It makes sense that the poorest and most disadvantaged people in society would have the highest COVID-19 rates. The pandemic is a class issue. Krystal and Saagar give an update on coronavirus case numbers in the U.S. at 1,336,700, and 79,552 deaths; Navajo Nation experiences outbreak at rates […]
Who needs the working class when you have slaves? Krystal and Saagar discuss a ProPublica report that shows the S&P 500 is now up 30% from its lows in mid-March and back to where it was last October, as the government reported that 20.5 million people lost their […]
Societies with a large middle class tend to have higher marriage rates. Brad Wilcox shares insight on marriage rates in the US, and explains how on average married Americans are happier and make more money.
Great Depression Two will be worse than the previous Great Depression. Krystal and Saagar discuss Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari’s remarks that Americans should brace for further unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic, and said Congress should consider providing more financial help.
The center-right, neoliberals, and neocons are circling the wagons to defeat Trump while deflecting the Left in the process. Interesting. Something similar happened in 1972 when “Democrats for Nixon” formed to ensure George McGovern lost the election. Krystal Ball comes down on Joe Biden for building a GOP-backed […]
An interesting aspect of the last 40 years of US economic history is that the right-wing of the ruling class (remember Reaganomics, anyone?) implemented the policies that allowed for the present rise of the left-wing of the ruling class (the tech-oligarch/financier/new clerisy coalition), which is now overrunning the […]
A leader of an organized atheist group (the far left of organized religion) interviews a member of the liberal media class (the new clerisy) on the role of the religious right (clerical oligarchs manipulating naive peasants on behalf of the right-wing of the ruling class/dying WASP elite/Likudniks/war profiteers). […]
By Troy Southgate Tens of millions are labouring under the false impression that the current state of emergency is about to come to an end and that things will soon return to ‘normal’. If these people had paid more attention to history, rather than eagerly consuming anything which […]
By Troy Southgate When governments impose a state of emergency it is simply a method of regaining or increasing control. Following on from that, I would even argue that we entered this precarious stage in our history during the insurrections of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when […]
The re-feudalization of the US economy and the re-proletarianization of the working class is now complete, which is what the power elite had in mind all along. The finally succeeded. I imagine many of them are behind closed doors saying, “This coronavirus thing is fucking awesome, man!” By […]
It’s interesting how the Left and Right are spinning their own narratives on the coronavirus fallout. The Left is depicting a situation where greedy business owners and right-wing conspiracy nuts want to endanger everyone’s health by reopening the economy so they can make money. The Right is depicting […]
Democraps: “We might actually get our asses kicked by Orange Man again if we don’t pretend to give a shit. Maybe we better actually do something.” I see Kamala’s playing her cards here. By Burgess Everett Politico On Friday, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ed […]
Krystal Ball discusses why Dow futures jumped 300 points while working people continue to go to food banks, lose jobs, and 1 in 5 children are going hungry in the U.S.
As the saying goes, “You can’t make this shit up.” Saagar Enjeti slams Nancy Pelosi for the bailout of corporate lobbyists as well as additional small-business relief that Democrats plan to include in the next coronavirus bill.
Of course, because it doesn’t cost the system anything. Neoliberals use “woke” tokenism and right-wingophobia to wrap the Left around their little fingers. Krystal and Saagar discuss Joe Biden’s commitment to passing an equality act in the first 100 days if elected.
Unlike the Marxists, I generally regard the lumpenproletariat (for example, folks conventionally categorized as “criminals”), declasse’ sectors (for example, the youth of middle-class origins inclined toward violence), and the neo-peasantry (for example, rural gun nuts or the present-day anti-lockdown protestors), along with associated petite bourgeois and conventional proletarian […]
They want you to shut up, obey and do what you’re told.
A virtual end to the petite bourgeoise and “small capitalist” classes will result in an even wider disparity in wealth distribution than before thereby hastening the re-proletarianization of labor and the widening of class divisions. This is comparable to what happened to the artisan classes during the industrial […]
Consumer confidence is going to be shot to hell for a couple years.
Not bad, Krystal. Krystal Ball reviews Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ documentary trailer and breaks down why the Obama administration failed to make structural change within the establishment.
The Republicans could best be described as a hybrid of the right-wing plutocratic parties of Latin American (like El Salvador’s ARENA) and Israel’s Likud Party (militarists and Zionist expansionists). Under Trump, they’ve at times tried to recast themselves as LePenism-lite. The question is whether their exoteric doctrine will […]
It seems that most people even on the far left and far right have a limited perception and definition of what concepts like the “state,” “ruling class,” or “power elite” actually mean. It would also seem that we need a much more modernized and expansive definition of these […]
In recent times, I have seen a number of commentators calling for one or another kind of left/right hybrid populism. Some years ago, Ralph Nader was pushing this idea (obviously unsuccessfully). More recently, Krystal Ball (social democrat) and Saager Enjeti (economic nationalist) of The Hill’s Rising have promoted […]
It’s interesting how the Left and Right have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns. The Left has an abiding faith in the managerial state, worships at the altar of the therapeutic state, professes scientism, never misses an opportunity to call for expanding the welfare state, dislikes […]
What Mao called the “enlightened bourgeoisie”?
Another billionaire tries to buy the presidency? First, Trump. Then Bloomberg. Now Cuban. Fuck a “federal jobs guarantee.” Who needs a bunch of makework bullshit jobs? We need reparations from the ruling class. Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban shares his thoughts on economic stimulus spending, and explains how […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right As I write this in late April, the most probable course of the coronavirus (a.k.a. Flu Manchu) is that it is at or past its peak medically and case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths will decline steadily hereafter. Economically, the country will have […]
Protests to go back to work, protests to keep from going back to work, tenants threaten rent strikes, landlords threat tax strikes, debt strikes, labor strikes…This is all starting to look kind of like pan-secessionism, actually. Everyone protests whatever they feel like protesting but withdraws consent from the […]
H.L. Mencken used to say that the “progressives” of his day would denounce the trusts publicly while promising them favors behind closed doors. Apparently, nothing much has changed.
#Metoo, Saager, you milquetoast statist-reformist Ross Douthat-loving nerdboy. The commentary and analysis in this is pretty good. They admit the Republican and Democratic “establishment” are on the same side while the left and right engage in tribal warfare over nonsense.
Hopefully, but whoever replaces him will be just as big a shithead. One of the great things about being an anarchist is that I don’t have to take any of this electoralist crap seriously other than to make fun of it all. Krystal Ball discusses Mitch McConnell’s priority […]
Supposedly, the world is comprised of 200 sovereign nations. In reality, it’s more of a case where the USA has 50 formal states and 150 informal states, with another 50 functioning as provinces within the G20-dominated global capitalist empire that is maintained by the US military empire (see […]
C. Wright Mills theory of the “power elite” tends to be the dominant paradigm among radical social scientists today (the ones who aren’t as radical tend to be pluralists). Although I tend to think Mills’ theory is too narrowly constructed as it describes only the right-wing of the […]
A very basic introduction to elite theory, which most radicals regrettably do not appear to be familiar with. Elite theory, a part of the conflict perspective, is a theory which attempts to explain the political and social roles that people play within the class structure of society. This […]
I don’t know how many times I have been asked by mainstream conservatives and reformist libertarians, over the last third of a century or so, why I am an anarchist and not a constitutionalist. This video explains, on a very basic level, how the federal government was created […]
It’s tough living in a small bedroom in your parents house, no room for yourself or privacy, then imagine owning 6.6 billion acres of land across the world and getting to pick which castle you wanted to stay at. In today’s educational animated cartoon we look at the […]
Who are the secret billionaires that run the world? In today’s educational animated cartoon we look at the world’s most wealthy and powerful families. Which family has the most influence and power?
As a pro-rent strike guy, I’ll let Styx speak for the other side.
Krystal and Saagar discuss Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-Utah) proposed legislation on Friday to temporarily provide a pay increase for essential workers including health care professionals, grocery store workers, food processors, and others, amid the coronavirus.
Krystal Ball discusses why Michigan protesters’ goal to reopen the economy is irresponsible and dangerous, but that those radical tactics are necessary to be heard by a government that prioritizes corporate fealty over workers needs.
Okay, ruling class. Time to practice some of that “quantitative easing” and fork it over. With all due respect to my many wonderful libertarian and an-cap friends who dismiss the UBI as crypto-statism, I regard the UBI merely as reparations from the state/ruling class/power elite enemy, i.e. forty […]
I’m in favor of this. Tenant strikers take down the landlords, and then landlords take down the government. In fact, a debt strike by debtors, followed by a tax strike by creditors, would essentially kill two birds with one stone. By Georgia Kromrei New York Estate News In […]
The main problem the Democraps have is their delusion they can win elections on demographics and culture-war politics alone while ignoring class issues, and the Left falls right in line behind this (“The Deplorables Are Coming!”). Then along comes right-wing populism. Does the Left not realize that Marx […]
Peter Zeihan provides a refreshing alternative to the China-love and/or China-hate that’s going on nowadays from the left and right. No, China is not going to replace the US as the global hegemon. Instead, China is likely to either implode or revert into neo-Maoism (which is already happening […]
By Grace Hauck, Mark Nichols, Miriam Marini and Andrew Pantazi, USA TODAY Network USA Today CHICAGO — Train tracks run above the intersection of Kinzie Street and Ashland Avenue, two major streets that meet on Chicago’s West Side. On one corner of the intersection, there’s a trampoline park and new […]
“I want my barbecue,” says Orange Man.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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