Category: Economics/Class Relations

California Is Booming. But Californians Are Unhappy

The New York Times Conor Dougherty Fire, garbage and homelessness increasingly plague the Golden State. SAN FRANCISCO — Christine Johnson, a public-finance consultant with an engineering degree, was running for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She crisscrossed her downtown district talking about her plans […]

Voting- Right or Privilege?

By Libertarian Heathen There is no right to vote, universal sufferage was the fatal blow to the Republic, and its elimination the quickest way to save America. The United States of America is a Republic, and it was founded by men who hated Democracy with a passion, recognizing […]

Why Nobody Chants “End the Fed” Anymore

By Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange Americans hated it when the Federal Reserve handed trillions of dollars to crooked Wall Street banks following the 2008 Financial Crisis. Politicians were confronted about the merits of central banking and bailouts. For the first time in history, college students were chanting […]

Trump admin sees China as primary enemy

Press TV. Listen here. The administration of US President Donald trump views China as the “primary enemy” amid a growing divide between political and business leaders in the United States over how Washington should treat China’s growing military and economic threat, an American political analyst says. Keith Preston, […]

The Condition of the World Economy

A very good discussion of the world economy by two Marxist-Leninists. I agree with virtually everything they say except for, of course, their interpretation of the role of Communism in the industrial development of the Eastern world. The Communist revolutions that took place in the East and the […]

A History of Decentralization

aragon.black Jun 11, 2019 14 minute read (full) First let’s decentralize history… This month’s thematic has been a real challenge for us and raised many questions in our minds. Why? The history of decentralization is complex and non-linear. But most of all, it is difficult to be considered from […]

Open Letter From Steve Forbes To Mark Zuckerberg

by Steve Forbes Dear Mr. Zuckerberg: Your company made big headlines when it announced it would be launching a cryptocurrency called the Libra in 2020. Not surprisingly, given the nature of the times, the project has been greeted with intense criticism and skepticism. Don’t lose heart. In one […]

US targets Huawei again

My thoughts on the “trade war” with China. Watch here. This week US president Donald Trump declared a national emergency over IT threats. Trump’s long awaited executive order forbids U.S. companies from purchasing telecommunications equipment manufactured by firms posing a “national security risk”.

Feudalism, Then and Now

And California, the home of Sunshine feudalism is the worst. How “our system” works: The presidency is an elective monarchy. The mass corporations are the new feudal manors. The banks are the new usurer class. The military are the new indentured servants/mercenaries. The professions (like doctors and lawyers) […]

Why “Democratic Socialists” are Conservative

This is an important article. Given the growing popularity of “democratic socialism,” it’s important to point out what social democrats actually are, i.e. state-centric reactionaries. An authentic anarchist approach to political economy involves critiquing and opposing the ways in which the state has the effect of centralizing control […]