Keep in mind that China is a permanent member of the US-created UN Security Council, the World Trade Organization (which manages the global capitalist empire), and the G-20, which the Asian Development Bank has characterized as the steering committee of global capitalism. In other words, China is just […]
Although I am more interested in meta-politics, this is more or less why I tend to hold an eclectic set of views on topical issues.
Not bad.
Lizzie the Scamster keeps on conniving. Editor-At-Large of Jacobin magazine, David Sirota, discusses Elizabeth Warren’s pivot on Medicare for All in a bid to try to win Biden’s VP.
Yang had the best economic analysis of any of the presidential candidates (not that he really had any competition). But I don’t agree with him and others who are calling for a “federal jobs program.” Reparations from the ruling class, yes. Make work on the king’s and lord’s […]
Of course. The Neoliberal Party doesn’t want a Duterte-lite managing their assets, and they want to deflect the faux populists and faux leftists in the process.
The New York Times’ “dream Cabinet” reaffirms my view that there are now essentially three political parties in the US: neoliberals, Trumpists, and social democrats. Notice how this NYT “dream Cabinet” includes both Democraps and Repugnicans, but all of the figures mentioned are neoliberals. What I see happening […]
Dementia Man is assuming the lead over Orange Man. Trump’s faux economic populism is the only reason he won in 2016. If he can’t hold on to that and allows Biden to win the “economy first” vote, he’s finished. On the economic questions, I’m generally in favor of […]
I don’t agree with this author’s perspective on a number of things, but there are some great points in this article. Instead of focusing on traditional issues like wages, hours, and working conditions, the AFL-CIO suddenly found itself sponsoring college teach-ins, as Matt Labash noted, featuring panelists like […]
One thing that Marxist-Leninist fundamentalist Jason Unruhe regrettably ignores in this commentary is that Christian evangelicals tend to be disproportionately concentrated among the poor and working-class (including both whites and minorities) and are therefore the people most likely to be in “essential jobs” and less able to practice […]
The Jacobin boys come close to confronting the problem of “slave morality.”
Joshua and Ryan discuss local, national, and international politics; outrage and divisiveness in the current political climate; and the quagmire of disarray and turmoil created by tribalism and partisan politics with journalist and podcaster Kim Iversen. Watch “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at http://patreon.com/theminimalists Questions […]
Imagine that. The student loan industry is a nationalized, state-run industry functioning in collusion with the banksters and the educationist wing of the new clerisy. Not being dischargeable through bankruptcy, student loans are modern-day indentured servitude. No way they’re going to give up that win-win scenario for the […]
This is a pretty good critique of “culture war” politics but what they’re missing is that the “culture war” is primarily a rivalry within the middle-class, which is exploited by the ruling class, and where “both sides” regard working class issues as merely peripheral, if something they have […]
The problem with David’s analysis in this is that he seems fairly subjective and one-dimensional in his criticisms of “conspiracy theories.” The fact that the last three years of cable news (excluding FOX) was devoted to Russiagate hysteria shows that liberals and the Left are just as prone […]
Some pretty good class/economic analysis. The intra-ruling class debate seems to be between those who think the peasants should be forced to stay at home under de facto house arrest and starve (the position of liberal partisans of the therapeutic state) and those who think the peasants should […]
That’s probably how the coronavirus was spread. What we should have done as soon as COVID-19 appeared was build one of Trump’s walls around New York, LA, DC, the Bay Area, Chicago, and DC (i.e. all the ruling class havens), shut down flights from those cities, and be […]
Of course, he will. To ask the question is to answer it. When Daniel Marans says that “foreign policy wasn’t really an issue” in the Democratic primaries, he totally nails it. The antiwar vote in the US is basically non-existent. The Democrats and Republicans are both two uber-imperialist […]
Actually, there is. And it has nothing to do with centralized control over resources. But whatever. Although it’s interesting that he recognizes that “capitalism” requires the state (I consider honest anarcho-capitalists to be merely a variation of individualist-anarchists, not “capitalists” proper).
President Biden would be more like President Reagan, i.e. a senile old fool that sleeps through most of his presidency.
As usual, the Right is better at criticizing the government and the media (see the Tucker Carlson video I just posted) while the Left (like these Jacobin boys) are better are criticizing the corporations/capitalist class. Fortunately, it’s not a question of either/or. We should be attacking ridiculous government […]
Krystal and Saager, lame statist-reformists that they are, still do decent reporting on class issues. They really call out the mass media wing of the new clerisy in this. Krystal and Saagar watch CNN’s Fareed Zakaria blast elites for controlling the narrative on reopening the economy, and discuss […]
By Michael Hudson Counterpunch Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. America’s debt overhead was pricing its labor and industry out of world markets. A debt crisis was inevitable eventually, but covid-19 has […]
George Soros says he worries about the future of globalization. Another silver lining. Btw, in the interest of heresy for heresy’s sake, I actually agree with Soros on certain things, just as I agree with the Kochs on certain things (as opposed to, for example, Sheldon Adelson with […]
An actual populist uprising will take place outside of all this electoralist bullshit. Krystal and Saager are decent journalists but they epitomize why reformism fails. I like the way they constantly bash neoliberals but the FDR nostaglism gets a bit old. I’ve noticed that virtually the full-range dissident […]
This video featuring a group of Marxoids/Berniebros from The Jacobin is a perfect illustration of how the mainstream economics debate pitting “socialism” versus “capitalism” represents a false dichotomy that should be discarded. Both Ron/Rand Paul fans and these Jacobin guys need to go back and read their nineteenth-century […]
The primary disagreement that I have with orthodox, American-style libertarians is their deification of characters like Bezos, Musk, Gates, Sam Walton, etc as idealized Nietzschean supermen. This is a recurring theme I have seen among Randians (the worst), Catoite neoliberals, and Rockwellian paleos alike. These characters are simply […]
The takeover of public health that we have documented in How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health and the remarkably brazen push to vaccinate everyone on the planet that we have documented in Bill Gates’ Plan to Vaccinate the World was not, at base, about money. The unimaginable wealth […]
I used to know a Vietnam War combat veteran who would say, “Yes, I was an atheist in a foxhole.” Someday I will have to write a piece called “Yes, I was an anarchist during a pandemic.” Given that most people regard Libertarians as the “Republican Throwaway Party” […]
It’s funny how milquetoast social democrats like Bernie and AOC and outright hucksters like Lizzie the Scamster are still considered too much by the bankster-friendly MSM.
It doesn’t now?
Whether it’s a “mistake” or not is beside the point. We need reparations from the state now. Total moratorium on rent, mortgages, utility bills, credit cards, student loans, medical bills, and car payments. If you take away peoples’ livelihoods, then you owe them. Period. It’s no different than […]
This article was written in February before the Democraps literally conspired to ensure Sanders’ loss on Super Tuesday by pulling back all their house candidates at the same time and ordering them to endorse Dementia Man, except for Lizzie the Scamster, whom they kept in the race as […]
An investment advisor argues that the impact of the supply side and neoliberal revolutions (which challenged the older Keynesian paradigm that came out of the Great Depression) era have produced a backlash evidenced by the rise of “populism” (economic nationalism) on the right and the return of social […]
“We don’t need no stinkin’ 13th Amendment!”
The good news is that the ruling class is digging its own grave by offering bailouts to debt collectors and lobbyists while ordinary folks go without food.
Krystal and Saagar discuss Saagar’s appearance on Tucker Carlson, where he blasted House Democrats over a provision in the stimulus bill that bails out corporate lobbyists, as first reported by the Intercept’s Lee Fang.
Krystal Ball discusses the $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill House Democrats unveiled that adds no funding for additional healthcare, no paycheck guarantee, and blasts progressives for relying on the “next time” narrative to get their provisions included in relief bills.
Saagar Enjeti rails against the coronavirus relief bill House Democrats proposed that appeals SALT deductions and fails to keep Americans on payroll, but includes funding for female-owned marijuana companies and bailouts for debt collectors, lobbyists.
This Sandernista third-party idea isn’t going to work. It will be torn apart by SJW fruitbats. An economic-populist/progressive party like these folks are advocating would be fighting a three-front war against the neoliberal center, Trumpian right, and SJW left.
Kulinski talks about a video from 2013 where Obama admitted he and the Republicans agreed 70% of the time, and that the differences between the two parties were more about procedure than substance. Obama also pointed out something I have also pointed out many times, which is that […]
This is quite interesting. Disaffected Sandernistas are seeking to build a populist-left mass people’s party that crosses over to the populist-right and disaffected Trump voters, and seeks to become a major party by 2024. Kim correctly points out that substantial sectors of the Left will be adamantly opposed […]
Her comments about 30 minutes into this are on the money. She points out that US politics has become divided into competing coalitions of “tribes” who think they are oppressed and under attack, but who regard “the other side’s” claims of being oppressed as ridiculous. She also points […]
The social science research that Brooks (another neocon dumbass former Bush apologist) cites in this article confirms what I have long suspected, which is that issues like race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, immigration status, etc. as not nearly as divisive as beliefs that people hold ABOUT these […]
Great analysis from Kim.
Some pretty good economic analysis from Chris Hedges from 2018. Much of what he describes will be amped up on a mega-level following the present Great Depression Two. Hedges is a lot like Chomsky in the sense of offering a lot of succinct and astute analysis combined with […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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