
Joel Kotkin on the Rise of Neo-Feudalism
Joel Kotkin describes how the “California model” is being applied to the entire world. Kotkin’s analysis is the natural successor to Burnham’s “managerial revolution” thesis.
Seattle Police begin dismantling CHOP area after mayor issues executive order
If it’s any consolation, the Paris Commune didn’t turn out so well either.
Prof Richard Wolff: “Downright Silly” To Call US A Free Market System
As Joel Kotkin has said, what we have now is not socialism or capitalism but neo-feudalism, which is something that Marxists, Nazbols, social democrats, libertarians, ancaps, national-anarchists, and left-anarchists ought to be able to agree on.
Anti-eviction protests ends with arrests, window smashed at downtown Richmond courthouse
Nice work. A small gesture, but every little bit counts. BY C. SUAREZ ROJAS Richmond Times-Dispatch An anti-eviction rally and protest march ended with arrests and a smashed window at the John Marshall Courthouse in downtown Richmond on Wednesday. Following the rally at the courthouse plaza and a […]
Will the Neocons Bait, Turn, Switch, and Purge the Antifa/SJWs While Suppressing the Lumpenproletariat?
This is important stuff. I recently put a couple of questions concerning current events to a well-known intellectual historian, a Jewish man whose parents fled Hungary during the rise of Hitler, and who is a specialist in the history of 20th-century totalitarian movements. His responses confirmed my suspicion […]
Northam extends state of emergency in Richmond, citing ‘civil unrest’;
Ironically, Virginia has a Democratic government that recently passed a bunch of “woke” legislation but is ranked 51st in the country, below the other 49 states and Washington, D.C, on the issue of workers’ rights. Thanks to the northern Virginia suburbs, Virginia is becoming the California of the […]
Amazing ranches for sale to give you a slice of the good life
The crowdfunded purchase of places like this could make for interesting intentional communities and startup societies. By Abi Harman Love Money Surrounded by stunning rural landscapes, these impressive ranches for sale around the world offer an idyllic slice of the good life. From acres of remote rolling land […]
Nothing Succeeds Like Secession: Suggested Demands for CHOP From a Friendly Panarchist Ally
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I have always been fascinated by secessionist movements. It goes back to my childhood love of maps, flags and geography. I use to spend hours poring over atlases and fixating on the strange autonomous zones that only existed […]
Three Mutual Aid Networks in New York City
By Crimethinc Fundamental social change involves two intertwined processes. On the one hand, it means shutting down the mechanisms that impose disparities in power and access to resources; on the other hand, it involves creating infrastructures that distribute resources and power according to a different logic, weaving a […]
‘Master’ bedroom name to change due to overarching theme
As Krystal Ball recently said, “Capitalists are going to capitalist.” And what are these virtue-signaling realtors going to do to make housing more available or affordable to the poor communities of Houston, some of whom are actually black? Are they going to lower rents, reduce real estate sale […]
“The New Jim Crow” Michelle Alexander VS. Jesse Lee Peterson on Mass Incarceration
An interesting debate between a black leftist and a black conservative. I would generally agree with Michelle Alexander’s thesis that the police/carceral state and prison-industrial complex is merely the modern version of American black slavery or Jim Crow. But where I would disagree is that I think her […]
Glenn Loury: ‘We’re Being Swept Along by Hysteria’ About Racism in America
A somewhat interesting interview with a leading black conservative. I would be inclined to argue that, at present, substantial sectors of the capitalist class (including some major capitalist entities) along with their allies in the new clerisy/new class that dominates the “ideas industries” are fueling anti-racism hysteria in […]
Ben Burgis Debunks Libertarians Civil Rights Claim
The Jacobin commie statists vs the corporate Gilded Age-loving libertarians. Hilarious. Actually, both have their roots in the radical Enlightenment. The discussion of slavery in this is ironic since it was the Jacobin revolution that led to the Reign of Terror and eventually brought to power Napoleon, who […]
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola suspends paid ads on all social platforms globally
Coca-Cola uses child slaves on its sugar cane plantations in El Salvador and the Philippines. Big Tech vs. conventional capitalist class scumbags. Hilarious. WASHINGTON — Coca-Cola said Friday that it will be joining other companies who are taking part in the “Stop Hate For Profit” campaign to withdraw […]
Bret and Heather: Sleeper Cells and the Capture of Everything
One very important aspect of the recent uprising that I have yet to see anyone point out is that, contra FAUX News, the lumpenproletarian class base of the insurrection are not “leftist revolutionaries” in any conventional sense. While this podcast by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying is correct […]
The Hershey Company joins group pulling advertising from Facebook to protest its content
This is fucking unbelievable. Hershey literally uses black children in West Africa as slaves on its chocolate plantations. Not modern wage slaves. The pre-modern type of slaves. I’m beginning to understand why Maoist-types tend to massacre the entire capitalist class. This is Twilight Zone level stuff here. By […]
Who Are the Lumpenproletariat?
The lumpenproletariat was too scary even for bourgeois radicals like Marx (the son of a Prussian state solicitor, i.e. a district attorney) and Engels (the son of a wealthy industrialist). In 2020, the lumenproletariat of all creeds, colors, genders, and geographies, made its move, however meagerly, against the […]
India has 18 million modern slaves
And a lot of these slaves are being used by Western corporations while Western governments look the other way. All of the rhetoric coming from Western elites about “human rights,” “democracy,” “civil rights,” etc has about as much seriousness and legitimacy as when the ancient Egyptian rulers claimed […]
Mark Zuckerberg reverses hate-content policy after Facebook stock nosedives, will flag Trump posts if needed
An intra-ruling class conflict between Big Tech and Wall Street. Excellent. By Storm Gifford New York Daily News Wall Street talked and Mark Zuckerberg finally listened. The Facebook CEO did an abrupt about-face on Friday by implementing policy changes regarding hate content on his social media platform as […]
Coca-Cola halts all paid social media advertising for 30 days
Excellent. Let’s hope more firms follow suit. Spare us the annoyance of advertising while bankrupting Big Tech. By Orion Rummler Axios Coca-Cola is pulling all paid social media advertisements for 30 days, saying “there is no place for racism on social media,” CEO James Quincey said in a […]
Minnesota Town Goes Woke, Pledges Not To Call Cops, Is Now ‘Overrun’ By Homeless Encampment
Awesome. Having a bunch of homeless people and drug addicts around keeps the rents low. A San Franciscan once told me he welcomed the sight of bums pissing in the alley for that reason. By Emily Zanotti DailyWire.com A Minneapolis community, just a few miles away from where […]
A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege. It’s Already Being Tested.
This kind of like when Lenin referred to middle-class liberals as useful idiots for the revolution. If these do-gooder types can be guilt-shamed into anti-piggishness, fine. Whatever works. By Caitlin Dickerson New York Times MINNEAPOLIS — When Shari Albers moved three decades ago into Powderhorn Park, a tree-lined […]
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