The Five Dangers Facing the Lumpenproletariat
If recent events are a foreshadowing of events to come, which they may well be, it would seem that the lumpenproletariat faces five primary dangers when it comes to future revolutionary activity.
When Bakunin Met Stirner
A core argument that I have previously advanced at ATS start with the view that Bakunin was correct that while anarchist revolution is a trans-class activity, the lumpenproletariat is potentially the most revolutionary class, i.e. the vanguard class, and that the urban lumpenproletariat, being the sector that is […]
Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future
Kirk Sale’s classic. Sometimes ATS contributor Rick Moore once said that any country larger than Liechtenstein is likely to be a tyranny. If we compare different countries, we see that the larger ones tend to be the most imperialistic and the most internally tyrannical. Nicky Reid once pointed […]
U.S. economic response was WORST in world, here are the numbers
The current Great Depression Two is entirely state-induced. Journalist Zaid Jilani discusses the failures and successes of the American government’s economic response to coronavirus and explains how European countries evaded a spike in unemployment.
Cooptation as Ruling Class Strategy
Kudos to my old Internet “friend” Matthew Lyons. However oblivious he may be to the neo-Jacobin/neo-Maoist Blue Tribe Khomeinists, when it comes to the issue of ruling cooptation, he gets it. I agree with every word of this. Read the full article here. These two passages from the […]
Unemployment SURGES for 14th straight week as coronavirus cases spike
Krystal and Saagar give an update on unemployment rates that show another 1.48 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week.
The Seven Factions of the 2020 Street Battles?
Based on all of the articles, videos, and first-person commentary I’ve seen so far, it seems like there have been seven basic categories of participants in the uprising/street battles to date. I’m curious as to whether others would agree with this assessment based on their own experiences. Conventional […]
Scant evidence of antifa shows how sweeping the protests for racial justice have become
From June 13. The uprising has been far too large for the far-left to have played that big of a role. The right-wing has greatly exaggerated the role of the far-left in all of this, and left-wing has exaggerated the role of the far-right (whose presence has been […]
Protesters Are Burning Down Central Banks In Lebanon As Gov’t Devalues Currency
By John Vibes Freethought Project Riots have spread across Lebanon in recent weeks, in response to a currency crisis that has left large portions of the country in poverty. Headquarter locations for the country’s central bank have been targeted by protesters, along with smaller bank branches that symbolize […]
Young People In The US Are Having Way Less Sex Than Previous Generations
The Sexual Revolution ended up like every other trend. It got boring after a while. Interestingly, women and homosexuals are more sexually active than heterosexual men, particularly lower income men, which is probably the result of widening class divisions. It typically takes money for straight guys to get […]
Indigenous People Launch Campaign To Kick Out 20,000 Gold Miners From Their Land
By Tom Hale IFL Science The Yanomami Indigenous people have launched a campaign to kick out thousands of gold miners from their land in the Brazilian Amazon. An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 illegal gold miners have set up shop in Yanomami Park, one of Brazil’s biggest indigenous reserves, near […]
Populism, or ‘Anti-System Politics’?
On this episode Mark talks with Jonathan Hopkin, author of ‘Ant-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich Democracies.’ Unlike most analyses of populism and the breakdown of party systems, Hopkin argues that the way countries’ have governed their markets in the last 30 years has shaped […]
Bolton’s warmongering, taxcut style GOP should NEVER come back
Is the Republican civil war between neocons/traditional hawks/supply siders and Trumpists/neo-realists/faux populists heating up? Saagar Enjeti blasts John Bolton’s ABC News interview where he admits Trump’s plan to negotiate a peace treaty with the Taliban was Bolton’s ‘last stra
Krystal & Saagar CALLED OUT By Lefty Magazine
Kyle’s reply to Nathan Robinson in this is pretty good. The problem that I have with Robinson, Krystal, Saager, and Kyle alike is that they are all statist-reformists of one kind or another. Saager is an economic nationalist, Kyle and Krystal are social democrats, and Robinson is an […]
Why LGBT People Should Be Conservative
In recent years, I have noticed an increasingly greater number of people from traditional outgroups who refer to themselves as “conservative,” just as I have noticed a growing wave of right-wing anti-capitalism. Obviously, these trends reflect the current establishmentarian tendency of blending cultural integration with intensified class oppression. […]
The System Is the Real Cause of Blame
By Troy Southgate Those of you who are genuinely opposed to injustice, regardless whether you think Blacks get a worse deal than Whites or vice versa, might like to set your emotions to one side for a moment and think about the following. The mass protests organised by […]
These photos of abandoned malls and golf courses reveal a new era for the American suburb
These might be some interesting locations for future intentional communities as well. By Sarah Jacobs, Libertina Brandt Business Insider In March 2017, Business Insider reported a series of stories on “The Death of Suburbia,” declaring the end of the suburbs as we once knew them. By examining the […]
WARNING: The U.S. Banking System ISN’T as Strong as Advertised
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Despite a year of tumult on Wall Street and Main Street, the banking system seems to be holding up remarkably well… for now. Whereas previous financial crises were marked by a surge in bank failures, hardly any have gone under so far […]
Why a small town in Washington is printing its own currency during the pandemic
The Hustle Wayne Fournier was sitting in a town meeting when he had his big idea. As the mayor of Tenino, Washington (population: 1,884), he’d watched the pandemic rake local businesses. Residents couldn’t afford groceries. Long lines snaked outside the local food bank. For more than a month, […]
First came a pandemic. Then, looting. Small businesses pick up the pieces as their debt mounts.
A reflection on the problem of interclass and intra-lumpen proletarian conflict. Many positive things have happened in the uprising. These include the mass participation of normies and civilians (non-revolutionaries) in protests and civil disobedience against the state, along with direct attacks on the state such as the destruction […]
Is The US Left Too Middle-Class? ft. Vivek Chibber
It Can Happen Here (And How It Can)
By Stratton J. Davis It happened. The people of Lebanon stood up against their government and rejected it’s currency, the Lebanese pound, in favor of bitcoin. They did this because of how bad the Lebanese pound has depreciated. It has faced a 20% depreciation since April. As of […]
Fed Chairman: “We’re Not Even Thinking about Thinking About Raising Rates”
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Market volatility has suddenly spiked in recent days came after the Federal Reserve vowed last Wednesday to keep its benchmark rate near zero through 2022. That’s an unusually long period for the Fed to be projecting rate policy. It reflects the fact […]
Burning Down the 3rd Police Precinct Changed Everything
I’m not so sure that it did. What I find most fascinating about the recent low-intensity insurrection is not the insurrection itself but the near-total indifference of the ruling class combined with the immediate move of vast sectors of the ruling class to co-opt the insurgency, from the […]
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
While I agree with 99% of this article, I’m a bit suspicious as to why the New York Times (“Voice of the Ruling Class”-Abbie Hoffman) was willing to publish it. It seems like some kind of co-optation scheme is in the works. The left-wing of the ruling class […]
Racism, Classism, Statism, or All of the Above?
Broken Economy, Broken Society, and the Prospects for Liberty
By Stratton J. Davis Looking at the daily news these past couples of weeks one may have the pessimistic opinion that what was left of liberty will soon be gone. Even before the recent riots, which has President Trump and his GOP goons threatening the US people with […]
The Fed and The Big Bank Wealth Heist. Why We Need Public Banking- Ellen Brown
This isn’t a bad discussion of the financial system but the solutions are predictably milquetoast. Anti-banksters need to rediscover Proudhon. Ellen Brown is an attorney, chair of the Public Banking Institute, and author of thirteen books including Web of Debt and Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in […]
The Mainstream Media Will Not Tell the Truth About Black Lives Matter
The right-wing uses BLM, Antifa, and an-coms as all-purposes bogeymen in the same way the left-wing uses white nationalists and Russians for the same purpose. Probably the most radical thing that has come out of the uprising so far has been the actual burning of police precincts and […]
Joe Biden’s ideal VP is Condoleezza Rice
If I were a political comedy writer, I couldn’t make up stuff any better than this. I would indeed agree that this would make for the ideal neocon/neoliberal ruling class unity regime. It is clear that ruling class elements, whatever their differences, realize dissent is growing from all […]
Ingraham: Democrats cancel America
I totally disagree with Laura here, but not for the usual reasons. So far I have actually seen very little “canceling America” going on in the present uprising. Unlike Berkeley or Charlottesville, which were low-grade sports riots carried out by rookie-league middle-class gangs, the present uprising is a […]
Hundreds of protesters enter Seattle City Hall along with councilmember Sawant
Kshama Sawant is a Trotskyist, but I have no problem with her leading the “revolution” in Seattle. As far I’m concerned, Seattle can be a commie city-state if that’s what people there want to do, just like Portland or Eugene can be an Antifa city-state. And Tyler, Texas […]
Wall Street Goes To Wokesville
Now we’re talking. Kudos to Kyle for this one.
Author Joel Kotkin: How young people are ‘really getting screwed’ by this depression
Joel Kotkin is one of the very best class theorists out there today. Kotkin’s analysis of the techno-oligarch/new clerisy alliance within a framework of metaphorical “neo-feudal” class relations is the natural update of James Burnham’s managerial revolution theory. Add to that Paul Fussell’s analysis of the traditional class […]
Trump campaign HITS BACK at Fox News anchor Chris Wallace
Trump: “I’m such an asshole I can’t even get along with the Murdoch mouthpieces at FOX.” Co-Chair of Women for Trump Pam Bondi shares how Trump’s jobs programs will help his case for re-election despite his use of military reinforcements and pepper bombs on George Floyd protesters.
Top Biden surrogate CAUGHT admitting they want Biden in the basement
If I were a Democratic Party strategist, I wouldn’t let Biden near a microphone. If I were a Republican Party strategist, I would secretly push Jack Dorsey to cancel Trump’s Twitter account. Krystal and Saagar discuss why Biden advisors are in favor of the ‘Biden in the basement’ […]
Jane Fonda stresses ‘even the poorest of white people have privilege’ amid anti-racism protests
Rarely have I seen an illustration of what is wrong with “woke” culture that is more pertinent than this. Not only is Baroness Jane from an elite Hollywood family (the modern American equivalent of the aristocracy) but she has been a political lightning rod for 50 years (I […]
Millions Of Americans Skip Payments As Tidal Wave Of Defaults And Evictions Looms
I strongly suspect that this 1918/1929 reboot will continue for quite some time. Particularly since a lot of folks haven’t exactly been social distancing lately. And while insurrections can certainly achieve positive things, immediate economic growth and restoration of consumer confidence aren’t really among. By Chris Arnold NPR […]
No Lives Matter to Capitalist Parasites
By Troy Southgate How interesting that British tea giants PG Tips and Tetleys have come out in support of Black Lives Matter. Although these capitalist parasites will be hoping to sell more teabags as a result of uttering a few politically correct platitudes, I suppose they’ve forgotten how […]
Protesters ask for name changes and end to racism at Hanover County Public Schools
It wouldn’t personally bother me if we had schools named after serial killers like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, or famous gangsters like Al Capone or John Dillinger. In fact, I’d likely be in favor of it. But I understand the psychological and ideological reasons for this kind […]
How racist policing took over American cities, explained by a historian
Modern policing systems were developed in England in the early 19th century, during the early period of the Industrial Revolution, for the purpose of controlling what were called the “dangerous classes,” i.e. workers. In America, the racial caste system was enacted parallel to the system of class stratification, […]
Billionaire Jamie Dimon kneels in front of bank vault in BLM solidarity
Krystal and Saagar discuss Mitt Romney and Jamie Dimon’s public support for Black Lives Matter.
How billionaires have hijacked the will of Republican, Democratic voters
I would add that Zaid Jilani is only focusing on partisan or ideological donors like Soros or Steyer and the Kochs or Adelson. The super-elite (like Goldman-Sachs) have their hands in both parties. Journalist Zaid Jilani contrasts the political agenda between campaign donors versus voters.
GOP are a ‘SHIP OF FOOLS’ staring disaster in the face
It’s interesting how en vogue anti-capitalism is now, from these national-populists and Nazbols on the right to the Berniebots and neo-commies on the left. Saagar Enjeti blasts the GOP’s economic policy as unemployment numbers stabilize at a rate higher than the great recession.
An Unfolding Experiment in Anarchy and Alternatives to Capitalism: Labor for Love not Money, a Minneapolis Revolution in Photos Post-Riot
The gift economy? By Hannah Lindstrom Near Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis, on Saturday May 30, extemporaneous community cooperation for clean up, resource redistribution, and free ice cream from La Michoacana Purepecha. We don’t need the state to organize! Labor for love not money! READ MORE
A Message Written in Fire: In Defense of Social Upheaval
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It always ends this way, you can almost set your watch to it. A glamorous soirée rambling into the wee hours of the morning in an opulent townhouse on a tony tree lined street of any given international […]
The Trashed Target Store: Minneapolis Riot Aftermath
Wal-Marts and Targets are just the modern equivalents of company towns and sweatshops. Fuck ’em. Although this is no real skin off their ass. They will just write it off as a business loss and claim an insurance payout in the process.
Facebook, Apple, Nike and other companies support protesters with donations and hashtags
Tech-oligarchs and sweatshop-mongers for social justice! By Mike Murphy and Andrew Keshner Market Watch As protests stemming from the death of George Floyd wrack the nation, a number of leading tech companies have offered their support for demonstrators and funding for social-justice organizations.
Tucker Carlson’s ‘Law And Order’ Speech Didn’t Go As Planned…
Kyle Kulinski has an interesting rebuttal to Carlson’s Hobbesian-Burkean perspective. In his more serious and intelligent moments, Carlson is simply making the Hobbesian argument that order must be maintained at all costs in order for civilization to exist with considerations of “justice,” whatever their merit, being a secondary […]
Protest demands can’t focus just on police
The discussion between Saager and Max Alvarez on the relationship between class and the uprising is interesting, along with their discussion of ruling class co-optation efforts. I have long argued that the modern left’s primary emphasis on race, gender, gay, etc. identity politics outside the context of any […]
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